The BBC has instructed US law firm Ballard Spahr in its defence of the $10bn defamation claim brought against it by US President Donald Trump. Trump is suing the corporation over its editing of his ...

Weil Gotshal & Manges has secured a headline mandate advising Harbour Energy on its $3.2bn acquisition of US-based LLOG Exploration Company from LLOG Holdings. The Harbour Energy team was led ...

Mergers were the flavour of December, but that’s not all we have covered this year. Here’s a look back on our highlights – and what you liked to read about the most. Becoming elite The US is far too… ...

A claim against a highly-sought events planner, whose recent work includes organising the wedding of the late Steve Jobs’ daughter, has settled, The Lawyer has learnt. Earlier this ...

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Latham & Watkins have taken lead roles on Bridgepoint Group’s acquisition of the Newbury Partners team from Bridge Investment Group, a subsidiary of Apollo ...

Father Christmas’s workshop is reportedly in fine festive form this December, with elves diligently turning out toys for stockings and the hopeful gaps beneath Christmas trees. A good number of those… ...

Domestic Italian firms Macchi di Cellere and Carnelutti have this week entered a strategic cooperation, the firms announced. Their cooperation will see the two firms continue operating as ...

BHP has replaced Slaughter and May as instructing solicitors in the ongoing claim over the collapse of the Mariana Dam in Brazil. The mining giant has instead turned to Herbert Smith Freehills ...

The former CEO of Reading FC has filed a winding-up petition against the club. Nigel Howe, who had been CEO at the club for 20 years until 2017 and then later between 2018 and 2020… ...

December has always felt like a world within a world in law firms. The decorations go up, the calendars fill, and lawyers shuttle between client drinks, team socials and long-delayed catch-ups over… ...