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A&B MONEY Abecasis, Moura Maures & Associades Angel Heart Homecare Ltd

Anne O’Connell Solicitors

Birtenshaw Blochamps Capital Kft. CABINET M. OPROIU Camden Associates Ltd. Cavendish Employment Law Limited Convert Your Garage Gali Macedo & Associados, Hahnelt Consulting HBXL Group Ltd.

Infinity Partnership Limited Ingo Klaus Wamser

Leadership Original Concept s.r.o.

Legal Partners London Property Services

MAAYA Indian Kitchen & Bar Magenta Security Services Ltd

Best UK/Thailand Money Transfer Service 2019 - UK Aviation Law Firm of the Year - Portugal Europe Entrepreneur of the Year - 2019 - Sounita Rachel Chummun, Angel Heart HC – UK Europe Entrepreneur of the Year - 2019 - Sounita Rachel Chummun, MIASHAN - UK Labour & Employment Law Firm of the Year - 2019 - Anne O’Connell Solicitors - ROI / Labour & Employment Law Lawyer of the Year - 2019 - Anne O’Connell, Anne O’Connell Solicitors - ROI Europe CEO of the Year - 2019 - David Reid, Birtenshaw - UK Estate Planning Advisory Firm of the Year - Hungary Patent Law Firm of the Year – Romania Niche Corporate Finance Advisory Firm of the Year (Biotech) - UK Best Employment Law Firm 2019 Garage Conversion Specialists of the Year - 2019 - Convert Your Garage - UK Immigration Law Firm of the Year in Portugal Best SME Business Consultancy 2019 - Germany Best Building Software Development Company 2019 & Best CAD Software Provider & Most Cutting-Edged Construction Software Platform: BuildingWorks Suite - UK Simon Cowie - Infinity Partnership Limited - Director of the Year - U.K. Criminal Law Lawyer of the Year – 2019 – Ingo Klaus Wamser, Rechtsanwalt Wamser – Germany Jarmila Katharine Baresova, CEO of the Year & Vojtech Smejkal, COO of the Year - Leadership Original Concept s.r.o. - Czech Republic Dispute Resolution and Energy – Cyprus Best Property Maintenance Company & Award for Excellence in Emergency Repairs 2019 - Greater London, UK Best Indian Restaurant 2019 - Milton Keynes, UK Best Security Solutions Provider of the Year - UK / Abbey Petkar - Magenta Security - Best Managing Director of the Year - UK

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No. 5 Dental Care NP Collective LTD OGT Forensic Ltd Olsen Actuation UK Ltd Olsen Engineering OxFirst Ltd. Paul Gallagher S.C. PKF Francis Clark

Powder N Shine Prepaid Financial Services Limited Property World PRW Rechtsanwälte Racine Avocats Rechtsanwalt Dr. Lars Jaeschke, LL.M. Rechtsanwalt Ingo Klaus Wamser

riskHive Software Solutions Ltd RSW Medico-legal Ltd Sol Marzellier Traductores The 36 Group The Dental Surgery The Lucre Group The Nutrition Society Vero Consulting Limited

WFS Technologies Ltd Wilkinson Construction Consultants Women in the Law UK Youcall-It.Com Limited

Voice & CRM Integration Specialists of the Year & Best Cloud-based Voice Services Platform: Natterbox - UK Best Private Dental Practice & Endodontics Referral Practice of the Year - England Healthcare CEO of the Year - 2019 - Nilesh Parmar, Parmar Dental - UK Dr John Douse - Best for Forensic Science 2019 - U.K. Most Advanced Defence Sector Electric Actuator Specialists - UK Most Advanced Defence Sector Electric Actuator Specialists - UK Best IP Valuation Firm 2019 – UK Litigation Lawyer of the Year - 2019 - Paul Gallagher SC - ROI Andrew Killick - Francis Clark LLP - Corporate Finance Partner of the Year - United Kingdom Best Catered Ski Chalet Company of the Year - 2019 - France Financial Services CEO of the Year - 2019 - Noel Moran, Prepaid Financial Services – UK Best Estate Agency - London, UK Germany - Boutique IT Law Firm of the Year Agriculture Sector Law Firm of the Year - 2019 - Racine - France Corporate IP Lawyer of the Year - Germany Criminal Law Lawyer of the Year - 2019 - Ingo Klaus Wamser, Rechtsanwalt Wamser - Germany Best Risk Management Solutions Provider of the Year - UK Individual - Orthopaedic Therapy Expert Witness of the Year - England Best Independent Translation Services Provider - Spain Shipping Litigation Barrister of the Year - Vasanti Selvaratnam QC, 36 Stone - England Best Cosmetic Dental Practice - 2019 - Dr. Khangura - The Dental Surgery - Norfolk, UK Best PR & Events Agency - UK Life Sciences CEO of the Year - 2019 - Mark Hollingsworth - UK Fraud Accountancy Expert Witness of the Year - 2019 - Charles Lazarevic B.Sc., M.B.A., F.C.A., M.A.E., Vero Consulting Limited - London, UK Best Subsea Wireless Solutions Provider - 2019 - WFS Technologies Ltd - UK Best Approved Inspectors 2019 - UK Diversity Champion of the Year – 2019 Best Full Global Management Company of the Year - UK

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Dalla Verità & Partners, founded by Gianluca Maria Dalla Verità, is a team of experienced professionals who provides services to international Groups and high-networth individuals (HNWI). The team combines a large expertise with in-depth knowledge of corporate law and international taxation. The firm is young and innovative and matches legal competences with the ongoing analysis of global economics; its staff regularly takes part in international events, forums and studies. An extensive, worldwide network of fellow professionals and organisations ensures a friendly, tailored approach: this not only makes Dalla Verità & Partners the ideal investment advisor, but also an invaluable partner for the optimisation and restructuring of existing entities from the legal, tax and financial perspectives. Gianluca Maria Dalla Verità, a chartered public accountant, auditor, TEP and published writer, is the founding member of Dalla Verità & Partners, with branches in Bologna and London, specialized in advisory, M&A (advisor and originator) and crossborder taxation. He is experienced in financial instruments and securitisation vehicles in compliance with EU legislation, and has a longstanding and successful track record in the Far East and in African countries. A & B General (UK) Limited, the foreign exchange broker under trading name ‘ABFX’ has evolved the money business in London, UK since 2009. At the present, Leader of UK/Thailand Money Transfer Service and Prepaid Bank Account Provider 2019 – UK is awarded to us and being as the leader of UKThailand money service provider. With the diversity of financial products, the reputation of company is known as the solution for Money services business (MSBs) and Payment Services Providers (PSPs) sectors. This displays the strength of our business and relationship between each other. What is our new sector this year under name ‘A & B Money Plus’? It is the bank account and comes with prepaid card system, which powered by “MASTERCARD”. It helps people, who cannot access or cross the walls to open the bank account with street banks, obtain the account benefits without asking annoying questions. This service also provides 24/7 online baking and 2 currencies GBP/ EUR in one card. Furthermore, get the wings and fly by “Plus”. If the business is in the dream, make it real and go over the limit by Plus. How it could tackle your business problems and run your games in real life, with the low price and fees are resulted from cutting out the middle man as we have directly contract with Mastercard.

Tel: +39 051 269900 Email: gianluca.maria@dallaverita.it gianluca.maria@dallaverita.co.uk Website: www.dallaverita.it Because of world is out of control. Bearing in mind about bank crisis in the UK, not everyone can open the business account. They face diffcult time and lose the opportunity to grow the business especially on MSBs and PSPs fields. By the UK regulatory scrutiny and the perceived risks, we could help them survive and still retain banking access with our advanced compliance procedures. Even more advancing for them, one stop service would be offered. Forex exchange is provided as minor service when they need to transfer money to the rest of the world. This is why there is highly demanding on this specific account and make potential ways in determining most of them.

He is a member of various international bodies in the field of international tax law, and a member of STEP, the London-based Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. Gianluca Maria Dalla Verità works with HNWI in areas such as tax structures for managers and sportsmen, real estate tax planning and regulations, and the arts. His considerable experience in trusts and probate proceedings makes him the best counsel for wealth management and family businesses. He is a regular contributor to leading publishers such as WOLTERS KLUWER with more than a hundred publications on taxation and corporate, trust and business law. He regularly lectures on these subjects for private entities and associations. Gianluca Maria Dalla Verità has been studying worldwide trends and habits for decades. His analyses are marked by an insatiable curiosity about the individual motivations and behaviours that underlie macroeconomic phenomena. He is equally at ease both exchanging ideas with common people and scholars and leading entrepreneurs. His desire to understand the “stories behind the story” underpins astute strategic analyses of future events - insights that he enjoys sharing with clients and friends alike in open conversations. Gianluca M. Dalla Verità Founder A&B General UK Ltd Pepys House, 10 Greenwich Quay, Clarence Road, London SE8 3EY 02033559660 info@ab-money.co.uk From low to high volume in the market, we turn crisis into opportunity as we have seen a big fish in the market. Business programme is built up from this idea because the success in having agreement with Mastercard. We make the door and let them jump into the new world that it allows them to do financial transaction independently. Therefore we are able to welcome many types of business such as SME, MSBs, PSPs or FX Company to gain benefit from having business account which mean their volume per each MSBs around 2 Million pounds per year or even more. High volume and large payments are made from this. Focusing on it, the account is including with 3 currencies GBP, EUR and USD. This would be the answer for the business that wishes to pay out the rest of the world i.e. logistic companies. Spotlight on accessible business zone in Thailand, source of fund is around the country but it relies upon the ability of each company which is able to grab it or not. There are many Interesting retails which always are ready to do business with you but there is some kind of restriction in law, which is controlled by the tough regulator and private authorities. At some point we decide to dash off making a plan to penetrate the market by Thailand will be laid down as the base and being the port to receive or transfer the fund for import and export sector to Alibaba in China. However there are still more business fields and fund from other countries which wish to invest and settle in Thailand i.e. property sector. The middle man like us will play the most potential role in being as a connector between businesses and negotiate with Thai regulator in the future. Contact Details Company: Address: Tel: Email:

ABOUT DAVID REID David Reid is the Chief Executive of Birtenshaw, a company that provides a unique range of services for children and young adults with special educational needs and disability. Birtenshaw operates as a social enterprise – while they are a profit-making organisation, the majority of their profit is reinvested for growth.

Although the organisation was founded in 1956, it was technically bankrupt when David became CEO in 2006. When he took over, it had a maximum of 6 months left of life. If he had not made difficult decisions to restructure the business, changing contracts and the way that they sold their services the company would have folded. After six years of hard work, the business started to turn around and since 2012 has seen growth of circa 400%

My proudest moments at Birtenshaw in recent years. I am absolutely delighted about a number of things that our company has achieved, and the difference we have made in the lives of so many young people. I am delighted to be the person in a privileged position where I am able to employ so many incredible people, who can in turn help hundreds of children with special education needs and disability.

I am happiest about the recent opening of a brandnew special needs school in Liverpool which is a partnership arrangement with the City of Liverpool Council: the only partnership of this type in the UK. Although the school is at the start of its second year it has reached targets predicated for year 5. We’re pleased to be able to support so many families across the Liverpool City Region, however this also demonstrates how great the need is for our services. We plan further developments across Merseyside in the near future.

A significant number of staff across the organisation have won various awards, such as education staff, care and support staff. All have taken on the task of contributing to the success of the company and, as a result, have been rewarded for their work, some of which has been on a national level. It’s wonderful that they have got this level of recognition for their dedication and hard work.

My main objective for Birtenshaw To continue transforming the lives of hundreds, if not thousands of young people, and to meet the demand for the current supply of quality services. We need to develop our services as quickly as possible in order to provide more services in other regions of the UK and, ultimately, have a complete UK footprint so that we are able to reach and support every disabled child or young person who needs our service.

Firm Profile Birtenshaw was established in Bromley Cross, Bolton in 1956. Birtenshaw provides a creative and dynamic range of Care and Education services for children and young adults with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND). Through Birtenshaw Special Schools (in Bolton and Merseyside), Birtenshaw College in Bolton and our numerous care services we provide education and care or children and young people with severe learning disability and / or Autistic Spectrum Conditions, significant physical impairment and complex health needs.

Our care services include several children’s homes, one of which is a short break centre, a domiciliary care agency, an enrichment service, supported tenancies and a sports and activities department. Our aim is to transform the quality of life of the people we support so that they may lead independent, fulfilling lives. Our mission is Brightening Lives: Building Futures for individuals with Special Education Needs and Disability in Bolton, across the North West and beyond.

David Reid Chief Executive

Please give a brief description of your firm and the services it provides. Areas of practice: • In Romania: i) assistance and representation of clients in respect to acquiring IP rights in Patents, Trademarks, Designs including oppositions, appeals; ii) Court proceedings for cancellation and for enforcement of the IP rights: • In Europe: i) Filing and prosecuting European Patents including related oppositions and appeals; ii) Filing and prosecuting European Trademarks and Designs, including related oppositions and appeals

Please outline the scope of trademark law in your jurisdiction. How does the legislation differ to that of neighbouring jurisdictions? Trademarks Law is fully harmonized with current laws of other EU countries. It will be amended until 2019 according to the Harmonization Directive.

Please outline the work your firm does and the ways in which you distinguish yourself from your peer firms in the provision of trademark law advice. Perhaps provide a recent case study demonstrating your expertise. Our competitive edge stems from quality of the services. This is acquired by combining elements such as: pro-active approach whenever possible; high level of attention given to each case (customized advice); work in a team for complex cases. For clients with portfolios where we are asked to provide advice as to the new rights, we make complex analysis of the possibilities in connection with Client’s commercial interests and budget.

Recent example:

We acted on behalf of the opponent CROCO SRL, who filed an opposition on the date of 17 December 2016 against some of the goods of European Union trade mark application No 013 200 266 MISS CROCO, namely against all the goods in Class 30 based on earlier trademarks CROCO widely used in many EU countries, where the opponent also acquired reputation. The decision of the opposition division was in favour of the opponent, considering that there is likelihood of confustion including risk of association with earlier marks.

Intellectual property is one of a company’s main assets. How conscious are companies about safeguarding their trademarks in your jurisdiction? To what extent do approaches to trademark protection vary across different industries? Romanian branches of international companies (e.g. GSK, SIEMENS) have little work in this area, as IP is mainly dealt by the mother company, usually limited to detect cases of infringement.

Companies with Romanian capital act in a different manner. Some of them, the oldest and the larges, are conscious about the need to protect IP, whereas new and usually smaller ones, sometimes ignore completely the need to protect until one day they are sued for infringement.

IP/trademark crime is a serious problem that needs to be dealt with effectively. What is the scale of the problem in your jurisdiction, and what actions have been taken to tackle it? Difficult to estimate the scale of trademark crime in the

absence of complete information. One thing is for sure: customs authorities are very active and destruction of infringing goods functions well. What extra complexities are involved in establishing and enforcing IP and trademark rights on a cross-border scale? What can your firm do to assist in overcoming these challenges? Cross-border enforcing is difficult particularly when one of the countries is outside EU. So far we worked only in cooperation with similar IP firms from EU countries in some cross-border cases, with no particular difficulties.

Are there any new pieces of legislation / updates / new trends, in relation to trademark law in your jurisdiction, on the horizon? How might these affect your work in these areas? Trademarks Law must be amended to comply with the new Harmonization Directive. On this occasion many other issues need to be addressed. In my capacity of President of Romanian Chamber of Patent Attorneys I am fully involved in the process of amending the law by leading a working group of the attorneys and doing our best to work together with the Patent Office (the institution in charge with the draft of amendments).

Does your firm’s expertise give you a distinct advantage when working on an international playing field? Yes, our firm is known for two decades for its quality, and myself as well. I am particularly known in Europe.

What are your objectives for the coming 12 months? For instance, do you have any plans to expand or implement any changes in the ways in which you work in order to better serve your clients? Recently we noted a rise of interest of our local Clients in protecting their trademarks abroad, including new litigation cases in other jurisdictions. Therefore the objective is to create more value from services associated with trademark protection in other jurisdictions, be it directly (EUIPO, WIPO) or through other IP counsels if protection or enforcement is needed at local level.

Margareta Oproiu, Patent and Trademark Attorney is the managing partner at Cabinet M Oproiu, Bucharest, Romania.

She founded the firm in 1995 with Raluca Vasilescu. Margareta became a registered patent and trademark attorney in 1992.

Address:

Tel: Fax: Web:

Margareta Oproiu Partner office@oproiu.ro

Popa Savu 42, Ground Floor Suite No.1 Romania +4021 260 28 33/34 +4021 260 2835/36 www.oproiu.ro

CAMDEN INTERNATIONAL FINANCING Camden is a corporate finance house with a particular specialty in international financing and a special emphasis on the following sectors: biotech, tech, real estate as well as junior mining and exploration companies.

LISTED COMPANIES We provide a full range of corporate finance advisory services thanks to our team of professionals with many years’ experience in the quoted markets. We serve our listed clients as their financial adviser. PRIVATE COMPANIES Our understanding of the particular challenges that private companies, their management and shareholders face mean that we can help at all stages of the growth cycle of a business from raising capital by way of private placement through to an exit event. Whether institutionally owned or not, Camden has been advising private companies and their investors for many years. We combine the experience of our professionals to advise shareholders of private companies on weighing up alternative exit strategies: trade sale, buy out or IPO. PRIVATE PLACEMENTS Working effectively with businesses throughout their growth cycle is one of Camden’s key strengths. It enables us to support our clients from the early stages of their businesses’ development right through to their chosen exit event. Based on your business plan, we advise on financing structures and prepare information materials. We will solicit offers from suitable sources and manage the negotiation process. Securing optimal terms from the most appropriate financing partners is our goal. The process of raising money is always time-consuming and can be especially daunting for entrepreneurs. Camden aims to ensure that the relationship between the management and its long-term financing partners remains productive. Balanced long term relationships are what we strive to deliver. SECONDARY ISSUES Whether a secondary fundraising is planned in order to fund an acquisition, provide greater working capital for organic expansion or to reduce debt, we will try to identify good quality, long-term investors to support the issue. Our recognized experience in placings, and rights issues means we are well placed to advise and ensure funds are raised from the highest quality investors. PRIVATE EQUITY Camden has advised on more than 10 transactions involving private equity investors across Europe since 2006. MINING ADVISORY SERVICES Increased demand for resources globally has prompted a new wave of investment in mining, particularly in resource-rich Africa. The mining and metals industries face many challenges. They must be adequately managed to deal with volatile commodity prices, fluctuating currencies, new technologies, operating and capital cost pressures. A broad range of funding alternatives must address environmental pressures, constantly changing political and strategic options. Camden’s mining and metals finance and advisory team based in London, are uniquely positioned to assist and advise clients in securing financing in mining-related transactions. CLEANTECH AND RENEWABLES The global economy faces unprecedented challenges: climate change, pollution and a shortage of natural resources, whilst the demand for energy is ever increasing. Our strong links with specialist financing and investment partners enable us to provide our clients with a full range of financing and strategic options. Working throughout Europe & North America our network of relationships and execution expertise make Camden a partner of choice and a leading source of advice. INTERNET & E-COMMERCE The internet is the biggest revolution in industrial history, and its commercial impact is immense. Camden views e-Commerce as a powerful and dynamic sector, with key players becoming increasingly profitable. Smaller and more innovative businesses are now acquisition targets and the growing profitability of e-Commerce and Internet businesses makes the sector more attractive for leveraged buy-outs and private equity. As a consequence, we expect this sector to be the scene of high levels of M&A activity. OUR EXPERTISE Internet & e-Commerce business models are highly differentiate. In addition, technological evolution is extremely rapid and often ‘game changing’. Camden’s dedicated team has been active in this sector since its inception and consequently has a detailed understanding of the market dynamics – essential knowledge for an advisor in this area. Our long-standing experience has resulted in the development of strong relationships with some of Europe’s key players, investors and potential buyers.. HEALTHCARE & BIOTECH Many issues continue to face the healthcare sector, offering opportunities as well as potential pitfalls for investors. Healthcare provision will always be subject to political considerations, while regulatory and structural reform can present serious challenges. The financial turmoil of the last few years will constrain healthcare expenditure. This, in turn, will drive private sector involvement into areas once considered the sole preserve of the public sector and fuel a wave of consolidation. RETAIL Always dynamic and high profile, the retail sector is constantly evolving in keeping with changing consumer trends. Retailers worldwide are having to adapt their business models in response to the rapid growth of the internet. Multi-channel retailing and brand and estate optimization are set to be key drivers of change in the sector in the years to come. Camden is focused on developing strong, long-term relationships across the sector. Our relationships range from individual entrepreneurs to private equity-backed brands. We provide access to international investors and buyers across Europe. REAL ESTATE Camden acts as a capital placement and real estate finance advisory firm. Camden represents commercial real estate owners seeking to invest in real estate opportunities or need to divest due to a challenging economic environment. Our primary focus is helping clients across all property types access investors at all levels of the capital stack, matching the specific need with the appropriate capital providers. Our strategies are proven successes because we treat each project as if it were our own.

Cavendish Employment Law are thrilled to have been nominated as Best Employment Law Firm 2019 in the Global 100 awards.

Established in 2009, Cavendish Employment Law is a niche City law firm based in Moorgate, London, who offer solutionfocused advice for all aspects of employment law. The carefully selected team of solicitors have a well-deserved reputation and exceptional track record for handling highvalue employment law claims for directors, executives and senior-level employees.

Caroline Walker, the founder of the firm, has been specialising in employment law for more than 20 years. With a wealth of legal experience and heading up two employment departments, Ms Walker is now an awardwinning employment law director who has a reputation for successfully representing employees in the finance sector and senior level executives. She has also written extensively on various aspects of employment law and is a valuable member of the Employment Lawyers Association.

Practising exclusively in employment law, the firm is known for delivering an outstanding service to employees and employers throughout the UK. The unique team also has solicitors who are experts in advising senior employees in Spain, assisting clients in finding reputable advisers across the water.

Cavendish Employment Law offers qualified legal guidance and robust representation in all contentious and non-contentious employment law matters. The firms’ highly specialist employment law services include bonus payments, disciplinary proceedings, discrimination, redundancies, tribunal claims, unfair dismissals and whistleblowing.

For all aspects of the employer and employee relationship, the solicitors at Cavendish Employment Law strive to obtain the best result for their clients. The highly-skilled team have recently negotiated a £5 million exit arrangement for a senior executive, defended a senior executive in a gross misconduct disciplinary, and successfully claimed a sixfigure bonus payment against a tier 1 bank.

With a proactive team and exceptional success rate, Cavendish Employment Law solicitors are renowned for providing both employees and employers with a level of expertise that is hard to find elsewhere. Regardless of who they are representing on the employment spectrum, the high-calibre employment lawyers not only get results, but they will work tirelessly to exceed their clients’ expectations.

Driven by ensuring efficient co mmercial structures, Hahnelt Consulting strengthens the competitiveness of its SME clients, from short-term individual measures to increase efficiency as well as long-term interim projects. As part of our overview of a selection of the winners from this year’s EU Business Awards we explore the secrets behind its phenomenal success. Hahnelt Consulting

Hahnelt Consulting was founded by Michael Hahnelt. As CFO in board and management positions, he brings 28 years of international operational experience, 17 of which from the process-oriented automotive supply industry. Today, Hahnelt Consulting stands for qualified management consulting and interim management - from concept development to implementation. Driven by ensuring efficient co mmercial structures, the firm strengthens the competitiveness of its SME clients sustainably, where recognizing and implementing optimization approaches is one of the key competencies for increasing the value and competitiveness of medium-sized companies.

In order to develop a company’s success, the practice-oriented view of numbers, facts and strategies is of key importance: the targeted, rapid realization of all necessary measures. With its expertise in finance, business processes and know-how, Hahnelt Consulting work alongside their clients to realise their goals. Due to this high production affinity, Hahnelt Consulting is very familiar with the success factors of production companies. As a consultant and implementer, Hahnelt Consulting maintains the independence of third parties, especially when decisions are made about suppliers or other partners of the client. None of the knowledge and information acquired in the consultation process reaches third parties, and as such the firm maintains its independence and also offers clients complete confidentiality. The team at Hahnelt Consulting only advise in fields in which they have proven competence or have gained competence, ensuring that they are always confident of their ability to support clients. As a result of this approach, Hahnelt Consulting is a business partner of private equity companies but also of independent SME companies. Interim managers bring a treasury of experience from all sectors of industrial manufacturing. Interim managers may be involved in all phases of a business cycle, such as business start-up, growth phase, stabilization, stagnation and working in a crisis and on its potential impact. In almost all these entrepreneurial phases, reorganizations, restructurings, realignments, mergers, splits, changes of shareholders, purchases and sales or partial sales of companies lays a result.

That is why the private equity firm often uses the right specialist for the company and its situation: reorganizer, M & A or post-merger integration (PMI) expert and generalist. The prerequisite for a successful implementation of the task in cooperation with the company, the PEG, its management team and the interim manager is a detailed analysis of the current company situation. Overall, Hahnelt Consulting manages projects in various branches of industry and penetrates deeply into every task, and this will remain the firm’s focus as it looks towards a bright and exciting future.

Contact Details Company: Email: Web:

Hahnelt Consulting mh@hahnelt.com hahnelt.com

Leadership Original Concept is a Unique European Training Company which provides over 10 years Leadership Training across Europe and EMEA. Warrior Leadership Program is one of the most unique and revolutionary 2019 program on European market combining mental health, physical strength and weightlifting i.e. fitness.

Vojtech Smejkal, current COO of the company brought the most innovative way of a new generation of leadership skills – combining mental power and strength with physical power and strength.

To be a good leader you need to have a certain amount of energy – not only in your brain but as well in your muscles! This is the new way of “Thinking Leadership and Re-thinking leadership BIG”

The standard “personal development field” contains all sorts of “soft skills” and “boring skills” programs for companies and entrepreneurs but none of them is a complex combination of – Mind and Emotional strength, Wellness Food Management, physical strength and positivity. “LIFE IS NOT GOING TO BE EASIER UNLESS YOU BECOME STRONGER” Jarmila Katharine, who draws on over 17 year’ personal experience in the international business including six Olympic seasons with national sport representatives (from London 2012 to Rio 2016), and training field,

outlines the Warrior Leadership Program by her own experience: “When Vojtech joined our company it was a fresh air and innovation star and I was the first one who decided to be a leading role model of the whole new Warrior Program. And the results for me – as expert on psychical strength and mental couch for the Olympic team – were stunning!

“I thought I was already fit and Healthy and a high quality leader but once I got into Vojtech´s Warrior Leadership Program I was both shocked and surprised at the end.

Wellness Food Management was something very new. I had a history of various “diets” programs which I hated and which normally lead into “low energy” and “low self-esteem” with not a permanent result. Here I experienced the very opposite – my energy was getting higher, my body strength and fitness was getting to a level I did not think was possible and with that my business results and my emotional balance. I suddenly understood why “standard leadership programs” which work only on Mind not body and soul level do not have and cannot have permanent results. I remembered how many time I got into a “bling point” as I was able to focus only on one part of the whole Leadership Picture.

NOW - I not only understand but fully experienced the full new level of BEING A LEADER.

Warrior Leadership Program is currently filling so much needed GAP on the marked for those companies and individuals who are looking for a long term good results and good working and living conditions. We offer individual approach to each VIP client in English Language; we are able to work with remote tools such as skype, audio podcasts, and consultations. Warrior Leadership program consists of 4 core transformational months of intensive training and relaxation program. You do not have to be a weightlifter to start with us – you only need to have 100% inner will and commitment to a change! We can start with you from any level of physical and mental condition.

¨We invite our clients to come and spend with us few days in Prague, the most beautiful city in the heart of Europe to with start intensive “Recharge and Restart” program. We follow with them via phone, skype and other modern communication technology. We as well are happy to travel around Europe and enjoy meeting our clients. Intensive or Core Warrior Leadership Programmes are is as well offered for corporates and large companies, medium companies and entrepreneurs; for sport teams and Olympians and certified Warrior Leadership Trainings for Leaders who want to extend their skills and experience new and unique Art of Leadership POWER both in private and business life.

We have currently more VIP clients who are willing to invest into their future on their own terms rather than waiting for their boss or HR department to pay for such training. Here we are happy the responsibility for our lives has been slightly shifting but still we feel most people is waiting for the urgent call – which can be late one!!!

We are the most valuable source we have in life but still we are hesitating to really invest into our stability and energy in a long term run. If we want to be fit, healthy and fulfilled at the age of 70 or 80 we need to start investing in our 35 latest 40th. This would be our ideal perception.

We as well support entrepreneurs on the journey from a small vision to Global concepts or with a personal transformation from a “Corporate manager” to successful company owners. We are always happy to support talented sport representatives in their way to Olympic and further in their way to success after Olympic life.

WE RISE BY LIFTING OTHERS “We all deserve a good and healthy life – which is attainable only if we know how to effectively relax, renew, recharge and keep going strong This is what our “Warrior Leadership Programs” are for. Being STRONG not for a moment but for a lifetime is the biggest shift in the quality of life and LOVE in our life we can do not only for ourselves as well for our children, families and business.

We love this big shift in our clients when they start then see them with a bright new energy, new vision with full of “drive and joy”, new goals and new life written on a paper and enthusiasm to execute and proceed. This is our heart mission and purpose above all as well as a great reward, always.” Contact Details Company: Contact: Contact Email: Contact: Contact Email: Address: Web: Leadership Original Concept Vojtech Smejkal, COO vojtech@leadershiporiginal.com Jarmila Katharine Baresova , CEO jarmila.katharine@leadershiporiginal.com Prague, 4 -140 00, Czech Republic www.leadershiporiginal.com

Legal Partners is the distinctive name of Orphanides, Christofides & Co LLC, a lawyers’ limited liability company registered in Cyprus and regulated by the Bar Association. The firm’s headquarters are in Nicosia, Cyprus. However, over the years the firm has developed an extensive and dynamic network of corresponding law firms onshore and offshore.

Legal Partners operate on a departmental basis, providing a wide range of legal services covering most aspects of law. Legal Partners main services, but not limited to, include the following:

LITIGATION Legal Partners maintain able and forceful litigation department that cooperates with clients to resolve disputes in a thorough, timely, professional and responsive manner in the following areas: We are proud to be recommended for our proficiency, honesty, trustworthiness and notable performance “ “

Administrative and Constitutional Law Banking Litigation Company and Commercial Litigation Personal Injury Property Litigation Employment Law Family Law Criminal Law

Legal Partners maintains further expertise in particular sectors of law among others as follows:

SPORTS LAW & ENTERTAINMENT Legal Partners recognizes that as the sport and entertainment industries have become more commercialized, the need for expert and experienced legal advice has become more important to protect the underlying rights of “sportsmen”. Legal Partners offer extensive experience in this field and its clients’ are drawn from sports personalities and their agents, regulatory bodies, sports associations and other entities, rights holders and event organizers.

MEDIATION Mediation can most easily be understood as facilitated communications toward an agreement. In mediation, participants themselves, with the mediator’s impartial assistance, resolve their own dispute, seeking fairness and the maximization of benefits. Family, business, property, and organizational disputes can be effectively mediated to a fair and constructive resolution that participants believe in and will comply with. Legal Partners through George Christofides and Kyriakos Orphanides, who both joined the Registry of Mediators in 2018, are offering mediation services in various legal areas.

ENERGY LAW Energy Law requires and combines technical expertise and in-depth industry knowledge. Legal Partners during 2010-2018 acted for Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority and has gained tremendous expertise and in-depth knowledge of the industry and the area.

Our commitment is to achieve the best result in any given situation for our clients in a personal, timely, professional and responsive manner.

Magenta, Transforming the security industry

Magenta, winner of the Best Managing Director of the Year 2019 – UK and Best Security Solutions Provider of the Year 2019 - UK awards, talk to us about how they are changing and modernising the security industry.

Abbey Petkar, Managing Director of Magenta Security, founded the company almost twenty-five years ago after feeling frustrated by the sheer lack of professionalism and transparency in the industry. With ten years of prior experience, Petkar wished to set up a company that would change the reputation and the mistreatment of employees within the security sector. Starting with only one employee and one contract, Petkar has completely transformed the business over the years meaning their portfolio of clients now includes a range of national accounts for blue-chip companies across the UK. Magenta Security offer a wide range of services including security officers, mobile patrols and associated security services including: electronic security and bespoke security solutions. They also hold an ACS accreditation for security guarding and keyholding services.

Magenta has grown 20% year on year by retaining existing customers and by delivering new high-quality services. Their client retention continues to be one of the highest in the industry as more than 97% of clients remain with Magenta for a minimum of three years. To further demonstrate Magenta’s commitment to customer care, they are the only security company in Europe to offer a money-back guarantee. This shows they are industry leading in their procedures and confident in delivering service to the highest standard.

One of Magenta’s biggest selling points is that they are very CSR focused. A recent survey amongst Magenta’s customers showed that 85% of participants saw CSR as an important issue and would much rather work with a CSR focused supplier. These survey results significantly reinforced Petkar’s beliefs, improved how he ran Magenta and helped to build a comprehensive CSR strategy which now plays a vital role in the business. Petkar’s focus on the understanding and importance of climate change and environmental issues has in turn meant Magenta’s carbon footprint has reduced to zero. The result is that customers specifically request to work with them as a security supplier that adheres to the highest level of environmental accreditations. Since identifying the need and importance of sustainability, Petkar has managed to implement many green solutions for the business. One of the most significant changes to Magenta was the installation of solar panels at the head office, meaning any excess power now gets sent back to the grid. These solar panels are also used to generate power to the multiple electric vehicle charging points on their site where all of Magenta’s hybrid vehicles are kept. Petkar has recently invested £25,000 in digital systems to create a paperless office which will be saving more than 150 trees every year. These large changes and investments have resulted in the Energy Performance Certificate on Magenta’s office achieving a B rating as they work towards an A.

As well as being an environmentally friendly company, Magenta is also very active in humanitarian projects with Petkar devoting a lot of his time and finances to nonbusiness-related activities. Petkar strongly believes in the importance of education and helping the less fortunate. Magenta sponsors twenty children around the world from the age of three upwards to help support them through education, health and welfare needs. His people priorities extend outside the company as well. Their charitable initiatives have helped vulnerable children in the UK and beyond find health and happiness, and they do their part in leaving a better world through their commitment to the environment and carbon neutrality.

Not only has Petkar managed an ecological, charitable and successful business but he has also created a great environment to work in. Over the last ten years, Magenta has had a staff turnover of just 9.7% and during the past year they have seen no significant changes to the management staff make up. These figures are well below the national average and demonstrate the hard work Petkar and his team have put into the business to make staff happy. They attribute such a high retention level to the amount of training, motivation and benefits they give their employees. Some members of staff have even been with Petkar since the very beginning in 1995.

Magenta’s employees are incentivised with the many schemes that the company has to offer, including gift vouchers and discounts with electrical companies, mobile phone providers and travel agents. Magenta provide a vast amount of training for their employees; their latest initiatives have included Fire Safety and First Aid training for all front-line staff as well as other more specific training, so they are well informed in case of an emergency. Magenta’s staff receive ongoing training so that they are proficient in customer service skills and experts in their field, meaning they can adapt to any situation and deliver appropriate service for the varying clients.

Petkar and Magenta are deserving of these awards due to their commitment and passion for improving and transforming the security industry whilst continuously raising awareness about sustainability and humanitarianism. Petkar wishes to eventually set up a charity to help the underprivileged and to continue to watch the industry thrive and develop over the coming years.

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Forensic Ltd

We are a unique niche provider of Forensic Services in the UK, undertaking a limited number of highly specialist cases each year (circa 25), devoting the time needed to fully investigate each case, and including as thorough as possible analysis, consideration, and integration of both the forensic and also the circumstantial evidence.

We take an intense pride, during such a time of uncertainty in the adequate provision of forensic services in the UK, in ensuring that all aspects of each case are fully investigated; even if this requires us to carry out additional pro bono investigations when private or public funds are unable to fully meet the demands of such a painstaking approach (not infrequently 100 hours of requested work having to be “written off” due to the LAA or private individuals simply not being able to provide finance).

Our ability to lead in the interpretation of forensic evidence (continuously innovating and introducing new and highly effective avenues of approach, analysis, and investigation) is especially appreciated by Defence Lawyers and Barristers, Insurance Companies, Prominent International Businesses, and also Private Individuals; who are otherwise faced with the alternative access to only the briefest consideration of their cases by the cheapest, poorly qualified, alternatives.

Our innovations in the interpretation of forensic evidence arise as a result of a varied and prolonged, often pioneering forensic experience (34 years as a Forensic Scientist and 41 years total scientific experience).

This experience includes a, perhaps, unusual combination of forensic casework experience augmented by having pioneered, researched and developed the basis of many of the major forensic trace analytical and quality control techniques in use today worldwide.

Our experience also includes, critically, the pioneering first introduction of the techniques and protocols of clean room technology and quality control (1990 at the Forensic Explosives Laboratory) now the mainstay of Forensic Quality Control worldwide. Even more unusually, in the field of explosives, practical training was gained (and also the ability to instruct others in) the techniques of Special Forces Demolitions, involving the trialling, testing and deploying of improvised and military, explosive and incendiary, mixtures and devices, often culled from official and unofficial instruction manuals.

As a result of this varied experience we operate highly effectively in the fields of explosives (all areas), toxicology (including Insulin, Ricin, thallium, and CW agents), drugs (chemistry, synthesis, purity), DNA, firearms residues, sexual offences, (significance of traces), and a wide range of other applications in forensic chemistry (laboratories, counterfeits etc).

Our approaches, not infrequently, result in even the most experienced, opposition experts having to concur with the defence opinion, due to the presentation of the most up to date research results, (some of which may just have been published only days before the completion of the defence report, as in a firearms residue case in 2018) (presence of tin in shotgun residue)) and also the avoidance of the use of subjective opinion.

Lawyer monthly magazine expert awards: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019.

The sheer amount of time that we can devote to each case is often the game changer in many cases, and not infrequently allows us to prevail, due simply to our ability to detect and observe facets of evidence that have simply been overlooked (eg intensive inspection of training videos, augmented by our expertise in recognising the critical technical details, eg in a case involving preparation of ricin).

Multi-Disciplinary Forensic Experience is also one of the mainstays of our expertise, and arises as a result of having pioneered and introduced the basis of the analytical techniques and quality control methods still used worldwide in a variety of forensic areas.

The process of familiarisation and study of such areas has enabled us to provide new techniques, insights and approaches to the study of a variety of forensic expertise fields, the common thread being trace analysis combined with practical experience of the subjects being investigated.

The ability to carry out detailed and highly effective forensic investigations into a variety of the most complex cases, which may often initially appear to be outside of our core expertise, but which often turn out to have a basis in chemistry (the basic and most fundamental specialism required for forensic work); coupled with referring critical aspects to other experts in a range of specialisms, as necessary, for them to focus on individual aspects of the case that might otherwise have remained unrevealed, is yet another game changer.

This experience has resulted in our involvement in the investigations into (among other cases) the Cyprus Poison Gas Extortion Case (Sarin and VX), Lybian Embassy Seige shootings, Lockerbie (Pan Am 103), Liquid Explosive Bomb Plot, London Glasgow Bombings, Wood Green Ricin Factory, Shakespeare Ellis “Drive-By” Shootings, Leeds Insulin Serial Killings, Roxel Rocket Motors UK v HSE, Private International Thallium Poisoning Case, etc etc).

A more complete listing of our achievements in individual cases and also the comments by instructing solicitors and barristers regarding our performance can be found on our website @forensic-expert.org.