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Mergers & Acquisitions

  • April 10, 2025

    Amazon CEO, Bain Take Spotlight Amid Recent Rumors

    Private equity firm Bain Capital agrees to purchase Sizzling Platter for $1 billion, SC Capital is eyeing British data center group Global Switch in a potential $5 billion deal, and Amazon CEO Andy Jassy addresses a rumored Amazon bid. Here, 极速赛车 breaks down these and other rumor-related developments from the past week.

  • April 10, 2025

    Ex-PE Fund CEO Rejoins Legal Field As Nelson Mullins Partner

    After spending over a decade serving as president and CEO of an international private equity fund, corporate partner Hendrik Jordaan has jumped back into the legal field, joining Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP's mergers and acquisitions practice in the firm's Denver office.

  • April 10, 2025

    Dechert Tax Pro Jumps To Whiteford In NY

    Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLC has added an experienced transactional tax attorney from Dechert LLP as a partner to its practice in New York, the firm announced.

  • April 10, 2025

    Cooley-Led Drone Operator Launches Plans For $75M IPO

    Drone systems developer Airo Group Holdings Inc. launched plans Thursday for an estimated $75 million initial public offering amid choppy market conditions, represented by Cooley LLP and underwriters' counsel Latham & Watkins LLP.

  • April 10, 2025

    Cantor Fitzgerald, Lutnick Beat BGC Stockholder Suit In Del.

    A claim misclassification doomed a stockholder suit accusing Cantor Fitzgerald LP and former BGC Partners CEO Howard Lutnick聽鈥 now U.S. commerce secretary聽鈥 of lining up unfair terms when BGC went public in 2023 in a deal that diluted its minority shareholders, a Delaware vice chancellor ruled on Thursday.

  • April 10, 2025

    Faegre Drinker Adds Morgan Lewis Corporate Partner In Philly

    Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP has announced it hired a Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP corporate attorney, who is joining the firm's Philadelphia office as a partner and will continue working on a variety of business law matters.

  • April 10, 2025

    UK Open To SLB-ChampionX Fixes For $8B Oil Services Deal

    The United Kingdom's Competition and Markets Authority expressed openness Thursday to fixes offered to address antitrust concerns over energy-focused global technology company SLB's proposed $7.8 billion acquisition of chemistry solutions provider ChampionX, based in part on a divestiture already inked to address U.S. worries.

  • April 10, 2025

    Prada Bags Versace From Capri Holdings In $1.37B Deal

    Fashion luxury group Capri Holdings on Thursday announced that it has agreed to sell iconic Italian designer brand Versace to Prada in a 鈧1.25 billion ($1.37 billion) deal meant to allow Capri to focus more on its other two luxury brands: Michael Kors and Jimmy Choo.

  • April 10, 2025

    Meta Trial Rooted In Decade-Old WhatsApp, Instagram Buys

    Federal Trade Commission lawyers are set for a trial Monday that will assess the exact scope of competition that Meta Platform's offerings face providing personal social media services and the reach of monopolization allegations targeting its purchases of WhatsApp and Instagram.

  • April 10, 2025

    Blackstone Bolsters Warehouse Portfolio In $718M Texas Buy

    Blackstone on Thursday announced it has agreed to buy a 6 million-square-foot portfolio of warehouse buildings in Dallas and Houston from Crow Holdings for $718 million in a bet on logistics during a time of market upheaval.

  • April 10, 2025

    Emirates' Renewables Co. Completes 鈧3.2B Buy Of Greek Biz

    Emirati renewable energy company Masdar said on Thursday that it has completed the 鈧3.2 billion ($3.5 billion) acquisition of a Greek operator, Terna Energy SA, in one of the largest deals in the sector in the European Union.

  • April 09, 2025

    'Evasive' Unions Told To List Fired Probationary Workers

    The California federal judge who ordered the reinstatement of many fired probationary federal workers before the U.S. Supreme Court stayed his ruling on Wednesday ordered the public sector unions representing federal staffers to provide a list of their booted members, calling their claims that the information would be difficult to produce "evasive."

  • April 09, 2025

    Trump Orders Agencies To Identify Anticompetitive Rules

    President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday requiring federal agency heads to identify regulations that create anticompetitive barriers with recommendations for what to do about them, following the U.S. Department of Justice's recent announcement of its own similar initiative.

  • April 09, 2025

    Chancery Lets Paramount Investors Probe Skydance Deal

    Delaware's top Chancery magistrate said Wednesday that Paramount Global stockholders probing the company's proposed $8 billion Skydance Media merger can have access to dozens of documents, but kept sealed further details in a transcript of a hearing closed to the public for at least five additional days.

  • April 09, 2025

    Live Nation Likely Won't Escape Concertgoers' Antitrust Suit

    A California federal court indicated on Wednesday that he's not inclined to toss an antitrust case from consumers accusing Live Nation Entertainment Inc. and Ticketmaster LLC of monopolizing the concert ticketing market following their 2010 merger.

  • April 09, 2025

    Defunct Concrete Co.'s Profits Were An 'Illusion,' NC Jury Told

    The former owner of a concrete business that flopped months after it was bought out cooked the books to make the sale look more appealing, a federal jury in聽North Carolina heard Wednesday at the start of a civil fraud trial, in which the company's buyer has alleged he was lured into a bad deal.

  • April 09, 2025

    White & Case-Led EQT Inks Nearly $3B Health Deal With KKR

    KKR & Co. has agreed to acquire Sweden's Karo Healthcare from EQT, marking the handover of a company that has quadrupled in sales over the past five years,聽the companies said Wednesday, in a deal worth up to a reported 2.6 billion euros ($2.85 billion).

  • April 09, 2025

    Winston & Strawn Leads Fintech-Focused SPAC's $240M IPO

    Special purpose acquisition company Titan Acquisition Corp. began trading Wednesday after pricing a $240 million initial public offering in pursuit of a merger with a fintech or related business, represented by Winston & Strawn LLP and underwriters' counsel Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP.

  • April 09, 2025

    Pillsbury Expands Houston Office With 3 Corporate Attys

    Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP has added three attorneys with unique dealmaking experience to its growing Houston office.

  • April 09, 2025

    23andMe Asks For Independent Customer Data Rep In Ch. 11

    Genetic testing company 23andMe asked a Missouri bankruptcy judge to let it appoint an independent customer data representative as it looks to sell genetic data of 15 million users at a Chapter 11 auction.

  • April 09, 2025

    3 Firms Build Bain's $825M Lincoln Financial Stake Buy

    Insurance company Lincoln Financial on Wednesday revealed that it has secured an $825 million strategic growth investment from private equity giant Bain Capital in exchange for a minority equity stake in a deal built by three law firms.

  • April 09, 2025

    Ex-Qualcomm Executive Convicted Of $180M Fraud

    A federal jury in San Diego has found a former executive at Qualcomm guilty of聽defrauding the chipmaker by creating a fake company, concealing his connection to it and selling it to Qualcomm for $180 million.

  • April 09, 2025

    Ancora Drops US Steel Pursuit After Trump Flags Nippon Deal

    Ancora Holdings Group said Wednesday it is withdrawing its slate of director candidates for U.S. Steel's upcoming annual meeting, citing "apparent momentum" for the $14.9 billion acquisition by Japan's Nippon Steel after President Donald Trump announced a fresh national security review of the deal Monday.聽

  • April 09, 2025

    Paper Towel Maker For Trader Joe's, Aldi Files For Ch. 11

    Arizona-based Royal Interco LLC, which supplies private-label paper products for grocery chains including Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, Kroger and Aldi, filed for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware, saying it has $205 million in outstanding secured debt and a stalking horse bid to acquire the company for $126 million.

  • April 09, 2025

    MoFo Hires Ex-Proskauer Private Equity Partner In NYC

    Morrison Foerster LLP has announced the hiring of a former partner at Proskauer Rose LLP based in New York as the latest addition to its private equity group.

Expert Analysis

  • How White Collar Defense Attys Can Use Summary Witnesses

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    Few criminal defense attorneys have successfully utilized summary witnesses in the past, but several recent success stories show that it can be a worthwhile trial tactic to help juries understand the complex decision-making at issue, says Jonathan Porter at Husch Blackwell.

  • Opinion

    6 Changes I Would Make If I Ran A Law School

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    Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner identifies several key issues plaguing law schools and discusses potential solutions, such as opting out of the rankings game and mandating courses in basic writing skills.

  • Predictions For Trump Antitrust Enforcement Of Life Sciences

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    Key life sciences antitrust issues of the past two administrations may indicate the direction of enforcement during President-elect Donald Trump's second term, including in areas such as drug prices, killer acquisitions and merger remedies, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

  • Firms Still Have The Edge In Lateral Hiring, But Buyer Beware

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    Partner mobility data suggests that the third quarter of this year continued to be a buyer鈥檚 market, with the average candidate demanding less compensation for a larger book of business 鈥 but moving into the fourth quarter, firms should slow down their hiring process to minimize risks, say officers at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.

  • Preparing For The New Restrictions On Investment Into China

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    In light of a new regulatory program governing U.S. investments in China-related technology companies of national security concern, investors should keep several considerations in mind, including the rules' effect on existing and new investments, compliance hurdles, and penalties for noncompliance ahead of the rules' January implementation, say attorneys at Gunderson Dettmer.

  • Lights, Camera, Real Estate: Preparing For Film Facility M&A

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    As the entertainment industry struggles to recover from multiple strikes and a decline in production, certain aspects of selling or acquiring production facilities may become important to consider, as these assets are valued very differently from typical commercial real estate properties, say attorneys at Olshan Frome.

  • Think Like A Lawyer: 1 Type Of Case Complexity Stands Out

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    In contrast to some cases that appear complex due to voluminous evidence or esoteric subject matter, a different kind of complexity involves tangled legal and factual questions, each with a range of possible outcomes, which require a 鈥渟liding scale鈥 approach instead of syllogistic reasoning, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.

  • Back To The Future? Antitrust Enforcement Under Trump 2.0

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    While the transition to the second Trump administration's antitrust policy should be accompanied by less uncertainty, we're unlikely to get a full sense of the true focus and tenor of competition enforcement under Trump 2.0 before late next year, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.

  • Think Like A Lawyer: Note 3 Simple Types Of Legal Complexity

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    Cases can appear complex for several reasons 鈥 due to the number of issues, the volume of factual and evidentiary sources, and the sophistication of those sources 鈥 but the same basic technique can help lawyers tame their arguments into a simple and persuasive message, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.

  • Antitrust in Retail: Handbag Ruling Won't Go Out Of Fashion

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    Although a New York federal court鈥檚 recent decision to enjoin a proposed $8.5 billion merger between the owners of Michael Kors and Coach applied noncontroversial antitrust interpretations, several notable aspects of the opinion stand out as likely candidates for further discussion in future merger litigation, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

  • Series

    Gardening Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Beyond its practical and therapeutic benefits, gardening has bolstered important attributes that also apply to my litigation practice, including persistence, patience, grit and authenticity, says Christopher Viceconte at Gibbons.

  • Takeaways From DOJ's Intervention On Pricing Algorithm Use

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    A recent U.S. Justice Department amicus brief arguing that a Nevada federal judge wrongly focused on the nonbinding aspect of software company Cendyn Group's pricing algorithm underscores the growing challenge of determining when, if ever, pricing algorithms are legal, say attorneys at Rule Garza.

  • Equitable Mootness Insights From Greenlit Ch. 11 Plan Appeal

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    A Texas federal court recently allowed a challenge to ConvergeOne's Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan to proceed because it wouldn't disrupt the IT company's confirmed plan or harm creditors, reinforcing the importance of judicial restraint in applying equitable mootness where limited relief is possible, say attorneys at Parkins & Rubio.

  • Litigation Inspiration: Reframing Document Review

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    For attorneys 鈥 new ones especially 鈥 there is much fulfillment to find in document review by reflecting on how important, interesting and pleasant it can be, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

  • Expect More State Scrutiny Of PE In Healthcare M&A

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    While a California bill that called for increased antitrust scrutiny of many healthcare private equity transactions was recently vetoed by the governor, state legislatures are likely to continue introducing similar laws, particularly if the Trump administration eases federal enforcement, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

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