Conyers Dill & Pearman has been approved by the British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission as a registered trade mark agent. The Trade Marks Act, which came into force on 1 September 2015, was recently amended to permit entities established as general partnerships to register as trade mark agents. Registered trade mark agents are required to have a substantial knowledge of trade mark law and professional competence and we are delighted that Conyers has qualified as a registered trade mark agent.

If you own generation assets of 10MW or more in the UK, you should read this updater. Registration and reporting deadlines under REMIT relevant to existing or new power purchase agreements will take effect soon. Read more. (Subscription required.)

Essential Pensions News covers the latest pensions developments each month in an “at a glance” format. More detail is available by following the link under each summary. Read more. (Subscription required.)

Whereas it is generally acknowledged that insolvency proceedings are a collective debt collection mechanism through which an insolvent debtor’s assets are pooled together for the benefit of all creditors, some creditors have over the years been using insolvency proceedings to collect their individual debts.

Mistakes are surprisingly common in formal pension scheme documentation and, once discovered, should be corrected to ensure that members receive the benefits to which they are entitled. Frequently, the correction of such mistakes involves a full hearing of all the evidence and the application by the Court of the equitable doctrine of rectification. This is the usual remedy where the rules make sense but they happen to say something which the parties did not intend when the trust deed was executed.

From 6 April 2016, most UK companies and limited liability partnerships will be required to identify and keep a register of any individuals – i.e., human beings – who ultimately control them, wherever in the world those individuals are located. This applies whether or not they are operating entities and regardless of whether they are operationally controlled from outside the UK. Read more. (Subscription required.)

Norton Rose Fulbright invites you to participate in our twelfth Annual Litigation Trends Survey. We would greatly appreciate you taking 10 minutes to offer your perspective on the litigation and dispute resolution market. Read more. (Subscription required.)

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Generally directors are, rightfully, focused on making a success of the business to which they are appointed and the prospect of insolvency (and the potential for personal liability) often seems remote. Indeed, many directors will (happily) never have to face the very difficult decisions associated with a struggling business and when they do they often, sensibly, rely upon the advice of experienced insolvency professionals. Read more. (Subscription required.)

In a busy week for the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), the United Kingdom’s antibribery prosecutor, it has announced its first-ever deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) for bribery offences and the first guilty plea under the U.K. Bribery Act (UKBA). Both matters involved the application of the much heralded, but still infrequently enforced, corporate offense of failure to prevent bribery by associated persons, under Section 7 of the UKBA.