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  White & Case-Led Retailer To Buy Saint-Gobain Unit for €1.5B

  By Tom Fish

  Finnish retail and wholesale group Kesko said Monday it has agreed to acquire the Nordic technical trade operati...(read more)

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  How Employers Can Stay Onside As The World Cup Kicks Off

  By Adele Redmond

  Employers should consider being more flexible with work hours during the FIFA World Cup — but any leeway needs t...(read more)

• Simpson Thacher Launches PE-Focused Training Contract

  By Ashish Sareen

  U.S. law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP launched a training contract program on Monday that focuses on private equity as it looks to expand its pipeline of talent in the London legal market.

• CBRE Denies 'Biased' Valuation In Skyscraper Rent Fight

  By William Janes

  Real estate investment giant CBRE has hit back at allegations that it had wrongly withheld rental income from the owner of the Finance Tower in Belgium on the basis of "biased" valuation of the skyscraper obtained by lenders who pressured surveyors.

• KC Says He Was Entitled To Cut Tax Bill In £2M Evasion Case

  By Sophia Dourou

  A senior barrister accused of cheating the public purse out of almost £2 million ($2.7 million) told a court on Monday that he was "morally entitled" to pursue a strategy to reduce his tax liability.

• Tech Firms Urged To Pay Up As UK Fraud Hits £1.3B

  By Christopher Crosby

  Technology and telecoms companies should be forced to join banks in compensating consumers for payment fraud, the body representing financial institutions in the U.K. said on Monday, as it revealed that criminals stole £1.28 billion ($1.72 billion) in 2025.

• Court Of Appeal Gets IP, Property Pros Among 7 New Justices

  By Ashish Sareen

  The Court of Appeal is expanding with seven new justices, including experts in intellectual property, planning and environment, and immigration.

• Ride App Bolt Can't Cut £190M VAT Bill After All, Court Rules

  By Josh White

  Ride-hailing giant Bolt can't apply a value-added tax margin scheme to reduce an estimated liability of £190 million ($254.9 million) because its services aren't comparable to travel agency or tour operator services, a London appeals court ruled Friday, overturning two lower courts.

• Cleary Senior Partner Sees Decision Fatigue Setting In On AI

  By Marialuisa Taddia

  For Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP's senior partner, the biggest obstacle to the firm's plans for artificial intelligence isn't model hallucination or vendor risk, but something far more human — decision-making fatigue.

• Latham Steers SpaceX IPO Underwriters In UK

  By Dawood Fakhir

  Latham & Watkins LLP said on Friday that it acted as lead adviser to British banks underwriting SpaceX's $75 billion initial public offering on the Nasdaq stock exchange.

• Mishcon Can't Assert Privilege Over Funder Docs In Uber Row

  By Eddie Beaver

  Mishcon de Reya LLP must review communications with a former litigation funder after a London judge ruled Friday that the correspondence is not protected by litigation privilege in the £340 million ($455 million) claims against Uber.

• Novo Nordisk Widens Court Block On Fake Ozempic Sites

  By Ronan Barnard

  Novo Nordisk secured an expanded court order Friday that prevents access to websites selling counterfeit versions of the drugmaker's Ozempic weight loss drug, shutting off a further seven domains.

• Ex-Defense Executives Can Be Named In Bribery DPA Docs

  By Christopher Crosby

  Former executives at a British defense contractor can be named as part of a corporate bribery settlement owing to the public interest in identifying them, a London judge has ruled, in a potentially precedent-setting legal decision for open justice published Friday.

• Siemens Hit With UPC Sales Ban Over Breast-Screening Tech

  By Hanna Vioque

  Europe's patent court has ruled that a Siemens breast cancer screening system infringes a Hologic patent, granting the rival an injunction despite Siemens' claims that it would be disproportionate to recall the device even from universities.