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 ...

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 ...

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… ...

As the Jewish festival of Chanukah comes to an end at sundown today, last week Jewish lawyers in London gathered in the wake of the terrorist attacks on a similar celebration in Sydney.

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… ...