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Travers Smith has advised long-standing client Marshall Group on the sale of Marshall Land Systems Limited to Flowing River Capital, an indigenous-owned and led investment firm based in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Travers Smith LLP has advised long-standing client Investec Alternative Investment Management (“IAIM”), a subsidiary of Investec Bank plc (“Investec”), on the successful launch of Investec’s inaugural European senior debt fund, Investec Senior Debt Fund I (“SDF I”, the “fund”), a private credit fund with approximately €400m of investable capital managed by the Investec Direct Lending team.

Travers Smith LLP has advised Fairfax Financial Holdings ("Fairfax") on its acquisition of MW Eat and its subsidiaries, Masala Zone and The India Collection.

Travers Smith LLP has advised Adelis Equity Partners and its portfolio company Bryntum, a leading provider of advanced web components for scheduling and project management, on a partnership with AG Grid, a leading provider of high-performance data grids and charts for modern web applications, to create the globally leading provider of high-quality web components.

Travers Smith has advised Global Guardian, a leading international risk management provider, on its acquisition of Solace Global Risk, a premier travel risk management company and proprietary technology platform. 

Travers Smith LLP has advised David Lloyd Leisure's ("DLL") senior management team on the investment into DLL by a newly established continuation vehicle ("TDR Capital Titan").

A regular briefing for the alternative asset management industry.

A recent Court of Appeal decision has highlighted the risk of entering into a contract via informal channels such as WhatsApp, emails, text messages and phone calls, before any formal written agreement has been drawn up. We look at how to ensure that you're not committed until you're actually ready to be legally bound.

The UK Competition and Markets Authority ("CMA") published its draft revised guidance on merger remedies on 16 October 2025 (the "Draft Guidance"), proposing updates to its approach to the selection, design and implementation of remedies in merger cases. The consultation is open until 13 November 2025, with final guidance expected to be in place later this year.

The New Towns Taskforce (the "NTT") recently issued its much-anticipated independent report to government on the sites which it proposes for designation as new towns. In this briefing we explore its report and the challenges that implementation will face.

Following the publication of a leaked draft of the European Commission's proposals for revisions to the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), Travers Smith's Financial Services and Markets and Operational Risk and Environment teams have published a briefing on the key points contained within the draft text and their implications for asset managers.

At its outset, the case before the UK High Court in Getty Images v Stability AI looked set to provide a definitive outcome to the copyright debate dividing “two warring factions” (as the trial judge put it)—the creative industries and the AI industry. However, those hopes faded when Getty Images dropped its primary infringement claim at the end of the trial in June 2025, following insufficient evidence that Stability AI's generative AI model, Stable Diffusion, had been trained within the UK.

Travers Smith has advised long-standing client Basalt Infrastructure Partners on the sale of Manx Telecom Group to a strategic partnership of CVC DIF and Jersey Telecom. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals. Manx Telecom is the incumbent digital-infrastructure platform on the Isle of Man, offering broadband, fixed line, mobile, and secure data services to residential, business, and public sector customers.

Welcome to our series of podcasts focusing on international employment law.

For several decades, policy-makers have differentiated between a population's lifespan (or life expectancy) and its healthspan (meaning the number of years of healthy, active, disease-free life). Across the Western world, increases in lifespan have generally not been matched by increases in healthspan. Having access to the right housing, in the right location and at the right price is part of the formula for healthy ageing.

The UK Government has issued an open call for evidence asking for examples of where UK regulation inhibits growth, innovation and investment. This is a good opportunity for businesses to make the case for Government to look again at aspects of law or regulation which may be well-intentioned, but are disproportionate in their effects.

Overturning the decision of the Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court has confirmed in Stevens v Hotel Portfolio II [2025] UKSC 28 that a person can be liable to pay equitable compensation where they dishonestly assist a director in dissipating unauthorised profit.