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Avoid Legal Pitfalls for Small Businesses: An essential reference guide to law and litigation for SMEs

Avoid Legal Pitfalls for Small Businesses: An essential reference guide to law and litigation for SMEs


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Do you want to protect yourself from all the legal pitfalls in planning, setting up and running your SME? Then let one of the UK's leading law firms guide you through the minefield with this book - the best quick reference to all of those risks and how to avoid them, With a practical approach that takes you from: Pre-start up ( Operating structures; Restrictions preventing start up; Corporate finance considerations) Through start-up (Shareholder/partnership agreements and exit strategies; Property/premises issues; Employment of staff, including drafting contracts of employment; Supplier contracts; Customer/client contracts; Protecting IP rights) To practical ongoing SME pitfalls (IP rights and disputes; Owner disputes; HR/employee problems; Health and Safety problems; PI claims and HSE prosecutions; Supplier disputes; Customer disputes including debt collection; Merger & Acquisitions activity including issues related to disposing of a business) This invaluable book could save you from legal and financial disaster: a great value resource for every small to medium business.

Table of Contents:
Part 1:: Pre-start up -: Operating structure - limited company, sole trader, partnership, LLP. An analysis f the different structures and legal pros and cons. -: Restrictions preventing start up eg. from previous employment preventing competition. An analysis of the enforceability of such terms -: Corporate finance considerations - different types of funding and legal implications Part 2:: Start up -: Shareholder/partnership agreements - an analysis of the benefits of such agreements, common provisions to be included, key areas to address such as preventing deadlock and exit strategies -: Property/premises issues -: Employment of staff - riasks attached to recruitment, drafting contracts of employment -: Supplier contracts -: Customer/client contracts -: Protecting IP rights Part 3:: Ongoing SME pitfalls -: IP rights and disputes -: Owner disputes -: HR/employee problems -: Health and Safety probklems - PI claims and HSE prosecutions -: Supplier disputes -: Customer disputes including debt collection

About the Author :
Massimo Carlotto was born in Padova in 1956. At the age of 19 he was arrested on suspicion of murdering a female student, a crime for which he was only acquitted after eighteen years, eleven trials, one successful escape attempt and finally a Presidential Pardon. Gianrico Carofiglio was born in Bari in 1961. A former anti-Mafia judge, he is the author of eight novels, including The Past is a Foreign Country, for which he won the Premio Bancarella. Giancarlo De Cataldo is an Italian magistrate turned crime writer. He is the editor of Crimini, The Bitter Lemon book of Italian Crime Fiction.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781444137415
  • Publisher: John Murray Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Teach Yourself
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 176
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: An essential reference guide to law and litigation for SMEs
  • Width: 132 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1444137417
  • Publisher Date: 30 Dec 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 231 gr


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