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  Linklaters Helps On Jardine Matheson's $2.4B Med Tech Buy

  By Najiyya Budaly

  Jardine Matheson of Hong Kong has said it will buy I-MED Radiology Network for $2.4 billion, adding the Australi...(read more)

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  UK Crime-Reporting Push Stalls Over Lawyers' Privilege Fears

  By Christopher Crosby

  Reluctance among lawyers to raise the alarm on suspicious clients is hampering the fight against economic crime ...(read more)

• Forsters' Email Service Nullifies Multimillion-Pound Claim

  By Ronan Barnard

  A London judge threw out on Tuesday a property company's case worth tens of millions of pounds, concluding that the claimants' lawyers at Forsters LLP had failed to properly serve the claim over email to the solicitors of a construction group.

• Justice Ben Stephens To Retire From Top UK Court In 2027

  By Ashish Sareen

  Justice Ben Stephens said Tuesday that he plans to retire from the U.K. Supreme Court in 2027 after serving for six years on the country's highest court.

• HSBC Can't Dodge Ex-Employee's Claim Over WFH Penalty

  By Jamie Lennox

  A tribunal has ruled that HSBC must face a claim that it discriminated against a former employee during her menopause by disciplining her for working from home when she was experiencing migraines.

• Gov't Sued Over £1B Office Supplies Buying Plan

  By Sophia Dourou

  An office supplies provider has sued the U.K. government over a tender for a £1 billion ($1.35 billion) contract for a digital marketplace platform, alleging it ceased to participate in the procurement process because of breaches of the law and competition rules.

• SFO Agents Accused Of Using Bribes In London Mining Probe

  By Christopher Crosby

  An expert working for the Serious Fraud Office paid bribes to public officials in Sierra Leone to secure evidence for the agency's London Mining prosecution, three defendants cleared of charges have alleged.

• Law Firms Weigh Secretive Pay Models To Keep Top Partners

  By Marialuisa Taddia

  Traditional equity structures that allow partners to see each other's pay are coming under strain as law firms pursue growth, prompting more firms to consider opaque "black-box" compensation systems that keep partner pay confidential, recruiters and advisers say.

• Pinsent Masons Self-Reports To SRA Over Lawyer's Use Of AI

  By Eddie Beaver

  Pinsent Masons LLP has referred itself to the Solicitors Regulation Authority after admitting that one of its junior lawyers used artificial intelligence to generate made-up law in letters sent to court, as a London judge said Friday he would not consider initiating contempt proceedings.

• Energy Trader Gets October Trial In Hormuz Benchmark Row

  By Ronan Barnard

  Mercuria Energy Group secured an expedited October trial on Friday in its claim against Baltic Exchange for allegedly failing to factor the essential closing of the Strait of Hormuz into an oil trading benchmark, after Mercuria argued it would affect the entire market.

• PrivatBank Beats Ex-Owners' Bid To Appeal $3B Fraud Ruling

  By Sophia Dourou

  The former owners of PrivatBank failed on Friday to overturn a finding that they owe the Ukrainian lender $3 billion, as an appeals court rejected their argument that its acceptance of a later repayment "extinguished" the loss resulting from their fraudulent loan recycling scheme.

• Rosenblatt Defeats Ex-Partner's Bid To Revive Race Bias Case

  By Hanna Vioque

  An appellate tribunal refused on Friday to revive a former Rosenblatt partner's race discrimination claims against the law firm's senior figures and former chief executive, concluding that an executive's use of an inflammatory slur for Black people wasn't enough to prop up his case.  

• Estée Lauder, Spanish Beauty Co. Puig End Merger Talks

  By Tom Fish

  Estée Lauder and Spanish beauty group Puig Brands SA have ended discussions over a potential business combination that would have created a $40 billion global luxury cosmetics company, as the U.S. group reaffirmed confidence in its turnaround strategy.

• Latham, PedersoliGattai Lead Funds In €10.7B Recordati Bid

  By Najiyya Budaly

  Investment firms CVC and Groupe Bruxelles Lambert said Friday that they are heading up a group of investors that will buy Recordati SpA for €10.7 billion ($12.4 billion) in a move to take the Italian pharmaceuticals company private.