/capitalmarkets?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Capital Markets Copyright 2025 ¼«ËÙÈü³µ. en-US Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:59:42 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2372307?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2372307 A North Carolina Business Court judge declined to allow a private equity investor to voluntarily dismiss its derivative lawsuit against the fund's asset manager and majority owner and move the case to Delaware, finding that the shareholder failed to plead facts demonstrating a legitimate derivative claim under Delaware law. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:53:54 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2372255?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2372255 A bipartisan group of former federal lawmakers is urging the Third Circuit to continue preventing New Jersey gambling regulators from taking action over KalshiEx's sports contracts, saying Congress intended for the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to have the final say on event contracts trading on federally regulated markets. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 21:18:20 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2371692?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2371692 Minority shareholders in telecommunications infrastructure firm Continental Towers LATAM Holding say they are not the ones stopping an arbitral award from being enforced, and have tried to comply with the court's orders but are "caught in the cross-hairs of a personal vendetta." Fri, 01 Aug 2025 20:56:47 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2372541?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2372541 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Friday that it plans to ramp up its internal use of artificial intelligence tools with a new task force led by a veteran staffer who's recently led the agency's fintech efforts. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:19:03 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2372482?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2372482 A Texas federal judge Friday gave Texas and other states the go-ahead to pursue claims that BlackRock Inc. and other asset managers used market muscle to decrease coal production, saying the states plausibly showed that the asset managers breached antitrust laws. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:58:44 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2372215?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2372215 Two newly unveiled mergers involving special purpose acquisition companies will aim to take a nuclear energy company and an Italian e-grocery operation public on U.S. exchanges at a combined value of nearly $500 million. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:56:27 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2367457?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2367457 After the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down the practice of nationwide injunctions in Trump v. Casa, Section 1983 civil rights suits can provide a better pathway to hold the government accountable — but this will require reforms to qualified immunity, says Marc Levin at the Council on Criminal Justice. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:30:19 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2370698?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2370698 Big Tech firms are increasingly turning to so-called reverse acquihires to quickly secure talent and technology, but as these deals grow in size and frequency, they may invite the very regulatory scrutiny the strategy is designed to avoid. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:04:01 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2358739?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2358739 Last year, London-based Chrishan Raja of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP steered several companies through complicated changes in U.K. regulatory policy, advising on landmark deals that totaled more than €8 billion ($9.23 billion at the current exchange rate), including the listing of Canal+ on the London Stock Exchange as an independent company, earning him a spot among the capital markets attorneys under age 40 honored by ¼«ËÙÈü³µ as Rising Stars. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:43:34 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2372410?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2372410 A former Webster Bank general counsel who pled guilty to bank fraud must pay by Oct. 1 the remaining $2.5 million he owes in restitution, a federal judge has ruled, finding that the man's bank accounts and securities are enough to cover the difference. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:26:12 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2372379?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2372379 In this week's Taxation With Representation, Union Pacific Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp. announce megamerger plans, Palo Alto Networks acquires identity security company CyberArk, Brookfield buys British life insurer Just Group, and Duke Energy sells its Piedmont Natural Gas Tennessee local distribution business to Spire Inc. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:32:49 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2366740?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2366740 Banking agencies' recent proposal to modify the enhanced supplementary leverage ratio framework applicable to the largest U.S. banks shows the regulators are keen to address concerns that the regulatory capital framework is too restrictive, say attorneys at Moore & Van Allen. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 22:28:58 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2371742?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2371742 Sports betting giant DraftKings Inc. and purchasers of certain nonfungible tokens it offered have gotten a judge's final sign-off for their $10 million deal ending claims the tokens ran afoul of securities laws. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 22:09:11 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2371871?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2371871 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins said Thursday that he's mobilized staff across the agency to craft rules and exemptions for digital assets, a plan aimed at bringing the crypto industry back onshore with a recent set of White House recommendations serving as the "blueprint." Thu, 31 Jul 2025 21:42:24 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2371872?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2371872 Top Senate Democrats on banking and financial committees urged the Comptroller of the Currency Thursday to detail how he will address the potential for interference by President Trump now that the agency is charged with regulating stablecoins like the one the president's family has launched. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 21:20:34 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2371789?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2371789 A Hagens Berman client who lost the fight against Universal Investment to lead investor claims against Super Micro Computer has blasted the fund's opposition to its bid for a California federal judge to reconsider the denial, arguing Universal's attorneys from Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP have a "documented history" of "misleading courts." Thu, 31 Jul 2025 19:40:59 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2371975?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2371975 Users of the nonfungible token marketplace known as NBA Top Shot asked a California federal judge Thursday to grant the first green light to a $7.05 million settlement they reached with the marketing arm of the NBA and a cryptocurrency company that will resolve a class action over privacy concerns related to the marketplace. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:44:26 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2368647?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2368647 Public accounting firms will need to comply with new standards aimed at strengthening their quality control systems by the end of this year, a significant challenge sure to increase costs, individual liability and regulatory scrutiny, say Kelly Bossard at FTI Consulting and Mike Plotnick at King & Spalding. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:27:30 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2370892?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2370892 A Milwaukee-based advisory firm is in late talks for a stake sale at a $1 billion valuation, Black Rock Coffee Bar files confidentially for an initial public offering at a similar value, and the Intercontinental Exchange is in talks to buy Enverus for $6 billion. Here, ¼«ËÙÈü³µ breaks down these and other notable rumors from the past week. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:00:30 +0000 /capitalmarkets/articles/2358737?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /capitalmarkets/articles/2358737 Chelsea Anderson of Fenwick & West LLP counseled project management software company Smartsheet Inc. on its $8.4 billion acquisition by a private equity consortium and advised real estate tech company Redfin on its $1.75 billion acquisition by Rocket Companies, earning Anderson a spot among the capital markets law practitioners under age 40 honored by ¼«ËÙÈü³µ as Rising Stars.