Law firm has weathered cooling M&A markets partly by advising on crypto bankruptcies

Distressed asset investor David Tepper says trust in European debt issuance at stake

Failure of high-profile SFO investigations ignites debate over how criminal evidence is shared

Magic circle law firm adopts much-hyped tech to help draft legal documents, but insists move will not replace jobs

Merger between US and UK firms would create a legal giant with almost 4,000 lawyers worldwide

Plus, Apollo courts THG in its latest UK takeover play and an activist investor takes on Rome’s powerful politicians

Pharmaceutical giant has good reason to gamble on acquisition before blockbuster drug loses its patent protection

Apollo’s moonshot?

Swiss regulator’s decision to prioritise equity over additional tier 1 debt raises questions over $260bn market

MPs oppose SFr109bn government-backed package underpinning UBS’s takeover of rival

Dispatches from the room where nothing was happening

Reforms to guarantee schemes in UK and US are essential to avoid a deeper crisis

Consultants say blanket portrayals of ‘toxic’ culture at scandal-hit UK business lobby group ‘not accurate’

Chief executives are vulnerable to a current push for systemic shifts in climate policy and transparency

Many of industry’s biggest names refuse to supply information on corporate governance and custody of customer assets

More challenges to boards on diversity and corporate values expected during Japan’s annual meeting season

Groups are still getting a resounding thumbs-down from continent’s regulators

Taro Kono, Japan’s digital minister, says elections could be targeted by ‘malicious elements’

Local authorities confirm their files were left in unsecured cloud-based data storage system

Draft law could do ‘lasting damage’ to competitiveness, say five chief executives

Generalists often do much better in life. But there’s still something beautiful about finding your vocation

A new eco-friendly boat offers the ideal way to tour between waterside hotels, fish restaurants, art galleries and saunas

It is precisely the inconvenient stuff that gives life meaning and richness

The idea that we can predict the collapse of societies is hotly contested — but that doesn’t mean we can’t learn from it

Generalists often do much better in life. But there’s still something beautiful about finding your vocation

Situated inside a much-maligned cultural landmark, a new restaurant is very much to this critic’s taste

Gil Dezer -- king of ultra-luxury towers -- thinks he’s immune to the city’s boom-and-bust condo market

The idea that we can predict the collapse of societies is hotly contested — but that doesn’t mean we can’t learn from it

A constellation of characters shines in the Booker-nominated author’s caustic campus-set tale of aspiring artists

From fleeing war and revolution to life as an émigré in the US, Fiona Maddocks profiles the much-loved Russian composer

Three books — including a novel — overturn assumptions about how politics, economics and science should combat global warming

Jen Beagin’s new novel is a brilliant satire of therapy-speak and wellness

A new eco-friendly boat offers the ideal way to tour between waterside hotels, fish restaurants, art galleries and saunas

An insider guide to some of the most stylish places to stay in the City of Light

Retro-futurist glitz and astonishing views of the city are drawing the fashion crowd to a once unfashionable quartier

Boho vibes, quirky charm and DJ sets await you at this hipster haven

From the hillsides of Benahavís to Marbella’s Golden Mile

Alluring new stays from Kraków to Porto

The London Design Biennale will address real-world problems with 3D showstoppers and virtual virtuosity

Meet the location wranglers who persuade homeowners to open their doors to film crews for TV shows such as ‘Succession’