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April 25, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen pub operator Stonegate sue insurance broker Marsh, a human rights lawyer sued for defamation by Russian businessman Ovik Mkrtchyan, and British toy-maker The Character Group reignite an employment dispute with a former finance director. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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April 25, 2025
DWF In Redundancy Talks With More Than 100 Employees
DWF LLP said Friday that it is consulting on redundancies that could affect more than 100 employees as it blamed challenging economic conditions for the move.
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April 24, 2025
SocGen Blames Clifford Chance For Failed $483M Gold Claim
SocGen has told the High Court that Clifford Chance LLP was negligent in its advice to the bank over a gold bullion dispute worth $483 million, saying the poor advice caused the lender's claim to be struck out as an abuse of process.
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April 24, 2025
Lloyd Firth On SFO's New Energy And UK Regulatory Shift
Lloyd Firth comes from a long line of blue-collar workers from the north of England. Bricklayers, mostly, but also coal miners and gas blowers from Barnsley's furnaces. Firth, whose father and brother still work in the trade, read books instead.
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April 24, 2025
Clifford Chance Vet Heads To KKCG As New Legal Chief
International investment firm KKCG has hired a longtime corporate partner at Clifford Chance LLP as its legal chief as it looks to embark on the next phase of its growth amid an increasingly complex legal and regulatory landscape for its gaming, energy and technology ventures.
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April 24, 2025
Simmons & Simmons Moves 9 Lawyers Up To Partnership
Simmons & Simmons LLP has promoted nine lawyers to its partnership as part of its 2025 round, the international law firm disclosed Wednesday, with women making up nearly half the cohort as it looks to hit parity in promotions by 2026.
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April 24, 2025
DLA Piper Elevates 65 Lawyers In US-Heavy Partner Round
DLA Piper said Thursday that it has promoted 65 lawyers from across the globe to its partnership, a slight increase on the previous year's figure as the U.S. accounted for the firm's largest intake of new partners.
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April 24, 2025
Canfield Law Faces £4M Claim Over Alleged Property Fraud
A Hong Kong businessman has accused a London law firm in a High Court claim of failing to ask questions in connection with a high-value property deal, which he says facilitated a fraud that cost him more than £4 million ($5.3 million).
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April 24, 2025
Ashurst Partnership Promotions Drop To 20 In Latest Round
Ashurst LLP said Thursday that it has promoted 20 lawyers from across the business to its partnership, a drop of a third from the number the firm elevated in 2024 — the third consecutive year that it had posted a record figure.
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April 24, 2025
Legal Exec Banned For Misappropriating £219K Client Funds
A legal executive has been disqualified and banned from working at law firms after the English solicitors' watchdog concluded that he had misappropriated £219,000 ($292,000) from a dead client's estate.
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April 23, 2025
Rainer Hughes Founder Accused Of Laundering Fraud Funds
Prosecutors accused a founder of Rainer Hughes LLP of laundering the proceeds of a multimillion-pound alcohol tax fraud at the beginning of a criminal trial in London on Wednesday.
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April 23, 2025
Anexo Majority Owners Weigh Buying Out Minority Stake
Anexo Group PLC's largest investors are considering buying out the rest of the specialist motor accident credit hire and legal services business.
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April 23, 2025
Orrick Taps London Partners For European Leadership
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has tapped two partners at its London base for top leadership posts as part of a series of appointments across its offices in Europe.
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April 23, 2025
Lawyers Face Misconduct Case For Letting Trainee Run Firm
The Solicitors Regulation Authority told a disciplinary tribunal on Wednesday that a group of lawyers were guilty of misconduct for allowing a trainee to buy and run a firm, leading to accounts rules breaches and a mishandled case.
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April 23, 2025
Qatari Exec Sues Ackroyd For £4.5M Over Botched Hotel Deal
A Qatari executive and his sister are suing their solicitor and his firm, Ackroyd Legal, after the lawyers allegedly failed to warn the siblings about a dangerous property deal and allowed them to lose up to £4.5 million ($6 million) when the deal soured.
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April 23, 2025
Aspiring Solicitor Defends 'Fraudster' Review Of Former Firm
An aspiring solicitor has hit back against a claim that she posted defamatory online reviews labeling her former boss a "fraudster," telling a London court that the reviews were true.
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April 23, 2025
Ex-Met Officer Wins Bid To Add Gowling Emails To Claim
A former police officer has won her bid to include two emails Gowling WLG sent while it represented the Metropolitan Police in her employment claim against the force — but declined to let her add the firm itself to the dispute.
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April 23, 2025
Freshfields Names 25 New Partners, With London Dominating
Freshfields LLP said Wednesday that it has promoted more than 20 lawyers from its international network of offices to its partnership, with those based in London accounting for more than a third of the new intake.
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April 22, 2025
Ousted Allegion GC Earned $3.8M In 3 Months
The former general counsel for security company Allegion PLC earned over $3.8 million during her few months with the company, which ended in her involuntary termination and reappointment of her predecessor, according to a recent securities filing.
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April 22, 2025
SRA Fines Law Firm £37K For AML Compliance Failure
The English solicitors' regulator has hit a firm with an almost £37,000 ($49,000) fine after the firm admitted failing to carry out risk assessments required by anti-money laundering regulations.
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April 22, 2025
A&O, Linklaters Helped $324B In Fossil Fuel Deals In 5 Years
Allen & Overy Shearman Sterling and Linklaters LLP facilitated almost $325 billion in fossil fuel deals between 2020 and 2024, ranking them among the top five firms around the world in such transactions, new research shows.
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April 24, 2025
CORRECTED: Paul Hastings Launches Energy Team In Paris
Paul Hastings LLP has hired five lawyers from White & Case LLP and Hoche Avocats to launch an energy and infrastructure practice in France with expertise in deal-making and regulation. Correction: A previous version of this story misidentified the firm that Thirion and Morlane joined from. The error has been corrected.
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April 22, 2025
Irwin Mitchell Sells 88-Strong Asset Management Team
Irwin Mitchell LLP said Tuesday that it has sold its asset management division to a financial advising firm that is planning to spin off the team into a personal injury outfit, as part of a wider strategy to expand its core services.
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April 22, 2025
A&O Shearman Promotes 33 In Smaller Round After Merger
A&O Shearman said Tuesday that it has promoted more than 30 lawyers to its partnership, boosting numbers in areas from mergers and acquisitions to litigation and investigations.
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April 29, 2025
Sidley Adds Former Latham Capital Markets Pro In London
Sidley Austin LLP has hired an experienced debt and equity capital markets heavyweight as a partner in its London practice, as the U.S. law firm continues to strengthen its European presence.