Pogust Goodhead is being sued by one of its financial backers for £84 million ($114 million) over demands that the firm repay debts funding its mammoth group litigation against Australian mining company BHP.
Pogust Goodhead is being sued by one of its financial backers for £84 million ($114 million) over demands that the firm repay debts funding its mammoth group litigation against Australian mining company BHP.
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe (UK) LLP has settled a claim by a hedge fund accusing the firm of negligence, alleging it failed to advise it to enforce a €21 million ($24.3 million) debt in a French energy group's insolvency.
London's policing oversight body has accused the Metropolitan Police of engineering a procurement process to ensure that Palantir won a software contract worth £50 million ($68 million), hitting back at the company's challenge to a decision to block the deal.
A co-founder of Revolut has been sued by a British yacht broker for allegedly trying to dodge paying the commission for arranging his purchase of a superyacht worth an estimated €350 million ($406 million), according to a newly public claim in London.
A metals processing company has sued its insurers for at least £7 million ($9.5 million) for their alleged failure to pay out for damage caused by a fire that shut down operations at its site.
A British hedge fund company has sued a Brazilian man for more than $500 million in a London court, alleging that he perpetrated an elaborate securities fraud against the company.
The alleged former chief executive of a petroleum company has failed to toss out allegations that he relied on forged £500 million ($678 million) loans when buying an energy company in order to cover up a €143.8 million ($166.7 million) embezzlement.
A Scottish car dealer can pursue its £18 million ($24.4 million) claim against Renault, Nissan and a car financing company, after a judge held Monday that new whistleblowing evidence on a plot to take down the family-run business means the proceedings are not an abuse of process.
The former owners of the British haulage company Kammac are pursuing its new proprietors for around £33 million ($45 million) in damages, telling a London court that the buyers mismanaged the business, depressing the ultimate sale price.
Acrisure secured a court order Monday barring its former CEO and CFO from using confidential information they had allegedly emailed themselves before joining rival insurance broker The Ardonagh Group.
A London court held Monday that a former manager at a materials supplier breached his contract by copying almost 12,000 files he planned to use in a competing business.
A skincare TikToker with nearly 1 million followers has sued an LGBTQ+ newspaper for copyright infringement, accusing the PinkNews media outlet of recording and publishing her content on Snapchat without her consent.
A tribunal has ruled that a former economist at Veolia can bring a claim that the waste giant retaliated against her by reviewing her probation and later firing her after she blew the whistle on bullying and staff mismanagement.
An investment platform owned by real estate company Vengrove is suing a construction business for £4.9 million ($7 million), alleging that the construction company failed to fix a botched warehouse floor that left the building impossible to let.
David Vaughan, international disputes lead at Shakespeare Martineau, discusses how a European upbringing and working across different firms have shaped his leadership abilities, the challenges of representing a sovereign in a foreign court, and how proper global networks are needed to deliver results in cross-border disputes.
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