News from BAB’s Members, Thought Leadership from BAB Members
It’s been three years since Oakham Wealth first became a Certified B Corporation, joining a movement originally born in the US but now thriving in the UK to a remarkable degree. Back in 2022, there were around 600 B Corps in Britain and 4,500 worldwide. Today, those figures have swelled to over 2,600 in the UK and more than 10,000 globally. This means the UK community is the second largest and fastest growing B Corp hub on the planet. For a nation of our size, that’s extraordinary.
Amanda Brill, Founder and Managing Attorney at Brill immigration, answers commonly asked questions and explains what the “fast track” or expedited options currently mean in the US immigration process, especially for individuals or businesses trying to obtain work-authorized visas (like H-1B, L-1, or O- 1) or visitor visas after an ESTA denial.
The UK has secured £150bn in US investment, the largest ever announced during a State Visit, spanning biotech, AI, clean energy, and advanced manufacturing. Briars CEO Andrew Fahey highlights how this vote of confidence will bring jobs, innovation, and opportunities across the regions, not just London.
GK Strategy, a UK-based political advisory firm specialising in M&A due diligence has today announced the formal expansion of its client coverage to the United States, having agreed a formal strategic partnership with Washington DC based Anchor Advisors to provide integrated insights for private equity investors navigating transatlantic M&A transactions.
In what is understood to be the first reported case of its kind, the English High Court has granted an anti-enforcement injunction (AEI) restraining the defendant (Williams) from enforcing an English court judgment against the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN).
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Whistleblowing allegations can expose employers to serious legal, reputational, and cultural risk. Employers must distinguish genuine whistleblowing from personal grievances, handle anonymous reports appropriately, and ensure investigations are impartial, timely, and transparent.
There is a travel agency in London, MB Private Clients, whose area of expertise is to ensure, to the extent possible, that the holes don’t line up for their customers.
One of their clients, attorney Robert Amsterdam, wrote a cover story for Travel Weekly in 2017 about how MB Private Clients literally saved his life and got him out of a very dangerous situation in Russia. He is one of “five or six people” who the agency’s CEO, Michael Beagelman, said “wouldn’t be alive today if I weren’t born.”
A question that we are frequently asked here in the United Kingdom is the extent to which UK financial services law can impact financial services businesses operating in the United States (and elsewhere outside the UK). At one end of the spectrum, some US firms assume that, even if they have UK clients, they can ignore UK regulation provided that they only operate from the United States.
I’ve practiced US immigration law for over 20 years. First, for 5 years in Boston, Massachusetts, home of science, technology and innovation. More recently and for the past 15 years, from London, where my clients are leaders in science, technology and innovation, as well as industry leaders in film, television, law and more
