Dispute resolution

Alex Ryan

The Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT) has approved a settlement of £200m in the long-running Merricks v Mastercard dispute. The tribunal’s ruling dismisses…

Alex Ryan

Following last month’s release of Legal 500’s first US city elite rankings, Legal Business checked in with the newly ranked Chicago lawyers…

Isabel Caine

If there’s one thing litigators aren’t disputing, it’s that workflow is not likely to drop as we settle into 2025.…

Isabel Caine

Mishcon de Reya‘s hard-fought victory for Nigeria in Nigeria v P&ID saw the firm take home Commercial Team of the Year at…

Isabel Caine

Mountford Chambers’ Edward Henry KC won the title of Barrister of the Year at the Legal Business Awards this past…

Anna Huntley

Adam Ibrahim, UK co-head of litigation and arbitration at DLA Piper, was last month named Private Practice Lawyer of the Year…

Isabel Caine

The chairs of next week’s London International Disputes Week (LIDW) are urging in-house lawyers to attend the event to learn…

Allan Cohen

Jiun Ean Ban, chief executive of Maxwell Chambers in Singapore, recently sat down with Legal 500 senior research editor Allan…

Bethany Burns

An amendment filed to the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill last week will allow the use of damages-based agreements…

Ayesha Ellis

Osborne Clarke has announced the launch of its third US office in Miami, adding to its existing offerings in San…

Alex Ryan

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has announced the launch of a new office in Beijing, its second in mainland China…

Tom Baker

‘What would you do if you weren’t afraid? When I’m making big decisions, there’s always fear attached. I try to…

Nathalie Tidman

Undaunted by a hectic few days in which details of Natasha Harrison’s new firm Pallas Partners hit the headlines, the…

Tom Baker

With echoes of David Higgins’ landmark $10m switch in 2017 , Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has lost two up-and-coming private equity…

Thomas Alan

Slaughter and May has made a rare City hire, the firm announced today (19 November), recruiting a partner into its…

Thomas Alan

The received wisdom is that a downward trajectory in the economy results in an upward trajectory in contentious work as…

Thomas Alan

Cash-rich funders; conflict-free boutiques; class actions aplenty. While some predict another economic downturn on the horizon, providing an uptick in…

Dominic Carman

Post Brexit, HMRC is renewing its litigation focus on corporate tax evasion, enhanced by new powers to investigate corporate criminal…

Guest Blog

In the fiery political debate on Brexit, relatively little attention has concentrated on the threat to the UK as a…

Dominic Carman

Cumulative cuts to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) budget over the past decade, amounting to 40% in total, have had…