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£65m Lifeline or Financial Casket? Pogust Goodhead’s Hedge-Driven Drama Unfolds

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A Hedge Fund Lifeline – With Strings Attached Ben Thomson, LawFuel contributing editor Pogust Goodhead, the claimant firm spearheading the £36 billion Mariana dam class action against BHP, has drawn another £65 million from hedge-fund backer Gramercy, taking its overall debt north of $1.7 billion, once interest is factored in. The chief Executive and co-founder […]

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How an Aussie Firm Wants Your Cross-Border Briefs

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Conflict-Free and Open for Business: Gadens’ Bid to Win Global Referrals If you’re a global firm sitting on a tasty Australia matter with awkward conflicts—or a client you’d rather not hand to a rival’s Sydney office—Gadens wants the call. In an interview flagged by Law.com International, managing partner Mark Pistilli outlines a simple growth thesis,

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Dentons NZ: The Unseen Hand Behind Labour’s Covid Curtain

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The Great Ministerial No-Show John Bowie, LawFuel publisher Dentons have been the legal hands behind the ministerial no show at the Covid inquiry, turning the situation into something of a damp squid, which is presumably the intention, after leading the charge on the most intrusive and destructive government disaster New Zealand has seen. The pulpit

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Proskauer Welcomes Regulatory Partner Anna Maleva-Otto in London

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Proskauer is excited to welcome Anna Maleva-Otto as a regulatory partner in the Firm’s Private Funds Group. Anna has spent years advising clients on UK and EU financial services regulation, including short selling and market abuse rules, EMIR, MiFID II, and AIFMD. Her practice spans the full lifecycle of FCA-regulated businesses, as well as trading across the

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Corrs’ $7 Million Man and the Side Hustle That Has Canberra Talking

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Corrs’ $7 Million Man and the Side Hustle That Has Canberra Talking If you were pulling in $7 million a year running a mid-tier Australian law firm, you might think that was enough to keep you busy. But Corrs Chambers Westgarth CEO Gavin MacLaren clearly believes otherwise by operating a new consultancy business. The highest-paid

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The Hidden Gold Rush: The Top 5 Most Underrated but Highly Profitable Legal Niches for 2025

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LawFuel Power Brief: Pond Lehocky Giordano LLP Image credits: AI-generated by Gemini The legal profession’s highest aspirations have long been narrowly defined by the gleaming towers of BigLaw, where a partner track in M&A or private equity is seen as the ultimate goal. The traditional path has been clear for ambitious law students and junior

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National’s Silence on Banking Law Controversy Gets More Mysterious by the Day

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Chris Finlayson and Andrew Harmos Demand Answers. Judith Collins Says Nothing John Bowie, LawFuel publisher When former Attorney-General Chris Finlayson KC and former NZX Chair Andrew Harmos – both key ‘power list lawyers’ FYI – start calling for investigations, you’d typically expect National Party MPs to at least clear their throats. Instead? Nothing. Zip. Despite

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Porter Wright Recruits Litigators From Chicago Boutique Scandaglia Law

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Chicago Law Growth With Porter Wright Hires Porter Wright Morris & Arthur is expanding its Chicago firm with the recruitment of four lawyers from litigation law firm Scandaglia Law, including the boutique’s founder Greg Scandaglia (pictured). The growth in Chicago has been the most of the firm’s offices in the US which resulted form the

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UK Law – The Bar Is Too High – Say People Who Can’t Jump

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John Bowie, LawFuel publisher It used to be that becoming a lawyer in Britain required intelligence, effort, and even resilience. Now, apparently, it requires none of the above. A small but vocal crowd of aspiring solicitors is demanding that the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) be made easier. The Telegraph’s Suevalla Braverman writes about ‘Snowflake Solicitors’

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