Hedge Funds hit out at London Metal Exchange over ‘conflicts-of-interest’ in nickel price fiasco June 8, 2022 The Managed Funds Association (MFA), a powerful Washington lobby group, has accused the London Metal Exchange (LME) of failing to manage its “conflicts-of-interest,” as the market faces mounting criticism over its decision to halt nickel trading last March. In comments submitted to the LME, the industry body which represents hedge funds with £2.6trn worth of [...]
Marine and aviation insurance premiums more double as policyholders feel hit from Ukraine war May 30, 2022 The cost of insuring certain marine and aviation businesses has more than doubled due to rising costs and the risks associated with the war in Ukraine. Global insurance premiums increased 11 per cent in the first quarter 2022, as conflict in Ukraine pushed up insurance costs worldwide, Reuters said. However, insurance costs have soared particularly [...]
Billionaire activist investor exits Generali’s board in wake of failed shareholder coup May 30, 2022 Italian billionaire Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone has stepped down from the board of insurance giant Generali, following the collapse of his shareholder mutiny to oust the insurer’s management team. The exit comes after Caltagirone put forward a shareholder resolution to block Generali’s incumbent chief executive, Philippe Donnet, from taking on a third term leading the firm. [...]
Hogan Lovells readies itself for demolition of Holborn Viaduct HQ after taking up office space at 10 Fleet Place May 30, 2022 British-American law firm Hogan Lovells has struck a 10-year deal with private equity firm Addington Capital to rent out the seventh and eighth floors of the firm’s 10 Fleet Place office building. The legal sector giant is set to transfer its business services teams to the 10 Fleet Place premises, as it seeks to exit [...]
Canadian bank CIBC subjected senior exec to racial and sexual discrimination, lawsuit says May 30, 2022 An ex-senior banker at one of Canada’s biggest banks has filed an £800,000 lawsuit against her former employer over claims she was subject to racial and sexual discrimination while working at the firm. Zhuofang Wei, a former executive director at the London office of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), is suing the bank [...]
Venture capitalist Julie Meyer fails to overturn six-month suspended sentence May 28, 2022 Venture capitalist Julie Meyer has failed in her bid to overturn the six-month suspended sentence handed down to her in February, following her long-standing refusal to pay almost £200,000 in legal fees to London law firm Farrer & Co. At a hearing on Thursday, a Court of Appeals judge rejected the businesswoman’s appeal, as he [...]
Trading app Robinhood settles class action lawsuit over 2020 outages May 28, 2022 Stock market trading app Robinhood has agreed to settle a proposed class action lawsuit, over claims outages on its app cased investors to lose money during a period of pandemic-related stock market volatility. The lawsuit comes after retail investors flocked to the app in the midst of the pandemic, in their efforts to battle hedge [...]
EY faces $2.7bn lawsuit over NMC Health audit May 28, 2022 The administrators of collapsed healthcare group NMC Health’s bankruptcy proceedings have filed a $2.7bn (£2.1bn) lawsuit against Big Four accountancy firm EY, over claims the auditor failed to spot a multi-billion-dollar fraud at the former-FTSE 100 firm. The High Court lawsuit claims EY failed to spot NMC Health’s accounts had been fraudulently misstated, that the [...]
Companies should brace themselves for an avalanche of climate lawsuits, lawyers say May 26, 2022 London listed companies should brace themselves for an avalanche of climate related lawsuits, as shareholders and NGOs increasingly resort to litigation over climate related financial risks, lawyers have said. Investors are increasingly suing companies for breaching their fiduciary duties, over their failures to limit their exposure to climate risks, Fiona Huntriss, a partner at London [...]
Brussels outlines plans to bolster EU powers to seize oligarchs’ assets May 26, 2022 The European Commission is set to bolster the powers it has to seize oligarchs’ assets, after the bloc faced troubles in actually confiscating property due to the safeguards embedded in EU countries’ laws. The EU’s executive body set out plans to boost the powers it has to take control of criminals’ assets, with a view [...]