In January 2019 it was discovered that Patisserie Valerie, a chain that specialises in cakes, had manipulated their accounts by overstating cash by £30 million. They omitted a £10 million overdraft and disclosed £54 million in cash that simply didn't exist - the question remains - who should be held responsible?
The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG, an independent organisation made up of MPs) has intervened in a Supreme Court case to help small businesses against financial institutions by closing a legal loophole which banks have used to exploit distressed companies.
Linklaters’ new ‘virtual internship’ looks to aid social mobility and allow university students to replicate the real work of interns during the vacation scheme.
On May 13, Clyde & Co.’s insurance partner, Garrett Moore, announced the company’s intention to open a Dublin office.
Caterpillar Inc, the world's largest construction equipment manufacturer with net revenue exceeding $54 billion, recently applied to cancel the trademarks of several small businesses with "Cat" in their name - including Cat & Cloud, a local coffee shop based in Santa Cruz, California.
Internet and phone providers will now have to tell users when their contract is nearly over.
The Chinese government has allowed the Chinese law firm Zhao Sheng (who in April 2018 formed a Shanghai free trade zone joint operation with Linklaters) to open a second office in Beijing.
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is going to offer £250,000 to lawtech innovators to improve access to justice.
A former trainee at Ropes & Gray has been barred for tracing a client’s signature. She claimed the document with the forged signature was the document which had been lost.
Two years after Andrew Baily, head of the FCA (Libor’s regulator), effectively stated that LIBOR would be gone by 2021, the FCA and the Bank of England (BoE) recently encouraged banks to move to the new benchmark SONIA.