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  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 ...(read more)

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  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...(read more)

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• 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.

• 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).

• 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.

• FCA Probes WH Smith Over North America Profits Error

  By Eddie Beaver

  The Financial Conduct Authority revealed Friday that it has started an investigation into WH Smith PLC over potential breaches of transparency rules following an independent review that found the retailer's North American division had overstated profit by as much as £50 million ($67 million).

• The Biggest Financial Crime Cases Of 2025

  By Sophia Dourou

  The U.K. Supreme Court's overturning of the convictions of two traders imprisoned for rate rigging, the first use by the anti-fraud agency of a rare legal power to recover criminal cash and the first ever conviction for sanctions breaches are among the big corporate crime cases of 2025.

• The Biggest UK Commercial Litigation Rulings Of 2025

  By Lucia Osborne-Crowley

  The biggest commercial dispute rulings in 2025 included a landmark decision by the U.K. Supreme Court in a multibillion-pound motor finance misselling case, mining giant BHP being held liable for the collapse of a dam in Brazil and a surprise judgment that has thrown the conduct of litigation work into disarray.

• Actors Vote To Refuse Image, Voice Scans Over AI Fears

  By Adele Redmond

  Film and television performers in the U.K. have voted to refuse to have digital scans on set in a bid to stop their voices and likenesses being replicated through artificial intelligence.

• Motorola Wins Bid To Reinstate $136M US IP Award In England

  By Sophia Dourou

  Motorola has successfully reinstated a $136.3 million judgment that enforces a U.S. decision against a Chinese radio-maker for infringing its intellectual property rights, as an appeals court held on Friday that ongoing proceedings abroad were no reason to revoke the English decision.

• Simpson Thacher Helps KKR Buy Out Wella For $750M

  By Najiyya Budaly

  Beauty heavyweight Coty said Friday that it will sell its remaining 25.8% stake in Wella to KKR for $750 million while keeping the right to proceeds from any further sale or initial public offering of the hair care brand.

• BBVA Gains ECB Nod For Record €4B Buyback

  By Tom Fish

  ​Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria said on Friday that the European Central Bank has authorized the lender's largest-ever share buyback, which will be worth up to €3.96 billion ($4.64 billion), months after it made a failed bid for domestic rival Banco Sabadell.

• Nokia Loses Bid To Block Electronics Cos.' UK FRAND Case

  By William Janes

  A London court on Thursday rejected Nokia's bid to stop a judge from hearing requests by electronics makers Acer, Asus and Hisense to set license terms for Nokia patents, rejecting Nokia's case that the court did not have jurisdiction.