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Katten announced today that the firm honored 18 individuals with Pro Bono Service Awards, recognizing their exceptional and sustained commitment to pro bono service and efforts to expand access to justice.

Katten announced today that Sunay Radia has joined the firm’s London office as a Partner in its growing Restructuring practice.

One of the oldest thought experiments in artificial intelligence (AI) safety imagines a powerful AI system with a simple instruction to make paper clips. The system pursues that goal with total devotion. It converts the world’s resources into paper clip factories and resists every effort to shut it down or change its goals. For years, many observers dismissed the scenario as fanciful. A truly intelligent system, the argument went, would weigh paper clips against other moral considerations or at least ask its creators whether they really wanted the world razed for office supplies.

Katten’s London Restructuring practice has been recognized in the 2027 editions of the Legal 500 United Kingdom guide (as a “Firm to Watch”) and of the Chambers UK guide (with Partner James Davison, practice head, being ranked), in the first publications released since the team’s arrival at the firm in early 2026.

The UK’s new regulatory framework for cryptoassets has moved decisively from policy development to implementation. The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Cryptoassets) Regulations 2026 establish a new regulatory perimeter for cryptoasset activities, bringing a range of activities within the UK financial services regulatory framework under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA). The new regime is due to take effect on 25 October 2027.