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Former Burberry HQ off to auction

20.11.09
Administrators to Paul Kemsley's Rock property empire will close the bidding for Burberry's former Haymarket headquarters next Tuesday... more

More delays in Lehman repay

06.11.09
Hedge funds and other big investors told to expect even more delays before getting back the $16 billion worth of assets they had tied up with the Lehman Brothers’ London-based European business... more

Tourists checking out capital’s cheaper hotels

21.09.09
Overseas visitors taking advantage of the cheap pound are getting even better value from the capital’s hotel accommodation ... more

Tourists checking out capital's cheaper hotels

21.09.09
Overseas visitors taking advantage of the cheap pound are getting even better value from the capital's hotel accommodation... more

Rescue is at hand for High and Mighty

09.09.09
High and Mighty, the gentleman’s outfitter for the bigger fella, is close to being rescued from insolvency ... more

Bankruptcies reach a record with worse on the way

07.08.09
More people in the UK are being bankrupted than ever before, latest official statistics reveal. And the worst may be yet to come... more

Hotel bankruptcies soaring on recession, study says

27.07.09
The full impact the recession has had on the UK’s hotel industry was laid bare today by new figures showing that sector insolvencies soared 120% since last June ... more

PwC to return $11bn of assets at Lehman Brothers

15.07.09
Administrators to Lehman Brothers' have paved the way for the bust bank to return $11 billion (£6.8 billion) of frozen assets to clients as early as next year... more

‘Name and shame’ plan under attack

23.04.09
The Government was accused of breaching taxpayer confidentiality after it announced a new clampdown on tax avoidance... more

Britons are '£40,000 poorer' due to credit crunch

16.03.09
The average Briton is £40,000 worse off as a result of the credit crunch, new research has claimed... more

Tumbling rates may bring end to free banking

05.03.09
The future of free banking is in fresh doubt as historically low interest rates threaten bank profits... more

Perils of ‘doing a pre-pack’ —it might save ailing firms but creditors are left bitter

27.01.09
Legal analysis: The restructuring of FishWorks struck me as a classic of its kind... more

FishWorks collapses but sites battle is on

21.01.09
Consumer: FishWorks, the troubled restaurant chain, has collapsed into administration but an immediate bidding battle for some sites looked likely... more

Classrooms hit by rebuilding plan delays

20.01.09
Crumbling school classrooms are deteriorating rapidly after severe delays hit Gordon Brown's £45billion rebuilding plan, a report warns... more

Don't be the next Woolies

19.01.09
Analysis: Two insolvency experts offer compelling advice for firms to avoid bankruptcy... more

Investors consider suing PWC, auditor of India's Satyam

09.01.09
Legal: Several investors in Satyam Computer, the outsourcing giant that announced this week that it had concealed $1 billion in losses, are considering suing PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC, the auditor of the company's doctored accounts... more

A cutting sense of history at PwC

30.12.08
PricewaterhouseCoopers has been attacked by the Financial Reporting Council because it encourages certain partners on client audits to cross-sell other services of the firm... more

Scrap the academies -they don't work, say advisers

27.11.08
Ministers were urged to scrap plans for hundreds of flagship academies after a highly critical report from the Government's own advisers... more

Businesses in fury at top-rate tax move

24.11.08
Budget report: The 45p top rate will hit Britain's best earners harder than their counterparts in the United States and Germany... more

BDO partners take a pay cut

24.11.08
Pay: Partners at BDO Stoy Hayward have had to take a pay cut as the firm attempts to spend its way into the big time of the accountancy profession... more

Lehman creditors facing 10-year wait

14.11.08
Hundreds of angry claimants descended on a creditors' meeting at the O2 Arena to hear how $1 trillion of Lehman Brothers assets will be split up... more

Lehman work 'may take years'

27.10.08
Banking: Winding up Lehman Brothers' operations in London is taking longer than expected, and may not be completed for many years, according to the man in charge of the investment bank's administration... more

Hold on to your hats, rough ride has just started

16.09.08
Chancellor Alistair Darling says we are in the biggest financial crisis in 60 years. So we obviously have much worse to come than yesterday's 4.5% retreat on the FTSE 100... more

Mining deals to soar, says PwC

18.03.08
Global accountancy PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts a surge in mining-company mergers and acquisitions... more

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