Commentary
From breach to buyout: navigating the consequences of Saxon Woods
Stevens & Bolton lawyers Sophie Ashcroft and Miranda Joseph discuss the implications of Saxon Woods and the enforcement of remedies when cross-border corporate structures are involved
Routine legal work should not need a lawyer
When routine requests back up legal’s queue, the whole business slows down. Self-service, set up on legal’s terms, keeps those requests moving and frees lawyers for strategic work.
Live by the lateral, die by the lateral: How Weil was pulled apart by Big Law’s star culture
Scott Gibson examines how the rise of highly paid private capital rainmakers has eroded partnership cohesion at elite law firms, leaving even the most profitable vulnerable to collapse
Good governance isn’t caution – it’s confidence
Bridgestone’s legal and compliance director for Africa and the Middle East, Scarlate Masiye, explains why good governance depends on culture as much as on controls
IP and the enduring value of India’s luxury Ayurveda market
Remfry & Sagar’s Bisman Kaur discusses India’s luxury Ayurvedic traditions, IP ownership and how brands can create, protect and scale valuable assets
NAV lending for family offices: a lender’s view of structure, collateral and cross-border friction
Alex Branton, chief investment officer of Nodem Capital, discusses why family offices and private market funds are looking to NAV loans to turn long-term private markets investments into liquidity without selling those assets
How the war in Ukraine has created a new field of legal practice
Daniel Bilak, managing partner of Kinstellar’s Kyiv office, considers the legal specialism emerging from Ukraine’s front line
Economic experts and instructing lawyers before the CAT – the path ahead
As the Competition Appeal Tribunal intensifies its scrutiny of economic evidence, Cornerstone Research’s Liam Colley emphasises the importance of experts and instructing lawyers having a relationship that welcomes challenge and puts analytical rigour at the heart of the case
Privilege, privacy and discoverability in agentic AI environments
The growing use of AI tools in legal practice is creating new challenges around confidentiality, consent and data retention, writes iManage’s Kelly V. Carter
The economics of reputation
Reputation is more than a messaging or communication exercise; it is a business asset, writes Vinson & Elkins chief communications officer Allan Schoenberg
Revisiting global contract templates in Brazil: what luxury brands should know
Stocche Forbes lawyers Flavia Câmara e Castro and Thiago Porto Ribeiro explain how international luxury brands can adjust global contract templates in Brazil to preserve commercial structures and ensure they work as intended locally
Star partners: Is it really only about the money?
As lateral hiring reaches new heights and guarantees pass $40m, Lexington’s Moray McLaren argues that the real choice facing partnerships is not how much to pay their stars, but what it really means to be a co-owner
Luxury brands brace for workforce shift as new UK employment regulations take hold
The UK’s Employment Rights Act is ushering in the most substantial change to employment law in a generation. For luxury retailers, proactive preparation will be key to compliance, write Pinsent Masons lawyers Kate Dodd and Alyce McNaughton
A step further in collective licensing for AI training in the UAE
Bashar Malkawi explores how the UAE’s emerging collective licensing model could offer a solution to copyright challenges posed by AI
AI-powered litigants in person: a growing claims challenge for defendants?
Lauren Gosnell, Nicola Aspinwall and Fiona Hamilton-Wood of Kennedys examine the challenges that AI poses for the civil courts – and how defendants must navigate them