Full Disclosure:​

Practice Area News​

By Jaysen Sutton​
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Hi Reader 👋🏽,

It's the last week of May, 2024. Here are the most relevant stories for you to be aware of as an aspiring lawyer, from all of the main practice areas:
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Mergers & Acquisitions​
  • Slaughters and Linklaters advise as Anglo American rejects third offer from BHP (The Guardian)
  • Slaughters and Skadden advise as International Paper takeover uncertain after new bid from Suzano (Packaging Europe)
  • Addleshaw, Freshfields and Paul Hastings advise on Coventry Building Society’s takeover of Co-op Bank for £780m (BBC)
Competition
  • CMA begins full investigation into veterinary industry over whether pet owners are paying too much for medicine (gov.uk)
  • Citi fined £61.6m for failures that led to a trader accidentally selling billions in stocks (The Guardian)
  • Payments regulator finds no effective competition against Mastercard and Visa (PSR)
Capital Markets / Finance
Insolvency
  • Freshfields advises as online used car retailer Cazoo heads into administration (BBC)
Economy
  • Inflation falls to 2.3% (BBC)
Intellectual Property
  • News Corporation announces historic deal with Open AI (The Times)
  • Bird & Bird advises as high court judge rules that man from Surrey is not Bitcoin’s founder (WIPR)
Law Firms as a Business

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