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April 11, 2025
Fox Rothschild Hires Familiar Corporate Partner In Boston
Fox Rothschild LLP has expanded its Boston office with the addition of a聽Withers mergers and acquisitions attorney and corporate partner, who noted his path to the firm was shaped years ago, when he sat across the negotiation table from its lawyers on a memorable deal.
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April 11, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Norton Rose, Ropes & Gray
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Capri Holdings sells Versace to Prada, Woodside Energy sells a liquefied natural gas terminal stake to Stonepeak, crypto infrastructure firm Ripple acquires prime brokerage platform Hidden Road, and Bain Capital takes a stake in Lincoln Financial.
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April 11, 2025
Apollo Plugs $400M Into Joint Venture With Solar Company
Private equity giant Apollo, led by Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, on Friday announced plans to commit up to $400 million to a new joint venture partnership with commercial solar company Summit Ridge Energy LLC.
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April 11, 2025
Irish Food Biz Gets More Time For 拢1.2B Bid For UK Rival
Bakkavor, a British ready-to-eat meals company, said Friday that the deals watchdog has extended the time given to Irish sandwich maker Greencore聽to make a takeover offer worth approximately 拢1.2 billion ($1.5 billion).
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April 11, 2025
UK Probes $3.1B SES-Intelsat Satellites Biz Merger Plan
The Competition and Markets Authority said Friday that it is investigating SES SA's proposed $3.1 billion takeover of rival satellites operator Intelsat SA, as consolidation in the aerospace sector continues to take off to compete with Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
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April 10, 2025
Senate Confirms Meador To Fill 3rd GOP Seat AT FTC
The U.S. Senate voted along party lines Thursday to confirm Kressin Meador Powers LLC partner Mark Meador to the Federal Trade Commission, filling the agency's third Republican seat as the spots left by the recent firing of the commission's two Democrats remain vacant.聽
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April 10, 2025
1st Circ. Asked To Save $34M Fee Bid In JetBlue-Spirit Case
Passengers who launched an antitrust challenge to the since-scrapped JetBlue-Spirit Airlines merger have asked the First Circuit to revive their bid to collect up to $34 million in legal fees, insisting that they paved the way for the deal to be blocked, so they should be declared the "prevailing party."
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April 10, 2025
Bakery Sellers Seek $2M Award From Buyer After Deal Sours
Three companies have hit a bakery investment firm with a lawsuit over its sale of a string of Koffee Kup bakeries in Northeastern states, saying in a Connecticut federal court brief that they are due $2 million under an arbitration award.
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April 10, 2025
Live Nation Cites Amazon's Win In Urging Nix Of Antitrust Suit
An attorney for Live Nation Entertainment and Ticketmaster urged a California federal judge Thursday to rethink his tentative opinion to keep alive an antitrust case alleging monopolization of the concert ticketing market, saying the judge did not consider a recent Ninth Circuit decision in favor of Amazon that "maps 100%" to the case.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Expert Analysis
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Opinion
How The Onion Could Still Buy InfoWars
While a Texas bankruptcy judge nixed the sale of InfoWars to The Onion on Tuesday, a slight tweak to the novel mechanism proposed could make the sale approvable, says Christopher Hampson at the University of Florida.
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Series
Group Running Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The combination of physical fitness and community connection derived from running with a group of business leaders has, among other things, helped me to stay grounded, improve my communication skills, and develop a deeper empathy for clients and colleagues, says Jessica Shpall Rosen聽at聽Greenwald Doherty.
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How White Collar Defense Attys Can Use Summary Witnesses
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.
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Opinion
6 Changes I Would Make If I Ran A Law School
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.
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Predictions For Trump Antitrust Enforcement Of Life Sciences
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.
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Firms Still Have The Edge In Lateral Hiring, But Buyer Beware
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.
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Preparing For The New Restrictions On Investment Into China
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.
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Lights, Camera, Real Estate: Preparing For Film Facility M&A
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.
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Think Like A Lawyer: 1 Type Of Case Complexity Stands Out
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.
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Back To The Future? Antitrust Enforcement Under Trump 2.0
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.
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Think Like A Lawyer: Note 3 Simple Types Of Legal Complexity
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.
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Antitrust in Retail: Handbag Ruling Won't Go Out Of Fashion
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.
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Series
Gardening Makes Me A Better Lawyer
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.
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Takeaways From DOJ's Intervention On Pricing Algorithm Use
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.
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Equitable Mootness Insights From Greenlit Ch. 11 Plan Appeal
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.