Global Trade: Combating protectionism and the pandemic

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, […]

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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., […]

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Katherine Evans Awarded IR Global Gold Member Status

At our recent Annual Conference in Amsterdam, Sept 2023, we had the pleasure of awarding Katherine gold member status as recognition for their ongoing commitment and hard work within the IR Global network. This is a prestigious honour bestowed by IR Global upon members who we consider have made a substantial contribution to the development […]

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AI risks to avoid in your business

This article was originally published on Small Business on 26th June 2023. IR Global member Katherine Evans, senior partner of Mirkwood Evans Vincent recently published an article on the uses of Artificial Intelligence in business. Within the article, she explores the benefits presented by AI through the automation of repetitive tasks like data entry, report generation and scheduling enabling staff […]

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AI risks to avoid in your business

This article was originally published on Small Business on 26th June 2023. IR Global member Katherine Evans, senior partner of Mirkwood Evans Vincent recently published an article on the uses of Artificial Intelligence in business. Within the article, she explores the benefits presented by AI through the automation of repetitive tasks like data entry, report generation and scheduling enabling staff […]

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Meet The Members Europe – Regulation of digital currencies in the UK

What is a digital currency? On the one hand, a great deal of the money in our economy is digital. Numbers on balance sheets and bank ledgers move around the world with no actual physical paper exchanging hands. However, the value of the currencies is protected to a significant degree by the assets of the […]

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Katherine Evans participates in the IR Global Virtual Series – International Trade: Global and regional trade in the post pandemic

Foreword Co-Authored By Andrew Chilvers And Bob Brewer Global Trade: Combating protectionism and the 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 […]

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Katherine Evans participates in the IR Global Guide – The Middle East & North Africa: A dynamic region for inward & outward investment

Foreword by Andrew Chilvers The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is a hugely diverse cultural and geographical mix that stretches from Morocco in northwest Africa to Iran in Southwest Asia. The region is home to a range of economies with vastly different levels of openness to international trade and investment. But with the […]

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Katherine Evans participates in the IR Global Disputes Virtual Series – Technology & Disputes: The impact of new technology on litigation and dispute resolution

Foreward by Andrew Chilvers For the legal sector, COVID-19 has been a huge catalyst for change globally. Overnight, almost all legal advisors decamped en masse from their expensive mid-town and city offices to their homes to work. Personal meetings suddenly disappeared to be replaced by virtual meetings on Zoom or Microsoft Teams. As the UK […]

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

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 has nevertheless made […]

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ART: Katherine Evans highlights work of Owen Evans

IR Global member Katherine Evans would like to highlight the work of Owen Evans. Owen’s art reflects his intensely spiritual nature. He had visions of a world beyond the physical, which he was only able to articulate through his imagery. He was also a passionate environmentalist, who joined the Green Party shortly before his death, […]

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Playing By the Rules: establishing effective DLT communities

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 […]

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