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  • August 05, 2025

    Trump-Tied SPAC Exec Rips SEC Suit After Deal Talks Fizzle

    The former CEO of the special-purpose acquisition company that took President Donald Trump's social media platform public has renewed his bid to dismiss the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's suit alleging he failed to timely alert investors to the prospective deal after settlement talks broke down.

  • August 05, 2025

    Binance Founder Seeks Exit From FTX $1.76B Clawback Suit

    Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to dismiss him from a clawback suit filed by the estate of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX seeking to recover $1.76 billion it says FTX illegally transferred before its collapse two years ago, saying the transaction was outside the court's jurisdiction.

  • August 05, 2025

    Lottery.com SPAC Exec Wants Info From California Fraud Case

    A Manhattan federal judge said Tuesday that he will weigh a request by a special purpose acquisition company CEO accused of fraud in a merger involving Lottery.com Inc. to have New York prosecutors provide discovery from a California criminal case.

  • August 05, 2025

    Housing Builder Boxabl Goes Public Via $3.5B SPAC Deal

    Housing solutions company Boxabl Inc., advised by Winston & Strawn LLP, announced plans on Tuesday to go public via a merger with Loeb & Loeb LLP-led special purpose acquisition company FG Merger II Corp. in a deal that values the business at $3.5 billion.

  • August 04, 2025

    Vestis Shareholder Drops Suit Over Growth Plan Statements

    A Vestis Corp. shareholder on Monday dropped his latest attempt to hold current and former executives and board members liable for allegedly breaching their fiduciary duties by making false and misleading statements about the uniform and workplace supply provider's financial condition and growth prospects.

  • August 04, 2025

    Trump's Sons Back 'New America' SPAC's $300M IPO Filing

    Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are backing a new special-purpose acquisition company that, with guidance from Paul Hastings LLP and Holland & Knight LLP, plans to raise $300 million and will target the technology, healthcare and logistics sectors, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Monday.

  • August 04, 2025

    4 Firms Build $558M Crypto Treasury With Telegram Token

    Guided by Perkins Coie LLP and Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, Verb Technology Co. Inc. announced Monday a $558 million private placement deal to stockpile the Telegram-afflilated TONcoin token.

  • August 04, 2025

    Kalshi Incurs 1st Loss In Quest To Avoid State Scrutiny

    A Maryland federal judge won't bar the state's gaming regulators from taking action over Kalshi's sports event contracts for the time being, finding the trading platform hasn't shown that Congress specifically intended to preempt state gambling laws when it passed federal derivatives regulation.

  • August 04, 2025

    Rocket Cos. Investor Drops Mich. Derivative Suit

    An investor in the parent company of online mortgage lender Rocket Mortgage has dropped derivative allegations that the company's brass concealed a loan demand downturn a week after a proposed shareholder class action making similar claims was voluntarily tossed.

  • August 04, 2025

    Chancery Spreading Workload, Automating Case Assignments

    Citing in part efforts to balance jurist workloads, Delaware's ever-slammed Court of Chancery reported plans on Monday to field a new, automated case assignment regime in September that will pull more factors into the mix when distributing new cases.

  • August 04, 2025

    Coinbase Moves To End Oregon's Post-SEC Enforcement Suit

    Coinbase Inc. is asking a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit accusing the company of putting Oregonians at financial risk through the operation of an unregistered securities platform, arguing that the state's attorney general is not the proper authority to bring such a lawsuit.

  • August 04, 2025

    Hair Care Brand Olaplex Settles IPO Investors' Suit For $47.5M

    Olaplex Holdings Inc. has reached a $47.5 million settlement with investors to resolve a proposed class action alleging that the hair care brand's initial public offering documents did not disclose that the European Union had banned a controversial ingredient called lilial, which would affect Olaplex's main product offering.

  • August 04, 2025

    Crypto Exchange Bullish Launches Plans For $599M IPO

    Venture-backed crypto exchange Bullish plans to raise roughly $599 million in an upcoming initial public offering, according to a Monday statement indicating that it intends to offer 20.3 million shares priced between $28 and $31 per share.

  • August 04, 2025

    Plaintiff Bar Urges FINRA To Reject Industry's Arbitration Recs

    The Public Investors Advocate Bar Association on Monday urged the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority to reject industry recommendations to loosen its arbitration rules, calling on the brokerage industry regulator to "resist pressure from industry groups seeking to dilute hard-won safeguards."

  • August 04, 2025

    Investors Say Novo Nordisk Misled Them Over Drug Demand

    Novo Nordisk was hit with a proposed securities class action in New Jersey federal court alleging the company misled investors over its revenue outlook for 2025 by allegedly overstating the likelihood patients would switch to its branded diabetes and weight loss drugs.

  • August 04, 2025

    McGuireWoods Adds Private Equity Pro From Paul Weiss

    McGuireWoods LLP announced Monday the firm has grown its private equity offerings in New York with the addition of an attorney from Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP.

  • August 04, 2025

    Simpson Thacher-Led Carlyle Snags $9B For Real Estate Fund

    Carlyle, advised by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, raised $9 billion for its 10th fund targeting opportunistic real estate investments, surpassing its previous fund for the same strategy, despite a general slowdown in fundraising across the commercial property sector, according to a Monday announcement.

  • August 04, 2025

    2 Firms Guide Elme Communities' $1.6B Portfolio Sale

    Elme Communities announced Monday that it plans to sell 19 multifamily assets to Cortland Partners LLC in a $1.6 billion deal, after which the multifamily real estate investment trust will liquidate remaining assets, in a deal guided by King & Spalding and Hogan Lovells.

  • August 04, 2025

    Cold Storage Co. Duped Investors Before 2024 IPO, Suit Says

    A pension fund has sued Lineage Inc., a cold-storage real estate investment trust, and several of its executives in Michigan federal court over the company's initial public offering, the largest of 2024, alleging the REIT and its top brass misled investors about softening demand and unsustainable pricing.

  • August 04, 2025

    Proskauer Welcomes Structured Credit Pro From Dechert

    Proskauer Rose LLP announced another addition to its structured credit team in New York on Monday, welcoming a former Dechert LLP attorney with a strong background in structured finance insurance solutions.

  • August 04, 2025

    Healthcare Investor Clinches $1.86B For 5th Credit Fund

    Healthcare investment firm OrbiMed, advised by Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP, on Monday announced that it wrapped its latest fund after securing $1.86 billion of investment commitments, which will be used to partner with healthcare companies across various sectors.

  • August 01, 2025

    PE Investor Can't Move Suit to Del., NC Judge Says

    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.

  • August 01, 2025

    Kalshi Gets Ex-Lawmakers' Backing In 3rd Circ. Betting Row

    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.

  • August 01, 2025

    Investors Fight Sanctions Over Telecom Arbitration Dispute

    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."

  • August 01, 2025

    SEC To Explore Internal Use Of AI With New Task Force

    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.

Expert Analysis

  • How Tariffs May Affect Proxy Contests This Season

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    While global tariffs imposed by the Trump administration will certainly chill at least some activity this proxy season, and make defending contests significantly easier, there will likely be many new activist investments once there is more economic certainty, meaning more proxy fights this fall, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • A Closer Look At New NYSE, Nasdaq Listing Rule Changes

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has recently approved changes to the New York Stock Exchange's and the Nasdaq's listing rules on reverse stock splits, minimum share price requirements and required liquidity for initial listings, meaning listed companies facing delisting will have fewer means to regain compliance, say attorneys at Cahill Gordon.

  • Opinion

    GENIUS Act Can Bring Harmony To Crypto-Banking Discord

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    ​​​​​​​By embracing crypto innovation while establishing appropriate guardrails, the so-called GENIUS Act charts a path forward that promotes financial inclusion and technological advancement without compromising stability or constitutional rights, says J.W. Verret at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Be An Indispensable Associate

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    While law school teaches you to research, write and think critically, it often overlooks the professional skills you will need to make yourself an essential team player when transitioning from a summer to full-time associate, say attorneys at Stinson.

  • SEC Confidential Review Process Provides Issuers Flexibility

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recently announced enhancements to the process for confidentially submitting draft registration statements will be immediately impactful for issuers seeking to access the public capital markets, and should provide more grounds to explore and plan public offerings, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.

  • Series

    Birding Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Observing and documenting birds in their natural habitats fosters patience, sharpens observational skills and provides moments of pure wonder — qualities that foster personal growth and enrich my legal career, says Allison Raley at Arnall Golden.

  • Series

    Adapting To Private Practice: From DOJ Leadership To BigLaw

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    The move from government service to private practice can feel like changing one’s identity, but as someone who has left the U.S. Department of Justice twice, I’ve learned that a successful transition requires patience, effort and the realization that the rewards of practicing law don’t come from one particular position, says Richard Donoghue at Pillsbury.

  • SEC Crypto Mining Statement Delivers Regulatory Clarity

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's March 20 statement clarifying that certain crypto mining activities do not constitute the offer and sale of securities marks the end of the SEC's enforcement-first approach and ushers in a more predictable environment for blockchain innovation and investment, says Jeonghoon Ha at Ha Law.

  • Law Firm Executive Orders Create A Legal Ethics Minefield

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    Recent executive orders targeting BigLaw firms create ethical dilemmas — and raise the specter of civil or criminal liability — for the government attorneys tasked with implementing them and for the law firms that choose to make agreements with the administration, say attorneys at Buchalter.

  • The OCC's Newly Relaxed Approach To Bank Crypto Activity

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    With the early March rescission of Biden-era interpretive guidance, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has loosened its approach to regulating national banks and federal savings associations' crypto-asset activities, possibly removing one barrier to banks engaging in such activities, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • Firms Must Embrace Alternative Billing Models Or Fall Behind

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    As artificial intelligence tools eliminate inefficiencies and the Big Four accounting firms enter the legal market, law firms that pivot from the entrenched billable hour model to outcomes-based pricing will see a distinct competitive advantage, says attorney William Brewer.

  • Opinion

    7 Ways CFTC Should Nix Unnecessary Regulatory Burdens

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    Several U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulations do not work efficiently in practice, all of which can be abolished or improved in order to comply with a recent executive order requiring the elimination of 10 regulations for every new one implemented, say attorneys at K&L Gates.

  • How Attorneys Can Master The Art Of On-Camera Presence

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    As attorneys are increasingly presented with on-camera opportunities, they can adapt their traditional legal skills for video contexts — such as virtual client meetings, marketing content or media interviews — by understanding the medium and making intentional adjustments, says Kerry Barrett.

  • Series

    Baseball Fantasy Camp Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    With six baseball fantasy experiences under my belt, I've learned time and again that I didn't make the wrong career choice, but I've also learned that baseball lessons are life lessons, and I'm a better lawyer for my time at St. Louis Cardinals fantasy camp, says Scott Felder at Wiley.

  • Paul Atkins' Past Speeches Offer A Glimpse Into SEC's Future

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    Following Paul Atkins' Thursday Senate confirmation hearing, a look at his public remarks while serving as a commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission between 2002 and 2008 reveals eight possible structural and procedural changes the SEC may see once he likely takes over as chair, say attorneys at Covington.

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