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Legal professionals working in private equity, and, indeed, mergers and acquisitions in general are seeing more opportunities as a result of changes in regulation, investor behaviour and fall-out from the coronavirus pandemic. The overall global economy has been a key...

Increased regulation, in particular from China, is having an impact on legal hiring in the financial sales and trading sector. Securities houses, banks and hedge funds are all having to keep up with a fast-changing environment. These regulatory changes, along with a...

Ashford Benjamin are very happy to offer flexible working solutions to our candidates and clients. For candidates, we offer the opportunity to join us as a consultant and have access to a broad range of opportunities across financial institutions, law firms, and...

The past few years have seen significant changes in litigation and arbitration, both in terms of the field itself and in hiring practices. Areas that have seen growth include cybersecurity, sanctions, supply chain disputes and international arbitration. These have...

Managing third-party risk and compliance is becoming an increasingly important factor in doing business. The days when engineering companies, legal firms or even moviemakers did everything in-house are long gone. More and more modern organisations rely on third...

Most organisations have business continuity and resilience plans, and those that didn’t prior to the covid-19 epidemic must surely have them now. The worldwide spread of the virus has brought home the need for more than one-off mitigation measures to deal with one-off...

The changing global cyber security and data privacy landscape is driving a demand for compliance and IT specialists with the relevant skill-sets. The need for businesses to implement data and cyber security programmes is growing rapidly, driven by the actual risks and...

Growing awareness of the usefulness and power of automation is leading to a sea-change in how organisations carry out their compliance and risk management. This has significant implications for those working in the sector, with growing numbers of staff being replaced...

For many years contract staff were mainly hired by law firms for due diligence, to provide help with big litigation cases, and to fill in for staff taking maternity leave. However, recently there has been a growing trend to hire lawyers on contract to meet changing...

Since Bitcoin exploded onto the scene in 2009, cryptocurrencies have emerged as significant assets, and a significant way of handling financial transactions.  They are no longer the sole domain of gangsters and dark web drug-dealers,  but have become a legitimate and...