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Latest News in Corporate Crime & Compliance UK

  • January 08, 2026

    Weyerhaeuser Says $1.5B Pension Move Didn't Harm Retirees

    Lawyers for timber producer Weyerhaeuser and State Street Global Advisors urged a Washington federal judge at a hearing Thursday to throw out a proposed class action from retired workers over Weyerhaeuser's transfer of $1.5 billion in pension obligations to a private equity-backed insurance company, arguing that the retirees have failed to establish the deal actually harmed them.

  • January 08, 2026

    HSBC To Pay €300M To Settle French Tax Fraud Probe

    HSBC has agreed to pay French authorities more than €300 million ($350 million) in fines and unpaid taxes to settle a criminal probe into how the bank's Paris branch handled dividend arbitrage transactions between 2014 and 2019, public prosecutors revealed Thursday.

  • January 08, 2026

    SRA Investigates Lawyer Over Threats To Leaseholders

    The Solicitors Regulation Authority said Thursday it is investigating a London lawyer accused of bullying and threatening leaseholders into buying freeholds from him at inflated prices.

  • January 08, 2026

    McDonald's Work Harassment Claims Under UK Gov't Review

    The government has said it will further examine allegations by a group of trade unions and a campaigning organization that McDonald's has failed to appropriately address gender-based violence and harassment in its restaurants and franchises.

  • January 08, 2026

    What Cos. Can Expect From CMA Consumer Protection Drive

    The Competition and Markets Authority’s recently launched consumer protection drive targeting banned online sales practices focuses on supporting compliance rather than on enforcement, although firms should expect this to change once businesses have had time to adapt to the regulator's new regime, say lawyers at Baker Botts.

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