Right place, right time: Why Katherine Evans believes it’s sometimes better to be lucky than smart

Right place, right time: Why Katherine Evans believes it’s sometimes better to be lucky than smart After graduating from the University of Cambridge, Katherine initially pursued a career in marketing and business development, before re-training to become a lawyer in her mid-twenties. After completing articles with Eversheds, she joined specialist shipbuilding practice, Mills & Co., where she remained until joining …

Global Trade: Combating protectionism and the pandemic

Katherine Evans | Senior Partner International Trade: Global and regional trade in the post pandemic The past 18 months were a huge shock to international trade as increasing protectionism and Covid-19 wrought havoc with all previous forecasts and economic roadmaps. Many business analysts predicted that the double whammy of protectionism and pandemic would spell an end to globalised trade. Indeed, …

A dynamic region for inward & outward investment

Katherine Evans | Senior Partner May 2021. The MENA region has huge commercial opportunities for businesses wanting to bring their products and services to new markets, as well as for businesses from within the region looking outwards for investment opportunities and international markets for their own products and services. This activity is only going to increase with the opening up …

Post-Brexit means emerging markets for the UK: ISFIN teams up with agile English law firm

Katherine Evans | Senior Partner 17th March 2020. Katherine Evans, founder and Senior Partner at MIRKWOOD EVANS VINCENT and Prof. Laurent Marlière, CEO of ISFIN announced they will collaborate to make the most of the current British situation towards emerging markets. There has been a significant drop in FDI since the Brexit referendum, but since the effective Brexit, the UK …

The UK as a Business Location for MENA Companies

Katherine Evans | Senior Partner 8th January 2020. Brexit has given a perception to the world that the UK may no longer be open for business to the world, but the reality is that the UK remains a highly business friendly location for MENA headquartered corporations to set up their European operations. To start with, it is easy to set …

Playing By the Rules: establishing effective DLT communities

Katherine Evans | Senior Partner What is a distributed ledger? Distributed ledger technology (DLT) continues to enable the explosion of crypto-currencies, that we have seen over the last few years. As well as being the driving force behind Bitcoin, it has many other applications that make it useful and relevant to businesses in a range of industries. A distributed ledger …

Virtual Currencies in the European Single Market

What are virtual currencies? European Banking Authority (EBA) regards virtual currencies as being a digital representation of value that is neither issued by a central bank or a public authority nor necessarily attached to a regular currency, but is accepted by natural or legal persons as a means of payment, and can be transferred, stored or traded electronically. The leading …

VAT Rule Changes for UK Wholesale Telecommunications Supplies

VAT Reverse Charge Mechanism to apply to Certain Wholesale Supplies from 1st February 2016 Certain UK clients have asked me to explain the VAT rule changes for UK wholesale telecommunications supplies, and hopefully this blog will answer those questions. From 1st February 2016, providers of wholesale telecommunications services in the UK will no longer apply VAT to supplies to other …

Employee Monitoring

Personal Use by Employees of Employer Systems: Mr Bogdan Barbulescu vs the State of Romania Mr Barbulescu used certain business systems to send personal messages in breach of his employer’s stated Policy in this regard. The Employer monitored employee communications to ensure compliance with its Policy. Mr Barbelescu was found to have been in breach of the Policy and was …