Tidswell and managing partner Paul Jenkins are widely credited with steering Ashurst through a rocky patch

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The chair of law firm Ashurst, Ben Tidswell, has said he will leave the firm in July to chair the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal.

Tidswell has chaired Ashurst for eight years and has been a partner at the firm for 21 years.

Ashurst chair Ben Tidswell to exit firm for Competition Appeal Tribunal

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Fiera Capital managing partner Catherine O’Reilly exits

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The country’s antitrust authority has proposed to designate Google as having strategic market status in general search and search advertising, which could change how the U.S. tech company operates.

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