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Some insights from our team and others that will hopefully inspire you.

Strictly Boardroom is our board-level legal briefing for business leaders in all sectors.

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10.10.18 O'Connors News

O’Connors advises Intelipac on sale to Thai packaging giant

Thai packaging group TPBI has spent £13m on acquiring a North West company.
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16.05.18 O'Connors News

O’Connors advises Essential Cuisine on sale to Solina

Essential Cuisine, a Cheshire-based premium food service brand, has been bought by Solina, a European producer of savoury ingredients.
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Risk Services
16.05.18 O'Connors News

O’Connors advises Risk Services (NW) on sale to Gallagher

Gallagher has announed the acquisition of Chester-based commercial insurance broker Risk Services (NW) Limited, further expanding its presence as a community broker with global reach in the North-West of England and North Wales. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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25.04.18 O'Connors News

O’Connors advises Haarslev UK on sale to global partner

After more than 40 years of successful cooperation, Skelmersdale-based food processing technology business Haarslev UK Limited has officially become part of the Haarslev global family following its acquisition by Haarslev Industries A/S for an undisclosed sum.
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23.03.18 Strictly Boardroom

Why people vote for law firm leaders

I don’t know about you, but I’m much more Follow-the-Leader than Pokémon Go. Until someone put me right, I thought Angry Birds was a Hitchcock film. I’d like to think it’s maturity but it’s more likely to be my age.
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22.01.18 O'Connors News

O’Connors recognised for supporting the legal industry at Modern Law Awards

O’Connors is over-the-moon to have won the ‘Supporting the Industry Award’ at this year’s Modern Law Awards, in recognition of its work in advising those operating in the legal sector.
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14.12.17 Strictly Boardroom

Santa’s Data Protection Elf-check

‘Just so I’m crystal clear on this,’ said Santa, with just a hint of frustration in his voice, ‘you’re telling me that, from May next year, I can’t use my database of good and naughty boys and girls unless I spend Mrs Claus’ Christmas money on GDPR consultants?’
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Downing Street
15.11.17 Strictly Boardroom

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Law Firm Leaders

I met one of my favourite authors recently at a book signing. No, not the famous ‘7 Habits’ author Stephen Covey (who is sadly no longer with us) but Robert Harris, whose latest novel ‘Munich’ is set 75 years ago during the negotiation of the Munich Agreement.
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Benjamin Franklin
24.07.17 Strictly Boardroom

Managing your law firm’s reputational risk

As Benjamin Franklin once said, it takes many good deeds to build a good reputation and one bad one to lose it – as a few jewellers, airlines, car manufacturers, newspapers and banks have discovered in recent times.
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Evel Kneivel
29.06.17 Strictly Boardroom

Should contract risk be higher up your law firm’s agenda?

Like beauty, risk is in the eye of the beholder. A key business decision can be seen through one person’s eyes as a clever entrepreneurial market move and, through another’s, as a reckless bet-the-house punt.
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