London Rising: why these business leaders believe the capital is (still) the world's greatest city To mark its 20th anniversary, Spear's asked key inhabitants of its hometown why they're optimistic ...

As is the case with many of the best ideas and inventions, Spear’s came about almost by accident. In 2005, before this magazine was born, founder William Cash was working on an in-house publication ...

The Spear's Schools Index is the definitive guide to the world's leading schools / Image: Brighton College The Spear’s Schools Index is the definitive guide to the world’s leading private schools, ...

Billionaire Stephen Lansdown CBE’s financial services group Opera has bought Accuro. The move follows his recent acquisitions of Amber Trust (now Oak Bahamas), HFL Limited and Oak Group. Accuro ...

Rosalyn Breedy is a corporate, fund and financial services lawyer. A partner at Simons Muirhead Burton until 2022, she is now in her own firm, Breedy Henderson.

As the recent exposés over the Murdochs’ succession skirmishes have revealed, estate planning can be fraught with emotional and legal complexities, particularly when it comes to the distribution of ...

Many of the 14 ‘villas’ on the school’s 25-acre campus are used both for lessons and as boarding accommodation / Image: Christopher Doyle It is just after 8pm on a Thursday evening. In a glass-walled ...

Maurizio Cattelan's Comedian defies the downturn, selling for $6.2 million in 2024 amid a wider market slump / Image: Shutterstock A haunting bronze bust, elongated, flattened and grooved, Alberto ...

Banker Ken Costa has seen it all in a career working alongside Siegmund Warburg, Mohamed Al-Fayed and the Barclay brothers. But, he argues, capitalism has never faced a challenge like the Great Wealth ...

Photographed for Spear's, Schillings CEO David Imison (left) and the founding partners of the firm's strategic communications business, Victoria O'Byrne and George Pascoe-Watson / Image: David ...

The dynasties of the United Arab Emirates consist of the six ruling families of the seven Emirates / Image: Shutterstock/Freepix Each of the seven emirates is ruled by its own Sheikh, all of whom ...

A billionaire tech entrepreneur who used ‘scare tactics’ to pressure his wife into accepting his financial demands during their divorce has been ordered to pay her £230 million in a landmark ruling.