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Bar Council of India to Amend Rules to Help Open Up the Market for UK Legal Entities

Law firms have been waiting for more clarification on the rules before moving in to India, which now says it will notify amendments by the end of July.
4 minute read

International Edition

Kenya Supreme Court Decision May Spark Bank Lawsuits

The court decided interest rates on loans and bank facilities are subject to the Banking Act and can't be changed 'willy-nilly'.
2 minute read

International Edition

European Deal Round-up: Freshfields, Paul, Weiss Lead on Multi-Billion-Euro Deal

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Clifford Chance, Jones Day, Baker McKenzie and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison are backing cross-border deals in Europe amid a pick-up in big-figure transactions.
3 minute read

International Edition

Amazon Hit With Second $1 Billion-Plus UK Competition Claim

Third-party litigation funder Innsworth is bankrolling the case brought by Andreas Stephan, a professor of competition law at the University of East Anglia, who accuses Amazon of discriminating against third-party sellers.
2 minute read

International Edition

Baker Hires IP Partner from KWM, Ashurst Appoints India Co-Heads, Mayer Brown Sees Hong Kong Defection

Simmons & Simmons, Baker McKenzie and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have all made partner hires across the region.
6 minute read

International Edition

Reed Smith, Freshfields Advise on Fosun's $692M Take Private Offer for Hong Kong-Listed Henlius Biotech

According to Dealogic data in March, Hong Kong-listed companies have been involved in $4 billion worth of take private deals by then. This compares to $1.2 billion for all of 2023.
2 minute read

International Edition

DWF Buys Australian Claims Management Business

The purchase nearly doubles DWF's Australian workforce.
2 minute read

International Edition

UK Court Rules That Thousands of Claimants Can Proceed in Case Against Mining Company BHP

Slaughter and May, which represents BHP, had argued that thousands of claimants should not be part of the London case, in which claimants seek £36 billion in damages for a deadly 2015 mining dam spill in Brazil.
4 minute read

International Edition

Freshfields Hires Skadden's New York Head of Tax

Steven Matays is the latest transactional hire at Freshfields, as the U.K.-founded firm pushes to gain market share in the U.S.
3 minute read

International Edition

Former Vodafone GC Joins Deloitte Legal

Rosemary Martin was Vodafone Group's general counsel from 2010 until 2022.
2 minute read

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