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  The Biggest FCA Enforcement Cases And Fines In 2025

  By Eddie Beaver

  A year after the FCA was criticized for delays, dropped cases and its use of publicity powers, it entered 2025 u...(read more)

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  Ryanair Fined €256M For Blocking Travel Agency Sales

  By Christopher Crosby

  Italy's competition watchdog hit Ryanair DAC with a €256 million ($302 million) fine on Tuesday for abusing its ...(read more)

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• The Biggest UK IP Developments Of 2025

  By Alex Baldwin

  European courts opened the door to rule on patent infringement outside the bloc in 2025, the first decision on infringement of generative artificial intelligence was handed down by an English court, and the U.K.'s top court held that confusion between trademarks can be considered after a product sale.

• UK M&A Advisers Use Creative Solutions Amid 2025 Turmoil

  By Najiyya Budaly

  Advisers often had to get creative when they helped sponsors to find ways to complete deals during the M&A doldrums and geopolitical storms in 2025.

• Actuary Fined For Anti-Islam Tweets Wins Belief Protection

  By Hanna Vioque

  An actuary hit with a two-year ban and a fine of almost £23,000 ($31,000) has convinced an employment tribunal that his belief in traditional Islam being problematic and deserving of criticism constituted a protected belief under the Equality Act.

• UK Supreme Court Recalibrates Class Action Opt-Out Test

  By Joanne Faulkner

  A decision by the U.K. Supreme Court to block a £2.7 billion ($3.6 billion) claim against major banks over foreign exchange-rigging has recalibrated the test for when a collective action should be brought through opt-out proceedings, lawyers say.

• The Biggest UK Commercial Fraud Cases In 2025

  By William Janes

  Denmark's stinging defeat in a £1.4 billion ($1.9 billion) tax fraud claim and a U.K. Supreme Court ruling that widens the net for individuals who facilitate fraud are among the defining moments in the biggest commercial fraud cases of 2025.

• Loopholes Hinder FCA Firm Checker's Ability To Fight Fraud

  By Alex Davidson

  The Financial Conduct Authority is failing to stop financial fraud because criminals are finding ways round its limited actions and technologies, said lawyers, who are calling for government legislation to boost the watchdog's powers.

• Abbott Claws Back More Glucose Monitoring IP On Appeal

  By Jamie Lennox

  A London appeals court restored two glucose monitoring patents on Monday that Abbott lost in its now-settled battle with Dexcom, adding to a third patent that the biotech business salvaged several days earlier.

• Winston Taylor Will Eye Growth Beyond $1.75B Merger

  By Marialuisa Taddia

  The architects of the deal to create a major new transatlantic player called Winston Taylor say that "there's no finishing point" to their plans for expansion as they signal an openness to more deals and even external investment.

• BHP Switches To HSF Kramer Guidance In Mariana Dam Case

  By Eddie Beaver

  BHP has replaced Slaughter and May with HSF Kramer to represent it in the £36 billion ($48 billion) Mariana dam litigation after a London court found the miner liable for the collapse that triggered Brazil's worst environmental disaster.

• Home Office Defends Exclusion Of Mastek From £138M IT Bid

  By Joanne Faulkner

  The Home Office has denied treating a company bidding to run part of its IT system for managing asylum applications unfairly after it was sued at the High Court for more than £48 million ($64 million).

• Weil Helps UK Energy Biz Buy Gulf Coast Oil Co. For $3.2B

  By Najiyya Budaly

  Harbour Energy PLC, a producer of oil and gas in the North Sea, said on Monday that it will buy LLOG Exploration for $3.2 billion in a move to give it access to the Gulf of Mexico's rich oil reserves.

• Hogan Lovells Seeks Repeat Merger Success With Cadwalader

  By Marialuisa Taddia

  The chief executive tapped to lead what will be known as Hogan Lovells Cadwalader said Friday that the deal that will create the world's fifth‑largest law firm by revenue is set to succeed, promising to repeat the success of the merger that originally founded Hogan Lovells.