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  • Sunday, 22 May, 2022
    Russian business & finance
    London Lawfare: how lawyers helped Russia’s super-rich

    Since the invasion of Ukraine, work done by firms such as CMS, Harbottle & Lewis and Carter-Ruck for Russian billionaires has come under increasing scrutiny

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    News in-depthAllianz SE
    Allianz funds scandal hands US prosecutors a $6bn scalp

    Settlement by Europe’s largest insurer comes as authorities vow to get tougher on white collar crime

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
    US law firm denounced for joining event to mark Hong Kong security law

    Davis Polk criticised for agreeing to appear at commemoration of measure used in opposition crack down

  • Wednesday, 18 May, 2022
    Media
    Prigozhin’s libel suit against Bellingcat founder thrown out of UK court

    Businessman known as ‘Putin’s chef’ has case against Eliot Higgins struck out for ‘failure to comply with orders’

  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    UK business & economy
    Covid fraudsters and embezzlers given ‘open goal’, say MPs

    Business department failed to identify risks of organised economic crime in support schemes

  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    Allianz SE
    Allianz agrees $6bn settlement over scandal-hit US funds

    German insurer’s investment arm pleads guilty to securities fraud

  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    Nigeria
    Nigeria’s top accountant arrested by anti-corruption agency

    Ahmed Idris in alleged $190mn ‘diversion of funds and money-laundering activities’

  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    Ethiopia
    Ethiopia atrocities cast long shadow as city of Lalibela prays for peace

    Settlement talks are on the horizon after a year-long war devastates communities across the country

  • Monday, 16 May, 2022
    UK crime
    UK criminal justice creaking under ‘unacceptable’ levels of delay

    Sector was under-resourced at start of Covid crisis and is still struggling to recover, inspectors find

  • Monday, 16 May, 2022
    UK infrastructure
    HS2 protests set to cost high-speed UK rail line up to £200mn

    Project heads to seek injunctions to control demos along entire length of route, MPs told

  • Monday, 16 May, 2022
    Serious Fraud Office UK
    SFO largely cleared of wrongdoing after UK court battle with ENRC

    Judge rejects most of Kazakh mining group’s claims over SFO’s conduct during probe into alleged corruption

  • Sunday, 15 May, 2022
    InterviewHow to Lead
    Pallas’s Natasha Harrison: ‘I felt completely like an outsider going into law’

    The British-born lawyer was set to take over from David Boies, one of the world’s most famous litigators, but instead quit to start her own firm

  • Saturday, 14 May, 2022
    Margaret Hodge
    Dirty money contaminates the UK’s public sphere

    A lax approach to laundering illicit gains typifies the creeping corruption of British democracy

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    Janine Gibson
    UK libel law emerges with the least dignity in Rooney and Vardy’s ‘Scousetrap’

    If we are going to allow very rich people to sue each other in our courts for PR purposes, then we need to make the rules simpler

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    Brexit
    Trump lawyer advised UK on ditching Northern Ireland protocol

    Whitehall insiders accuse ministers of ‘opinion shopping’ to mollify pro-Brexit MPs

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Special ReportInnovative Lawyers
    Asia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers

    Law firms face pressure to take a stance on geopolitical questions; US-China trade war becomes a legal stand-off; private equity eyes deals in Japan; data handling after Australia’s bank probe; and the region’s most forward-looking individuals

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Special ReportAsia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers
    ‘Future-ready’ in-house legal teams hone strategy roles

    Company lawyers are proving their value as advisers to the business

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Special ReportAsia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers
    China’s ‘homecomers’ herald flow of deals

    Listings for groups expelled from the US are keeping lawyers busy

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Special ReportAsia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers
    Tech-savvy legal professionals transform working habits

    The professionals highlighted here have developed new products and pioneered fresh skills in their firms

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Special ReportAsia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers
    Legal practitioners’ ideas boost business in the Asia-Pacific region

    The top 10 individuals featured below have looked beyond their specialisms to solve client demands

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Special ReportAsia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers
    Can blockchain smooth global supply chains?

    Digitising shipping processes throws up a range of regulatory challenges

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Leo Lewis
    Why foreign private equity is eyeing deals in Japan

    The country increasingly represents the safest choice for a regional hub

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Special ReportAsia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers
    Australia’s bank probe spurs digital mission

    Lawyers master tech tools to help disgraced banking clients handle information quickly

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Special ReportAsia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers
    Asia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers Awards 2022: the winners

    Awards highlights include: digitisation, enabling business, and the most innovative law firms and individuals

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    Special ReportAsia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers
    Law firms challenged to take political stance on clients

    Questions over neutrality, globalisation and staff skills are keeping Apac leaders awake at night

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