Law and business: commercial news round-up 07.02.14
updated on 07 February 2014
Let the interesting business stories of the past week take your mind of water-logged Britain and the fading horrors of a Tube strike. Here’s a collection of news that you should be keen to know more about if you’re serious about commercial law:
- Rising legal costs for FTSE 100 companies threaten their respective balance sheets, warns City lawyer - oil spills and the crackdown on banks two possible reasons for spiralling costs.
- If you build it, they will come… the construction lawyers, that is! Good news in the construction sector, which is on the up, growing at its fastest rate last month for over six years.
- Barclays’ bonus pool grows ever deeper, as the bank sets aside more money than it did in 2012 (itself a not insubstantial £1.3 billion) for its investment bankers.
- Twitter’s share price fell by a significant 20% following news that people are joining with less frequency than they once did. #whereiseveryone?
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