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January 07, 2025
Davis Polk, Kirkland Guide Paychex's $4.1B Paycor Buy
Human capital management company Paychex Inc., advised by Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, on Tuesday unveiled plans to buy fellow human capital management, payroll and talent acquisition software company Paycor, led by Kirkland & Ellis LLP, in a deal with an enterprise value of $4.1 billion.
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January 07, 2025
6 Firms Guide $5.6B PE-Backed Deal For GFL Unit
Six law firms are guiding a deal disclosed Tuesday that will see funds managed by affiliates of Apollo and BC Partners purchase the environmental services business of GFL Environmental Inc. at an enterprise value of 8 billion Canadian dollars ($5.6 billion).
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January 07, 2025
London Software Co. Receives Two £315M Takeover Bids
Team Internet Group PLC said Tuesday that it has received two competing bids from investment managers TowerBrook and Verdane, which each value the internet services company at approximately £315 million ($394 million).
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January 07, 2025
PE Firm Lovell Minnick Invests In UK Consultancy Broadstone
Lovell Minnick said Tuesday that it has taken a stake in Broadstone, a British financial services consultancy, as the U.S. private equity firm eyes a slice of the growing advisory sector.
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January 06, 2025
Biden Signs DC Football Stadium Bill Into Law
President Joe Biden on Monday gave Washington, D.C., government control over a site that could become home to a new stadium for the NFL's Commanders.
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January 06, 2025
Proskauer Adds New Funds Partners In NY, DC
Proskauer Rose LLP announced Monday it has rung in the new year by adding two new partners to its private funds group, with the addition of a tax expert from Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP in New York and a regulatory specialist from the SEC in Washington, D.C.
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January 06, 2025
KKR Pushes Fuji Soft To Pursue Legal Action Against Bain
Private equity giant KKR called on the board of Fuji Soft on Monday to take legal action against Bain Capital amid a bidding war for the company between the two competing investors, arguing that Bain's unauthorized use of confidential information and breach of its nondisclosure agreement "significantly jeopardizes" the reputation of private equity funds in Japan.
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January 06, 2025
Paul Hastings, Cravath Steer Pork Giant Smithfield's IPO Filing
Pork producer Smithfield Foods Inc. on Monday submitted the year's first filing for an initial public offering, part of a spinoff from China's WH Group Ltd., represented by Paul Hastings LLP and underwriters' counsel Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP.
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January 06, 2025
Olshan Frome, Ellenoff Grossman Guide Gun Biz SPAC Deal
Online firearm retailer GrabAGun, advised by Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP, announced plans on Monday to go public through a $150 million merger with special purpose acquisition company Colombier II, led by Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP.
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January 06, 2025
More Investment Firms Fight Saba's Plans To Oust Boards
Another two investment companies listed on the London Stock Exchange warned shareholders on Monday against voting for proposals by Saba Capital Management LP to infiltrate their boards with its own nominees, calling the U.S. hedge fund's plans "opportunistic" and "self-serving."
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January 03, 2025
Cancer Drug Co. Revives Bid To Go Public Via Direct Listing
Brain cancer-focused drug developer NeOnc Technologies Holdings Inc. filed plans on Friday to go public through a direct listing, represented by Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP, as it pursues an alternative to an initial public offering after canceling a prior IPO attempt.
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January 03, 2025
PayPal's Minority Program Biased Against Asians, Suit Says
A lawsuit filed in New York federal court alleges that PayPal's $535 million investment program for Black- and minority-led businesses is racially biased against Asian Americans and violates federal civil rights laws.
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January 03, 2025
Food Delivery App Inks $80M Deal To End SPAC Merger Suit
Investors suing mobile food delivery and ride-hailing services operator Grab Holdings Ltd. have asked a New York federal judge to preliminarily approve an $80 million deal to settle claims that several sections of a proxy statement Grab filed with a special purpose acquisition company were false and misleading.
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January 03, 2025
Missed Deadline Bars Startup Investors' Conspiracy Claims
A three-year statute of limitations — missed by a little more than a month — dooms civil conspiracy claims in a lawsuit alleging that partners in a venture capital firm created "sham" independent contractor agreements with a firm controlled by one of its partners to charge "massive and inexplicable" fees, a Massachusetts judge has ruled.
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January 03, 2025
DE Shaw Rips Air Products' CEO Succession Plan Failure
Activist investment firm The D.E. Shaw Group on Friday slammed the board of directors of industrial gas supplier Air Products and Chemicals Inc., accusing it of failing to manage an effective CEO succession process, and called for a change in the board's composition and the retirement of the company's current CEO.
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January 03, 2025
Influencer Marketing Biz Later Buys Mavely In $250M Deal
Influencer marketing and social media management software services company Later on Friday announced plans to buy everyday influencer platform Mavely in a $250 million deal.
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January 03, 2025
PE Firm Permira To Buy Stake In Energy Adviser Westbridge
British investment company Permira Funds has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Westbridge Advisory, a European energy and sustainability consultancy for the real estate industry.
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January 02, 2025
A-Rod's SPAC Deal Seeks Extra Innings, Plus More IPOs Filed
The period between Christmas Eve and Jan. 1 wasn't completely quiet on the capital markets deals front, with A-Rod's special purpose acquisition company seeking an extension to complete its merger and several new IPOs being filed. Here, Law360 looks at the capital markets news from the holiday break.
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January 02, 2025
Interactive Brokers Fined $2.2M Over 'Free-Riding' Monitoring
Interactive Brokers LLC has agreed to pay $2.25 million to settle allegations from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority that the firm failed to detect millions of so-called free-riding transactions in customers' cash accounts.
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January 02, 2025
Del. Courts Gavel Out 2024 With Fox, Opioid Case Rulings
2024 went out with a flurry of rulings in Delaware's corporate and commercial law courts, while the new year saw a Chancery veteran become that court's first senior magistrate. Here's a quick roundup of the latest news in First State courts.
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January 02, 2025
4 Firms Build CA$169M Take-Private Of Quisitive Technology
Microsoft cloud and artificial intelligence solutions provider Quisitive Technology Solutions Inc. on Thursday announced that it has agreed to go private and be bought by private equity shop H.I.G. Capital in a CA$169.1 million ($117.1 million) deal built by four law firms.
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January 02, 2025
Food Service Tech Biz Buys PE-Owned Delaget In $132M Deal
Food service technology company Par Technology Corp. on Thursday announced plans to acquire restaurant analytics business Delaget LLC in a $132 million deal.
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January 01, 2025
High-Stakes Healthcare Court Battles To Watch In 2025
With pivotal health law cases on the docket in 2025, attorneys will be watching how the incoming Trump administration proceeds in ongoing litigation over abortion care, the Affordable Care Act and the Medicare drug price negotiation program.
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January 01, 2025
5 Energy Transactional Trends To Watch In 2025
A second Donald Trump presidency and a resulting shift in federal policy away from clean energy and toward fossil fuels will cloud the dealmaking environment for the energy industry, but attorneys believe the deal pace will remain brisk across the sector. Here are five transactional trends that are worth watching closely this year.
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January 01, 2025
Trump 2.0 Signals Shift Toward Capital Markets Deregulation
The arrival of a second Trump administration promising a business-friendly agenda, along with Republican majorities governing Congress and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, signals a decisive shift toward deregulation that observers expect will broadly impact capital markets in 2025 and beyond.
Expert Analysis
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Key Takeaways From 2024 Accountants' Liability Conference
At the recent annual Accountants' Liability Conference, regulators provided important commentary on new Public Company Accounting Oversight Board rulemaking and standard-setting initiatives, and emphasized regulatory priorities ranging from the tone at the top to alternative practice structures, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.
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Series
Fishing Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Atop the list of ways fishing makes me a better lawyer is the relief it offers from the chronic stress of a demanding caseload, but it has also improved my listening skills and patience, and has served as an exceptional setting for building earnest relationships, says Steven DeGeorge at Robinson Bradshaw.
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Parsing Controversial Del. General Corporation Law Proposals
In response to issues raised in three recent high-profile Delaware Court of Chancery decisions, many amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law were quickly proposed that, if enacted, would bring significant changes likely to be hotly debated — and litigated — for the foreseeable future, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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A Healthier Legal Industry Starts With Emotional Intelligence
The legal profession has long been plagued by high rates of mental health issues, in part due to attorneys’ early training and broader societal stereotypes — but developing one’s emotional intelligence is one way to foster positive change, collectively and individually, says attorney Esperanza Franco.
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To Make Your Legal Writing Clear, Emulate A Master Chef
To deliver clear and effective written advocacy, lawyers should follow the model of a fine dining chef — seasoning a foundation of pure facts with punchy descriptors, spicing it up with analogies, refining the recipe and trimming the fat — thus catering to a sophisticated audience of decision-makers, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
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Circuit Judge Writes An Opinion, AI Helps: What Now?
Last week's Eleventh Circuit opinion in Snell v. United Specialty Insurance, notable for a concurrence outlining the use of artificial intelligence to evaluate a term's common meaning, is hopefully the first step toward developing a coherent basis for the judiciary's generative AI use, says David Zaslowsky at Baker McKenzie.
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A Look At M&A Conditions After FTC's Exxon-Pioneer Nod
The Federal Trade Commission's recent consent decree imposing several conditions on Exxon Mobil's acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources helps illustrate key points about the current merger enforcement environment, including the probability of further investigations in the energy and pharmaceutical sectors, say Ryan Quillian and John Kendrick at Covington.
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FTC Theories Of Harm After Anesthesia Co. Ruling
As Federal Trade Commission litigation against U.S. Anesthesia Partners proceeds following a Texas federal court's recent decision to dismiss a private equity sponsor from the suit, the case attempts to incorporate and advance some of the commission's theories of competitive harm from the final 2023 Merger Guidelines, say attorneys at Mintz.
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Investors Can Aid In The Acceptance Of Psychedelic Medicine
Psychedelic medicine is ready to have its breakthrough moment, and although it still faces political, legal and communications challenges, private equity investors can play a significant role in changing the public perception on psychedelics from taboo to acceptance, say Kimberly Chew at Husch Blackwell, Charlie Panfil at the Daschle Group and Ethan Lutz at FTI Consulting.
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Perspectives
Trauma-Informed Legal Approaches For Pro Bono Attorneys
As National Trauma Awareness Month ends, pro bono attorneys should nevertheless continue to acknowledge the mental and physical effects of trauma, allowing them to better represent clients, and protect themselves from compassion fatigue and burnout, say Katherine Cronin at Stinson and Katharine Manning at Blackbird.
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What Updated PLR Procedure May Mean For Stock Spin-Offs
A recently published Internal Revenue Service revenue procedure departs from commonly understood interpretations of the spinoff rules by imposing more stringent standards on companies seeking private letter rulings regarding tax-free stock spinoff and split-off transactions, and may presage regulatory changes that would have the force of law, say attorneys at Skadden.
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Opinion
Del. Needs To Urgently Pass Post-Moelis Corporate Law Bill
After the Delaware Chancery Court's decision in West Palm Beach Firefighters' Pension v. Moelis sparked confusion around governance rights, recently proposed amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law would preserve the state's predictable corporate governance system, says Lawrence Hamermesh at Widener University Delaware Law School.
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4 Arbitration Takeaways From High Court Coinbase Ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court's May 23 decision in Coinbase v. Suski, which provides clarity to parties faced with successive contracts containing conflicting dispute resolution provisions, has four practical impacts for contracting parties to consider, say Charles Schoenwetter and Eric Olson at Bowman and Brooke.
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Series
Playing Music Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My deep and passionate involvement in playing, writing and producing music equipped me with skills — like creativity, improvisation and problem-solving — that contribute to the success of my legal career, says attorney Kenneth Greene.
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How Attys Can Avoid Pitfalls When Withdrawing From A Case
The Trump campaign's recent scuffle over its bid to replace its counsel in a pregnancy retaliation suit offers a chance to remind attorneys that many troubles inherent in withdrawing from a case can be mitigated or entirely avoided by communicating with clients openly and frequently, says Christopher Konneker at Orsinger Nelson.