The firm is beefing up globally following a ruling by a U.K. appeals court that a lawsuit against mining giant BHP can proceed in English courts.
August 09, 2022 at 12:01 AM
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Latin America Correspondent
The U.K.-based plaintiffs firm PGMBM, which operates as a partnership between British, Brazilian and American lawyers, is launching an office in Rio de Janeiro following a significant win for claimants harmed by a dam collapse at a mine co-operated by BHP Inc. in Brazil.
The firm is also changing its name globally, and will now be known as Pogust Goodhead.
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The 2015 collapse of a dam co-owned by mining giant BHP resulted in waste flowing into communities, buried villages and caused extensive environmental damage in southeastern Brazil. Photo: Rogério Alves/TV Senado via Wikimedia Commons
