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Mergers & Acquisitions

  • May 23, 2025

    Law360 Reveals Titans Of The Plaintiffs Bar

    This past year, a handful of attorneys secured billions of dollars in settlements and judgments for both classes and individual plaintiffs against massive companies and organizations like Facebook, Dell, the National Association of Realtors, Johnson & Johnson, UFC and Credit Suisse, earning them recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2025.

  • May 23, 2025

    McMahon Tries To Limit Misconduct Docs In WWE Merger Suit

    The former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. has pushed back against efforts to force him to hand over documents relating to his alleged sexual misconduct and hush money payments in a class action over the company's merger with Ultimate Fighting Championship, telling the Delaware Chancery Court they are irrelevant to the shareholders' suit.

  • May 23, 2025

    Insurer Accused Of Firing Worker Out Of Pregnancy Bias

    An insurance company reneged on its promise to provide its benefits adviser with paid maternity leave and then fired her not long after she raised several concerns about unpaid commissions, according to a lawsuit removed to North Carolina federal court.

  • May 23, 2025

    FTC Probing Alcon's $430M Lensar Deal

    The Federal Trade Commission has requested additional information about Swiss eye care company Alcon Inc.'s planned purchase of Florida-based medical technology developer Lensar Inc. in a deal worth up to $430 million.

  • May 23, 2025

    Banking Veteran Betsy Cohen's Latest SPAC Targets Fintech

    Financial services dealmaker Betsy Cohen is back with another SPAC, filing plans Friday for a $220 million initial public offering for Cohen Circle Acquisition Corp. II, which aims to pursue mergers in fintech and adjacent sectors.

  • May 23, 2025

    Squire Patton, Kirkland Lead Goodyear's $650M PE Deal

    Goodyear Tire, represented by Squire Patton Boggs LLP, has agreed to sell a majority of its chemical business to Gemspring Capital, a private equity shop advised by Kirkland & Ellis LLP, in a $650 million transaction that followed a strategic review of the subsidiary.

  • May 23, 2025

    Taxation With Representation: Troutman, A&O Shearman

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, Blackstone acquires TXNM Energy, OpenAI buys io Products, Lumen Technologies sells its Mass Markets fiber-to-the-home business in 11 states to AT&T, and AMD sells its data center infrastructure manufacturing business to Sanmina.

  • May 23, 2025

    Kilpatrick Grows M&A And Venture Capital Teams

    Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP has added an experienced attorney to its corporate practice and its mergers and acquisitions and venture capital teams.

  • May 23, 2025

    FTC Finally Drops Challenge To Microsoft-Activision Deal

    The Federal Trade Commission has dropped its in-house case seeking to block Microsoft's $68.7 billion purchase of video game developer Activision Blizzard, after its Ninth Circuit loss earlier this month, ending a lingering challenge to a deal that closed in late 2023.

  • May 23, 2025

    Torys-Led Vermilion Sells Canadian Gas Assets For CA$415M

    Global gas producer Vermilion Energy Inc., advised by Torys LLP, on Friday announced plans to sell its Saskatchewan and Manitoba assets in Canada for CA$415 million ($301.04 million).

  • May 23, 2025

    Assura Tells Shareholders Not To Vote On KKR, Stonepeak Bid

    The board of property manager Assura told shareholders on Friday not to vote for a £1.6 billion ($2.2 billion) offer from U.S. private equity firms KKR and Stonepeak as it assesses a rival bid of £1.7 billion.

  • May 23, 2025

    International Paper Co. To Shut 5 Sites After DS Smith Deal

    International Paper Co. confirmed on Friday that plans including a move to shut down five of its packaging sites in Britain will go ahead, warning that the closures could affect 300 jobs following its acquisition of packaging provider DS Smith PLC.

  • May 23, 2025

    RedBird To Buy Telegraph As Gov't Relaxes Ownership Rules

    Investment firm RedBird Capital Partners said Friday that it will buy the Telegraph Media Group in a £500 million ($675 million) transaction that hands a minority stake in the publisher to its Abu Dhabi-backed subsidiary after the government floated plans to loosen foreign-ownership rules for British newspapers.

  • May 22, 2025

    Lottery.com Execs Cop To Securities Fraud In SPAC Case

    Two former Lottery.com executives pled guilty Thursday to their role in a scheme to fraudulently inflate reported revenues in a 2021 take-public deal involving the mobile and online lottery gaming platform company.

  • May 22, 2025

    Proxy Proposal Omissions Rose Post-SEC Bulletin, Study Finds

    There was a sharp drop in the total number of shareholder proxy proposals submitted this year and a rise in the number of submitted proposals that were omitted from corporate ballots following the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's rescission of past guidance, ISS Corporate Solutions Inc. said Thursday.

  • May 22, 2025

    Firm Drops $500K Contract Suit Against Cannabis POS Co.

    A federal judge in Seattle dismissed a breach of contract suit between cannabis payment tech companies over a final $500,000 payment in a deal to buy a rival.

  • May 22, 2025

    Cities Say They Fixed Bid To Divest Axon Police Camera Buy

    A trio of local governments urged a New Jersey federal judge Wednesday not to tee up an attack on their bid to force Axon Enterprise Inc. to divest a police body camera company whose purchase they say helped it monopolize the market, arguing they've fixed failings from an earlier complaint.

  • May 22, 2025

    Senators Unveil DNA Privacy Bill Amid 23andMe's Ch. 11 Sale

    A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Thursday introduced a bill designed to safeguard customers' genetic information in bankruptcy cases, saying 23andMe's plan to sell users' DNA data to a pharmaceutical company during its Chapter 11 raises new concerns surrounding consumer privacy.

  • May 22, 2025

    Motorola Eyes $4.5B Wireless Radio Deal, And Other Rumors

    Motorola eyes a $4.5 billion purchase of a wireless radio maker, Providence Equity buys a live event company at a reported $1 billion value and Intel's sale of a networking unit could attract billions. Here, Law360 breaks down these and other notable deal-related rumors from the past week.

  • May 22, 2025

    Oyster Enterprises II SPAC Prices $220M IPO

    Special purpose acquisition company Oyster Enterprises II Acquisition Corp. began trading publicly on Thursday following its $220 million initial public offering.

  • May 22, 2025

    Millicom Buying Telefonica's Uruguay Mobile Unit For $440M

    Millicom International Cellular has agreed to acquire Telefonica's mobile operations in Uruguay at a $440 million enterprise value, in a deal that will expand its Latin America footprint through one of the region's most stable economies.

  • May 22, 2025

    Gem Group Plugs $100M Into MoviePass For Fantasy Platform

    A fund sponsored by alternative investment firm Gem Group announced Thursday that it completed its inaugural investment in MoviePass, plugging $100 million into the company that says it is "redefining" the moviegoing experience.

  • May 22, 2025

    Senior FCC Democrat Attends Final Monthly Meeting

    Geoffrey Starks, the senior Democrat on the Federal Communications Commission, participated in his last agency meeting Thursday, where he announced he will leave the agency sometime within the next month.

  • May 22, 2025

    Cleary Closes Frankfurt Office As It Consolidates In Germany

    Cleary is closing its office in Frankfurt after more than three decades as the U.S. law firm consolidates its operations in Germany under one location.

  • May 22, 2025

    Sanofi To Acquire Goodwin-Led US Biotech Biz For $470M

    Drugmaker Sanofi said Thursday that it has agreed to acquire Vigil Neuroscience, a biotechnology company specializing in neurodegenerative diseases, for approximately $470 million to give it a potential new medicine for Alzheimer's disease in a deal guided by Goodwin Procter.

Expert Analysis

  • 10 Soft Skills Every GC Should Master

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    As businesses face shifting regulatory and technological uncertainty, general counsel will need to strengthen certain soft skills to succeed, from admitting when they make a mistake to maintaining a healthy dose of dispassion, says Douglas Brown at Manatt.

  • How Proxy Advisory Firms Are Approaching AI And DEI

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    Institutional Shareholder Services' and Glass Lewis' annual updates to their proxy voting guidelines reflect some of the biggest issues of the day, including artificial intelligence and DEI, and companies should parse these changes carefully, say attorneys at Cahill Gordon.

  • An Unrestrained, Bright-Eyed View Of Legal AI's Future

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    Todd Itami at Covington offers a bright-eyed, laughing-all-the-way, skydive look at what the legal industry could look like after an artificial intelligence revolution, which he believes may happen much sooner and more dramatically than we expect.

  • Tracking The Evolution In Litigation Finance

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    Despite continued innovation, litigation finance remains an immature market with borrowers recieving significantly different terms as lenders learn to value cases, which firms need a strong handle on to ensure lending terms do not overwhelm collateral value, says Robert Wilkins at Lightfoot Franklin.

  • Keys To Regulatory Diligence In Life Sciences Transactions

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    Conducting effective regulatory due diligence for life sciences deals requires careful review of a target company's activities, and separate sets of considerations for commercial and pipeline products, says Anna Zhao at GunnerCooke.

  • Series

    Volunteer Firefighting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    While practicing corporate law and firefighting may appear incongruous, the latter benefits my legal career by reminding me of the importance of humility, perspective and education, says Nicholas Passaro at Ford.

  • Calif. Antitrust Laws May Turn More Zealous Than US Regs

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    California is poised in the next 18 months to significantly expand its antitrust laws, broadening the scope of liability and creating a premerger review process that could be more expansive than review under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, say attorneys at Munger Tolles.

  • E-Discovery Quarterly: The Perils Of Digital Data Protocols

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    Though stipulated protocols governing the treatment of electronically stored information in litigation are meant to streamline discovery, recent disputes demonstrate that certain missteps in the process can lead to significant inefficiencies, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • A Look At M&A Trends In An Uncertain Deal Environment

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    Dealmakers are adopting more cautious and deliberate merger and acquisition practices, such as earnout agreements, joint ventures and strategic partnerships that mitigate risk and bridge valuation gaps, amid the slower pace so far in 2025, says Louis Lehot at Foley & Lardner.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Preparing For Corporate Work

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    Law school often doesn't cover the business strategy, financial fluency and negotiation skills needed for a successful corporate or transactional law practice, but there are practical ways to gain relevant experience and achieve the mindset shifts critical to a thriving career in this space, says Dakota Forsyth at Olshan Frome.

  • FTC Focus: Synthetic Data Yields Antitrust Considerations

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    Attorneys at Proskauer explore the burgeoning world of synthetic data, the antitrust implications involved, the Federal Trade Commission's role in regulating this space and practical takeaways from these emerging issues.

  • Opinion

    Slater Heralds Return To US Antitrust Norms, Innovation

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    Under recently confirmed Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater, the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice can fulfill President Donald Trump's objective to reestablish American economic dominance on the global stage while remaining faithful to antitrust's core principles, says Ediberto Roman at the Florida International University College of Law.

  • A Cold War-Era History Lesson On Due Process

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    The landmark Harry Bridges case from the mid-20th century Red Scare offers important insights on why lawyers must be free of government reprisal, no matter who their client is, says Peter Afrasiabi at One LLP.

  • Series

    Improv Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Improv keeps me grounded and connected to what matters most, including in my legal career where it has helped me to maintain a balance between being analytical, precise and professional, and creative, authentic and open-minded, says Justine Gottshall at InfoLawGroup.

  • How BigLaw Executive Orders May Affect Smaller Firms

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    Because of the types of cases they take on, solo practitioners, small law firms and public interest attorneys may find themselves more dramatically affected by the collective impact of recent government action involving the legal industry than even the BigLaw firms named in the executive orders, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

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