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  DWF In Redundancy Talks With More Than 100 Employees

  By Marialuisa Taddia

  DWF LLP said Friday that it is consulting on redundancies that could affect more than 100 employees as it blamed...(read more)

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  Slaughter And May Leads Coach Biz's $600M US Unit Sale

  By Tom Fish

  Public transport operator Mobico Group PLC said Friday it has agreed to sell its U.S. school bus business to I S...(read more)

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• Unisex Is Best To Avoid Toilet Trouble After Sex Ruling

  By Adele Redmond

  The best approach for employers after the U.K. Supreme Court's seismic ruling on the legal definition of a woman is to make all enclosed single-user washrooms unisex and consult staff for their thoughts on making further facilities gender-neutral, lawyers and experts say.

• Deripaska Sues To Uncover Source Of Allegedly Forged Report

  By William Janes

  A Russian oligarch has asked a London court to order a business intelligence company to divulge the source of an allegedly forged report used to back up a former business partner's bid to challenge a $95 million arbitration award.

• Tycoon's Son Loses Challenge To £3M Howard Kennedy Bill

  By Lucia Osborne-Crowley

  The son of a diamond tycoon accused of swindling $1 billion from banks lost his bid for a court-ordered review of his legal bills from Howard Kennedy on Friday as the High Court said he knew of the climbing costs linked to his international fraud case.

• UK Law, Accounting Bodies Queried On Poor SAR Records

  By Alex Davidson

  The anti-money laundering unit of the Financial Conduct Authority has told legal and accounting professional bodies to justify their failure to check the quality of suspicious activity reports by their member firms.

• Argentex CEO Exits As Stricken FX Firm Mulls £3M Bid

  By Tom Fish

  Argentex Group PLC said Friday it has replaced its head and named its chief operating officer as interim CEO, as the U.K. foreign exchange service provider navigates a financial crisis and a possible sale of the company.

• Bollywood Film Unit To Pay £84K To Ex-Exec Forced To Quit

  By Tabitha Burbidge

  Bollywood media conglomerate Eros International Ltd. must pay its former chief strategy officer over £84,000 ($112,000) after an employment tribunal upheld his claim for constructive dismissal.

• IBM Rival Gets Sales Ban Stayed In Reverse-Engineering Fight

  By Jamie Lennox

  A London court said Thursday it will delay an order banning a Swiss company's sales of technology that it unlawfully reverse-engineered from IBM's software, holding fire while awaiting the outcome of a potential appeal.

• Lloyd Firth On SFO's New Energy And UK Regulatory Shift

  By Christopher Crosby

  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.

• Simmons & Simmons Moves 9 Lawyers Up To Partnership

  By Tabitha Burbidge

  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.

• Theranos-Linked IP Feud Split Between 2 UPC Divisions

  By Jamie Lennox

  The Unified Patent Court has allowed separate panels in Germany and Italy to hear a dispute over a patent linked to shuttered blood-testing startup Theranos, divorcing the infringement action from a counterclaim seeking to void the patent.

• Rainer Hughes Founder Accused Of Laundering Fraud Funds

  By Ronan Barnard

  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.

• EU Appeals To Revive WTO Fight Over China SEP Rate-Setting

  By Alex Baldwin

  The European Union has appealed a decision by the World Trade Organization to dismiss the bloc's complaint that a Chinese court engaged in unfair trade practices by setting royalty rates for European-owned 5G technology.