Agreement to Agree or Agreement?

01 October 2012

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October’s issue of Insight provides practical advice on writing side letters in such a way that makes them either binding, non-binding or partly binding. Lisa Kingston considers the Court of Appeal’s decision in Barbudev v Eurocom Cable Management Bulgaria EOOD & Ors where the side letter was under scrutiny.

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Parent Company Guarantees – is there an alternative?

September 2013’s issue of Insight discusses whether a parent company letter of support is as good as a parent company guarantee.

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Letters of Intent: Avoiding those Bear Traps1

In March 2017’s Insight, we review the key case law on letters of intent of the past few years and seek to highlight some of the lessons that can be learned from them.

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An Overview of the CIArb Dispute Board Rules

This paper seeks to trace briefly the development of dispute board rules and outline some of the key issues in relation to the rules that might be commonly encountered.

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