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Asset Management

  • September 29, 2025

    Sidley, Hogan Lovells Guide Ares' $1B Meade Pipeline Buy

    Sidley Austin LLP-advised Ares Management Corp. said Monday that it has acquired Hogan Lovells-led Meade Pipeline Co. from XPLR Infrastructure LP, an affiliate of NextEra Energy, for about $1.1 billion. 

  • September 29, 2025

    PE-Backed Alliance Laundry Launches Plans For $700M IPO

    Laundry systems giant Alliance Laundry Holdings on Monday filed plans for an estimated $700 million initial public offering, a move that comes as companies have been increasingly eager to tap the public markets.

  • September 29, 2025

    Va. Immigration Firm Accuses Ex-CFO Of Diverting Funds

    A Virginia-based immigration law firm accused its former chief financial officer Monday of exploiting her access to firm finances by rerouting funds to businesses she controls and charging the firm for Uber rides, Amazon Prime and hotels.

  • September 29, 2025

    Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

    A Delaware vice chancellor expressed disappointment and concern over what she says is a "breakdown" in "civility and respect" that has emerged in recent Delaware corporate litigation. A $30 million settlement was approved in the five-year running Match.com reverse spinoff suit, and the top brass of Estée Lauder were hit with a derivative suit for allegedly covering up the company's reliance on prohibited, duty-free "gray market" sales of its products in China.

  • September 29, 2025

    Avenue Capital Clinches $1B Sports-Focused PE Fund

    New York-headquartered private equity shop Avenue Capital Group announced Monday that it wrapped its Avenue Sports Fund after securing more than $1 billion of capital commitments.

  • September 29, 2025

    NY's Top Financial Services Regulator Is Stepping Down

    The head of the New York State Department of Financial Services is stepping down next month and will be replaced on an interim basis by the chief of its fintech-focused innovation division, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Monday.

  • September 29, 2025

    Duane Morris, DLA Piper Steer $1.2B Hadron SPAC Deal

    Duane Morris LLP-advised nuclear energy company Hadron Energy on Monday announced plans to go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company GigCapital7 Corp., led by DLA Piper, in a deal that values the company at $1.2 billion.

  • September 29, 2025

    6 Firms Advise On EA's $55B Deal With Investor Group

    Electronic Arts Inc. said Monday it has agreed to be acquired by the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, Silver Lake and Affinity Partners at an enterprise value of approximately $55 billion, with six firms steering the transaction. 

  • September 26, 2025

    Trump Says Cook Can't Rely On 'Mantra' Of Fed Independence

    The Trump administration Friday fired back at Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook's argument that the Fed's independence is at stake if the president is allowed to fire her, arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court that Cook invokes "the mantra of Federal Reserve independence" to impose removal protections Congress never enacted.

  • September 26, 2025

    Ex-Wall Street Financier, Assistant Charged With Sex Trafficking

    Retired financier Howard Rubin and his longtime assistant were charged with sex trafficking Friday in New York federal court, where prosecutors say Rubin lured women to his New York City penthouse "dungeon" where he assaulted them.

  • September 26, 2025

    Atty Facing Crypto Fraud Charge Can't Block Evidence At Trial

    A suspended Pennsylvania attorney's requests to exclude certain evidence from his upcoming October cryptocurrency fraud trial were largely shot down by a judge who found, among other things, that the requests should have taken the form of earlier motions to strike certain allegations from the government's indictment. 

  • September 26, 2025

    Swizz Beatz Can't Avoid $7.3M 1MDB Fraud Case

    A New York federal judge on Friday denied hip-hop artist Swizz Beatz's bid to dismiss a lawsuit that alleges he received millions of dollars in the infamous 1Malaysia Development Berhad fraud scandal, saying liquidators for two alleged shell companies sufficiently alleged fraudulent transfers of funds among other claims.

  • September 26, 2025

    SEC Eyes Tweaking RMBS Rules To Revive Dormant Market

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday put out a call for public comments on improving its rules over residential mortgage-backed securities, noting that there have been no such public offerings in more than a decade and questioning whether the agency's requirements may be partially to blame.

  • September 26, 2025

    Del. Suit Alleges Fast-Break Betrayal In NBA Team Bid Plan

    RAJ Sports Holdings LLC is accusing co-CEOs of Panda Express and their family trust of breaching an exclusivity and confidentiality agreement by exiting a nearly completed deal to buy the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers and joining forces with another multibillion-dollar bidder.

  • September 26, 2025

    Capital One Resolves Ex-Workers' 401(k) Forfeiture Suit

    Capital One has agreed to end a proposed class action alleging it unlawfully used tens of millions of dollars in forfeited 401(k) funds to reduce its own contributions to the plan rather than curtail administrative costs, the company told a New York federal court.

  • September 26, 2025

    Freshfields, Simpson Thacher Guide Oracle's $18B Bond Offer

    Software giant Oracle Corp. has priced an $18 billion investment-grade bond offering, a move that comes as the company has ramped up spending to manage increasing demand for artificial intelligence.

  • September 26, 2025

    4th Circ. Says NC Man's Abuse Of Trust Justifies Sentence

    The Fourth Circuit on Friday affirmed a North Carolina man's 33-month sentence for engineering an investment fraud scheme in which he pretended to be a successful day trader, finding he had abused his position of trust sufficient to support a sentencing enhancement.

  • September 26, 2025

    7 Firms Build GTCR's CA$3.3B Dentalcorp Take-Private

    Canadian dental practice network Dentalcorp Holdings Ltd. on Friday revealed that it will become a private company following its acquisition by private equity giant GTCR in an all-cash deal that values the dental network at an enterprise value of roughly CA$3.3 billion ($2.4 billion) and was built by seven law firms.

  • September 26, 2025

    UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

    This past week in London has seen Sanjeev Gupta’s Liberty OneSteel sue its collapsed former lender Greensill Capital, television personality Janice Dickinson hit ITV with a personal injury claim after falling over while appearing on “I’m a Celeb …”, and energy investor Blasket bring fresh litigation against Spain amid a row over a $416 million arbitration award. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

  • September 25, 2025

    Trump Blesses Deal To Transfer TikTok To $14B US Co.

    President Donald Trump Thursday signed an executive order greenlighting a proposed deal that transfers the majority of TikTok's U.S. operations to a new U.S.-based joint venture, saying that the divestiture adequately addresses national security concerns.

  • September 25, 2025

    Fed's Cook Warns Justices Of Fed Independence 'Death Knell'

    Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to reject President Donald Trump's bid to immediately oust her, warning that allowing her dismissal at this juncture would "sound the death knell" for an independent Fed.

  • September 25, 2025

    Atkins Hints At Flexible Reporting Deadlines For Public Cos.

    With the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission preparing to seek public feedback on President Donald Trump's proposal that public companies be allowed to report their financial results only twice a year, agency Chair Paul Atkins suggested Thursday that the SEC may not take a "one-size-fits-all" approach. 

  • September 25, 2025

    Perrigo Mostly Beats US In $163M Tax Refund Dispute

    A Michigan federal court largely sided Thursday with pharmaceutical company Perrigo in a $163 million tax refund case, rejecting the government's claim that the company's transactions with a foreign entity lacked economic substance and were meant only to avoid taxes.

  • September 25, 2025

    GE Avoids Retirees' Lawsuit Over Pension Annuity Deal

    General Electric dodged a proposed class action claiming it put retirees' benefits at risk by transferring over $1.7 billion of pension obligations to a private equity-controlled insurance company, with a New York federal judge ruling the retirees hadn't shown how they'd been harmed.

  • September 25, 2025

    Disney Shareholders Demand Docs Over Kimmel Suspension

    A group of Disney shareholders is demanding to inspect various company books and records related to the decision to suspend "Jimmy Kimmel Live!," saying the company may have put "improper political or affiliate considerations" over stockholder interests.

Expert Analysis

  • Expect DOJ To Repeat 4 Themes From 2024's FCPA Trials

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    As two upcoming Foreign Corrupt Practice Act trials approach, defense counsel should anticipate the U.S. Department of Justice to revive several of the same themes prosecutors leaned on in trials last year to motivate jurors to convict, and build counternarratives to neutralize these arguments, says James Koukios at MoFo.

  • How The SEC Has Subtly Changed Its Injunction Approach

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    For decades, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has relied on the obey-the-law injunction, but judicial deference to the SEC's desired language has fractured since 2012 — with the commission itself this year utilizing a more tailored approach to injunctions, albeit inconsistently, say attorneys at Hilgers Graben.

  • Series

    Power To The Paralegals: How And Why Training Must Evolve

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    Empowering paralegals through new models of education that emphasize digital fluency, interdisciplinary collaboration and human-centered lawyering could help solve workforce challenges and the justice gap — if firms, educators and policymakers get on board, say Kristine Custodio Suero and Kelli Radnothy.

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    Playing Softball Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My time on the softball field has taught me lessons that also apply to success in legal work — on effective preparation, flexibility, communication and teamwork, says Sarah Abrams at Baleen Specialty.

  • IPO Suit Reinforces Strict Section 11 Tracing Requirement

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    A California federal court's recent dismissal of an investor class action against Allbirds in connection with the company's initial public offering cites the U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 Slack v. Pirani decision, reinforcing the firm tracing requirement for Section 11 plaintiffs — even at the pleading stage, say attorneys at Paul Weiss.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Mastering Time Management

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    Law students typically have weeks or months to prepare for any given deadline, but the unpredictability of practicing in the real world means that lawyers must become time-management pros, ready to adapt to scheduling conflicts and unexpected assignments at any given moment, says David Thomas at Honigman.

  • Courts Keep Upping Standing Ante In ERISA Healthcare Suits

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    As Article III standing becomes increasingly important in litigation brought by employer-sponsored health plan members under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, several recent cases suggest that courts are taking a more scrutinizing approach to the standing inquiry in both class actions and individual matters, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

  • How Hyperlinks Are Changing E-Discovery Responsibilities

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    A recent e-discovery dispute over hyperlinked data in Hubbard v. Crow shows how courts have increasingly broadened the definition of control to account for cloud-based evidence, and why organizations must rethink preservation practices to avoid spoliation risks, says Bree Murphy at Exterro.

  • Ƶ Proposal Defining Consumer Risk May Add Uncertainty

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    Though a recent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposal would codify when risks to consumers justify supervisory intervention against nonbanks, furthering Trump administration plans to curtail Ƶ authority, firms may still struggle to identify what could attract supervisory designation under the new rule, say attorneys at Steptoe.

  • Atkins-Led SEC Continues Focus On Private Funds

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    Since the change in administration, there has overall been a more accommodative regulatory stance toward private funds, but a recent enforcement action suggests that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is not backing off from enforcement in the space completely, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.

  • 9th Circ. Ruling Leaves SEC Gag Rule Open To Future Attacks

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    Though the Ninth Circuit's recent ruling in Powell v. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission leaves the SEC's no-admit, no-deny rule intact, it could provide some fodder for litigants who wish to criticize the commission's activities either before or after settling with the commission, says Jonathan Richman at Brown Rudnick.

  • Series

    Writing Musicals Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My experiences with writing musicals and practicing law have shown that the building blocks for both endeavors are one and the same, because drama is necessary for the law to exist, says Addison O’Donnell at LOIS Law.

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    Adapting To Private Practice: From Va. AUSA To Mid-Law

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    Returning to the firm where I began my career after seven years as an assistant U.S. attorney in Virginia has been complex, nuanced and rewarding, and I’ve learned that the pursuit of justice remains the constant, even as the mindset and client change, says Kristin Johnson at Woods Rogers.

  • Rebutting Price Impact In Securities Class Actions

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    Defendants litigating securities cases historically faced long odds in defeating class certification, but that paradigm has recently begun to shift, with recent cases ushering in a more searching analysis of price impact and changing the evidence courts can consider at the class certification stage, say attorneys at Katten.

  • 7 Document Review Concepts New Attorneys Need To Know

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    For new associates joining firms this fall, stepping into the world of e-discovery can feel like learning a new language, but understanding a handful of fundamentals — from coding layouts to metadata — can help attorneys become fluent in document review, says Ann Motl at Bowman and Brooke.

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