Full Disclosure:​

Practice Area News​

By Jaysen Sutton​
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Hi Reader 👋🏽,

It's the fourth week of April, 2024. Here are the most relevant stories for you to be aware of as an aspiring lawyer, from all of the main practice areas:
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Mergers & Acquisitions​
  • Royal Mail group receives takeover offer from Czech billionaire (The Guardian)
  • Shein mulls TopShop takeover from ASOS (City AM)
  • International Paper to acquire London-listed packaging company DS Smith (Reuters)
Capital Markets
  • Saga seeks to shed its £637m debt after private equity ownership (The Times)
  • Goldman Sachs’ investment arm sees best quarter in two years (The Economic Times)
Restructuring & Insolvency
  • Bloom & Wild posts a loss of £100m as consumer cut back on flowers (Yahoo Finance)
  • PWC accused of turning blind eye in Evergrande collapse (The Telegraph)
  • Superdry to leave the London Stock Exchange (Fortune)
Economy
  • UK Inflation falls (slower than expected) to 3.2% (The Guardian)
  • Chinese GDP grows faster than expected in first quarter of 2024 (BBC)
Law Firms as a Business
  • External lawyers advised the Post Office to 'suppress' key document (The Guardian)

Have any thoughts? I'd love to hear your perspective below!

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