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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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August 01, 2025
Texas Judge Says States Can Pursue BlackRock Coal Suit
A Texas federal judge Friday gave Texas and other states the go-ahead to pursue claims that BlackRock Inc. and other asset managers used market muscle to decrease coal production, saying the states plausibly showed that the asset managers breached antitrust laws.
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August 01, 2025
2 SPAC Deals Will Take Uranium Miner, Italian E-Grocer Public
Two newly unveiled mergers involving special purpose acquisition companies will aim to take a nuclear energy company and an Italian e-grocery operation public on U.S. exchanges at a combined value of nearly $500 million.
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August 01, 2025
'Reverse Acquihires' Multiply Inside Regulatory Gray Zone
Big Tech firms are increasingly turning to so-called reverse acquihires to quickly secure talent and technology, but as these deals grow in size and frequency, they may invite the very regulatory scrutiny the strategy is designed to avoid.
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August 01, 2025
Rising Star: Cleary's Chrishan Raja
Last year, London-based Chrishan Raja of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP steered several companies through complicated changes in U.K. regulatory policy, advising on landmark deals that totaled more than €8 billion ($9.23 billion at the current exchange rate), including the listing of Canal+ on the London Stock Exchange as an independent company, earning him a spot among the capital markets attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 01, 2025
Ex-Bank GC Must Pay $2.5M Fraud Restitution By Oct. 1
A former Webster Bank general counsel who pled guilty to bank fraud must pay by Oct. 1 the remaining $2.5 million he owes in restitution, a federal judge has ruled, finding that the man's bank accounts and securities are enough to cover the difference.
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August 01, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Skadden, Wachtell, Latham
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Union Pacific Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp. announce megamerger plans, Palo Alto Networks acquires identity security company CyberArk, Brookfield buys British life insurer Just Group, and Duke Energy sells its Piedmont Natural Gas Tennessee local distribution business to Spire Inc.
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July 31, 2025
DraftKings' $10M Deal With NFT Buyers Gets Final Green Light
Sports betting giant DraftKings Inc. and purchasers of certain nonfungible tokens it offered have gotten a judge's final sign-off for their $10 million deal ending claims the tokens ran afoul of securities laws.
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July 31, 2025
SEC's Atkins Launches 'Project Crypto' To Overhaul Policy
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins said Thursday that he's mobilized staff across the agency to craft rules and exemptions for digital assets, a plan aimed at bringing the crypto industry back onshore with a recent set of White House recommendations serving as the "blueprint."
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July 31, 2025
Dems Press OCC Head On Regulating Trump's Crypto Biz
Top Senate Democrats on banking and financial committees urged the Comptroller of the Currency Thursday to detail how he will address the potential for interference by President Trump now that the agency is charged with regulating stablecoins like the one the president's family has launched.
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July 31, 2025
Walnut Co. Says Firm Misled Court To Lead Super Micro Case
A Hagens Berman client who lost the fight against Universal Investment to lead investor claims against Super Micro Computer has blasted the fund's opposition to its bid for a California federal judge to reconsider the denial, arguing Universal's attorneys from Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP have a "documented history" of "misleading courts."
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July 31, 2025
Crypto Co., NBA Arm Strike $7M Deal Over NFT Privacy Claims
Users of the nonfungible token marketplace known as NBA Top Shot asked a California federal judge Thursday to grant the first green light to a $7.05 million settlement they reached with the marketing arm of the NBA and a cryptocurrency company that will resolve a class action over privacy concerns related to the marketplace.
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July 31, 2025
NYSE Parent May Buy Enverus For $6B, Plus More Rumors
A Milwaukee-based advisory firm is in late talks for a stake sale at a $1 billion valuation, Black Rock Coffee Bar files confidentially for an initial public offering at a similar value, and the Intercontinental Exchange is in talks to buy Enverus for $6 billion. Here, Law360 breaks down these and other notable rumors from the past week.
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July 31, 2025
Rising Star: Fenwick's Chelsea Anderson
Chelsea Anderson of Fenwick & West LLP counseled project management software company Smartsheet Inc. on its $8.4 billion acquisition by a private equity consortium and advised real estate tech company Redfin on its $1.75 billion acquisition by Rocket Companies, earning Anderson a spot among the capital markets law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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July 31, 2025
Ill. Jury Convicts Forex Trader In $230K Fraud Scheme
A Chicago federal jury on Thursday convicted an Illinois man of duping investors with promises to deliver considerable profits by trading their money on the foreign exchange market, when he really spent most of their investments on himself and was barred from trading securities in the state.
Expert Analysis
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Opinion
GENIUS Act Can Bring Harmony To Crypto-Banking Discord
​​​​​​​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.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Be An Indispensable Associate
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.
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SEC Confidential Review Process Provides Issuers Flexibility
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.
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Series
Birding Makes Me A Better Lawyer
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.
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Series
Adapting To Private Practice: From DOJ Leadership To BigLaw
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.
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SEC Crypto Mining Statement Delivers Regulatory Clarity
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.
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Law Firm Executive Orders Create A Legal Ethics Minefield
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.
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The OCC's Newly Relaxed Approach To Bank Crypto Activity
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.
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Firms Must Embrace Alternative Billing Models Or Fall Behind
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.
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Opinion
7 Ways CFTC Should Nix Unnecessary Regulatory Burdens
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.
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How Attorneys Can Master The Art Of On-Camera Presence
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.
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Series
Baseball Fantasy Camp Makes Me A Better Lawyer
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.
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Paul Atkins' Past Speeches Offer A Glimpse Into SEC's Future
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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Series
Adapting To Private Practice: From Fed. Prosecutor To BigLaw
Making the jump from government to private practice is no small feat, but, based on my experience transitioning to a business-driven environment after 15 years as an assistant U.S. attorney, it can be incredibly rewarding and help you become a more versatile lawyer, says Michael Beckwith at Dickinson Wright.
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The Fund Finance Market Is In Its Transformative Era
The fund finance market is experiencing explosive growth as it develops into a mature and sophisticated industry, with several recent developments – such as an increase in net asset value lending and a shift toward borrower-friendly terms – reshaping the landscape of this rapidly evolving sector, say attorneys at Fried Frank.