ESG at Kinstellar is not a trendy catchphrase. It represents the everyday world of compliance, risk-assessment, litigation, deal-making and proactive strategy building that we’ve excelled at for years. What’s more, our own commitment to ESG values has always been central to our firm culture and sets us apart from our competitors.

Environmental, social and governance law firm (ESG) issues have become a critical part of the decision-making process for an increasing number of companies,…

You might have long thought that a full-length mirror should be reserved strictly for your bedroom or living room. However, erecting this kind of mirror in your bathroom, of all places, can bring surprising benefits — including…

1. A less ‘cramped’ feeling in the room

Your bathroom may be on the small side if you live alone or have simply had to settle for a relatively compact home due to budgetary restrictions.

The good news is that a large mirror placed in this room will…

Retailers are finding themselves squeezed financially more and more these days. With increased costs such as bricks-and-mortar overheads, price of goods increasing, along with staffing costs creeping up, being able to find cost efficiency where possible can make all the difference.

Equally pressing are the financial pressures on the consumer. Many are finding it harder to justify their expenses now, and making sure that an item is perfectly aligned to their needs or desires is getting…

There are many reasons why, as a parent or guardian, you might have considered the benefits of your teen enrolling on a high school service program, like ours here at The Road Less Traveled (RLT).

Participation in some form of community, environmental, and/or animal service might seem like an attractive thing for your 6th to 12th grader to have on their resume. Or perhaps your child has school service hour…

We deliver the most innovative, reliable and scalable solutions in effective EMI mitigation and thermal management for consumer and portable electronic applications. Laird’s broad product portfolio covers a wide range of EMI and thermal solutions along with multi-functional solutions incorporating a single process design. Laird’s advanced materials and multifunctional layers allow miniaturization of components and enable zero air gap in portable devices. Our high performance thermal and EMI…

As we have often explained here on the Shredded-Paper.co.uk blog, shredded paper can have a multitude of uses! However, there might be certain circumstances in which flat paper cut into strips – or as we call it, “straight cut” shredded paper – isn’t your first choice, or the best choice for the application you have in mind.

Instead, you might look to source shredded paper in crinkled form. Crinkled shredded paper is so-called as the strips are folded at intervals, resulting in a…

Here at Loading Systems, we are more than accustomed to designing, manufacturing, and installing loading bay doorsof an exceedingly wide range of specifications, for a similarly broad range of customers.

Indeed, the close work that we do with such customers on the finest details of our loading bay doors, helps ensure there is little or no need for them to compromise on the characteristics and…

Asbestos removal contractor audits

The asbestos removal industry is one of the industries in which companies require a licence to operate. Asbestos is classified as a category 1 carcinogen, with asbestos related disease causing around 5000 deaths every year in the UK. Work with asbestos requires a high degree of regulatory control and the purpose of licensing is to achieve this. Licensing is an addition to the general framework of health and safety law. It builds on the fact that the…

Significant Risk Transfer

Global SRT New Deal Issuance Market data

The only database of its type available, SCI's SRT database features more than 1000 tranches and includes data points such as Issuer, Investor, size of tranche sold, jurisdiction and type of reference pool.

The Significant Risk Transfer Index

Introduction

The SRTx™ (the Index) is a fixed income benchmark rate index that measures the estimated prevailing new-issue price spread for generic private…

The Oxfordshire-based company Travelodge operates more than 600 hotels across the United Kingdom and Ireland. It has gone on to expand its portfolio recently by acquiring five further hotels — including a site in the Costa del Sol tourism hotspot of Málaga.

All five of these new Travelodge hotels were bought from Louvre Hotels Group. What used to be the Campanile on Málaga’s Avenida de Velázquez has been renamed Travelodge Málaga Aeropuerto — three-star accommodation lying just two…

The new Labour government has pledged to make significant changes to our employment legislation over the coming months with the introduction of a new Employment Rights Bill. Consultant Karen South examines what employers and employees can expect under the new legislation, which the government has promised to introduce within 100 days of taking office.

In the King’s Speech on the opening of the new parliament, Labour promised “a new deal for working people”. This will include “banning…

It’s been three years since Peninsula made the decision to build the Levante LNG, our dedicated 12,500-cbm LNG bunkervessel, developed in Hyundai Mipo Shipyard, South Korea, through a joint venture with our friends at ENAGAS’ affiliate Scale Gas. Fast forward to now, Levante LNG is fully operational and regularly supplying LNG as marine fuel in the Strait of Gibraltar and Western Mediterranean.

Three years might feel like the…