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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British body tames AI audit frontier with world’s first global standard

July 21, 2025

BSI has published the world’s first international standard to help ensure the quality of audits and protect against a ‘wild west’ of unchecked AI providers
Wimbledon’s £200m expansion green-lit by High Court

July 21, 2025

A legal challenge to stop a £200m plan to almost triple the size of Wimbledon tennis club has been dismissed by a High Court judge
Private equity boom: Nearly 9 in 10 accountancy firms approached last year

July 21, 2025

The interest in UK accountancy firms from private equity houses is at an all-time high, as exclusive data revealed the appetite for 'a major injection of funds' is on both sides
UK farmers hit by drought turn to insurance

July 21, 2025

As the UK has experienced a relatively hot Summer so far, it is the farmers who are in crisis mode fearing the effects of drought
Tesco seeks to appeal decision in ‘equal pay’ £4bn lawsuit ahead of final hearing

July 17, 2025

Tesco is back in a courtroom this week seeking to overturn a legal decision ahead of a final trial over allegations of unequal pay at the supermarket giant
City watchdog and HMRC ‘stepping up enforcement’ as number of raids surge

July 17, 2025

The number of raids carried out by the City regulators upticked in the last two years, while the pressure on HMRC to investigate tax fraud is showing in the numbers
House of Lords vote in favour of Tory-backed alternative to ‘day-one’ employment rights

July 17, 2025

The House of Lords has voted vastly in favour of a Conservative-led amendment to the 'day-one' rights in the final reporting stage of the Employment Rights Bill
AI is on the march but many law firms still don’t have a strategy

July 17, 2025

UK law firms are ahead of their international peers in their pace of AI adoption but most firms still don’t have an AI strategy.
BT back in court as landline customers seek to revive £1.3bn class action

July 15, 2025

Reps of a class action against BT seeks to overturn a court ruling that sided with the telecoms giant.
Firms spring into gear as Reeves green lights UK captive insurance regime

July 15, 2025

The UK government has greenlit a captive insurance framework with Rachel Reeves set to reveal the decision in her Mansion House speech this evening

Interest rates next change ‘far more likely down than up’

Exclusive: London in talks to host return of sumo at Royal Albert Hall

Bowls Club is the City’s most eccentric (and brilliant) pop-up

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