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Sponsored Q&A: Incorporating social value into projects – Lorraine Bellinger, head of legal project delivery at international law firm, Bird & Bird

Bird & Bird is an international law firm with over 30 offices in Europe, North America, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, and Africa working across multiple sectors and supporting organisations being changed by the digital world or those leading that change. Lorraine Bellinger joined the firm in 2020 to build Bird & Bird’s legal project delivery function, …

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Revolving Doors: Global 100 firms expand in the City as Australian market sees lateral hiring spike

In the City, Kiran Arora has left BCLP to join Eversheds Sutherland as a new partner in its corporate and energy practice. Ranked in The Legal 500 as a Leading Individual, Arora specialises in sustainable energy and infrastructure projects, bringing with him more than 20 years’ experience advising on project development, project financing, and M&A …

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‘It sits squarely in the SFO’s wheelhouse’: criminal investigation launched into Axiom Ince as regulators and ex-employees grapple with aftermath

A criminal investigation has been launched into Axiom Ince, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) announced last month. Seven individuals have been arrested in connection with the investigation and searches have been carried out across nine sites. More than 80 SFO investigators, alongside Metropolitan Police officers, went to locations across the South-East of England on the …

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‘A new era of stress’: Perspectives from City restructuring partners and what to expect from 2024

Casting a glance back at the year nearly at its end, industries faced challenges from inflationary pressures, soaring interest rates, geopolitical uncertainties, and an energy crisis, putting even the more robust sectors to the test. In the midst of these conditions, company insolvencies during Q2 and Q3 2023 reached their highest point since Q2 2009, …

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Doing the robot – Five years on, the same old AI debate rages on

‘It is very difficult to see how AI competes with what David Higgins does.’ Looking back five years to our 2018 Global 100 debate, this remark from Milbank’s Suhrud Mehta, one of many eminent City leaders around the table, is striking in more ways than one. The industry has come to think of the now …

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Dealwatch: Telegraph auction off as Barclay brothers pay off Lloyds debt with loan

The Telegraph and The Spectator are no longer up for auction after Abu Dhabi-backed RedBird IMI helped the Barclay family repay its £1.2bn debt to Lloyds Banking Group. Lloyds placed Telegraph Media Group’s Bermuda-based holding company B.UK into receivership over the unpaid debt in May. AlixPartners was appointed as receiver and Aidan and Howard Barclay …

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Revolving doors: Latham hires Akin duo as firms strengthen finance, disputes and family practices

Latham & Watkins has strengthened its private credit practice in London by adding two partners from Akin. Fergus Wheeler and Paul Yin are set to become part of Latham’s banking practice, having each spent less than 10 months at their previous firm. The duo brings significant expertise in advising global private credit funds, direct lenders, …

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