Simpson Thacher & Bartlett’s failure to file an appeal on time against a Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) decision resulted in its client’s proposed merger being blocked, it has emerged.

Irwin Mitchell is to sell its debt recovery business as it bids to focus on “core legal services”. The business, Ascent Performance Group Ltd, was created in 2008 and is set to be offloaded to ...

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Paul Hastings has recruited A&O Shearman partner Brad Weyland in London, bolstering its high-yield and leveraged finance capabilities in the City. Departing after nearly five years at the Magic ...

Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your cheat sheet to the litigation market, bringing you the week’s top litigation stories and analysis. Here is what litigators are talking about this… ...

Still on its senior-level London hiring spree, Sidley Austin welcomed real estate partner Jeremy Trinder this month and is awaiting the start date of capital markets partner James Inness.

Legora has raised an extra $550m at a $5.55bn valuation to help fuel its growth ambitions in the US. The Series D funding round was led by Accel, with participation from existing investors ...

Mayer Brown has hired six partners from McGuireWoods, including former Houston managing partner Yasser Madriz, as it looks to bolster its energy offering in Texas. Madriz joins Mayer ...

Welcome to our latest annual International Arbitration Review, covering a selection of noteworthy arbitration decisions which played out in national courts over the last year. Gowling WLG’s team ...

American pattern currently playing out in Paris. At various points over the past century, from the Suez Crisis to Bretton Woods (the 1944 conference that led to the IMF ...

More than 8,000 families have contributed evidence to a major national inquiry into maternity services in England. Their experiences reveal a deeply concerning picture: while some families ...

Legaltech Avvoka has raised £14m as part of a funding round led by British billionaire and Preqin founder Mark O’Hare. Avvoka, which was founded in 2016, uses AI to help draft legal ...