Leo Strine, a jurist known for his colourful opinions involving business disputes, has been nominated to the highest state court in Delaware, an appointment that would considerably broaden his ...

The package of new powers promised to Scotland contains "enormous potential" to create grievance between London and Edinburgh, an influential UK parliamentary committee has warned. The cross-party ...

James Healy-Pratt, head of the aviation department at the legal firm Stewarts Law in London, estimates that Allianz could eventually pay out as much as €300m.

Several suitors are understood to be circling Armajaro Trading, after a deal with a prospective buyer recently fell through, according to people familiar with the matter. The company was valued at ...

I am standing in shorts and an oversized tank top beneath a marquee wedged between the harbour front and Hong Kong's great skyscrapers while on the other side of the curtain sit 700 guests eager to ...

Victor Dahdaleh, the British-Canadian "power broker" whom the UK's Serious Fraud Office unsuccessfully prosecuted for alleged corruption last year, has won another important legal victory - a US court ...

Activist investors including Elliott Associates, one of the most aggressive US hedge funds, have built a stake in struggling grocer Wm Morrison and are pushing for a radical shake-up of its property ...

Norway has agreed to buy 16 AgustaWestland search and rescue helicopters for more than £1bn, in another blow to Eurocopter, a division of pan-European aerospace and defence company EADS. The contract ...

Informa has written down the value of Datamonitor by almost 40 per cent, eight years after the business media group acquired the market intelligence company for £500m. The FTSE 250 company said on ...

The global fertiliser market faced a major shake-up after Russia's Uralkali, a leading potash producer, pulled out of one of the two big cartels, sending sector share prices tumbling. Uralkali pulled ...

Moody's has placed the credit rating of Suntory on review for downgrade, following the Japanese beverage maker's move to spend $16bn on acquiring Beam Inc, one of the biggest names in US whiskey. The ...

Brady Dougan spent 25 years at Credit Suisse applying his much-admired intelligence to problems throughout the bank and carving a fan base big enough to make the quietly spoken American its first ...