Capital Markets

  • April 08, 2025

    German Pharma Giant Stada Pauses IPO As Volatility Endures

    Private equity-backed German pharmaceutical company Stada is halting its initial public offering amid market volatility, joining several U.S. companies that are pausing plans while they assess the fallout from President Donald Trump's tariff policy.

  • April 08, 2025

    Compliance Chief Wants Out Of SEC Fraud Suit

    The chief compliance officer and general counsel of a wealth management firm has urged an Illinois federal judge to dismiss him from a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission suit over an alleged offering fraud by former representatives at his firm, saying "the commission does not even understand what its own pleading burden in this case is."

  • April 08, 2025

    MSP Recovery Sued For Docs In Del. After $33B SPAC Dispute

    A stockholder of healthcare data analytics company MSP Recovery has demanded the company turn over books and records over allegations that it admitted to financial difficulties and federal investigations shortly after finalizing a $32.5 billion blank-check merger nearly three years ago.

  • April 08, 2025

    Fla. Cloud Co. Accuses Ex-Board Member Of SPAC Fraud

    A Florida cloud storage business has accused a former board member of securities fraud in federal court, alleging that a side agreement splitting a finder's fee with an unregistered broker he introduced for a merger deal wasn't disclosed, and now the company faces shutdown if an asset sale isn't halted.

  • April 08, 2025

    3 Firms Advise On $1.25B Ripple-Hidden Road Crypto Deal

    Crypto infrastructure firm Ripple said Tuesday it will acquire prime brokerage platform Hidden Road for $1.25 billion in a deal steered by at least three law firms, with Gunderson Dettmer and A&O Shearman advising Ripple, and Wachtell representing Hidden Road.

  • April 08, 2025

    DOJ Shuts Crypto Unit, Shifts Focus From Intermediaries

    The U.S. Department of Justice is disbanding its crypto unit and directing prosecutors to focus on cases against individuals who harm crypto investors or use digital assets to further other illegal activity, instead of bringing cases against platforms that enable the conduct, according to a memo circulated to all department employees.

  • April 08, 2025

    Sidley Austin Expands M&A Group, Hires Ex-Milbank Partner

    Sidley Austin LLP announced Monday another addition to its mergers and acquisitions practice in New York, hiring a former Milbank LLP attorney as a partner.

  • April 07, 2025

    Chancellor Asks About High Court Case In $2.1B SPAC Row

    A Delaware vice chancellor wondered Monday why neither side of a derivative suit over the $3 billion take-public merger of battery maker Microvast Holdings Inc. spoke about a recent state supreme court case relevant to the dispute.

  • April 07, 2025

    Starbucks Asks To Dump Investors' 'Triple Shot' Strategy Suit

    Starbucks has urged a Seattle federal judge to toss a consolidated proposed class action alleging that the coffee chain made overly positive projections for its "Triple Shot Reinvention" strategy that hurt investors when the financial results didn't bear out the company's optimism, saying the plaintiffs haven't shown that Starbucks made any false statements.

  • April 07, 2025

    Pair Of Blank Check IPOs Raising $411M To Pursue Mergers

    Two separate special purpose acquisition companies, New Providence Acquisition III and Twelve Seas Investment III, on Monday unveiled plans to raise a combined $411 million in their initial public offerings.

  • April 07, 2025

    SEC Orders Crypto Guidance Review As Deregulation Looms

    Acting Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Mark Uyeda ordered a review of a number of staff statements on digital assets, to potentially change or withdraw them in light of the White House's policy directive on deregulation and recommendations from the Department of Government Efficiency.

  • April 07, 2025

    Nelson Mullins Team Joins Duane Morris In DC, Atlanta, Miami

    Duane Morris LLP announced Monday that it is expanding its corporate practice by bringing in a team of five Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP transactional attorneys — including two partners — in its Washington, D.C., Atlanta and Miami locations.

  • April 07, 2025

    Loeb & Loeb Adds Ex-Hong Kong Atty To LA Corp. Group

    Loeb & Loeb LLP has added a former Hong Kong-based Goodwin Procter LLP private equity partner to its capital markets and corporate department in Los Angeles, the firm said Monday.

  • April 04, 2025

    Deutsche Bank Not Liable For ISIS Terror, Judge Finds

    A New York federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit accusing Deutsche Bank AG of facilitating the financing of the Islamic State, saying that the families of two journalists and an aid worker the terrorist group killed failed to sufficiently allege that the bank participated in a human trafficking venture.

  • April 04, 2025

    IPO Plans Appear Iced As Trump's Tariffs Rock Markets

    The escalating sell-off in equities is halting major initial public offerings for now and more prospects will likely pause plans as deals lawyers and their clients assess the fallout following President Donald Trump's endorsement of across-the-board tariffs, experts say.

  • April 04, 2025

    Appeals Court Won't Halt Russian Investment Litigation

    England's Court of Appeal will not nix an order refusing to halt "vexatious" litigation in Russia initiated by sanctioned entities against third parties to an arbitration agreement, issuing an opinion that chided an investment manager for leaving the court "in the dark" about its relationship to the third parties.

  • April 04, 2025

    Crypto Firm Shorted Exec On Wages And Commissions, Suit Says

    The former chief commercial officer of a cryptocurrency startup accused the company of reneging on its promise to pay him wages and coin commissions for his work facilitating the firm's registration and legal trading in Canada, in a new lawsuit filed in New York federal court.

  • April 04, 2025

    SEC Says Reserve-Backed Stablecoins Aren't Securities

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Corporation Finance said Friday the offer and sale of reserve-backed dollar stablecoins aren't securities transactions, in the latest statement to set out the staff's views on the boundaries of its jurisdiction over digital assets.

  • April 04, 2025

    11th Circ. Told Omitted Issues Void UBS Arbitration Award

    A Puerto Rican man urged the Eleventh Circuit on Friday to vacate a roughly $6.5 million arbitration award given to UBS Financial Services Inc. stemming from a long-running account contract dispute, arguing he didn't receive a fair hearing and because key issues to be resolved weren't identified in the award.

  • April 04, 2025

    Masimo Shareholder Vote Suit Against Founder Moved To Calif.

    A New York federal judge has transferred to California Masimo Corp.'s suit against its founder over allegations he manipulated a shareholder vote at the medical technology company, finding that the "locus of operative facts" warrants the move.

  • April 03, 2025

    FINRA Member Can't Avoid Testifying In Fraud Investigation

    A District of Columbia federal judge has refused to immediately block the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority from requiring a New York financial adviser to testify in an investigation into alleged fraud, ruling there is "no likelihood of irreparable harm here."

  • April 03, 2025

    AI Dominated Venture Funding In Q1 As Broader Market Lags

    Artificial intelligence investment again dominated venture capital activity in the first quarter, mostly driven by a few mammoth deals, according to data released Thursday, while experts say the broader outlook for non-AI firms remains subdued amid market skittishness.

  • April 03, 2025

    Crypto Co. Sentenced In Fed Market Manipulation Suit

    United Arab Emirates-based CLS Global FZC LLC has been sentenced in Massachusetts federal court on criminal charges over running a fraudulent "wash trading" scheme after it pled guilty to the charges in January and agreed to stop working in the U.S. cryptocurrency industry.

  • April 03, 2025

    CFTC Taps New Acting Head Of Market Oversight Division

    The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced Wednesday that its Division of Market Oversight will be headed on an acting basis by a longtime employee of the derivatives market regulator who helped start the division's Market Intelligence Branch.

  • April 03, 2025

    House Moves Stablecoin Bill Despite Dems' Conflict Concerns

    The House Financial Services Committee advanced its federal framework for stablecoins just before midnight Wednesday following hours of markup during which Democrats raised concerns that the Trump family and administration officials' involvement with crypto ventures will create conflicts of interest.

Expert Analysis

  • BlackRock Suit Highlights Antitrust Risks Of ESG

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    In Texas v. BlackRock, pending in Texas federal court, 13 state attorneys general are suing large institutional investors in the coal business, underscoring key reasons companies may want to alter their approach to developing and implementing policies related to environmental, social, and governance factors, especially if coordination with competitors is involved, say attorneys at Manatt.

  • How Rising Secondary Private Markets Affect Tech Disputes

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    The rise of secondaries is a natural by-product of growing and evolving private markets and, as such, we can expect their growth will continue, signaling an increase in the use of secondaries in damages as well as litigation revolving around secondaries themselves, says Farooq Javed at The Brattle Group.

  • Suggestions For CFTC Enforcement's New Leadership

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    The recent change in leadership at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission presents an opportunity to reflect on past practices and consider opportunities for improvement at the commission's Enforcement Division, including in observing precedent and providing greater enforcement transparency, say attorneys at Clifford Chance.

  • Opinion

    NFT Bill Needs Refining To Effectively Regulate Digital Assets

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    A recent bill in the U.S. House proposing to regulate nonfungible tokens as digital assets would leave key concepts undefined until the U.S. comptroller general completes an after-the-fact study of NFTs, showing it needs more work before it is comprehensive enough to meaningfully protect the market, say attorneys at Duane Morris.

  • Series

    Racing Corvettes Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The skills I use when racing Corvettes have enhanced my legal practice in several ways, because driving, like practicing law, requires precision, awareness and a good set of brakes — complete with the wisdom to know how and when to use them, says Kat Mateo at Olshan Frome.

  • Opinion

    Attorneys Must Act Now To Protect Judicial Independence

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    Given the Trump administration's recent moves threatening the independence of the judiciary, including efforts to impeach judges who ruled against executive actions, lawyers must protect the rule of law and resist attempts to dilute the judicial branch’s authority, says attorney Bhavleen Sabharwal.

  • Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises

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    “No comment” is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.

  • What To Expect In Crypto Banking After SEC Nixed Guidance

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    With the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently rescinding its controversial cryptocurrency accounting guidance, the industry's focus will turn to the potentially significant hurdle to crypto banking posed by the federal banking regulators, say attorneys at Duane Morris.

  • Fund Names Rule FAQs Leave Some Interpretative Uncertainty

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    Although recently released FAQs clarify many specific points of the 2023 expansion to the Investment Company Act's fund names rule, important questions remain about how U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission staff will interpret other key terms when the end-of-year compliance date arrives, say attorneys at Dechert.

  • How Design Thinking Can Help Lawyers Find Purpose In Work

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    Lawyers everywhere are feeling overwhelmed amid mass government layoffs, increasing political instability and a justice system stretched to its limits — but a design-thinking framework can help attorneys navigate this uncertainty and find meaning in their work, say law professors at the University of Michigan.

  • What Travis Hill's Vision For FDIC Could Portend For Banks

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    If selected to lead the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in a permanent capacity, acting Chairman Travis Hill is likely to prioritize removing barriers to innovation and institution-level growth, emphasizing the idea that eliminating rules, relaxing standards and reducing scrutiny will reinvigorate the industry, say attorneys at Mitchell Sandler.

  • 5 Major Crypto Developments From The Trump Admin So Far

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    The early weeks of the Trump administration have set the stage for a significant transformation in U.S. digital asset policy by prioritizing regulatory clarity, innovation and a shift away from enforcement-heavy tactics, but many of these changes will require congressional support and progress may be gradual, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

  • Comparing 2 Pending Bills To Regulate Stablecoins

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    Alexandra Steinberg Barrage at Troutman analyzes the key similarities and differences between two payment stablecoin proposals currently pending in Congress — the STABLE and GENIUS acts — as both chambers are forming a working group to deliver a clear regulatory framework for digital assets and bipartisan agreement appears within reach.

  • Series

    Competitive Weightlifting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The parallels between the core principles required for competitive weightlifting and practicing law have helped me to excel in both endeavors, with each holding important lessons about discipline, dedication, drive and failure, says Damien Bielli at VF Law.

  • Inside The Uncertainty Surrounding CFPB's Overdraft Rule

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    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's overhaul of overdraft fee regulation hangs in limbo as the industry watches to see whether new leadership will repeal the rule, allow it to stay in place, or wait for congressional action or the courts to drive its demise, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.

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