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Australia
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- Guarantees and indemnities
 - Legal opinions
 - Lending: bilateral and general
 - Lending: syndicated
 - Letters of credit and performance bonds
 - Security
 - Set-off and netting
 - Subordination, priority and intercreditor
 
Specialist transactions
- Acquisition finance
 - Aged care finance
 - Commercial real estate finance
 - Debt capital markets
 - Derivatives
 - ESG and sustainable finance
 - Retirement village finance
 - Securitisation and structured finance
 
Contracts
- Execution formalities
 - General contracts and boilerplate
 - Contract law
 
Advertising and marketing
- General advertising and marketing
 - Social media and websites
 - Sponsorship
 - Trade promotions
 
Contract law and boilerplate
- Agency
 - Assignment, novation, variation and waiver
 - Contract drafting, negotiation and management
 - Force majeure
 - Formation and enforceability of contracts
 - General contracts, clauses and deeds
 - Indemnities and liability
 - Insurance
 - Payment and GST
 - Termination, frustration and breach
 - Unfair contract terms and compliance with other laws
 
Cybersecurity
- Cyber threats
 - Cybersecurity and risk management
 - Security of critical infrastructure
 
Data protection and privacy
- Data breach
 - Data protection
 - Data retention
 - Employee data and monitoring
 - Privacy
 - Surveillance
 
Distribution, logistics, manufacturing and supply chains
- Distribution
 - Logistics
 - Manufacturing and warehousing
 - Supply chain relationships
 
E-commerce
- Domain names
 - Online contracts
 - Websites
 
Ethical trading
- Anti-bribery and corruption
 - ESG
 - Modern slavery
 
Execution
- Execution formalities
 
Intellectual property
- Assignments and licensing
 - Brand protection
 - Copyright
 - Designs
 - Domain names
 - General IP
 - Patents
 - Trade marks and passing off
 
Pre-transaction agreements and confidentiality
- Confidentiality
 - Heads of agreement
 - Trade secrets and know-how
 
Supply of goods and services
- Procurement and tenders
 - Supply of goods
 - Supply of services
 
Technology and outsourcing
- Agile
 - Artificial intelligence
 - Cloud
 - Hardware
 - Outsourcing
 - Software
 - Technology contracting
 
Conveyancing
- Contracts and transfers
 - Conveyancing procedure
 - Electronic conveyancing
 - Off the plan
 
Leasing
- Assignment, variation, surrender and termination
 - Commercial leases
 - Green leasing
 - Leases and licences
 - Retail leases
 
Projects and development
- Aged care and retirement villages
 - Development
 - Options
 
Property practice and procedure
- Due diligence
 - Foreign investment
 - General property resources
 
Finance and security
- Mortgages and security
 - Mortgagee and receiver sale of land (NEW!)
 
Contracts
- Execution formalities
 - General contracts and boilerplate
 - Contract law
 
Companies
- Company administration and meetings
 - Company formation and constitution
 - Corporate governance
 - Directors
 - Dividends
 - Share capital
 - Shareholder activism
 - Shareholder arrangements
 - Shareholder rights and remedies
 - Voluntary winding up and deregistration
 - Whistleblowers
 
Collective investments
- Managed funds
 - Trusts
 
Contracts
- Execution formalities
 - General contracts and boilerplate
 - Contract law
 
Competition and Consumer - General Principles
- Application of Competition and Consumer Act
 - Compliance and training
 - Markets and market definition
 
Restrictive trade practices
- Cartel conduct
 - Anti-competitive contracts, arrangements and understandings
 - Boycotts and collective bargaining
 - Misuse of market power
 - Exclusive dealing
 - Resale price maintenance
 - Mergers and acquisitions affecting competition
 
Australian Consumer Law
- Misleading conduct and false representations
 - Unconscionable conduct
 - Unfair and unjust contracts
 - Unfair practices
 - Consumer transactions and guarantees
 - Product liability, safety and recalls
 
Procedure, enforcement and remedies
- Authorisation, notification and exemptions
 - Investigations
 - Enforcement and remedies
 
Access regimes
- Access regimes
 
Franchising regulation
- Franchising
 
Regulation
- Dealing with regulators
 - Financial services regulation
 - AML and CTF
 - Foreign investment
 - Privacy
 - Regulation of specific sectors
 - Data and digital markets
 - Financial Accountability Regime (FAR)
 
Acquisitions
- Asset acquisitions
 - Due diligence: acquisitions
 - Financial assistance
 - Foreign investment
 - Members’ schemes of arrangement
 - Pre-transaction agreements and confidentiality: acquisitions
 - Private equity and venture capital
 - Restraints of trade
 - Share acquisitions: private
 - Takeovers
 
Specialist transactions
- Joint ventures
 - Reductions of share capital
 - Reorganisations
 - Share buy-backs
 - Share schemes and incentives
 - Start-ups
 
Equity Capital Markets
- Disclosure documents
 - Initial public offerings
 - Issuing equity securities: public companies
 
Contracts
- Execution formalities
 - General contracts and boilerplate
 - Contract law
 
Litigation practice and procedure
- Australian judicial system
 - Litigation and dispute resolution strategy
 - Jurisdiction, legislation, time limits and immunities
 - Court claims: overview and pre-action
 - Commencement: originating process, pleadings and service
 - Relief
 - ADR and compromise
 - Costs
 - Case management
 - Interim applications
 - Disclosure
 - Privileges and confidentiality
 - Evidence
 - Trial practice
 - Judgments, orders and enforcement
 - Appeals
 - State and territory litigation practice
 - Representative proceedings
 - Social media issues in litigation
 - Litigation for in-house counsel
 
Specialist proceedings
- Commercial contract claims
 - Regulatory
 - Intellectual property litigation
 
Corporate insolvency
- Receivership
 - Voluntary administration
 - Deeds of company arrangement
 - Liquidation
 
Personal insolvency
- Bankruptcy
 - Personal insolvency agreements
 
Creating and characterising working relationships
- Foundation concepts
 - Employment status and types
 - Casual employment
 - Other workers
 - Contracts and policies
 
Pay, benefits and entitlements
- National Employment Standards
 - Modern awards and enterprise agreements
 - Employee pay and benefits
 - Other worker pay arrangements
 - Transfer of business
 
Industrial
- Enterprise agreement terms and bargaining
 - Industrial action and right of entry
 
Managing working relationships and the workplace
- Managing work and the workplace
 - Managing grievances, conduct and fair treatment
 - Health, safety and incapacity
 - Whistleblowers
 - Privacy and surveillance
 
Protecting business interests
- Confidentiality, intellectual property and conflict of interest
 - Restraints of trade
 
Ending working relationships
- Redundancy
 - Termination
 - Settlement and settlement agreements
 
Disputes and litigation
- FWC case management and procedure
 - Civil remedy provisions
 - Minimum entitlement and underpayment claims
 - General protections disputes
 - Enterprise agreement and industrial disputes
 - FWC dismissal disputes
 - Other FWC disputes
 - Other work-related causes of action
 
Discrimination at work
- Grounds and elements
 - Case management and procedure
 - Remedies
 
Financially distressed businesses
- Directors and management
 - Employees
 - Creditors (unsecured)
 - Secured parties
 - Contracts
 - Property issues
 - Mortgagee enforcement actions NEW!
 - Voluntary deregistration
 - Restructuring transactions
 
Corporate insolvency
- Receivership
 - Voluntary administration
 - Deeds of company arrangement
 - Liquidation
 
Personal insolvency
- Bankruptcy
 - Debt agreements
 - Personal insolvency agreements
 
Corporate restructuring
- Intra-group reorganisations
 - Restructuring transactions
 
Company fundamentals
- Company formation and constitution
 - Directors
 - Managed funds
 - Trusts
 
Commercial and contract resources
- Execution formalities
 - General contracts and boilerplate
 - Contract law
 - Commercial
 
Dispute resolution
- Disputes and litigation resources
 
Risk and compliance
- Dealing with key risk areas
 - Creating policies and procedures
 - Identifying and managing risk
 
Legal department operations and management
- Leadership, management and personal development
 - Operations, technology and spend
 - Finding, keeping and motivating talent
 - Sourcing and managing legal services
 - Wellbeing
 
Company secretarial
- Corporate governance
 - Company meetings
 - Directors
 
Training centre
- Training the business
 - Training the legal team
 
Toolkits
- Legal department operations and management
 - Mental health and wellbeing for lawyers
 - Diversity and inclusion
 - Managing the in-house legal function
 - Company secretarial matters
 - Managing employees
 - Risk and compliance centre
 - Continuing professional development (CPD)
 - Training the legal team
 - Training the business
 - Contract administration and management
 - Day-to-day matters
 - Managing disputes and litigation
 - Major projects and corporate transactions
 - New to in-house
 - Inside In-house
 
United Kingdom
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- Agricultural finance
 - Buying and selling rural land
 - Easements, covenants and other third party rights
 - Equestrian
 - EU agriculture
 - Farm partnerships and farming agreements
 - Rural environmental issues
 - Rural planning issues
 - Sporting rights
 - Tax planning for agriculture and landed estates
 
Leases, tenancies and licences
- Agricultural holdings
 - Agricultural licences
 - Farm business tenancies
 - Farm dwellings
 
Farming policy
- UK agricultural policy
 - Farm payments and capital grants
 - Environmental land management schemes
 - Forestry
 
Related practice areas
- Environment
 - Planning
 - Private Client
 - Property
 - Tax
 
Collections
- Useful tax materials produced by other services
 
Institutional and Ad Hoc Arbitration
- Institutional and Ad-hoc Arbitration: General
 - AAA/ICDR
 - ICC
 - LCIA
 - SCC
 - UNCITRAL
 - ICSID
 - CIETAC
 - HKIAC
 - SIAC
 
Drafting arbitration clauses
- Arbitration agreements
 - Conflicts of law issues
 
Arbitration procedure
- National arbitration legislation
 - Costs and funding
 - Interim measures
 - Jurisdictional issues
 - Arbitrators and appointments
 - Applications to court
 - Commencing arbitration
 - Procedure and evidence
 - Multi party arbitration
 - Remedies
 
Award and post-award
- Arbitral awards and challenges
 - Enforcement
 
Specialist arbitration
- Investment treaty arbitration
 - Commodities arbitration
 - Maritime arbitration
 - Energy arbitration
 - Financial services arbitration
 - Construction arbitration
 - Insurance and reinsurance arbitration
 
Criminal Investigation
- Investigation powers
 - Privilege
 - Arrest and bail
 - Search and seizure
 - Interviews
 - Decision to charge or alternative disposal
 
Prosecution, trial and appeal
- Corporate criminal liability
 - Criminal liability
 - Criminal procedure
 - Criminal evidence
 - Sentencing and orders on conviction
 - Confiscation, restraint and forfeiture
 - Criminal appeal
 - Judicial review
 
Extradition and mutual legal assistance
- Extradition
 - Mutual legal assistance
 
Business crime offences
- Bribery
 - Cartel
 - Companies Act and Insolvency Act
 - Consumer protection
 - Corporate manslaughter & health and safety
 - Data protection
 - Environmental
 - Financial services
 - Fraud, forgery and theft
 - Modern Slavery
 - Money laundering
 - Offences prosecuted by local authorities
 - Tax evasion
 
Sanctions
- Sanctions and export control
 
Prosecuting authorities’ investigation and prosecution powers
- Competition and Markets Authority
 - CPS and NCA
 - Environment Agency
 - Financial Conduct Authority
 - Health and Safety Executive
 - HM Revenue and Customs
 - Insolvency Service
 - Local Authority
 - Pensions Regulator
 - Serious Fraud Office
 
Equity capital markets
- Preparing a company for IPO
 - Main Market IPOs and listings
 - AIM IPOs and admissions
 - Secondary issues
 - Prospectuses: ECM
 - Sponsors, nomads and other parties
 
Debt capital markets
- Types of debt securities
 - Documenting DCM transactions
 - Prospectuses: DCM
 - Listing: DCM • Trustees, paying agents and other parties
 
Related transactions
- Derivatives
 - Structured finance 
 
Market regulation
- Market abuse and market conduct
 - Disclosure and transparency
 - Financial promotion
 - Other capital markets regulation
 
Related practice areas
- Corporate
 - Finance
 - Financial Services
 
- Advertising and marketing
 - Agency
 - Bailment and leasing
 - Confidentiality
 - Consumer
 - Distribution
 - E-commerce
 - ESG and sustainability
 - Franchising
 - General commercial
 - General contract and boilerplate
 - International trade •
 - Outsourcing •
 - Preliminary agreements
 - Product liability and safety
 - Public procurement
 - Supply of goods and services
 - Tort
 - Trade finance
 
Collections
- Scots law
 
EU
- Practice notes
 - Case tracker tables
 - Checklists
 - Flowcharts
 - Standard documents
 - Matter Maps
 - Video and audio
 - Toolkits
 
UK
- Practice notes
 - Case tracker tables
 - Checklists
 - Flowcharts
 - Standard documents
 - Matter Maps
 - Video and audio
 - Toolkits
 
Contracts and professional appointments
- Building contracts and contractors
 - Engineering contracts
 - General contract and boilerplate
 - Insurance
 - International construction contracts
 - Professional appointments and liabilities
 
Dispute resolution
- Adjudication
 - ADR
 - Arbitration
 - Litigation
 
Finance
- Real estate finance and investment
 
Property development
- Collateral warranties and third parties
 - Development documents
 - Regeneration
 - Sustainability and environment
 
Procurement
- Procurement
 - Public procurement
 
Regulation and taxation
- Health and safety
 - Insolvency
 - Statutory liabilities: land and buildings
 - Taxation
 
Related sectors
- Energy
 - Heavy Industry
 - Insurers & Reinsurers
 
Company law
- Company administration and meetings
 - Company formation and constitution
 - Corporate governance
 - Directors
 - ESG and sustainability
 - Financial reporting
 - Share capital: structure, allotment and transfers
 - Shareholder rights and remedies
 
Advising issuers
- Main Market ongoing obligations
 - AIM ongoing obligations
 - Disclosure and transparency
 - Prospectuses
 - Market abuse and market conduct
 
Corporate transactions
- Acquisitions: auctions
 - Asset acquisitions
 - Share acquisitions: private
 - Public mergers & acquisitions
 - Corporate: Joint ventures
 - Private equity and venture capital
 - Reorganisations, schemes and demergers
 - Returns of value
 
Partnerships
- Partnership and LLPs
 
General
- General contract and boilerplate
 - Financial promotion
 
Collections
- For company secretaries
 - Scots law resource centre
 
Related practice areas
- Capital Markets
 
- Compliance
 - Cookies
 - Data security
 - Data sharing
 - Direct marketing
 - Employee data and monitoring
 - GDPR and data protection reform
 - Exporting personal data
 - General
 - Rights of data subjects
 - Sanctions and remedies
 - Surveillance
 - Technology
 - Transactions
 
Related practice areas
- IP & IT
 - Media & Telecoms
 
Litigation procedure
- Pre-action conduct
 - Funding
 - Jurisdiction and cross-border
 - Limitation
 - Security for costs
 - Injunctive relief
 - Starting a claim
 - Service
 - Responding to a claim
 - Statements of case
 - Interim applications
 - Early determination
 - Case management
 - Disclosure
 - Evidence
 - Privilege
 - Experts
 - Settlement and Part 36
 - Trial
 - Costs
 - Appeals
 - Enforcement
 
ADR
- Adjudication
 - Early neutral evaluation
 - Expert determination
 - Mediation
 
Contract, tort and remedies
- Dispute resolution clauses
 - General contract and boilerplate
 - Remedies
 - Tort
 
Specialist proceedings
- Lower value claims
 - Insolvency litigation
 - Insurance litigation
 - Judicial review
 
Related practice areas
- Arbitration
 - Property Litigation
 - Scots law
 - Commercial
 
Commencing employment
- Contracts of employment
 - Recruitment
 
Employment status and types of working
- Agency workers
 - Apprentices
 - Atypical working
 - Directors
 - Employment status and self-employment
 - Financial services employees
 - Partnerships and LLPs
 
ESG in employment
- ESG and sustainability
 
Immigration and cross-border
- Cross-border
 - Immigration
 
Equality and human rights
- Discrimination
 - Equal pay
 - Human rights and modern slavery
 
Managing working relationships
- Discipline and performance management
 - Employee data protection
 - Families and pregnancy
 - Grievances
 - Policies and procedures
 - Sickness and incapacity
 - Working time and time off
 
Pay and benefits
- Pay and benefits
 - Taxation
 
Trade unions and consultation
- Trade unions
 - Workforce engagement
 
Whistleblowing
- Whistleblowing
 
Terminating the employment relationship
- Redundancy and business reorganisation
 - Termination and settlement
 - Unfair dismissal
 
Protecting business interests
- Restraint of trade, confidentiality and IP
 
Corporate transactions
- Restructuring and insolvency
 - Transfer of shares
 - Transfer of undertakings
 
Tribunals and civil litigation
- Civil litigation
 - Employment tribunals
 - Employment Appeal Tribunal
 
Collections
- For discrimination lawyers
 - For immigration lawyers
 - Scots law
 
- Access to environmental information
 - Air pollution
 - Chemicals and hazardous substances
 - Climate change
 - Energy: environmental issues
 - Energy efficiency
 - Enforcement and litigation procedure
 - Environmental consultants
 - Environmental impact assessments
 - Environmental management and reporting
 - Environmental permitting
 - Environmental taxes
 - ESG and sustainability
 - General environment
 - Habitats, wildlife and biodiversity
 - Health and safety: environmental issues
 - Insurance
 - Land contamination
 - Nuclear and radioactive substances
 - Nuisance and noise control
 - Planning: environmental issues
 - Producer responsibility
 - Warranties, indemnities and transaction issues
 - Waste
 - Water, marine and flooding
 
Related practice areas
- Agriculture & Rural Land
 - Business Crime & Investigations
 - Planning
 
Related sectors
- Energy
 - Heavy Industry
 
- Nuptial agreements and relationship planning
 - Cohabitation
 - Family ADR
 - Divorce and dissolution of civil partnership
 - Financial remedies: on divorce or dissolution
 - Financial remedies: preservation of assets
 - Children law: financial support
 - Children law: private
 - Children law: public
 - Domestic violence and personal protection
 - International aspects of family law
 
General
- General contract and boilerplate
 - Legal concepts
 
Lending and security
- Lending: general
 - Guarantees
 - Security and quasi security
 - ESG and sustainability
 
Specialist transactions
- Acquisition finance
 - Asset finance
 - Derivatives
 - Islamic finance
 - Project finance
 - Real estate finance
 - Structured finance
 - Trade finance
 
Related practice areas
- Capital Markets
 
Related sectors
- Financial Institutions: Banks
 - Financial Institutions: Insurers & Reinsurers
 
- Authorisation
 - Banking
 - Client assets
 - Complaints and redress
 - Conduct of business
 - Consumer credit
 - ESG and sustainability
 - Financial crime
 - Financial promotion and marketing
 - FinTech and digital assets
 - Individual accountability
 - Insurance
 - Investigations and enforcement
 - Investment funds and asset management
 - Market conduct
 - Mortgages and home finance
 - Payment services
 - Personal pensions
 - Prudential regulation
 - Regulated activities
 - Regulatory regime
 - Remuneration
 - Resolution and compensation
 - Securities, markets and investments
 - Systems and controls
 - Training and competence
 
Related topics
- Listing, prospectus, disclosure and transparency rules
 
Related sector
- Banks Sector
 - Insurers & Reinsurers Sector
 
Intellectual property
- Confidentiality
 - Copyright
 - Databases
 - Designs
 - General IP
 - Passing off
 - Patents
 - Research and development
 - Trade marks
 
IT and information law
- Freedom of information
 - Information technology
 
Related practice areas
- Data Protection
 - Media & Telecoms
 
Related sector
- Technology, Media & Telecoms (TMT)
 
Children
- Children's services
 - Education
 
Health
- Adult social services
 - Health
 - Mental capacity
 
Housing
- Right to buy
 - Social housing
 
Information law
- Access to environmental information
 - Freedom of information
 
Local government
- Decision-making
 - Enforcement
 - Governance and powers
 - Judicial review
 - Partnership working
 
Public procurement
- General contract and boilerplate
 - Outsourcing
 - PFI/PPP
 - Public procurement
 - Public sector pensions
 - State aid
 - TUPE
 
Related practice areas
- Data Protection
 - Dispute Resolution
 - Employment
 - Environment
 - Planning
 - Public Law
 
- Defamation
 - Film
 - General media
 - Internet
 - Music
 - Privacy
 - Social media
 - Telecoms
 - TV
 
Related practice areas
- Data Protection
 - IP & IT
 
Related sector
- Technology, Media & Telecoms (TMT)
 
Occupational and personal pensions
- Administering pension schemes
 - Auto-enrolment and NEST
 - Contracting-out
 - Cross-border
 - DC pension schemes
 - Discrimination
 - Early leavers
 - Employer debt
 - Employers
 - ESG and sustainability
 - Funding and investment
 - General pensions
 - Members and benefits
 - Pension Protection Fund
 - Pension sharing
 - Pensions and employment
 - Pensions Regulator
 - Policy and reform
 - Public sector pensions
 - Sales and acquisitions
 - Scheme documents
 - Scheme restructurings and mergers
 - Tax and accounting
 - Trustees
 - Winding-up and insolvency
 
Pensions disputes
- Court proceedings
 - Ombudsmen and tribunals
 - Internal dispute resolution procedures
 - Challenging the Pensions Regulator
 - Common issues in disputes
 
Collections and Multi-jurisdictional
- For discrimination lawyers
 - Pensions Global Guide
 
Planning Process
- Planning applications
 - Planning permission
 - Planning obligations and Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL)
 - Use classes orders
 - Permitted development
 
Appeals
- Appeals
 - Judicial review
 - Local Government Ombudsman
 
Enforcement
- Enforcement
 
Special planning controls
- Advertisements
 - Conservation areas
 - Planning: Listed buildings
 - Nationally significant projects (NSIPs and DNS)
 - Protected Trees
 - Scheduled monuments
 
Related topics
- Compulsory purchase and appropriation
 - Environmental impact assessment
 - Highways
 - Policy framework
 
Related sector
- Heavy Industry
 
- Lifetime planning
 - Wills
 - Mental capacity
 - After death
 - Trusts
 - Owner-managed businesses
 - International individuals
 - Charities
 - Contentious private client
 
General
- General contract and boilerplate
 - Legal concepts
 
Related practice areas
- Family
 - Tax
 - Share Schemes & Incentives
 - Practice Compliance & Management
 - Property
 
Collections
- Advising smaller businesses
 - For charity lawyers
 - For immigration lawyers
 - Scots law
 
Conveying property
- Title issues
 - Common land, town and village greens
 - Easements, covenants and other third party rights
 - Conveyancing procedure
 - Contracts and transfers
 - Land registration
 - Charity transactions
 - Insolvency
 
Dealing with leasehold land
- Assignments, variations, surrenders and termination
 - Business tenancies (non-contentious)
 - Estate management and licences
 - Guarantees
 - Leases and licences to occupy
 - Residential tenancies
 
Development
- Development
 - Options, pre-emptions and overage
 
Finance and security
- Corporate support
 - Mortgages and security
 - Real estate finance and investment
 - Tax
 
Energy and sustainability
- Energy and buildings
 - Sustainability
 - Utilities
 
Regulatory compliance
- Insurance
 - Professional ethics and regulation
 - Statutory liabilities
 
Collections
- Scots law
 
Related practice areas
- Agriculture & Rural Land
 - Planning
 - Property Litigation
 
Landlord and tenant
- Breach of lease covenants
 - Break notices
 - Business tenancies (contentious)
 - Dilapidations
 - Forfeiture
 - Rent, non-payment of rent and rent review
 - Service charges
 
Residential landlord and tenant
- Assured shorthold tenancies
 - Enfranchisement and lease extensions
 - Right of first refusal
 - Tenancy deposit schemes
 
Real property
- Party walls
 - Rights of light
 
Enforcement
- Enforcement and remedies
 - Possession of land and buildings
 - Trespass
 
Related topics
- CPR Procedure
 
Related practice areas
- Property
 - Dispute Resolution
 
Administrative and constitutional law
- Executive and legislative powers
 - Exercising statutory powers
 - Judicial review
 - Statutory construction
 
Equality and human rights
- Equality
 - Human rights
 
Information law
- Access to environmental information
 - Freedom of information
 
Public procurement
- General contract and boilerplate
 - Outsourcing
 - PFI/PPP
 - Public procurement
 - Public sector pensions
 - State aid
 - TUPE
 
Related practice areas
- Data Protection
 - EU Law
 - Local Government
 
Financially distressed businesses
- Court proceedings
 - Directors and employees
 - Pensions issues
 - Property issues
 - Restructuring and insolvency transactions
 - Reviewable transactions
 - Tax issues
 
Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016
- Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016
 
Corporate insolvency
- Administration
 - Company voluntary arrangements
 - Dissolution, strike off and restoration
 - Liquidation
 - Receivership
 - Schemes of arrangement
 
Individual Insolvency
- Bankruptcy and debt relief orders
 - Individual voluntary arrangements
 - Partnerships and LLPs
 
Cross-border insolvency
- Cross-border insolvency
 
Office holders
- Policy and reform
 - Regulation, powers and duties of insolvency practitioners
 
Share schemes
- EMI options
 - CSOP/SAYE/SIPs
 - Taxable share schemes and agreements
 - Accounting, finance and scheme design
 
Employee benefit trusts
- Employee benefit trusts
 
Other incentive arrangements
- Cash-based employee incentive schemes
 
Tax and NICs
- Tax and NICs
 
Company law, governance and regulatory
- Company law and corporate governance
 - Regulatory matters
 
Corporate transactions
- Corporate transactions
 
Employment law issues
- Employment law issues
 
General
- General contract and boilerplate
 - Legal concepts
 
Companies and groups
- Companies and groups
 
Corporate transactions
- Asset acquisitions
 - Equity capital markets
 - Joint ventures
 - Private equity and venture capital
 - Share acquisitions
 
Cross-border
- Cross-border
 
Disputes and anti-avoidance
- Anti-avoidance
 - Disputes and investigations
 
Employment
- Cross-border: Employment
 - Employment income, pensions and benefits
 - Employment status and self-employment
 - National Insurance Contributions
 - Termination of employment
 
Energy and environment
- Energy and environment
 
Finance
- Asset finance
 - Cross-border: finance
 - Debt capital markets
 - Islamic finance
 - Lending: general
 - Structured finance & derivatives
 
Investment funds
- Investment funds and asset management
 
IP and IT
- IP and IT
 
Partnerships and OMBs
- Owner-managed businesses
 - Partnerships an LLPs
 
Property
- Development and construction
 - Landlord and tenant
 - Real estate finance and investment
 - Stamp duty land tax
 
Reorganisations and distributions
- Dividends and distributions
 - Reorganisations, schemes and demergers
 - Buybacks and other returns of value
 
Restructuring and insolvency
- Restructuring and insolvency
 
Stamp duty and SDRT
- Stamp duty and SDRT
 
VAT and Customs
- General VAT and administration
 - VAT on property and construction
 - VAT: corporates and corporate transactions
 - Cross-border: VAT
 - Customs
 
General
- Professional ethics and regulation
 - Taxes, clearances and concepts
 - General contract and boilerplate
 - Legal concepts
 
Practice Compliance
- AML and financial crime prevention
 - Client and matter management
 - Claims, complaints and insurances
 - Conflicts, confidentiality, privilege
 - Costs and funding
 - Data, information and cyber security
 - Risk management, governance and ethics
 - SRA accounts
 - SRA regulation and authorisation
 
Practice Management
- Legal operations, technology and people management
 - Legal business M&A and reorganisations
 - Lexcel and other standards
 
United States
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- Antitrust Compliance
 - Antitrust Litigation
 - Cartels
 - General Antitrust
 - Horizontal Agreements
 - Merger Control
 - Unilateral Conduct
 - Vertical Agreements
 
- Arbitral Awards & Challenges
 - Arbitration Agreements
 - Arbitrators & Appointments
 - Commencing an Arbitration
 - Conflicts of Law Issues
 - Costs & Funding
 - Enforcement
 - Institutional & Ad-Hoc Arbitration
 - Interim Measures
 - Investment Treaty Arbitration
 - Jurisdictional Issues
 - Multiparty Arbitration
 - Procedure & Evidence
 - Remedies
 
- Bankruptcy Committees
 - Bankruptcy Litigation
 - Chapter 11: Commencing a Case
 - Chapter 11: Case Administration
 - Chapter 11: Exiting a Case
 - Creditor and Inter-Creditor Issues in Bankruptcy
 - Cross-Border: Chapter 15
 - Individual Bankruptcy
 - Municipal Bankruptcy: Chapter 9
 - Out-of-Court Restructuring
 - Prepacks in Bankruptcy
 - Purchasing Distressed Assets and Claims in Bankruptcy
 - Small Business Bankruptcy
 - General Bankruptcy
 
- Broker-Dealer & Investment Adviser
 - Corporate Governance & Continuous Disclosure
 - Market Regulation
 - Non-US Issuers
 - Registered Offerings
 - Unregistered Offerings
 
- Advertising & Marketing
 - Agency, Distribution & Franchising
 - Bribery & Corruption
 - Confidentiality
 - Consumer
 - General Contract & Boilerplate
 - Insurance Claims & Coverage
 - International Trade & Customs
 - Joint Ventures
 - Outsourcing
 - Supply of Goods & Services
 - General Commercial
 
- Corporations
 - Limited Liability Companies
 - Joint Ventures
 - Private Equity
 - Private M&A
 - Public M&A
 - Tax
 
- Data Privacy Laws & Frameworks
 - Advertising, Direct Marketing & Commercial Messages
 - Biometrics
 - Children & Students
 - Cybersecurity & Data Security
 - Data Breach Notification
 - Data Sharing & Transfers
 - Data Subject Rights
 - Employee Privacy & Workplace Monitoring
 - Financial Services & Insurance
 - Health & Medical
 - Litigation & Enforcement
 - Online, Telecommunications & Media
 - Policies & Program Management
 - Surveillance
 - Transactions, Contracting & Vendor Management
 
- Executive Compensation
 - Retirement Plans
 - Health & Welfare Plans
 - Equity Compensation
 - Employee Benefit Plans: Administration & Compliance
 - Employee Benefit Plans & the Employment Relationship
 
- Acquisition Finance
 - Asset-Based Lending
 - Bankruptcy in Finance
 - Cryptocurrency & Digital Assets
 - Debt Capital Markets
 - Guaranties
 - Islamic Finance
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- Prospectus Offerings
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Intellectual Property
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Equality
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