By: Maria Ward-Brennan

Professional Services Editor Maria Ward-Brennan is the Professional Services Editor at City AM, focused on law, Big Four, and other management and accounting consulting firms. She was previously a litigation reporter at The Lawyer. Contact her via email at maria.ward-brennan@cityam.com or X (Twitter) @MariaW_B.

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Landmark judicial review starts as Albania’s ex-PM tries to overturn UK Home Office ban

March 19, 2024

The politician was banned by the Home Secretary, then Priti Patel, from entering the UK in 2022 on the grounds of alleged criminality and corruption.
KPMG UK re-elects chief ahead of ‘some big changes’

March 18, 2024

The UK arm of Big Four firm has re-elected Jon Holt to serve a second term as the firm’s chief executive.
UK consultancy market expected to flatline in 2024, after a dive in growth last year

March 18, 2024

The UK’s consulting market grew by 4.7 per cent across 2023 to revenues of £15.2bn, which was down on the 15.6 per cent growth recorded over 2022.
London Market insurers seeking to relocate an aviation case to war-torn Ukraine

March 18, 2024

The companies have had several aircraft damaged or destroyed in Dnipro International Airport and Boryspil International Airport following missile attacks as a result of the war.
Brew by Numbers, Black Sheep and Brick Brewery, spike in brewery collapses shakes sector

March 18, 2024

According to data by accounting firm Mazars, last year (ending December 31), 69 UK breweries went insolvent, up from 38 a record for 2022.
Silk gowns, big wigs and steel buckles shoes: Ceremony set to welcome 95 new King’s Counsel

March 16, 2024

The KC title is one of the highest honours a lawyer can attain and has been in practice since 1597 after Queen Elizabeth I awarded the first batch of Queen Counsels.
WH Smith finance chief set to retire as senior figure at Burberry picked as replacement for role

March 15, 2024

WH Smith has announced that its chief financial officer, after more than two decades at the business, is set to leave the business, to be replaced by a senior member of high-fashion Burberry. Robert Moorhead, the current CFO and chief operating officer of WH Smith, will retire from the business. He joined the company in [...]
High Court rules that self-proclaimed Bitcoin creator is not ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’

March 14, 2024

Australian computer scientist Dr Craig Wright has long claimed to be behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, the name used by the person who authored the Bitcoin White Paper.
Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo: Criminal appeal to start for ex-UBS and Barclays traders convicted of rigging

March 13, 2024

Both men were investigated and prosecuted by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) along with others in the Eibor case.
EY’s incoming chief Janet Truncale names four global bosses in new leadership team

March 13, 2024

Truncale has names four global managing partners, adding that the wider global executive team will be “the same size or smaller” in the future

Government to take on big tech in bid to boost British news

Platitudes in women’s sport are empty, patronising and offensive

Fogo de Chao nominated for Best Casual Dining Toast award

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