Slaughter and May and Peters & Peters have advised on an out-of-court settlement between Credit Suisse and Mozambique over the decade-old $1.5 billion-plus so called “tuna bonds” scandal.

The Swiss bank’s owner UBS announced the settlement on Sunday as a trial was due to open in London’s High Court on Monday, 2 October, into the scandal, which plunged Mozambique, one of Africa’s poorest countries, into deep financial crisis.