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  EQT Tables New £8.9B Offer For FTSE-Listed Intertek

  By Tom Fish

  Private equity group EQT said Tuesday it has raised its takeover bid for testing and inspection company Intertek...(read more)

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  Slaughter & May Guides Vodafone's £4.3B JV Buyout

  By Najiyya Budaly

  Vodafone Group PLC will buy out CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd. for £4.3 billion ($5.8 billion) to become the sole ow...(read more)

• Strait Of Hormuz Closure Hits UK With Energy Benchmark Fight

  By Joanne Faulkner

  Mercuria is suing the Baltic Exchange in London over losses it said are linked to an allegedly distorted key shipping benchmark that failed to reflect the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz, marking the first major litigation in the U.K. to arise from the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.

• Dentons Ruling Recasts Test For Lawyers' AML Misconduct

  By Christopher Crosby

  The Court of Appeal's recent decision that the Solicitors Regulation Authority must prove that Dentons' breach of money laundering legislation was "sufficiently serious" could complicate the watchdog's job of enforcing its rules, experts say.

• FCA's Contested Car Finance Redress Hits Roadblocks

  By Alex Davidson

  Legal challenges to the Financial Conduct Authority's motor finance redress scheme fired off this week to the Upper Tribunal will lead to long delays, with some legal experts already doubting whether the cases can be argued successfully.

• Tesco Exec Denies Warehouse Jobs Viewed As 'Men's Work'

  By William Janes

  A Tesco executive has denied that the supermarket chain viewed warehouse jobs as "men's work" as she gave evidence on the first day of a trial of equal pay claims brought by thousands of mainly female shop workers on Friday.

• Medical Cannabis User Revives Bias Claim Over Job Ban

  By Jamie Lennox

  A London appeals tribunal restored a medical cannabis user's claim on Friday that Network Rail discriminated against him based on his disability by banning him from safety-critical rail work for five years after he failed a drug test.

• DWF Director Eyes More IP Growth After Oatly TM Win

  By Alex Baldwin

  Coming off its victory at one of the highest-profile U.K. trademark disputes in recent years, DWF Group has high hopes for the future of the intellectual property practice. Here, director Asima Rana talks to Law360 about the challenges of the case and the growing demand for IP work in the U.K.

• Samsung Must Pay ZTE $392M For Phone Patent Licensing

  By Hanna Vioque

  A London judge ordered the South Korean tech giant Samsung to pay $392 million on Friday to use ZTE's portfolio of standard essential patents for mobile phones, a big cut from the $731 million sought by the Chinese rival in a long-running dispute over fair license terms. 

• UK Defense Contractor Pays £15M To Settle Bribery Probe

  By Christopher Crosby

  British defense contractor Ultra Electronics agreed to pay £14.8 million ($20.2 million) on Friday to settle a bribery investigation by the Serious Fraud Office into suspected corrupt payments involving airport contracts in Algeria and Oman.

• Johnson Matthey Beats Fraud Claim Over £325M Pharma Deal

  By Eddie Beaver

  Johnson Matthey defeated on Friday a claim that it acted fraudulently in the £325 million ($444 million) sale of one of its pharmaceutical businesses, despite a finding by a London court that the chemicals business had failed to disclose to the buyer significant details about the transaction.

• FCA Vows Robust Defense Of Car Finance Redress In Court

  By Alex Davidson

  The Financial Conduct Authority said on Friday that it will mount a robust defense of its £7.5 billion ($10.2 billion) motor finance redress scheme against four legal challenges so far from lenders and a consumer group.

• Baker McKenzie-Led Daily Mail Owner To Sell Data Biz For $1B

  By Tom Fish

  The owner of the Daily Mail has agreed to sell its U.S. property data business Trepp Inc. for $1 billion in cash to financial services provider Fitch Group Inc.

• Ex-Sub-Postmaster Fights Split Of £4.5M Post Office Trial

  By Ronan Barnard

  A former sub-postmaster urged a London appellate court Thursday to overturn a decision to split his £4.5 million ($6 million) claim against the Post Office and Fujitsu over a 2007 civil judgment which he alleges was obtained by conspiracy, arguing that it is wrong in principle.