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Capital Markets

  • August 12, 2025

    Airbnb Wants Conservative Shareholder Proposal Suit Tossed

    Airbnb has asked a Delaware federal court to toss a suit alleging the vacation rental company wrongfully excluded conservative shareholders' proposals from its 2025 proxy materials, arguing they haven't alleged anyone at the company knew about the proposals at all.

  • August 12, 2025

    3rd Circ. Spurns Perrigo Investor's Bid To Avoid $97M Deal

    A major shareholder in Perrigo Co. PLC has been barred from opting out of a $97 million securities class action settlement, after the Third Circuit held in a precedential opinion on Tuesday that the investor must bear the consequences of its counsel's failure to timely request exclusion.

  • August 12, 2025

    No New Foreign Bribery Trial For Ex-Connecticut Oil Trader

    A former Connecticut oil trader faces sentencing Nov. 4 after a federal judge declined to overturn a jury's verdict finding him guilty of paying bribes to an official at Brazilian oil giant Petroleo Brasileiro SA and laundering money.

  • August 12, 2025

    DOL Yanks 2021 Guidance On Private Equity 401(k) Risks

    The U.S. Department of Labor's employee benefits arm on Tuesday rescinded guidance from 2021 that warned 401(k) plan managers about the risks of investing in private equity, which comes after an executive order last week that called for expanding access to alternative asset classes in defined-contribution retirement plan investing.

  • August 12, 2025

    Rising Star: Dechert's Melissa Wollis

    Melissa Wollis of Dechert LLP steered the largest collateralized loan obligation transaction in history at over $2.3 billion for Golub Capital Partners and helped create the first such transaction since the 2008 financial crisis to offer liabilities denominated in multiple currencies, earning her a spot among the complex financial instruments attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 12, 2025

    Crypto-Focused SPAC Apex Treasury Unveils $250M IPO Plans

    Special purpose acquisition company Apex Treasury Corp. has filed plans for a $250 million initial public offering, with the goal of acquiring a blockchain or crypto treasury company.

  • August 12, 2025

    Ex-Cognizant, Chevron Exec Joining Galaxy Digital As CLO

    Crypto institutional investment and trading firm Galaxy Digital has found a new chief legal officer in the former general counsel of Cognizant Technology Solutions, who also held roles at Chevron and UnitedHealth Group.

  • August 11, 2025

    Calif. Trader To Pay SEC $358K Over Spoofing Allegations

    A former day trader has agreed to give the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission nearly $358,000 to end claims he manipulated options markets by means of so-called spoofing, illegally making about $234,000.

  • August 11, 2025

    4 Takeaways From Trump's Order To Expand 401(k) Assets

    President Donald Trump's recent executive order aimed at expanding 401(k) savers' access to nontraditional 401(k) assets like private equity and crypto could open up a greater portion of the financial market to retirement savers, attorneys say, though plenty of regulatory hurdles lie ahead. Here, Law360 looks at four key takeaways on the order with attorneys and experts.

  • August 11, 2025

    FINRA Fines Goldman Over IPO Conflicts Of Interest

    Investment banking giant Goldman Sachs has agreed to pay the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority $250,000 to end claims it failed to bring in an independent underwriter to work on a registration statement for a $700 million initial public offering in which Goldman had a conflict of interest.

  • August 11, 2025

    Financiers Want Soccer CEO's SPAC Fraud Suit In England

    An investment business and two other financiers urged a Florida federal court to dismiss a soccer company CEO's lawsuit alleging civil securities fraud in a complex financing deal, saying similar litigation has already been initiated in the United Kingdom. 

  • August 11, 2025

    Paxos Is Latest Crypto Firm To Seek OCC Bank Charter

    Stablecoin issuer Paxos Trust Co. LLC said Monday that it has applied to become licensed and supervised by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, joining a wave of digital asset firms that are now pursuing U.S. banking charters from the agency.

  • August 11, 2025

    Judge To Order Bond, Sanctions In Crypto Miner's Ch. 11

    A Delaware bankruptcy judge said Monday she would require the creditors that petitioned to force a cryptocurrency mining operation into Chapter 11 to post a multimillion-dollar bond in case their petition is dismissed.

  • August 11, 2025

    EY Says SPAC Investors' Fraud Suit Is 'Blame-Shifting'

    EY's Middle East affiliates asked a New York federal judge to toss claims that they botched audits of United Arab Emirates-based Brooge Petroleum before its merger with a blank-check company to enable a fraudulent scheme against investors, arguing it was up to the plaintiffs to "kick the tires" before recommending the merger.

  • August 11, 2025

    Proxy Proposals Shift Away From Politics Under Trump

    Shareholder proposals on environmental, social and political topics faced headwinds in early 2025, with both the number of submissions and investor support falling amid Trump administration policy shifts and "dizzying" legal and regulatory changes, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP said in a Monday report. 

  • August 11, 2025

    Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

    Nielsen Holdings Ltd. and consumer intelligence spinoff Nielsen Consumer IQ agreed to end their dispute, a sole investor asked the court to name him lead plaintiff in a suit challenging Endeavor's $13 billion take-private deal, and the Chancery Court announced a new, automated case assignment regime. Here's the latest from the Delaware Chancery Court.

  • August 11, 2025

    Rising Star: Latham's David Siegel

    David Siegel of Latham & Watkins LLP helped advise Guggenheim Securities in connection with structuring the first-ever data center securitization for a hyperscale data center operator, earning him a spot among the complex financial instruments law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 11, 2025

    Crypto Co. Kraken's Litigation Lead Departs After 6 Years

    The deputy general counsel who headed litigation at crypto exchange Kraken is stepping down from the role after helping steer it through multiple battles with federal regulators.

  • August 11, 2025

    Terraform Founder Set To Plead Out Of $40B Fraud Case

    Terraform founder Do Kwon is on track to enter a guilty plea in his $40 billion criminal fraud case, a Manhattan federal judge said Monday, in an order that comes ahead of a scheduled 2026 trial and amid weeks of talks between his lawyers and prosecutors.

  • August 11, 2025

    Photographer Says Media Co. Misued His Bitcoin Photo

    A professional photographer sued financial media company Benzinga on Monday in Michigan federal court, accusing it of wrongfully using one of his copyrighted photos featuring bitcoin iconography in its online content.

  • August 11, 2025

    Goodwin, Kirkland Steer $2B MeridianLink Take-Private Deal

    Financial services-focused software company MeridianLink, led by Goodwin Procter LLP, on Monday announced plans to go private through its acquisition by financial services and technology-focused private equity shop Centerbridge Partners LP, advised by Kirkland & Ellis LLP, in a $2 billion all-cash deal.

  • August 11, 2025

    Ørsted To Raise $9.4B After Delays To US Wind Farm Sale

    Denmark's wind power giant Ørsted AS said Monday that it plans to raise $9.4 billion with support from the Danish state as it blamed resistance by the U.S. government to wind power after Donald Trump took office for disrupting its investment plans.

  • August 08, 2025

    Ripple Exits SEC Case With An Injunction Still Over Its Head

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's long-running case against Ripple Labs has finally come to an end with both sides agreeing to drop competing appeals, but the crypto firm's inability to shake a court-ordered judgment leaves it potentially vulnerable to future enforcement actions.

  • August 08, 2025

    Tornado Cash Case Far From Over With Jury's Mixed Verdict

    The split verdict in the Tornado Cash trial likely won't encourage prosecutors to go after crypto projects for failing to register as money transmitters, but it may still leave software developers open to liability if they seem aware of others' misuse of their creations.

  • August 08, 2025

    BofA Must Face Trust Property Suit, Ga. Judge Says

    A Georgia federal judge refused to let Bank of America escape a proposed class action accusing it of overcharging residential trusts for insurance, ruling in part that the named plaintiff can seek damages for his breach of trust claim against the bank.

Expert Analysis

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    Playing Poker Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Poker is a master class in psychology, risk management and strategic thinking, and I’m a better attorney because it has taught me to read my opponents, adapt when I’m dealt the unexpected and stay patient until I'm ready to reveal my hand, says Casey Kingsley at McCreadyLaw.

  • Does R-Squared Have A Role In Event Study Analysis?

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    With 2024 marking the second consecutive year to experience an increase in securities class action filings, determining the reliability of event study models is of utmost importance, but it's time to reconsider the traditional method of doing so, say analysts at StoneTurn Group.

  • Opinion

    Why It's Time To Retire The Efficient Market Hypothesis

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    As agentic artificial intelligence systems increasingly affect financial markets, the efficient market hypothesis no longer offers a viable foundation for legal and regulatory engagement, and a new theoretical foundation is needed, say Zachary Brenner, a student at California Western School of Law, and attorney Gary Brenner.

  • Key Aspects Of FDIC's Resolution Planning FAQ

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    The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s recent FAQ on changes to its resolution plan rule ease burdensome requirements for some large institutions and exempt others from discussion of franchise components, making it easier for banks to finalize submissions before the July 1 deadline, say attorneys at Moore & Van Allen.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Becoming A Firmwide MVP

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    Though lawyers don't have a neat metric like baseball players for measuring the value they contribute to their organizations, the sooner new attorneys learn skills frequently skipped in law school — like networking, marketing, client development and case evaluation — the more valuable, and less replaceable, they will be, says Alex Barnett at DiCello Levitt.

  • What We Lost After SEC Eliminated Regional Director Role

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    Former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Regional Director Marc Fagel discusses the recent wholesale elimination of the regional director position, the responsibilities of the job itself and why discarding this role highlights how the appearance of creating a more efficient agency may limit the SEC's effectiveness.

  • 4th Circ. Latest To Curb Short-Seller Usage In Securities Suits

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    The Fourth Circuit's recent decision in Defeo v. IonQ will serve as a powerful and persuasive new precedent for corporate defendants as courts continue curtailing securities class action plaintiffs' use of short-seller reports to plead federal securities law claims, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.

  • $38M Law Firm Settlement Highlights 'Unworthy Client' Perils

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    A recent settlement of claims against law firm Eckert Seamans for allegedly abetting a Ponzi scheme underscores the continuing threat of clients who seek to exploit their lawyers in perpetrating fraud, and the critical importance of preemptive measures to avoid these clients, say attorneys at Lockton Companies.

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    Teaching Business Law Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Teaching business law to college students has rekindled my sense of purpose as a lawyer — I am more mindful of the importance of the rule of law and the benefits of our common law system, which helps me maintain a clearer perspective on work, says David Feldman at Feldman Legal Advisors.

  • SEC's Crypto Statement Offers Clarity On Disclosures

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    While the crypto industry awaits a definitive rule from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on whether a crypto-asset is a security, its recent guidance provides a road map for registrants seeking to comply with current disclosure requirements and shows the commission is working toward a comprehensive regulatory framework, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • Deregulation Memo Presents Risks, Opportunities For Cos.

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    A recent Trump administration memo providing direction to agencies tasked with rescinding regulations under an earlier executive order — without undergoing the typical notice-and-review process — will likely create much uncertainty for businesses, though they may be able to engage with agencies to shape the regulatory agenda, say attorneys at Blank Rome.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Mastering Discovery

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    The discovery process and the rules that govern it are often absent from law school curricula, but developing a solid grasp of the particulars can give any new attorney a leg up in their practice, says Jordan Davies at Knowles Gallant.

  • DOJ Signals Major Shift In White Collar Enforcement Priorities

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    In a speech on Monday, an official outlined key revisions to the U.S. Department of Justice’s voluntary self-disclosure, corporate monitorship and whistleblower program policies, marking a meaningful change in the white collar enforcement landscape, and offering companies clearer incentives and guardrails, say attorneys at McGuireWoods.

  • Opinion

    Proposals Against Phillips 66 Threaten Corporate Law

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    Activist investor Elliott Investment Management's latest attempted tactic — initiating a high-stakes proxy contest against Phillips 66 — goes too far and would cause the company to both violate Delaware law and avoid the legal exception to the shareholder proposal process, says J.W. Verret at George Mason University.

  • CFTC Memos Clarify When 'Sorry' Still Gets You Subpoenaed

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    A pair of Commodity Futures Trading Commission advisories released in February and April open a new path to self-reporting but emphasize that serious breaches still warrant a trip to the penalty box, prompting firms to weigh whether — and how — to disclose potential violations in the future, say attorneys at Pryor Cashman.

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