With a celebration of local businesses at the Gloucestershire Lifestyle Awards in Stroud, a cocktail networking event with Sibling Gin at Gloucester Food Dock and a breakfast event at Cheltenham Racecourse all happening this month, May is looking like one of the busiest months of the year for the Gloucestershire business community.
From social media money-making seminars to property networking events and engineering open evenings, there are plenty of Gloucestershire business events to keep your work diaries busy in February 2024.
By Jemma Slingo2021-05-25T11:17:00+01:00
Dechert’s ex-head of white-collar crime made unauthorised contact with the Serious Fraud Office in order to whip up interest in a Kazakh mining case and increase his own legal fees, the commercial court has heard in a mammoth City negligence claim.
Kazakh-based mining company Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) accuses Neil Gerrard – former global co-head of white-collar crime at Dechert – of leaking confidential information to newspapers and drip-feeding material to the SFO to kickstart his case and provide the ‘fodder he needed to expand his investigation’.
‘Mr Gerrard completely turned on his client. and effectively invited the SFO to open a criminal investigation and to seize mountains of documents,’ Nathan Pillow QC, of Essex Court Chambers, said.