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  Baker Botts Gets Early $1M Win In $7M Tycoon Fee Fight

  By William Janes

  Baker Botts LLP scored a partial early victory in its fight to recover $7 million in fees from an Egyptian energ...(read more)

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  EasyGroup Loses 'Rest Easy' TM Fight With Premier Inn

  By Hanna Vioque

  EasyGroup lost its trademark infringement case against Premier Inn Hotels on Friday as a judge ruled that custom...(read more)

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• Sports Silk On Why BigLaw Is Queuing To Get Into The Game

  By Jamie Lennox

  Nick De Marco KC has acted for clients including Cristiano Ronaldo and Tyson Fury, but representing his beloved Queens Park Rangers in a make-or-break player ownership dispute tops them all. Here, he discusses the Magic Circle’s growing appetite for sports law work, the perils of football regulation and the realities of advising A-list clients.

• Tesco Sues Broadcom For £100M Over Software Licensing

  By William Janes

  Tesco is suing Broadcom Inc. for more than £100 million ($135 million), alleging the tech giant has abused its market dominance after a $69 billion merger with cloud services provider VMware threatened to force price increases for critical software of almost 250%.

• Ex-Barclays Traders Push For Review After SFO Admits Errors

  By Christopher Crosby

  Three former traders convicted of rigging benchmark interest rates said Friday they will try to get their cases referred to an independent commission as soon as possible after the Serious Fraud Office admitted their convictions may be unsound.

• White & Case-Led JTC Rejects Fund Manager Permira's Offer

  By Tom Fish

  Jersey-based fund and corporate services provider JTC PLC said Friday it has rejected a "preliminary and conditional non-binding" takeover proposal from British investment company Permira Advisers LLP.

• 5 Rate-Rigging Convictions Are On Shaky Ground, SFO Says

  By Christopher Crosby

  The convictions of five traders for rigging key benchmark interest rates may be at risk after the U.K.'s highest court overturned similar cases in July, the Serious Fraud Office said Thursday.

• Livingston FC Defeats Ex-GC's Unfair Dismissal Claim

  By Joanne Faulkner

  The former general counsel at a Scottish Premier League club has lost his employment tribunal claim accusing Livingston FC of forcing him to resign for blowing the whistle about purported financial irregularities and unlawful payments to players.

• Kennedys Admits Data Breach In Church Abuse Email

  By Ashish Sareen

  Kennedys Law LLP said Thursday that it has reported itself to regulators after it inadvertently left the email addresses of almost 200 survivors and law firms visible to all the recipients of an update on redress for abuse in the Church of England.

• FCA Cuts Data-Reporting Burden For 36,000 Companies

  By Alex Davidson

  The Financial Conduct Authority said Thursday it has removed some data reporting requirements under the senior managers' regime for 36,000 businesses, representing 95% of those it authorizes.

• Glencore Must Hand Over Bribery Probe Docs In Investor Case

  By William Janes

  Glencore lost its bid on Thursday to withhold documents about investigations into bribery and corruption in a legal battle with investors who claim that the company misled them by failing to disclose wrongdoing.

• Ex-Betting Execs Charged With Bribery In Entain Probe

  By Christopher Crosby

  The Crown Prosecution Service said Thursday that it has charged the former chair and chief executive of what is now Entain PLC alongside nine others with bribery, fraud and tax evasion as part of a probe into the gambling company's historic business in Turkey. 

• FCA Probes Drax Over Biomass Sourcing Allegations

  By Najiyya Budaly

  The Financial Conduct Authority confirmed on Thursday that it has opened an investigation into Drax Group PLC, which the renewable energy group said is linked to its compliance with the Listing and Disclosure rules when it made statements about the sourcing of its biomass products.

• Russell Brand Says LA Sexual Assault Claims 'Dishonest'

  By Ronan Barnard

  Comedian Russell Brand has denied sexually assaulting a woman at his former home in Los Angeles in 2008, telling a London court that the woman's allegations are "fundamentally dishonest."