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Founded in 2021 by Katherine Kimel, the firm has grown from a single practitioner into a team of lawyers and legal professionals who work only in this corner of the law. That narrowness is deliberate. Estate disputes sit at the intersection of family history, money and grief, and Katherine KimelContinue Reading

Legal & General is to cut about 1,000 jobs by the middle of next year, around 10 per cent of its workforce, as the FTSE 100 life insurer continues efforts to simplify its operations. António Simões, the chief executive, told staff in an email that the group remained “more complex”Continue Reading

The majority of companies raising equity for the first time are now based outside London, according to research from Beauhurst Insights and the law firm Penningtons Manches Cooper, with the capital’s share of first-time deals falling to 44.6 per cent in the first half of 2026. London’s share of allContinue Reading