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October 31, 2024
Conn. Judge OKs $10.4M Remedy For Securities Fraud Appeal
A Connecticut state judge has approved a nearly $10.4 million prejudgment remedy application protecting investment banking firm FIH LLC while two principals of a beleaguered capital firm appeal a securities fraud judgment that resulted from a bench trial.
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October 31, 2024
Nixon Peabody Lands Norton Rose Real Estate Pros In LA
Nixon Peabody LLP took another step this week to strengthen its affordable housing and real estate practice on the West Coast and beyond, bringing on a pair of real estate attorneys from Norton Rose Fulbright with six years of experience working together.
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October 31, 2024
Vinson & Elkins To Open Denver Office With Plans To Expand
Three Vinson & Elkins LLP partners have been tapped to open the firm's newest office in Denver, the firm announced Thursday, amid an effort to expand its client base and talent roster in the Mountain West region.
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October 31, 2024
Lowenstein Sandler Snags Another VC Pro From Boutique
Lowenstein Sandler LLP has added a New York City lawyer from prominent boutique corporate law firm Buhler Duggal & Henry LLP to its emerging companies and venture capital group, the firm announced.
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October 31, 2024
Playboy Gets PE Investment After Rejecting Takeover Bid
The owner of Playboy, PLBY Group Inc., on Thursday announced that it had secured a "significant" equity investment from privately held online entertainment company Byborg Enterprises SA.
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October 31, 2024
The 2024 Law360 Pulse Leaderboard
Check out the Law360 Pulse Leaderboard to see which firms made the list of leaders in all-around excellence this year.
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October 31, 2024
Firms' Hiring Strategies Are Evolving In Fight For Top Spot
Competition for top talent among elite law firms shows no signs of slowing down, even amid economic uncertainty, with financially strong firms deploying aggressive strategies to attract and retain skilled professionals to solidify their market position.
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October 31, 2024
IFC Projects Must Do More On Emissions, Report Says
An accountability arm of the International Finance Corp. is encouraging it to bolster its methods to identify and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from financed projects, saying its current approaches are not fully up to date and limit its effectiveness in addressing global warming.
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October 31, 2024
Blank Rome Adds Commercial Real Estate Expert In DC
The former president and general counsel of Edge Funds Management LLC has joined Blank Rome LLP as an of counsel in the real estate group.
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October 30, 2024
Brookfield Scoops UK Wind Farms Assets In $2.3B Deal
Brookfield has agreed to buy a minority stake in four of Danish multinational energy company Orsted's operational U.K. offshore wind farms in a deal valued at £1.745 billion ($2.27 billion), Orsted announced Wednesday.
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October 30, 2024
Kirkland Leads Berkshire Partners To $7.8B Fund Close
Boston-based private equity shop Berkshire Partners, advised by Kirkland & Ellis LLP, announced on Wednesday that it clinched its largest fund ever after securing $7.8 billion in investor commitments.
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October 30, 2024
AI-Focused SPAC Joins Pipeline With $200M IPO Filing
Archimedes Tech SPAC Partners II Co., a special purpose acquisition company targeting the artificial intelligence industry, filed plans on Wednesday for an estimated $200 million initial public offering, while another SPAC, energy-transition focused Tavia Acquisition Corp., downsized plans.
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October 30, 2024
KKR, ECP To Plug $50B Into Data Centers, Power Projects
Private equity firms KKR & Co., advised by Simpson Thacher, and Energy Capital Partners have teamed up to inject $50 billion into building data centers and energy generation projects in a bet on meeting rising demand for infrastructure to support the artificial intelligence boom.
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October 30, 2024
Cleary-Led UK Investor To Buy Data Security Biz For £169M
Bridgepoint said Wednesday that its subsidiary has agreed to buy data security firm Eckoh PLC for £169.3 million ($220 million), as the British private investor seeks a slice of the growing global digital safety sector.
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October 30, 2024
Kirkland-Led Francisco Paying $1.1B For AdvancedMD
Kirkland & Ellis LLP is guiding Francisco Partners on an agreement disclosed Wednesday to buy medical payments company AdvancedMD from Global Payments for $1.125 billion.
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October 30, 2024
Akin Gump Bolsters PE Team With Ex-Greenberg Traurig Atty
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP announced the addition of a private equity transactions attorney joining the firm in New York on Wednesday, saying the former Greenberg Traurig LLP shareholder will support the firm's position in the private capital market.
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October 29, 2024
Argent Strikes Symbria ESOP Suit Settlement Deal
A class of Symbria Inc. workers alleging mismanagement of their employee stock ownership plan told an Illinois federal court they had reached a settlement with ESOP trustee Argent Trust Co. to end their federal benefits lawsuit.
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October 29, 2024
Sham Getty Stock Offer Lands Investor 10-Month Prison Term
A former Massachusetts corporate executive will serve 10 months in prison for launching a sham takeover bid for Seattle-based Getty Images Holdings to drive up its share price and make hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit, a Boston federal judge said Tuesday.
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October 29, 2024
Greenberg Traurig Adds Bradley Arant Banking Ace In Dallas
Greenberg Traurig LLP has brought on a former Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP counsel to its Dallas office to meet client demand, bolstering the firm's expertise in guiding banks on financial regulatory compliance and enforcement matters with a former senior attorney for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the firm announced Tuesday.
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October 29, 2024
Warren Pushes FTC Chair To Probe Oncology Acquisitions
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday urged the Federal Trade Commission to scrutinize McKesson Corp.'s proposed $2.49 billion acquisition of a controlling stake in Core Ventures, and Cardinal Health's proposed $1.12 billion purchase of a controlling stake in Integrated Oncology, saying the deals would further consolidate the "already highly consolidated" oncology market.
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October 29, 2024
Burns & Levinson Atty Duo Latest To Join Blank Rome
Blank Rome has announced it added a pair of attorneys from Burns & Levinson to its office in Boston, a move that the firm said bolsters its litigation and corporate capabilities and serves as the latest example of lawyers moving between the two firms since Blank Rome opened the office in April with 25 Burns & Levinson corporate and finance attorneys.
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October 29, 2024
M&A Rebounded As Equity Issuance, IPOs Faltered In Q3
The number of global M&A deal announcements increased for the second consecutive quarter in the third quarter, but global equity issuance and IPO activity slowed, according to a Tuesday report from S&P Global Market Intelligence.
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October 29, 2024
Front Office Sports Sued For Using Luxury Real Estate Photos
Private equity-backed media outlet Front Office Sports is accused of unlawfully using luxury real estate photos online without permission, according to a lawsuit filed in New York federal court.
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October 29, 2024
Crescent Inks Oncology Merger With $200M In Private Funding
Crescent Biopharma Inc. has agreed to take fellow cancer-focused biotech GlycoMimetics Inc. private in a deal that includes $200 million of investments from well over a dozen firms to help fund the combined company's operations through 2027, GlycoMimetics revealed Tuesday.
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October 29, 2024
PE-Owned Implant Maker Plagued By Lawsuits Hits Ch. 11
Joint implant maker Exactech Inc. on Tuesday filed for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware bankruptcy court with an offer from its lenders to take over the company, as a wave of lawsuits tied to product recalls weighs on the private equity-owned firm.
Expert Analysis
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How Cos. Can Build A Strong In-House Pro Bono Program
During this year’s pro bono celebration week, companies should consider some key pointers to grow and maintain a vibrant in-house program for attorneys to provide free legal services for the public good, says Mary Benton at Alston & Bird.
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Series
Home Canning Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Making my own pickles and jams requires seeing a process through from start to finish, as does representing clients from the start of a dispute at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board through any appeals to the Federal Circuit, says attorney Kevin McNish.
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Avoiding Merger Disputes Via Careful LLC Agreement Drafting
The Delaware Court of Chancery recently upheld a merger in a dispute over the process of amending the target's limited liability company agreement, underscoring the importance of understanding the Delaware LLC Act default rules and careful drafting to allow for contractual modifications, says Jane Trueper at Lathrop.
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Opinion
FDIC's Foray Into Index Fund Rules Risks Regulatory Chaos
A proposed Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. rule concerning control over passive index fund investments in banks is outside the agency's remit, clashes with an existing Federal Reserve process and would inhibit competition in the index fund sector, says J.W. Verret at George Mason University.
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Use The Right Kind Of Feedback To Help Gen Z Attorneys
Generation Z associates bring unique perspectives and expectations to the workplace, so it’s imperative that supervising attorneys adapt their feedback approach in order to help young lawyers learn and grow — which is good for law firms, too, says Rachael Bosch at Fringe Professional Development.
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Opinion
Congress Can And Must Enact A Supreme Court Ethics Code
As public confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court dips to historic lows following reports raising conflict of interest concerns, Congress must exercise its constitutional power to enact a mandatory and enforceable code of ethics for the high court, says Muhammad Faridi, president of the New York City Bar Association.
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Perspectives
Pop Culture Docket: Justice Lebovits On Gilbert And Sullivan
Characters in the 19th century comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan break the rules of good lawyering by shamelessly throwing responsible critical thought to the wind, providing hilarious lessons for lawyers and judges on how to avoid a surfeit of traps and tribulations, say acting New York Supreme Court Justice Gerald Lebovits and law student Tara Scown.
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HSR Amendments Intensify Merger Filing Burdens, Data Risk
The antitrust agencies' long-awaited changes to premerger notification rules under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act stand to significantly increase the time and cost involved in preparing an initial HSR notification, and will require more proactive attention to data issues, says Andrew Szwez at FTI Technology.
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State Of The States' AI Legal Ethics Landscape
Over the past year, several state bar associations, as well as the American Bar Association, have released guidance on the ethical use of artificial intelligence in legal practice, all of which share overarching themes and some nuanced differences, say Eric Pacifici and Kevin Henderson at SMB Law Group.
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Making Sure Your Co. Isn't In The Next Section 13(f) Sweep
Enforcement actions taken against 11 institutional investment managers for alleged failures to file forms required by Section 13(f) of the Securities Exchange Act serve as a reminder that firms should carefully monitor their obligations to avoid becoming the target of the next enforcement sweep, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.
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8 Childhood Lessons That Can Help You Be A Better Attorney
A new school year is underway, marking a fitting time for attorneys to reflect on some fundamental life lessons from early childhood that offer a framework for problems that no legal textbook can solve, say Chris Gismondi and Chris Campbell at DLA Piper.
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Opinion
This Election, We Need To Talk About Court Process
In recent decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has markedly transformed judicial processes — from summary judgment standards to notice pleadings — which has, in turn, affected individuals’ substantive rights, and we need to consider how the upcoming presidential election may continue this pattern, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
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Series
Playing Diplomacy Makes Us Better Lawyers
Similar to the practice of law, the rules of Diplomacy — a strategic board game set in pre-World War I Europe — are neither concise nor without ambiguity, and weekly gameplay with our colleagues has revealed the game's practical applications to our work as attorneys, say Jason Osborn and Ben Bevilacqua at Winston & Strawn.
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Mental Health First Aid: A Brief Primer For Attorneys
Amid a growing body of research finding that attorneys face higher rates of mental illness than the general population, firms should consider setting up mental health first aid training programs to help lawyers assess mental health challenges in their colleagues and intervene with compassion, say psychologists Shawn Healy and Tracey Meyers.
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8 Issues AI Firms May Encounter As M&A Action Accelerates
As the AI merger climate heats up, potential complications may arise, including antitrust scrutiny, talent retention agreements, and aggressive and protective deal terms intended to compensate for lofty valuations, say Scott Schwartz and Kishan Barot at Manatt.