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March 12, 2025
Live Nation Calls DOJ 'Delay Tactics' Claim 'Groundless'
Live Nation Entertainment assailed the U.S. Department of Justice for claiming "out of the blue" that the company is slow-walking its discovery obligations in the government's New York federal court monopolization suit centered on the 2010 purchase of Ticketmaster.
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March 12, 2025
Uber Drops $950M Foodpanda Buy Over Regulatory Issues
German food delivery platform Delivery Hero SE has confirmed that ride-sharing giant Uber Technologies Inc. has decided to terminate its agreement to acquire Delivery Hero's Taiwanese Foodpanda for $950 million, citing regulatory hurdles.
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March 12, 2025
Kirkland Guides Clearwater On $685M Investment Tech Buy
Clearwater Analytics said Wednesday it has agreed to pay $685 million across two strategic acquisitions that it said will transform its investment management technology platforms amid a surge in institutional investors seeking alternative assets.
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March 12, 2025
Skadden-Led Scopely Buying Pokémon Go Biz In $3.5B Deal
Skadden-led Scopely said Wednesday it has agreed to acquire the games business of Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go and other popular mobile game titles, in a deal Scopely valued at $3.5 billion.
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March 11, 2025
Panini Trading Card Antitrust Suit Largely Beats Dismissal
A New York federal judge largely refused to dismiss Panini's antitrust suit accusing Fanatics of locking up the sports trading card market by entering decadeslong exclusive agreements with the NFL, NBA and MLB, while also culling large chunks of Fanatics' unfair competition and bad-faith negotiations countersuit.
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March 11, 2025
Senate Confirms Gail Slater To Lead DOJ Antitrust
The Senate voted 78-19 on Tuesday to confirm Gail Slater to be assistant attorney general for the Antitrust Division at the U.S. Department of Justice.
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March 11, 2025
BigLaw Firms Join To Support Del. Corporate Law Changes
Twenty-one law firms with Delaware corporate practices have jointly endorsed pending state legislation, S.B. 21, that aims to narrow stockholder avenues for challenging corporate acts and clarify the definition of company controllers.
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March 11, 2025
CMA's Big Tech Enforcement To Focus On UK Impact
An official for the Competition and Markets Authority said the agency will focus enforcement efforts against technology companies on issues that have a local impact in the United Kingdom and is less likely to act on issues already being addressed by other authorities.
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March 11, 2025
A Brief Look At Delaware's Divisive Corporate Law Bill
Delaware state Senate Bill 21, up for a Judiciary Committee vote on Wednesday, overturns some provisions of landmark state Supreme Court rulings, from Kahn v. M&F Worldwide Corp. in 2014 to In re Match Group a decade later, which call for plaintiff-friendly entire fairness review for controller transactions.
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March 11, 2025
Dublin's Eaton To Buy US-Based Fibrebond For $1.4B
Irish power management company Eaton said Tuesday it has agreed to acquire Louisiana-based Fibrebond Corp. for $1.4 billion as it looks to bolster its presence in data center markets.
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March 11, 2025
Endo Sells International Pharma Biz To Knight For Up To $99M
Pharmaceutical company Endo Inc., led by Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and Torys LLP, on Tuesday announced plans to sell its international pharmaceuticals business to Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP-advised Canadian pharmaceutical company Knight Therapeutics Inc. for up to $99 million.
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March 11, 2025
Couche-Tard Knocks 7-Eleven Strategy In Push For Takeover
Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. is doubling down on its commitment to acquire 7-Eleven parent company Seven & i Holdings Co., criticizing the Japanese retail giant's latest strategic plans for a U.S. IPO and its "limited" engagement on Couche-Tard's buyout efforts.
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March 11, 2025
Sullivan & Cromwell Hires Ex-FTC Deputy Director In Palo Alto
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP announced Tuesday the hiring of a former deputy director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition as a partner in its Palo Alto, California, office.
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March 11, 2025
Dykema Doubles Houston Roster With 7 New Atty Hires
Dykema Gossett PLLC has expanded in Houston with the addition of seven attorneys, five of whom joined from Kane Russell Coleman Logan PC and two who came aboard from Hirsch & Westheimer PC.
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March 11, 2025
Parts Biz Rotork To Launch £50M Buyback, Korean Purchase
Industrial valve maker Rotork said Tuesday that it plans to kick off a share buyback program worth up to £50 million ($65 million) amid the acquisition of a privately held company in South Korea.
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March 10, 2025
Illinois Judge Floats Sanctions In Akorn Mootness Fee Fight
An Illinois federal judge signaled Tuesday that he was open to sanctions including a mandatory violation disclosure against plaintiffs' counsel as he continues navigating a challenge to so-called mootness fees paid to settle and dismiss allegedly baseless Akorn Inc. merger disclosure suits.
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March 10, 2025
Alsup Refuses To Vacate Hearing Into OPM Mass Firings
U.S. District Judge William Alsup on Monday denied the Trump administration's request to vacate an upcoming evidentiary hearing into the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's mass firings of probationary federal employees, and required OPM director Charles Ezell to appear in person or else be deposed.
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March 10, 2025
Ski Resort Buy Deemed Illegal In Precedential NY AG Win
New York's attorney general celebrated a precedent-setting antitrust win Monday, faulting a ski mountain operator for buying a rival just to shut it down.
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March 10, 2025
Del. Bar Panel OKs Corp. Law Bill To Curb Class Suits, Fees
A key panel of the Delaware's State Bar Association overwhelmingly approved on Monday a pending bill to put new constraints on corporate stockholder lawsuits, over objections that the measure will snuff out shareholder protections from conflicted boards and corporation controllers.
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March 10, 2025
DOJ Accuses Live Nation Of 'Delay Tactics' In Antitrust Suit
U.S. Department of Justice officials have urged a New York federal judge to issue an order compelling Live Nation Entertainment Inc. to produce documents held by several executives, accusing the company of using "delay tactics" in the lawsuit alleging anticompetitive behavior since merging with Ticketmaster Entertainment LLC in 2010.
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March 10, 2025
Paul Hastings Adds Kirkland Atty As Global M&A Co-Chair
Paul Hastings LLP has hired a third global co-chair for its mergers and acquisitions practice who was one of the youngest M&A partners in the world to have announced well over $1 trillion in deals, the firm said Monday.
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March 10, 2025
Fintech-Focused SPAC Titan Acquisition Files $240M IPO
Special purpose acquisition company Titan Acquisition Corp. on Monday detailed plans to raise up to $240 million in its initial public offering, with the goal of merging with a company in the finance and tech-enabled services industries.
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March 10, 2025
Whitecap Merging With Veren In $10.4B Oil & Gas Deal
Whitecap Resources Inc. said Monday it will merge with fellow Canadian oil and gas company Veren Inc. in an all-stock deal valued at CA$15 billion (US$10.4 billion) including debt.
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March 10, 2025
AI's Growing Influence On M&A Creates A High-Stakes Game
For mergers and acquisitions attorneys, 2025 is shaping up to be the year when AI becomes a business imperative across industries, turning the dealmaking landscape into a high-stakes chess match of technological innovation.
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March 10, 2025
Davis Polk Adds Debevoise M&A Co-Leader In Calif.
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP announced Monday the firm bolstered its mergers and acquisitions practice by hiring an attorney who most recently co-chaired the M&A group at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP.
Expert Analysis
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How Law Firms Can Counteract The Loneliness Epidemic
The legal industry is facing an urgent epidemic of loneliness, affecting lawyer well-being, productivity, retention and profitability, and law firm leaders should take concrete steps to encourage the development of genuine workplace connections, says Michelle Gomez at Littler and Gwen Mellor Romans at Herald Talent.
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Opinion
DOJ's HPE-Juniper Challenge Is Not Rooted In Law
Legal precedents that date back as far as 1990 demonstrate that the U.S. Department of Justice's recent challenge to the proposed $14 billion merger between Hewlett Packard and Juniper is misplaced because no evidence of collusion or coordinated conduct exists, says Thomas Stratmann at George Mason University.
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5 Keys To Building Stronger Attorney-Client Relationships
Attorneys are often focused on being seen as the expert, but bonding with clients and prospects by sharing a few key personal details provides the basis for a caring, trusted and profoundly deeper business relationship, says Deb Feder at Feder Development.
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How Rising Secondary Private Markets Affect Tech Disputes
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.
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How The AI Antitrust Landscape Might Evolve Under Trump
The Trump administration's early actions around artificial intelligence and antitrust policy, along with statements from competition regulators, suggest that the AI competition landscape may see reduced scrutiny around acquisitions, but not an entirely hands-off enforcement approach, say attorneys at Hogan Lovells.
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Series
Racing Corvettes Makes Me A Better Lawyer
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.
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Bill Would Bring Welcome Clarity To Del. Corporate Law
A recently proposed bill in Delaware that would provide greater predictability for areas including director independence and controlling stockholders reflects prudential adjustments consistent with the state's long history of refining and modernizing its corporate law, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.
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Opinion
Attorneys Must Act Now To Protect Judicial Independence
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.
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Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises
“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.
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Del. Supreme Court TripAdvisor Ruling May Limit 'MFW Creep'
The Delaware Supreme Court's recent Maffei v. Palkon ruling regarding TripAdvisor's proposed reincorporation to Nevada potentially signals a turning point in the trend of expanding the protections from Kahn v. M&F Worldwide to other types of transactions, says Andrew J. Haile at Elon University.
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Antitrust In Retail: Rude Awakening For FTC In Tempur Sealy
A Texas federal court's recent denial of a Federal Trade Commision order to stop a giant mattress merger because of lack of evidence on market segments shows that such definitions are only a viable path for regulating vertical mergers if antitrust agencies provide adequate documentation, says David Kully at Holland & Knight.
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How Design Thinking Can Help Lawyers Find Purpose In Work
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.
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Opinion
US Steel-Nippon Merger Should Not Have Been Blocked
The Biden administration's block of the U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel merger on national security grounds was unconstitutional overreach and needs to be overturned, with the harms remedied in federal court, says attorney Chuck Meyer.
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Biden-Era M&A Data Shows Continuity, Not Revolution
While the federal antitrust agencies under former President Joe Biden made broad claims about increasing merger enforcement activity, the data tells a different story, with key claims under Biden coming in at the lowest levels in decades, say attorneys at Covington.
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What Travis Hill's Vision For FDIC Could Portend For Banks
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.