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In The Media

• The Financial Times quotes Neil Vickers on toughest move by Takeover Panel in 18 years
  15 July 2010
  As reported, one of the UK's most high-profile activist investors was banned from undertaking merger-related activity
• The Sunday Times quotes Ingrid Silver on Celador's successful dispute with Disney
  11 July 2010
  Ingrid Silver was quoted in The Sunday Times in a piece on Celador, creator of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, and its successful dispute with Disney over a licensing agreement for the show.
• Stephen Ridgway in The Times on 'ambush' marketing in major sporting events
  08 July 2010
  Stephen Ridgway is quoted in The Times today in a feature on how sporting bodies and host countries for major sporting events are responding to 'ambush' marketing events

Published Articles

• Planning: Local Enterprise Partnerships offer chance to promote future visions
  26 July 2010
  In the spirit of getting on with things and cutting through red tape, the coalition government has already taken many headline steps to promote its agenda. Much of its thinking is set out in the Conservatives' Open Source Planning green paper.
• Planning: Quest for clarity goes on over regional revocation
  16 July 2010
  Following the revocation of regional strategies "to give clarity to builders, developers and planners", there are issues that the government urgently needs to tackle and which go beyond the DCLG's accompanying "questions and answers" document.
• Planning and Public Law: Unworkable invitation to abuse
  14 July 2010
  CIL came into force on 6 April 2010. They provide a framework that will allow planning authorities to bring forward CIL, a process that is likely to take 12 months or more before the first CIL charging schedules are ready for adoption.

Press Releases

• Default retirement age to be phased out
  10 August 2010
  After the Government's narrow victory following the Heyday challenge to the much-maligned retirement age in the UK, the coalition has confirmed that it will be phasing out the default retirement age (DRA) from April 2011.
• Hire of expert energy partner adds to Denton Wilde Sapte's Middle East strengths
  18 July 2010
  Denton Wilde Sapte's Middle East energy practice has expanded with the hire of new partner Stuart Cavet.
• Stephen Ridgway in The Times on 'ambush' marketing in major sporting events
  08 July 2010
  Stephen Ridgway is quoted in The Times in a feature on how sporting bodies and host countries for major sporting events are responding to 'ambush' marketing events