The BBC has instructed US law firm Ballard Spahr in its defence of the $10bn defamation claim brought against it by US President Donald Trump. Trump is suing the corporation over its editing of his ...

Weil Gotshal & Manges has secured a headline mandate advising Harbour Energy on its $3.2bn acquisition of US-based LLOG Exploration Company from LLOG Holdings. The Harbour Energy team was led ...

BHP has replaced Slaughter and May as instructing solicitors in the ongoing claim over the collapse of the Mariana Dam in Brazil. The mining giant has instead turned to Herbert Smith Freehills ...

Gender critical campaign group For Women Scotland (FWS) has launched fresh legal proceedings against the Scottish Government after securing a landmark gender ruling in the Supreme Court earlier ...

Domestic Italian firms Macchi di Cellere and Carnelutti have this week entered a strategic cooperation, the firms announced. Their cooperation will see the two firms continue operating as ...

As the Jewish festival of Chanukah comes to an end at sundown today, last week Jewish lawyers in London gathered in the wake of the terrorist attacks on a similar celebration in Sydney.

In a key judgment for class actions in the UK, the Supreme Court has ruled in favour of leading banks in a case over foreign exchange rigging. The case, brought by Hausfeld and class ...

The former CEO of Reading FC has filed a winding-up petition against the club. Nigel Howe, who had been CEO at the club for 20 years until 2017 and then later between 2018 and ...

Setfords has entered into a new all-assets debenture in favour of HSBC, as the five-year anniversary of the date when private equity house Phoenix Equity Partners first invested in the firm draws near ...

A claim against a highly-sought events planner, whose recent work includes organising the wedding of the late Steve Jobs’ daughter, has settled, The Lawyer has learnt. Earlier this ...

Taylor Wessing’s UK LLP is nearing a transformational deal with Chicago-headquartered firm Winston & Strawn, making it the latest City outfit to stake its future on a transatlantic platform.

The leaders of Winston & Strawn and Taylor Wessing (TW) have unveiled the name of the proposed merged firm, which was first revealed by The Lawyer last Friday. Subject to a vote by both ...