| Date | Title | Description |
| 19.08.2026 | CNBC UK Exchange: Reflections on Britain’s tough economic reality | The U.K. economy has struggled to generate sustained growth over the past 15 months, leaving Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Chancellor John Healey facing difficult decisions.
Despite the lackluster economy, the FTSE 100 has risen by nearly... |
| 30.07.2026 | Fortress Backs Wayflyer With $1.5B Forward-Flow Deal for E-Commerce Merchants | By Zachary Chambers
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| 06.07.2026 | Schroders sells financial planning arm as it accelerates high net-worth shift | Schroders has agreed to sell its advice business Benchmark Capital to Swedish wealth firm Soderberg & Partners as it accelerates a shift toward wealth management and high net-worth clients.
Under the terms of the deal, Schroders will be... |
| 25.06.2026 | Luminance’s boss: Why building our own AI beats ‘rented intelligence’ | Amid a surge of legal AI tech firms coming to market, concerns are emerging about ‘rented intelligence,’ with some companies criticised for simply putting their logos on technology developed by others. In contrast, Luminance insists it is f... |
| 25.06.2026 | HKCGI Announces Appointment of New Chief Executive | HONG KONG, June 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hong Kong Chartered Governance Institute (HKCGI), the sole accrediting body in Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland for the globally recognised Chartered Secretary and Chartered Governance Professi... |
| 11.06.2026 | Rising salaries for junior lawyers put pressure on senior associates’ pay packages | US law firms continue to drive a fierce salary war in London, leaving UK firms scrambling to keep up with soaring pay for junior lawyers, but as starting salaries rise, growing pay gaps threaten to unsettle senior associates, writes Maria W... |
| 01.06.2026 | Deloitte and KPMG challenge PwC’s iron grip on FTSE 100 clients | For the first time in nearly eight years, three of the Big Four giants, Deloitte, KPMG and PwC, are locked in a dead heat for FTSE 100 client dominance.
A boardroom reshuffle has loosened PwC’s iron grip on clients from London’s blue-chip i... |
| 10.05.2026 | WH Smith made only £10m from sale of 500 stores | Retail giant WH Smith made just £10m from the sale of its 480 high street stores to a private equity firm after already slashing its asking price.
Private equity firm Modella Capital bought WH Smith’s high street locations in a £42m deal la... |
| 06.05.2026 | WH Smith successor to shut 150 stores in ‘aggressive’ restructuring | The owner of WH Smith’s former high street stores is set to shut as many as 150 of them as part of an “aggressive” overhaul which will put jobs at risk.
Modella Capital bought the stationer’s 480 high street stores for £40m last year, and i... |
| 25.03.2026 | UK law firms lead AI use for time savings & profit | - |
| 03.11.2025 | SML Group Welcomes New Investors to Accelerate Next Phase of Global Growth | Leading private equity firms FountainVest and CPE join as investors, reflecting strong confidence in SML's strategic direction and future growth
SML continues to advance its core capabilities for global brand and retail customers through ne... |
| 29.09.2025 | Lupin Strengthens its Global Specialty Ophthalmology Business with Acquisition of VISUfarma from GHO Capital | LONDON, ROME and ZUG, Switzerland, Sept. 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Global pharma major Lupin Limited (Lupin) (BSE: 500257) (NSE: LUPIN) (REUTERS: LUPIN.BO) (BLOOMBERG: LPCIN), today announced its wholly owned subsidiary, Nanomi B.V. ('Nanomi... |
| 11.09.2025 | She championed consumers, but can Lucy Rigby MP steer the City? | Lawyers, journalists, and Westminster insiders have long dominated the British political system, and this Labour government is no exception, with a former barrister at the helm. Now, the minister responsible for the City has joined the list... |
| 09.09.2025 | Meet the new ministers driving Labour’s latest growth mission | A £25bn fiscal black hole, fading housebuilding hopes and lacklustre productivity growth marked a troublesome end to the first year in office for the new occupants of Downing Street this summer.
While the resignation of Angela Rayner – the ... |
| 08.09.2025 | Meet the new City minister | Lucy Rigby KC MP takes over responsibility for financial services policy but who is the ex Slaughter & May minister?
Who is the new City Minister?
“I specialised in competition law and spent time in the City, at the regulator and at Whi... |
| 22.08.2025 | For law firms, AI promises ROI | Please subscribe to IBJ to decode this article.
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| 07.08.2025 | ‘My boss knew I’d leave Freshfields from my first week in’: Nnamdi Emelifeonwu on setting up legal tech firm Definely
CV | Each week, we dig into the memory bank of the City’s great and good. Today, Nnamdi Emelifeonwu, CEO and co-founder of legal tech firm Definely, takes us through his career from Freshfields lawyer to entrepreneur in Square Mile and Me
I was ... |
| 19.06.2025 | Motor finance woes could make Close Brothers the next takeover target | Close Brothers has fought tooth and nail in the motor finance battle but analysts have warned regulatory pressures may make the lender vulnerable to a takeover as banking juggernauts look to snap up the competition.
The bank has had a bruis... |
| 16.06.2025 | Definely: $30 Million Series B Raised For Legal Tech Platform | AI-based legal tech company Definely announced it has raised $30 million in Series B funding to accelerate its global expansion and AI product roadmap. The funding round includes investors from Europe and North America, and it is led by gro... |
| 10.06.2025 | Definely Raises $30M in Series B Funding | Definely, a London, UK-based AI-powered legal tech company, has raised $30M in Series B funding.
The round was led by Revaia, alongside Alumni Ventures, Beacon Capital, and Clio. Early investors, including Octopus Ventures, Zrosk Investment... |
| 09.06.2025 | UK legaltech Definely secures $30M to boost global reach and AI development | UK legaltech company Definely has raised $30 million in Series B funding to accelerate its global expansion and AI product roadmap. This additional funding brings the total amount raised by Definely since its inception to $40 million.
Launc... |
| 22.05.2025 | Motor finance: Is Close Brothers heading for a car crash? | Costs are mounting, loan books are shrinking, an existential motor finance ruling looms – is Close Brothers heading for disaster?
It’s been a bruising 12 months for the lender, with its stock down over 25 per cent.
Recent rallies have helpe... |
| 20.03.2025 | The Balancing Act: Office Attendance and Environmental Concerns in Modern Infrastructure | In the bustling world of corporate law and infrastructure development, two stories emerge, each highlighting a different facet of modern challenges. One revolves around the strict office attendance policies of law firms, while the other gra... |
| 19.03.2025 | City law firm ties bonuses to office attendance | Junior lawyers at law firm A&O Shearman have been reminded that bonuses may be affected if they fail to comply with the office attendance policy.
Like many others, the firm has a policy that lawyers must be in the office at least 60 per... |
| 19.02.2025 | Luminance: The Future of Legal Tech is Here | In the bustling world of legal technology, Luminance stands out like a lighthouse in a storm. This London-based startup has just secured a hefty $75 million in a Series C funding round, bringing its total fundraising to over $165 million. T... |
| 18.02.2025 | British legaltech startup Luminance raises $75M for contract AI assistant
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One click below supports our mission to provide... | London-based legal artificial intelligence startup Luminance Technologies Ltd. today announced it has raised $75 million in a Series C funding round led by Point72 Investments.
The funding for Luminance comes amid a flurry of investments di... |
| 31.12.2024 | Lawyers are the new bankers as £1m salaries become the norm | - |
| 12.12.2024 | THERME GROUP ACQUIRES THERME ERDING AND SECURES €320 MILLION FINANCING, TO CREATE THE WORLD'S LARGEST WELLBEING INFRASTRUCTURE PLATFORM | The Acquisition of Europe's Largest Wellbeing Destination, Backed by One of the Industry's Largest Single-Asset Financings
LONDON, Dec. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Therme Group announces the acquisition of Therme Erding, the largest wellbeing ... |
| 03.12.2024 | KPS CAPITAL PARTNERS TO ACQUIRE COMPOSITES BUSINESS FROM INEOS ENTERPRISES | A GLOBAL LEADER IN UNSATURATED POLYESTER RESINS,
VINYL ESTER RESINS AND GELCOATS
NEW YORK, Dec. 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- KPS Capital Partners, LP ("KPS") announced today that, through a newly formed affiliate, it has signed a defin... |
| 27.06.2024 | Advisers to pick up £146m from Royal Mail takeover | Bankers, lawyers and advisers will earn £146m (€172.7m) from the takeover of the UK postal service, Royal Mail, writes Jessica Clark.
The controversial £3.6bn deal, agreed with billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, would see the postal service fall... |
| 04.04.2024 | Legal Tech Startup Luminance Raises $40 Million in Series B Funding | Luminance, a legal tech startup, has secured $40 million in Series B funding, riding the wave of AI hype in the legal industry. The funding round was led by U.S. venture fund March Capital, with participation from National Grid Partners and... |
| 03.04.2024 | Luminance secures €37M to advance its proprietary legal Large Language Model: Know more | Read this article in:
Cambridge-based Luminance, a legal-grade AI company, announced on Tuesday, April 2, that it has raised $40M (approximately €37M) in a Series B funding round led by March Capital, with participation from National Grid P... |
| 02.04.2024 | Luminance's Generative AI-for-law raises $40M Series B | Luminance has raised $40M for its Series B round. The company wants to make good on a prediction that has bounced around legal circles since ChatGPT's release: that LLMs will be able to take on much of paralegals' work.
The round was led by... |
| 22.09.2022 | Introducing: the 13 companies joining Future Fifty 11.0 | We are delighted to announce 13 new companies selected to join its eleventh Future Fifty programme for late-stage tech companies.
The latest companies to join the programme are going from strength to strength in what has been a record brea... |
| 25.03.2022 | Emerging tech regulation insights from Slaughter and May | While much focus is made in the media on regulating ‘big tech’, the reality is that change is afoot for organisations of any size in the tech sector, as law makers around the globe grapple with how to regulate an increasingly digitised worl... |
| 02.07.2021 | Seadrill : New Finance Limited (the "Issuer") - Update on Restructuring Discussions and Proposed Consent Solicitation Launch | HAMILTON, Bermuda, July 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Seadrill Limited ("Seadrill" or the "Company") (OSE: SDRL) (OTCPK: SDRLF) and the Issuer announce that, further to the announcement made by Seadrill and the Issuer on June ... |
| 02.07.2021 | Seadrill New Finance Limited (the "Issuer") - Update on Restructuring Discussions and Consent Solicitation Launch | HAMILTON, Bermuda, July 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Seadrill Limited ("Seadrill" or the "Company") (OSE: SDRL, OTCPK:SDRLF) and the Issuer announce that, further to the announcement made by Seadrill and the Issuer on June 18... |
| 13.04.2021 | Labour turns up pressure on Rishi Sunak over his role in Greensill Capital scandal | Labour is calling for Boris Johnson to conduct a more thorough inquiry into the David Cameron lobbying scandal, with Anneliese Dodds today also calling for Rishi Sunak to answer questions over his contact with Greensill Capital. |
| 13.04.2021 | Boris Johnson wants to ‘understand intention’ behind David Cameron lobbying | Boris Johnson has today said a review into the David Cameron lobbying scandal will seek to “understand what the intention was” behind efforts to implement supply chain financing into government departments. |
