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September 25, 2024
NYSE Cancels Proposal To Extend SPAC Merger Deadlines
The New York Stock Exchange has pulled a proposal that would have provided special purpose acquisition companies with more time to complete mergers while remaining listed, several months after it sought regulatory approval for the extension.
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September 25, 2024
Cleary-Led Apogee Buys UW Solutions In $240M Cash Deal
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP-led Apogee Enterprises Inc. on Wednesday announced plans to buy high-performance coated substrates maker UW Interco LLC from private equity shop Heartwood Partners, both advised by Finn Dixon & Herling LLP, for $240 million in cash.
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September 24, 2024
Chancery Told SwervePay Deserves Sanctions In Earnout Suit
A court-appointed special magistrate has recommended sanctioning e-payment venture SwervePay and related parties over up to 22 months of missing or deleted text messages sought by SPOSC Investment Holdings and others in a post-merger battle over an alleged multibillion-dollar overstatement of "monetizable" payment traffic.
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September 24, 2024
Everton Finds New Buyer In US Billionaire
The company controlled by U.S. billionaire businessman Dan Friedkin has agreed to take a majority stake in Everton Football Club in a move that comes after a prior Everton sale fell through amid legal troubles for the buyer.
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September 24, 2024
7 Attys In M&A, Real Estate Join Jones Walker In New Orleans
Jones Walker LLP announced that seven attorneys focused on mergers and acquisitions and real estate law from New Orleans firm Fishman Haygood LLP joined the firm's corporate practice.
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September 24, 2024
Star Witness Against Bankman-Fried Gets 2 Years In FTX Case
A Manhattan federal judge sentenced former cryptocurrency executive Caroline Ellison to two years in prison Tuesday, crediting her decision to testify against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried but saying the $11.2 billion fraud was too big to warrant a "get out of jail free card."
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September 24, 2024
King & Spalding, Skadden Rep $1.7B DE Shaw-Macquarie Deal
Australian investment firm Macquarie Asset Management, advised by King & Spalding LLP, on Tuesday announced that it has agreed to take a "significant" minority stake in renewable energy company D.E. Shaw Renewables Investment Group, led by Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, for up to $1.73 billion.
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September 24, 2024
Ropes & Gray Chair To Serve 2nd Term; Firm Picks Vice Chair
Ropes & Gray LLP announced Tuesday that leading corporate lawyer Julie Jones will begin a second term as the 1,500-attorney firm's first-ever female chair next year while managing committee member Neill Jakobe prepares to assume a vice chair role.
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September 24, 2024
Favre Parkinson's Reveal Overshadows Welfare Fraud Hearing
Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre revealed he has Parkinson's disease during a congressional hearing on misuse of welfare funds, where he was overwhelmingly lauded and escaped tough questions about his alleged involvement in a sprawling Mississippi welfare scandal.
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September 24, 2024
Commercial REIT Unveils $251M IPO As Pipeline Builds
Real estate investment trust FrontView Inc. on Tuesday launched plans for an estimated $251 million initial public offering, represented by Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP and underwriters' counsel DLA Piper LLP, joining a growing IPO pipeline.
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September 24, 2024
3 Firms Rep As Blackstone, Vista Ink $8.4B Smartsheet Buy
Work management platform Smartsheet Inc. will be purchased by private equity giants Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners in an all-cash, take-private deal valued at around $8.4 billion that was built by three law firms, the companies said Tuesday.
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September 24, 2024
SEC, CFTC Issue $118M Fines In Latest Text Message Actions
Federal regulators said Tuesday that the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and nearly a dozen other financial firms have agreed to pay fines totaling nearly $120 million to settle recordkeeping violations tied to employee use of unapproved communication methods like text messages to conduct business.
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September 24, 2024
Linklaters-Led Gulf Energy Biz To Buy Enviro Co. For $1.4B
Abu Dhabi Future Energy Co. PJSC said Tuesday that it has agreed to buy green energy company Saeta Yield SA from Brookfield Renewable Partners LP of Canada for $1.4 billion, to strengthen its presence in Spain and Portugal.
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September 23, 2024
Ex-Adviser Can't Seek Due Process Update, Justices Told
A Morgan Stanley unit on Friday urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to tackle a purported circuit split over whether "manifest disregard of the law" remains a valid reason for vacating an arbitral award, arguing that a former employee missed his chance to press the argument in the lower courts.
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September 23, 2024
Petco, Shareholders Battle In Chancery Over Controller Clout
Attorneys for Petco Health & Wellness Co. Inc. face an "uphill battle" in branding as "wrongly decided" a landmark Court of Chancery ruling earlier this year that struck down an agreement giving a company's controlling stockholder board-trumping power, Delaware's chancellor cautioned on Monday.
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September 23, 2024
CFTC Fines Piper Sandler $2M In Latest Text Messaging Action
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission both announced settlements Monday in their ongoing probe into the financial industry's use of personal devices to discuss company business, with the CFTC issuing a fine against a subsidiary of Piper Sandler & Co. while the SEC said that a cooperative investment adviser would not have to pay anything.
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September 23, 2024
USC Lies Fueled 'Varsity Blues' Case, Exec Says In $75M Suit
A private equity executive who beat most charges in the "Varsity Blues" college admissions case hit the University of Southern California with a $75 million California state court suit, claiming he was duped into making a donation that ensnared him in the scandal.
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September 23, 2024
Boston-Based PE Firm Wraps Debut Fund With $220M In Tow
Boston-based private equity shop Heritage Holding on Monday announced that it closed its debut fund with $220 million in tow, which will be used to partner with small business owners and founders.
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September 23, 2024
Natural Gas Co. Must Pay $6.8M To Ex-Trader In Bonus Fight
A Colorado state judge has entered a $6.8 million judgment against a natural gas marketing company for its failure to pay an ex-trading director a bonus on lucrative trades he made during a 2021 winter storm, a sum that includes more than $2.5 million in penalties for the company's intentional violation of a state wage law.
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September 23, 2024
RSV Vaccine Biz Secures $100M For Series B Funding Round
Biopharmaceutical company Vicebio Ltd. on Monday announced that it secured its Series B funding round after securing $100 million led by science-focused investment firm TCGX.
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September 23, 2024
Latham-Led Aerospace Giant StandardAero Preps $1B IPO
Private equity-backed aerospace services provider StandardAero Inc. launched plans on Monday for an estimated $1 billion initial public offering, represented by Latham & Watkins LLP and underwriters' counsel Milbank LLP, potentially marking one of the year's largest IPOs.
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September 23, 2024
Ex-Comtech CEOs Push For New Board, Strategic Changes
Two former CEOs of Comtech Telecommunications Corp. are calling for a new board at the global technology company and are pushing the business to consider strategic options, including a potential sale of its public safety business, while noting that one of the CEOs had even offered to re-take the helm at the company without cash compensation.
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September 23, 2024
Paul Weiss Gains PE, M&A Partner From Ropes & Gray
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP has added to its mergers and acquisitions and private equity practice groups an attorney who previously worked for Ropes & Gray LLP and Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
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September 23, 2024
Debevoise Reps KKR On $4.6B Middle-Market Fund
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP-advised private equity giant KKR announced Monday that it clinched its latest fund dedicated to middle-market businesses in North America after securing $4.6 billion in investor commitments.
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September 20, 2024
IPO Trio Looks To Raise $536M Combined As Autumn Begins
Three companies spanning the energy, healthcare and life sciences industries are preparing initial public offerings that could raise $536 million combined in the coming week, guided by six law firms, signaling an upturn in IPOs as autumn begins.
Expert Analysis
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Navigating New Enforcement Scrutiny Of 'AI Washing'
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent lawsuit against Joonko Diversity, its first public AI-focused enforcement action against a private company, underscores the importance of applying the same internal legal and compliance rigor to AI-related claims as other market-facing statements, say attorneys at Fried Frank.
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Increased Scrutiny Raises Int'l Real Estate Transaction Risks
Recently proposed regulations expanding the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States' oversight, a White House divestment order and state-level legislative efforts signal increasing scrutiny of real estate transactions that may trigger national security concerns, say Luciano Racco and Aleksis Fernández Caballero at Foley Hoag.
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How Fund Advisers Can Limit Election Year Pay-To-Play Risks
With Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz now the Democratic candidate for vice president, politically active investment advisers should take practical steps to avoid triggering strict pay-to-play rules that can lead to fund managers facing mutli-year timeouts from working with public funds after contributing to sitting officials, say attorneys at Dechert.
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FTC Focus: What Access To Patent Settlements Would Mean
Settling parties should adopt a series of practice tips, including specifying rationales to support specific terms, as the Federal Trade Commission seeks to expand its access to settlements before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, say Shannon McGowan and David Munkittrick at Proskauer.
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Why Attorneys Should Consider Community Leadership Roles
Volunteering and nonprofit board service are complementary to, but distinct from, traditional pro bono work, and taking on these community leadership roles can produce dividends for lawyers, their firms and the nonprofit causes they support, says Katie Beacham at Kilpatrick.
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9 Liability Management Tips As Debt Maturity Cliff Looms
As the debt maturity cliff swiftly approaches in this challenging environment, attorneys at Winston & Strawn highlight the top considerations for boards of directors and finance professionals to think about when structuring and executing liability management transactions, including reviewing capital structure, evaluating debt covenants, and more.
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Firms Must Offer A Trifecta Of Services In Post-Chevron World
After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision overturning Chevron deference, law firms will need to integrate litigation, lobbying and communications functions to keep up with the ramifications of the ruling and provide adequate counsel quickly, says Neil Hare at Dentons.
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5 Tips To Succeed In A Master Of Laws Program And Beyond
As lawyers and recent law school graduates begin their Master of Laws coursework across the country, they should keep a few pointers in mind to get the most out of their programs and kick-start successful careers in their practice areas, says Kelley Miller at Reed Smith.
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Series
Being An Opera Singer Made Me A Better Lawyer
My journey from the stage to the courtroom has shown that the skills I honed as an opera singer – punctuality, memorization, creativity and more – have all played a vital role in my success as an attorney, says Gerard D'Emilio at GableGotwals.
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How Law Firms Can Avoid 'Collaboration Drag'
Law firm decision making can be stifled by “collaboration drag” — characterized by too many pointless meetings, too much peer feedback and too little dissent — but a few strategies can help stakeholders improve decision-making processes and build consensus, says Steve Groom at Miles Mediation.
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Opinion
Litigation Funding Disclosure Key To Open, Impartial Process
Blanket investor and funding agreement disclosures should be required in all civil cases where the investor has a financial interest in the outcome in order to address issues ranging from potential conflicts of interest to national security concerns, says Bob Goodlatte, former U.S. House Representative for Virginia.
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What NFL Draft Picks Have In Common With Lateral Law Hires
Nearly half of law firm lateral hires leave within a few years — a failure rate that is strikingly similar to the performance of NFL quarterbacks drafted in the first round — in part because evaluators focus too heavily on quantifiable metrics and not enough on a prospect's character traits, says Howard Rosenberg at Baretz+Brunelle.
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Replacing The Stigma Of Menopause With Law Firm Support
A large proportion of the workforce is forced to pull the brakes on their career aspirations because of the taboo surrounding menopause and a lack of consistent support, but law firms can initiate the cultural shift needed by formulating thoughtful workplace policies, says Barbara Hamilton-Bruce at Simmons & Simmons.
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Planning Law Firm Content Calendars: What, When, Where
During the slower month of August, law firms should begin working on their 2025 content calendars, planning out a content creation and distribution framework that aligns with the firm’s objectives and maintains audience engagement throughout the year, says Jessica Kaplan at Legally Penned.
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Series
Playing Golf Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Golf can positively affect your personal and professional life well beyond the final putt, and it’s helped enrich my legal practice by improving my ability to build lasting relationships, study and apply the rules, face adversity with grace, and maintain my mental and physical well-being, says Adam Kelly at Venable.