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January 27, 2025
NFL Union, DraftKings Reach Settlement In NFT Licensing Suit
The NFL Players Association and DraftKings Inc. asked a New York federal judge Monday to pause a lawsuit that accused the betting platform of failing to follow through on a licensing agreement related to nonfungible tokens while they iron out details of a settlement.
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January 27, 2025
Ga. Accountant Must Face Fintech Co.'s Share Price Suit
A Georgia federal judge has declined to dismiss most of a British fintech company's suit against Atlanta-based accounting firm Frazier & Deeter LLC over an allegedly bungled stock valuation, ruling Monday that a hold harmless clause in the companies' contract was largely unenforceable.
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January 27, 2025
Drone Co., Media Biz And Tire-Maker Announce SPAC Mergers
Three overseas companies spanning industries from drones to fashion media and tire manufacturing announced plans on Monday to go public in the U.S. by merging with special purpose acquisition companies in deals projected to exceed $1.1 billion in value, guided by at least eight law firms.
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January 27, 2025
Novo Nordisk's Obesity Drug Study Allegedly Duped Investors
Novo Nordisk was hit with a proposed securities class action in New Jersey federal court Friday, accusing the drugmaker of duping investors about its new weight loss drug CagriSema by failing to disclose that obesity patients were taking different dosages in a clinical study, which allegedly skewed results.
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January 27, 2025
Deutsche Bank Can't Add Norway Rulings To Asset Sale Fight
A Connecticut state judge has rejected Deutsche Bank AG's request to add a series of rulings by Norwegian courts into the state court's record while the bank pursues claims that Norwegian billionaire Alexander Vik and his daughter sabotaged an asset sale — rulings that the bank initially said were irrelevant.
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January 27, 2025
Skadden Grows In Houston With V&E's Global M&A Co-Leader
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP announced Monday that the former global co-head of Vinson & Elkins LLP's mergers and acquisitions and capital markets group has joined the firm in Houston, bolstering the firm's corporate and energy offerings.
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January 27, 2025
Luxury Goods Shipper Ferrari Announces Amsterdam IPO
Ferrari Group PLC said Monday it plans to float on the Euronext Amsterdam exchange, a move the shipping and logistics business believes will bolster its public profile and help it access a range of funding.
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January 27, 2025
Trader Faces US Extradition Over $10M Securities Fraud
A trader wanted for running a "pump and dump" scheme that generated more than $10 million in unlawful stock sales will face extradition to the U.S. at a London court hearing in June, it was confirmed on Monday.
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January 24, 2025
SEC Gets Kraken's Major Questions Doctrine Defense Axed
A California federal judge on Friday partially granted the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's bid to ax some of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken's key defenses to allegations it violated securities laws by offering crypto assets without proper registration, saying the case wasn't the type to implicate the so-called major questions doctrine defense.
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January 24, 2025
Musk Can't Yet Appeal Twitter Investors' Cert., 9th Circ. Says
The Ninth Circuit on Friday rebuffed Elon Musk's request to immediately appeal a California federal judge's decision to certify a class of thousands of Twitter investors over claims the billionaire businessman fraudulently tweeted about the social media company's alleged bot problem to get out of his $44 billion acquisition.
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January 24, 2025
Trump Media Says Presidential Shield Deflects Investors' Suit
President Donald Trump's social media company on Friday urged the Delaware Chancery Court to dismiss, or at least stay, a lawsuit brought by investors alleging that plans to take the platform public would cheat them out of their shares, arguing that a sitting president is shielded from civil litigation in state court.
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January 24, 2025
EEOC Disability Bias Suit Tossed Following Nixed Evidence
A mortgage and financial services company on Friday defeated a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging it unlawfully refused to hire a woman because she took pain medication, after a Washington federal judge ruled midtrial that a key piece of evidence shouldn't have been shown to jurors.
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January 24, 2025
SEC Names New Top Enforcer, GC And Other Temp Leaders
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's acting chair, Mark Uyeda, announced the appointment of five new department heads Friday to at least temporarily fill the vacancies left by the recent departures of several senior staff members at the agency.
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January 24, 2025
Ex-Staffing Co. Execs Get Prison After Copping To $75M Fraud
A Manhattan federal judge sentenced two brothers who built the staffing firm Resource Employment Solutions to prison Friday after they admitted lying to two financial firms about their Florida company's finances in what prosecutors called a $75 million fraud conspiracy.
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January 24, 2025
Capital One Named In Action Over Early-Year Service Outage
Capital One has been hit with a proposed class action in Virginia federal court focused on a January service disruption that allegedly left consumers locked out of its systems.
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January 24, 2025
Coding Boot Camp Seeks Coverage For Tuition Financing Row
A San Francisco-based company that runs coding boot camps said its insurers must defend and indemnify it for federal and state probes and private settlements related to its tuition financing program, telling a California federal court that coverage denials have left the company on the brink of insolvency.
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January 24, 2025
Conn. Oil Trader Says Timing Of Money Moves Sinks Verdict
A onetime Connecticut oil trader has asked a federal judge to erase a September 2024 conviction on charges he used a go-between to bribe an official at Brazilian oil giant Petroleo Brasileiro SA, arguing the jury verdict hinged on third-party wire transfers that occurred beyond the statute of limitations.
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January 24, 2025
Venture-Backed IPO Recovery Could Be Muted, Report Says
The expected recovery for venture-backed initial public offerings in 2025 will likely be muted, a capital markets research firm said Friday, given investors' persistent concerns about valuation and delayed interest rate cuts that may not happen until midyear.
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January 23, 2025
Dems Cite 'Unprecedented Concerns' With Trump Memecoins
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Jake Auchincloss have urged federal regulators to address "unprecedented concerns" associated with the recent launch of so-called memecoins associated with President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump, citing threats of consumer ripoffs, corruption and foreign influence.
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January 23, 2025
Davis Polk, Skadden Steer LNG Exporter's $1.8B IPO
Liquefied natural gas exporter Venture Global Inc. on Thursday priced an estimated $1.8 billion initial public offering within its downwardly revised range, represented by Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and underwriters counsel Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP.
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January 23, 2025
Conn. High Court Snapshot: Atty's Bonus, Burn Verdict
In its next term starting Monday, the Connecticut Supreme Court will hear an appeal from an acupuncturist who doesn't want to share liability for a judgment paid to a burn victim, and consider whether to reverse a seven-figure verdict for a private equity management firm's founder, who claims other members improperly cut him out.
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January 23, 2025
Jump Trading Says Ex-Worker Stole IP For Blockchain Startup
High-frequency trading firm and blockchain technology developer Jump Trading has filed a complaint seeking a preliminary injunction against a former software developer it claims is using Jump Trading's intellectual property to launch a competing project.
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January 23, 2025
Fla. Court Urged To OK $2.75M For Moving Co. Fraud Victims
Two receivers appointed to recover funds in a moving company Ponzi scheme targeting the Haitian community urged a Florida federal court on Thursday to approve a first-round distribution of $2.75 million to refund losses, although the judge overseeing the case said the amount represents a fraction of what defrauded victims lost.
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January 23, 2025
Trump Forms Crypto Working Group To Create Fed. Framework
President Donald Trump took another step towards fulfilling his campaign promises to the cryptocurrency industry on Thursday with an executive order that directs regulators to get to work establishing a federal framework for digital assets and prohibits the creation of a central bank digital currency.
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January 23, 2025
AI Chatbot Co. CEO, Atty Spouse Indicted On $60M Fraud
Federal prosecutors in California arrested the former CEO of an artificial intelligence company Thursday alongside his lawyer wife, accusing the duo of a $60 million fraud scheme in which they allegedly lied to investors about the company's financial state and diverted funds to pay for their wedding.
Expert Analysis
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Opinion
AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys
The thing that’s so powerful about artificial intelligence is also what’s most scary about it — its ability to detect patterns may curtail young attorneys’ chance to practice the lower-level work of managing cases, preventing them from ever honing the pattern recognition skills that undergird creative lawyering, says Sarah Murray at Trialcraft.
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What's In The Cards For CFTC's Election Betting Case
A D.C. federal judge's Sept. 12 ruling, allowing KalshiEx to offer derivative contracts trading on the outcome of the U.S. congressional elections over objections from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, could mark a watershed moment in the permissibility of election betting if upheld on appeal, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.
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Kubient Case Shows SEC's Willingness To Charge Directors
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent fraud charges against Kubient's former CEO, chief financial officer and audit committee chair signal a willingness to be more aggressive against officers and directors, underscoring the need for companies to ensure that they have appropriate channels to gather, investigate and document employee concerns, say attorneys at Jenner & Block.
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Basel Endgame Rules: A Change Is Coming
The Federal Reserve Board's recently announced recalibration of the Basel endgame proposal begins a critical chapter in the evolution of not only the safety and soundness of U.S. banks, but also of banks' abilities to lend and support American businesses and consumers, say attorneys at Davis Wright.
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What PCOAB's Broadened Liability Rule Means For Auditors
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s recent vote agreeing to lower the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's liability standard, allowing the board to charge individual auditors whose mere negligence leads firms into PCOAB violations, may erode inspection cooperation, shrink the talent pool and have anticompetitive outcomes, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.
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Series
Round-Canopy Parachuting Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Similar to the practice of law, jumping from an in-flight airplane with nothing but training and a few yards of parachute silk is a demanding and stressful endeavor, and the experience has bolstered my legal practice by enhancing my focus, teamwork skills and sense of perspective, says Thomas Salerno at Stinson.
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Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners
Partner and associate mobility data from the second quarter of this year suggest that there's never been a better time in recent years for law firms to hire lateral candidates, particularly experienced partners — though this necessitates an understanding of potential red flags, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.
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Considering Possible PR Risks Of Certain Legal Tactics
Disney and American Airlines recently abandoned certain litigation tactics in two lawsuits after fierce public backlash, illustrating why corporate counsel should consider the reputational implications of any legal strategy and partner with their communications teams to preempt public relations concerns, says Chris Gidez at G7 Reputation Advisory.
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How Increased Sanctions Scrutiny Is Affecting Debt Markets
U.S. sanctions and export control regulators have recently taken several steps that broaden financial sector oversight, and banks, lenders and borrowers must adapt their syndication and risk assessment processes in different ways or risk incurring substantial penalties, say Cristina Brayton-Lewis and Kerrick Seay at White & Case.
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What The SEC Liquidity Risk Management Amendments Entail
Fund managers should be cognizant of the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission's recent changes to certain reporting requirements and guidance related to open-end fund liquidity risk management programs, and update their filing systems if need be, says Rachael Schwartz at Sullivan & Worcester.
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It's No Longer Enough For Firms To Be Trusted Advisers
Amid fierce competition for business, the transactional “trusted adviser” paradigm from which most firms operate is no longer sufficient — they should instead aim to become trusted partners with their most valuable clients, says Stuart Maister at Strategic Narrative.
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7 Takeaways For Investment Advisers From FinCEN AML Rule
With a new FinCEN rule that will require covered investment advisers to implement anti-money laundering programs and comply with extra recordkeeping requirements by 2026, companies should begin planning necessary updates to their policies and procedures by focusing on seven of the rule’s key requirements, identified by attorneys at Simpson Thacher.
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Missouri Injunction A Setback For State Anti-ESG Rules
A Missouri federal court’s recent order enjoining the state’s anti-ESG rules comes amid actions by state legislatures to revise or invalidate similar legislation imposing disclosure and consent requirements around environmental, social and governance investing, and could be a blueprint for future challenges, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.
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How Companies Are Approaching Insider Trading Policies
An analysis of insider trading policies recently disclosed by 49 S&P 500 companies under a new U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rule reveals that while specific provisions vary from company to company, certain common themes are emerging, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.
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Increased IPOs In '24 Shows Importance Of Strategic Planning
Initial public offerings, debt issuances and M&A activity so far in 2024 have shown substantial increases over comparable periods in 2023, highlighting why counsel should educate clients on market trends and financing alternatives to proactively prepare them to be ready to take advantage of opportunities, say attorneys at Skadden.