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January 23, 2025
Conflict Limits 1 Lawyer On Javice Team As Trial Date Slips
A lawyer defending Charlie Javice on charges she swindled JPMorgan Chase into paying $175 million for a financial aid startup she founded will be limited in representing her, a Manhattan federal judge said Thursday, before pushing trial back a week.
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January 23, 2025
Khan Leaving The Federal Trade Commission By Jan. 31
Federal Trade Commission member Lina M. Khan has said she'll leave the agency by the end of the month, stepping down after President Donald Trump's inauguration enshrined her demotion from chair to line commissioner.
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January 23, 2025
Mergers & Acquisitions Group Of The Year: Weil
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP clinched some of the largest deals of 2024 for big-name clients as diverse as The Home Depot, Sunoco, Cedar Fair and a consortium that includes Glencore PLC, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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January 23, 2025
Spotless Brands' Sale Could Make Splash, And More Rumors
Owners of Spotless Brands are seeking to sell the car-wash operator for $3 billion, while more overseas companies are preparing U.S. initial public offerings, including Chinese self-driving systems maker Inceptio Technologies and Israel-based cryptocurrency trading platform eToro. Here, Law360 breaks down the notable deal rumors from the past week.
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January 23, 2025
Latham-Led Brookfield Buying Divvy Homes For $1B
A Brookfield private real estate fund has agreed to acquire Divvy Homes' property portfolio and platform for approximately $1 billion, with an expected close in mid-February, the companies announced Wednesday.
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January 23, 2025
Baker Botts Adds DOJ Atty Who Led Airline Merger Challenge
The former U.S. Department of Justice antitrust attorney who led the agency's successful challenge to a proposed merger between JetBlue and Spirit Airlines has joined Baker Botts LLP as a partner in the firm's Washington, D.C., office.
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January 23, 2025
Holland & Knight Adds Davis Wright's Ex-Managing Partner
Holland & Knight LLP has added a corporate and venture capital attorney who last year stepped down as Davis Wright Tremaine LLP's managing partner, the firm announced Thursday.
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January 23, 2025
Greenlight CLO Rejoins Nelson Mullins As Corporate Co-Chair
The former chief legal officer at family-oriented personal finance company Greenlight Financial Technology Inc. has rejoined Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP in Atlanta to co-chair the firm's corporate practice group.
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January 23, 2025
Bain Matches CC Capital's Rival Bid For Insignia Financial
Bain Capital has submitted a revised bid of more than $1.9 billion for Australia's Insignia Financial Ltd., matching an earlier revised offer submitted by fellow U.S. private equity firm CC Capital Partners just days ago, Insignia said Thursday.
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January 22, 2025
American, JetBlue Ink $1.9M Atty Fee Deal After Antitrust Loss
A Massachusetts federal judge signed off Tuesday on a settlement requiring American Airlines and JetBlue to cover $1.9 million worth of legal fees that a group of state attorneys general spent successfully challenging the two airlines' Northeast Alliance joint venture as anticompetitive.
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January 22, 2025
Del. Justices Probe $10.4B Anaplan-Thoma Bravo Deal
The Delaware Supreme Court on Wednesday repeatedly asked attorneys what Anaplan Inc.'s officers needed to tell shareholders before they voted on the company's $10.4 billion sale to private equity firm Thoma Bravo, probing what sorts of disclosures would be required under the First State's so-called Corwin doctrine.
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January 22, 2025
Former Pioneer CEO Sues FTC Over Exxon Board Block
The former CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources, Scott Sheffield, accused the Federal Trade Commission of violating his constitutional rights by barring him from serving on Exxon Mobil Corp.'s board when the agency cleared a $60 billion merger between Exxon and Pioneer.
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January 22, 2025
Securities Defense Bar Notched More Dismissals In '24
Courts threw out more securities class actions last year than they had in years before, reversing a six-year downturn in the number of shareholder suits resolved through settlement or dismissal, according to a Wednesday report by National Economic Research Associates Inc.
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January 22, 2025
Waste Co. Says Ex-Director Used Secret Info For Sabotage
Commercial waste management company RTS has accused a former board director in Delaware Chancery Court of misusing its confidential information and deliberately sabotaging the business to try to force a cheap sale to the ex-director's private equity firm.
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January 22, 2025
Pa. Justices Revive Case Over Hospital Care Discontinuation
Pennsylvania's highest court on Wednesday ruled a trial court had reasonable grounds to halt plans by now-bankrupt hospital operator Prospect Medical Holdings Inc. to discontinue emergency and acute care services at a Delaware County facility.
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January 22, 2025
Paul Weiss Repping Aptiv On Plans To Split Into 2 Companies
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP-led technology company Aptiv PLC on Wednesday announced plans to separate its Electrical Distribution Systems business, creating two independent companies that it says are "optimally positioned" to serve customers.
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January 22, 2025
Paul Weiss Guides Ares On $304M Form Technologies Buy
Paul Weiss is guiding an Ares Management-led group on the $304 million purchase of a majority of Form Technologies Inc.'s common equity, in a transaction that allows Kirkland & Ellis LLP-advised Form to "substantially deleverage" its balance sheet, Form said Wednesday.
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January 22, 2025
Mergers & Acquisitions Group Of The Year: Simpson Thacher
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's mergers and acquisitions team clinched some of the biggest deals that reshaped the technology and media landscapes in the past year, including Cisco Systems' $28 billion purchase of Splunk and Paramount's $28 billion merger with Skydance Media, landing the law firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Mergers & Acquisitions Groups of the Year.
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January 22, 2025
Saudi Wealth Fund Selling Biz Service Firm In $907M Deal
Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund said Wednesday it has agreed to sell business services and digital solutions firm Thiqah to Elm Company, a Saudi Arabian digital security firm, in a deal valued at $907 million.
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January 21, 2025
Ex-Meta COO Sanctioned For Deleting Cambridge Emails
A Delaware Court of Chancery judge on Tuesday sanctioned Meta Platforms Inc.'s former Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg in consolidated litigation over the Facebook Cambridge Analytica data scandal, finding that she likely selectively deleted emails that related to the litigation.
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January 21, 2025
Del. Justices Seal Oracle's Win In $9.3B NetSuite Merger Suit
The Delaware Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed the Chancery Court's toss last year of a challenge to Oracle Corp.'s $9.3 billion acquisition of NetSuite Corp. in 2016, saying the Chancery did not err in finding that the transaction was untainted from influence by Oracle's management or its founder and top shareholder.
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January 21, 2025
Judge OKs Deal To Keep Some American Freight Stores Open
A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved a sale in Chapter 11 that will keep the lights on in more than two dozen American Freight home furnishing stores by transferring their leases from the bankrupt Franchise Group.
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January 21, 2025
Colo. Court OKs Use Of LLC Test For LPs In Ranch War
A Colorado state appeals court affirmed a trial court's decision to dissolve a partnership that owned a ranch in the state, ruling for the first time that a test for determining when judicial dissolution is necessary can be applied to limited partnerships.
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January 21, 2025
Paul Hastings Repping TikTok Buyout Consortium
Global law firm Paul Hastings LLP said Tuesday it is representing an American investor group, led by the founder of Employer.com, that has launched a formal bid to acquire the U.S. operations of TikTok.
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January 21, 2025
Ex-Cannabis Exec Hit With Insider Trading Charges
A former executive of cannabis giant Verano Holdings and friends from his country club have been hit with both criminal charges and a civil lawsuit for insider trading, with the government alleging they bought stock in a rival cannabis company Verano had planned to acquire based on nonpublic information.
Expert Analysis
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Striking A Balance Between AI Use And Attorney Well-Being
As the legal industry increasingly adopts generative artificial intelligence tools to boost efficiency, leaders must note the hidden costs of increased productivity, and work to protect attorneys’ well-being while unlocking AI’s full potential, says Ed Sohn at Factor.
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Empathy In Mediation Offers A Soft Landing For Disputes
Experiencing a crash-landing on a recent flight underscored to me how much difference empathy makes in times of crisis or stress, including during mediation, says Eydith Kaufman at Alternative Resolution Centers.
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Series
Being An Artist Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My work as an artist has highlighted how using creativity and precision together — qualities that are equally essential in both art and law — not only improves outcomes, but also leads to more innovative and thoughtful work, says Sarah La Pearl at Segal McCambridge.
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How Judiciary Can Minimize AI Risks In Secondary Sources
Because courts’ standing orders on generative artificial intelligence and other safeguards do not address the risk of hallucinations in secondary source materials, the judiciary should consider enlisting legal publishers and database hosts to protect against AI-generated inaccuracies, say attorneys at Lankler Siffert & Wohl.
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How Attorneys Can Break Free From Career Enmeshment
Ambitious attorneys can sometimes experience career enmeshment — when your sense of self-worth becomes unhealthily tangled up in your legal vocation — but taking the time to discover and realign with your core personal values can help you recover your identity, says Janna Koretz at Azimuth Psychological.
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Lawyers With Disabilities Are Seeking Equity, Not Pity
Attorneys living with disabilities face extra challenges — including the need for special accommodations, the fear of stigmatization and the risk of being tokenized — but if given equitable opportunities, they can still rise to the top of their field, says Kate Reder Sheikh, a former attorney and legal recruiter at Major Lindsey & Africa.
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Fostering Healthcare Industry Success With Joint Ventures
As the healthcare industry continues to evolve, joint ventures remain a key strategy to unite health systems, private equity firms and physician practices in leveraging their collective strengths to foster innovation and improve patient care, say Carole Becker and Travis Jackson at McDermott.
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Opinion
Judicial Committee Best Venue For Litigation Funding Rules
The Advisory Committee on Civil Rules' recent decision to consider developing a rule for litigation funding disclosure is a welcome development, ensuring that the result will be the product of a thorough, inclusive and deliberative process that appropriately balances all interests, says Stewart Ackerly at Statera Capital.
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The Strategic Advantages Of Appointing A Law Firm CEO
The impact on law firms of the recent CrowdStrike outage underscores that the business of law is no longer merely about providing supplemental support for legal practice — and helps explain why some law firms are appointing dedicated, full-time CEOs to navigate the challenges of the modern legal landscape, says Jennifer Johnson at Calibrate Strategies.
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Inside FTC's Decision To Exit Key Merger Review Labor Memo
Despite the Federal Trade Commission's recent withdrawal from a multiagency memorandum of understanding to step up enforcement of labor issues in merger investigations, the antitrust agencies aren't likely to give up their labor market focus, say attorneys at Stinson.
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Comments Show Need For Clarity On SBA Proposed Rule
The recent public comments period for the Small Business Administration's proposed rule on recertification and other regulations underscores the need for more precision, particularly on agreements in principle, which the SBA should address as it moves forward with this rulemaking, say attorneys at Covington.
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Series
Beekeeping Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The practice of patent law and beekeeping are not typically associated, but taking care of honeybees has enriched my legal practice by highlighting the importance of hands-on experience, continuous learning, mentorship and more, says David Longo at Oblon McClelland.
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Election Unlikely To Overhaul Antitrust Enforcers' Labor Focus
Although the outcome of the presidential election may alter the course of antitrust enforcement in certain areas of the economy, scrutiny of labor markets by the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice is likely to remain largely unaffected — with one notable exception, say Jared Nagley and Joy Siu at Sheppard Mullin.
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Opinion
Legal Institutions Must Warn Against Phony Election Suits
With two weeks until the election, bar associations and courts have an urgent responsibility to warn lawyers about the consequences of filing unsubstantiated lawsuits claiming election fraud, says Elise Bean at the Carl Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy.
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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.