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 edits the Beyond The Billable newsletter and column. She was previously a litigation reporter at The Lawyer. Contact her via email at maria.ward-brennan@cityam.com or on X @MariaW_B.

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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
NHS waiting lists turn private healthcare into the latest front in the war for talent

March 13, 2024

City businesses are increasingly offering private healthcare insurance as an employee benefit when trying to recruit new staff, recruiters and insurers told City A.M.
London Bitcoin trial: Self-proclaimed creator ‘lied on an extraordinary scale’

March 12, 2024

"Wright has been shown to have lied on an extraordinary scale, and it is difficult to think of a precedent for what he has done."
Nord Stream launches lawsuit against Lloyd’s of London insurers over pipeline sabotage

March 12, 2024

Nord Stream AG, a consortium headquartered in Switzerland, is majority owned by the Russian state-owned gas company Gazprom.
Demand for ‘urgent investment’ as number of duty solicitors at ‘crisis’ level

March 12, 2024

The Law Society has called for “urgent investment” from the government as to avoid miscarriages of justice due to declining number of duty solicitors. The president of the society, Nick Emmerson stated that across England and Wales, “duty solicitor schemes are in crisis” because the government “continues to undervalue their work.” Duty solicitors are lawyers [...]
Serious Fraud Office arrests three as it kicks off probe into £76m care home scandal

March 12, 2024

The anti-fraud agency raided two sites in St Leonard’s, Dorset, and Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, and made three arrests today.
UBS embarks on its £11m legal fight against director of collapsed commodities trader

March 12, 2024

UBS Switzerland’s £11m lawsuit against the director of a collapsed London-based commodities trader goes to trial. Anil Kumar was the director of London-based Vincom Commodities, a company that was placed into compulsory liquidation on 24 January 2018. The Swiss bank alleges that Kumar acted in breach of duty to Vincom by allowing it to enter [...]

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