The space was among the larger venues in the Rolls Building, one of the busiest dedicated commercial courthouses in the world. On any given day, the modern complex on the fringes of London’s legal district might host an indebted shopkeeper declaring bankruptcy, hedge funds fighting over the scraps of long-dead banks, and, in the biggest rooms on the top floors, Russian billionaires suing each other for possession of mining rights in Central Africa. Despite London’s status as an international legal hub, a place where judges are deemed reliable enough to settle the biggest of big-money disputes,
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