Asset Based Lending

Our Asset Based Lending Work

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• Middle East
• UK & Europe

• Administration of a logistics company

  Acting for the administrators of City Trucks Limited, a major road haulage and logistics business, dealing with various trading issues and the realisation of the company's debtor ledger.

  Administration of an aviation recruitment business

  Acting for the administrators of a GBP 70 million turnover aviation recruitment business to effect a pre-packaged sale of the business and assets. Ensuring a full recovery for the receivables financiers of the amounts advanced.

  Administration of printing companies

  Acting for the administrators of a number of unconnected printing companies in situations where the companies' assets were subject to finance and the debts were subject to invoice discounting arrangements. Our instructions included negotiating and drafting the relevant business and asset sale agreements, which allowed the administrators to preserve the companies' goodwill in order that the debts could be collected, thereby achieving a good result for the factors and asset based lenders (most...

  Business and asset sales

  Negotiating and completing numerous business and asset sales for administrators appointed by invoice financiers

  Contract reviews on behalf of invoice financiers

  Conducting various pre take on reviews of customer contracts on behalf of invoice financiers and advising on the viability of funding the receivables.

  Enforceability of a personal guarantee

  Successfully representing an invoice financier on issues relating to the enforceability of a personal guarantee in the Court of Appeal.

  Invoice discounting facilities

  Renegotiating various invoice discounting facilities and supporting security and advising on improved terms for receivables financiers.

• Filing strategy advice for a government funded research centre

  Providing a leading computing research centre funded by the government of a GCC state (one of the largest producers of patentable technology in the region) with strategic advice on filing strategy and working with the client and its team of researchers and inventors to file over 50 PCT applications.

  United Arab Emirates

  US patent protection for a non-profit organisation

  Advising a leading GCC non-profit organisation in relation to patent protection in the United States and the filing of US utility and provisional patent applications.

  United Arab Emirates

  Revolutionary seating concept patent for an international airline

  Advising a major GCC airline on IP ownership dispute over the design and patents of a revolutionary seating concept. Preparing new patent filing strategies and advising on related freedom to operate searches. Undertaking IP due diligence and advising on commercialisation of IP.

  United Arab Emirates

  Offshore pipeline patent and technology licensing

  Advising on patent and technology licensing advice in relation to offshore pipelines including drafting and negotiating IP licences, supply and manufacturing agreements, and advising on an NDA regime with third party suppliers.

  United Arab Emirates

• Patent dispute in the construction industry

  Advising a UK company on the infringement and validity of its patent related to concrete laying in a long-running dispute with a would-be competitor, including a limitation request in the EPO to strengthen its validity and obtaining a UK Patent Office opinion on the validity and infringement issues.

  United Kingdom

  Appeal from Patent Office’s refusal of a business method patent

  Conducting an appeal to the Patents Court from the UK Patent Office’s decision to refuse a patent application for placing trades at multiple stock exchanges simultaneously as being a method of doing business and/or being for a computer programme as such and so excluded from patent protection.

  United Kingdom

  Trade secrets and entitlement dispute concerning telecommunications equipment

  Defending an action for breach of confidence, breach of contract, copyright infringement and patent entitlement brought against our client relating to analogue electronic devices used in fibre optic telecommunications networks.

  United Kingdom

  Patent dispute relating to second medical use patents

  Advising our client on the validity and infringement of a series of patents for a blockbuster cancer medicine and the issues surrounding “skinny-label” generic versions

  United Kingdom

  Patent entitlement action relating to super-resolution microscopes

  Acting for a university spin-out in a Patents Court action with issues including inventorship and ownership of a number of patent families, as well as the operating software, for a nanoscale resolution microscope.

  United Kingdom

  Entitlement claim to patents concerning vanadium redox batteries

  Bringing an action in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court for entitlement to four patents on vanadium battery technology that our client claimed entitlement to following the breakdown of his informal partnership with the inventor.

  United Kingdom

  Conducting series of patent actions relating to prenatal genetic tests

  Representing our clients in a long running patent infringement dispute, with revocation counterclaims, in the Patents Court relating to prenatal tests for foetal abnormalities such Downs syndrome.  Also advising on a related procurement dispute and judicial review.

  United Kingdom

  Defending validity of patent relating to nappy manufacture

  Defending the validity of a patent relating to ultrasonic bonding in the manufacture of nappies and other disposable absorbent garments in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court and Court of Appeal.

  United Kingdom

  Defending validity of patent relating to nappy manufacture

  Defending the validity of a patent relating to ultrasonic bonding in the manufacture of nappies and disposable absorbent garments in the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court

  United Kingdom