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  Mayer Brown Guides Acceler8 In £600M Investment Co. Buy

  By Dawood Fakhir

  Acquisition company Acceler8 Ventures said Wednesday that it has agreed to buy British investment company Intuit...(read more)

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  Iran War Could Revive 'Grip Of Peril' Insurance Rule

  By Martin Croucher

  Insurers are likely to run again into the thorny question of whether aircraft grounded amid airport closures in ...(read more)

• Dyson Can't Stretch UPC Hair Curler Sales Ban To UK

  By Jamie Lennox

  The Unified Patent Court has refused to halt a retailer's U.K. sales of hair-curling products that possibly infringe Dyson's patent, ruling that the English company's ties to Northern Ireland do not justify an injunction outside the unitary system.

• BDO Denies Negligence Caused Collapse In £80M Audit Fight

  By Ronan Barnard

  BDO has rejected an £80 million ($107 million) claim for negligence from a collapsed construction company which alleged that it had bungled an audit, saying the business would still have failed even if £43 million in losses had been uncovered earlier.

• Libyan Wealth Fund's UK Arm Must Pay Ex-Manager £498K

  By Jamie Lennox

  A tribunal has told a U.K. subsidiary of Libya's sovereign wealth fund to pay a former manager £497,500 ($670,000) after it short-changed his holiday entitlement for decades and unfairly sacked him out of the blue.

• Warehouse Co. Sues Israeli Biz Over Oct. 7 Attack Disruption

  By William Janes

  A warehouse technology company has sued an Israeli logistics business for almost €1.6 million ($1.85 million), alleging that the Middle Eastern company delayed the installation of machinery and failed to mitigate disruption caused by the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.

• Fair Work Agency Can Issue Fines For Unpaid Tribunal Awards

  By Adele Redmond

  The new Fair Work Agency will be able to fine employers 50% of the value of unpaid awards from the employment tribunal, according to official documents published as the regulator was launched Tuesday.

• 3 Firms Guide €56B Pershing Bid For Universal Music

  By Najiyya Budaly

  Investment group Pershing Square said Tuesday that it has offered to buy Universal Music in a cash-and-stock deal that values the music industry heavyweight at approximately €55.8 billion ($64.5 billion) as it bids to rescue the label's dwindling share price.

• Fair Work Agency Chief On Launch: 'We're Here To Listen'

  By Adele Redmond

  The new Fair Work Agency is "here to listen" to employers as well as workers, its chief executive said ahead of its official launch on April 7.

• Judge Warned Over 2 Late Rulings, But AI Use Not Found

  By Eddie Beaver

  A London court judge has received a formal warning after a probe by the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office found that delays in handing down two rulings amounted to misconduct but uncovered no evidence that he used artificial intelligence to draft a judgment.

• Apple To Face UK Class Action Over ICloud Storage Charges

  By Joanne Faulkner

  The Competition Appeal Tribunal gave the go-ahead Thursday for consumer group Which to lead a multibillion-pound collective action against Apple accusing the tech company of operating a cloud storage monopoly that overcharges customers.

• Kingsley Napley's Grimes On Landing Top White-Collar Role

  By Christopher Crosby

  Jonathan Grimes, the new head of criminal litigation at Kingsley Napley, says he has no illusions about the challenge of stepping into the position long held by Louise Hodges.

• Ex-Deutsche Execs Seek £700M Over Scapegoating Claims

  By Sophia Dourou

  Four former Deutsche Bank executives who were wrongly convicted have sued the lender for £700 million ($920 million), accusing it of scapegoating them in a move to conceal its historical accounting errors in one of Italy's biggest financial scandals.

• Gov't Defends Rejecting Bouygues' Bid For £18B Contract

  By Eddie Beaver

  The Department for Education has denied running a flawed procurement process for an estimated £18.5 billion ($24.5 billion) construction project, arguing that its reasons for denying Bouygues (UK) Ltd. a contract were "adequate and intelligible."