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June 04, 2025
FTC Fights Attys Who Want State Bar Input On Ethics Worries
The Federal Trade Commission doesn't want staff attorneys to be able to seek state bar association guidance if they dispute the legality of an instruction, arguing in a fight with the FTC's union that seeking such guidance would gum up the gears of commission work.
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June 04, 2025
Davis Polk, Skadden Guide Circle's Upsized $1B IPO
Venture-backed stablecoin issuer Circle Internet Group Inc. on Wednesday priced an upsized $1.05 billion initial public offering above its marketed range amid strong demand, represented by Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and underwriters counsel Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP.
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June 04, 2025
Dish Wants Court To Act On T-Mobile Case Discovery Dispute
Dish told an Illinois federal judge it is at an impasse with wireless customer plaintiffs seeking documents in their case against T-Mobile over its 2020 acquisition of Sprint, saying it met with the plaintiffs four times regarding their subpoenas, but the sides have been unable to find a compromise.
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June 04, 2025
Datasite Acquires Grata To Bolster AI-Driven Market Platform
Cloud-based merger and acquisitions software provider Datasite, advised by Wilkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, said Tuesday it has acquired Grata, a private market intelligence company represented by Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, in a deal aimed at bolstering Datasite's AI-driven sourcing and research capabilities.
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June 04, 2025
Trump Nominates Ex-SBA Official For Top CFIUS Post
A former U.S. Small Business Administration official from Donald Trump's first term has been nominated by the president to lead the U.S. government panel that reviews foreign investments for national security risks.
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June 04, 2025
FTC Can't Exclude TikTok Blackout From Meta Case
Meta Platforms can point to TikTok briefly going dark at the beginning of 2025 as it tries to fend off claims that it is monopolizing the social media market, after a D.C. federal judge refused to let the Federal Trade Commission lock the case to evidence from the year 2023.
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June 04, 2025
Lawmakers Say Recent Rocket Mortgage Deals Need Scrutiny
A group of lawmakers is calling on antitrust enforcers to scrutinize online mortgage giant Rocket's recent deals for real estate brokerage website Redfin and mortgage company Mr. Cooper over concerns that Rocket is trying to dominate the entire homebuying process.
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June 04, 2025
Willkie Farr Hires Financial Services Partner In DC
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has hired a McGuireWoods LLP attorney as a partner in Washington, D.C., to advise corporations on a range of legal issues, the firm announced Tuesday.
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June 04, 2025
Chancery Strips Amazon, Others From $1.3B Zoox Merger Suit
Delaware's chancellor has kept alive breach of fiduciary duty claims against most directors and two officers of self-driving taxi venture Zoox Inc. over its $1.3 billion acquisition by Amazon, while dismissing Amazon itself and rejecting stockholder fee-shifting claims.
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June 04, 2025
Post Reacquiring Brands Including Ronzoni Pasta For $880M
Post Holdings Inc. has agreed to acquire 8th Avenue Food & Provisions Inc. in a transaction valued at approximately $880 million, including the assumption of debt, as the packaged goods company looks to expand in private label and dry grocery categories — and brings several legacy assets back under its control.
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June 04, 2025
Brookfield Plugs $10B Into Swedish AI Hub
Private equity giant Brookfield Asset Management announced Wednesday it will invest up to 95 billion Swedish krona (around $10 billion) into the construction of a new data center in Sweden that will support artificial intelligence development.
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June 04, 2025
FCC Republican Says He's Leaving Agency This Week
Nathan Simington, one of only two Republicans on the Federal Communications Commission, said Wednesday he will leave the agency at the end of this week.
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June 04, 2025
Ex-Paul Weiss Corporate Partner Joins Cooley's NY Practice
Cooley LLP has hired a former Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP finance partner, who told Law360 Pulse in an interview Wednesday that he followed his father and uncle's footsteps when deciding to pursue a career in law.
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June 04, 2025
Winston & Strawn, Cravath Guide $19B Industrial Tech Merger
Chart Industries Inc. and Flowserve Corp. said Wednesday they have agreed to merge in an all-stock deal that values the combined entity at $19 billion, giving it the "scale and resilience" needed to compete, with Winston & Strawn LLP and Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP providing legal guidance.
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June 04, 2025
Warehouse REIT Backs Blackstone's Lower £470M Bid
Warehouse REIT said Wednesday that it has backed a revised £470 million ($638 million) cash offer from U.S. private equity giant Blackstone despite a row over the valuation of the London-listed investor's property portfolio.
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June 03, 2025
Wash. Judge Clears The Way For Redfin Merger Vote
A Washington federal judge on Tuesday refused to stop Redfin shareholders from voting Wednesday on a $1.75 billion merger with Rocket Cos., finding that with new disclosures made by the company, investors have enough information to make an informed decision.
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June 03, 2025
Big 3 Wireless Companies Divvying Up UScellular, FCC Told
T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon appear to be coordinating to split UScellular among themselves and the Federal Communications Commission needs to review the megadeals in their totality and not just individually, public interest groups said.
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June 03, 2025
Canada Customers Agree To Halt 23andMe Data Breach Suits
23andMe and Canadian customers suing over a data breach agreed on Tuesday to pause lawsuits against non-bankrupt third parties for up to six months amid the DNA testing company's Chapter 11 proceedings in Missouri.
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June 03, 2025
Latham Advises Atai In $390M Merger With Beckley Psytech
U.S.-German biopharmaceutical company atai Life Sciences, advised by Latham & Watkins LLP, said in an announcement Monday that it will acquire Beckley Psytech, led by Mayer Brown LLP and CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP, in an all-share transaction that values Beckley at approximately $390 million, creating a combined company focused on fast-acting mental health therapies.
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June 03, 2025
Stibbe, A&O Shearman Guide $13.8B Healthcare REIT Merger
Belgian real estate investment trusts Aedifica NV and Cofinimmo NV said Tuesday they have agreed to merge, forming what they said will be Europe's largest healthcare real estate investment trust, with a combined gross asset value of approximately €12.1 billion ($13.8 billion).
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June 03, 2025
KKR Says DOJ Merger Notice Suit Rewrites HSR Act
KKR pushed a New York federal judge to dismiss a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit seeking fines that could top $650 million, arguing that in defending claims the private equity giant failed to notify two mergers and deleted key documentation from notifications, enforcers are trying to "expand" merger filing requirements.
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June 03, 2025
Rocket Startup Launches $400M Deal With Wilbur Ross' SPAC
Space and defense-focused startup Innovative Rocket Technologies Inc. plans to go public at a $400 million value by merging with a special purpose acquisition company led by private equity executive and former Trump cabinet official Wilbur Ross.
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June 03, 2025
Simpson Thacher Adds Ex-Weil M&A Pro In NYC
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced Monday the hiring of a former counsel at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP as a partner in its mergers and acquisitions practice in New York.
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June 03, 2025
The Law360 400: A Look At The Top 100 Firms
A rebound in client work sent the nation’s largest law firms into growth mode last year, driving a wave of hiring, mergers and strategic moves that reshaped the top tier of the Law360 400. Here's a preview of the 100 firms with the largest U.S. attorney headcounts.
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June 03, 2025
Wachtell-Led Viper Energy Paying $4.1B For Sitio Royalties
Viper Energy Inc. said Tuesday it will purchase mineral and royalty interests investment firm Sitio Royalties Corp. for approximately $4.1 billion, including net debt of approximately $1.1 billion, in a deal steered by Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Vinson & Elkins LLP.
Expert Analysis
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$38M Law Firm Settlement Highlights 'Unworthy Client' Perils
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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Series
Teaching Business Law Makes Me A Better Lawyer
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.
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Navigating The Expanding Frontier Of Premerger Notice Laws
Washington's newly enacted law requiring premerger notification to state enforcers builds upon a growing trend of state scrutiny into transactions in the healthcare sector and beyond, and may inspire other states to enact similar legislation, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Mastering Discovery
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.
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Mergers Face Steeper Slopes In State Antitrust Reviews
The New York Supreme Court's recent summary judgment in New York v. Intermountain Management, blocking the acquisition and shuttering of a ski mountain in the Syracuse area, underscores the growing trend among state antitrust enforcers to scrutinize and challenge anticompetitive conduct under state laws, say attorneys at Robins Kaplan.
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Opinion
Proposals Against Phillips 66 Threaten Corporate Law
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.
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Strategies To Limit Inherent Damage Of Multidefendant Trials
As shown by the recent fraud convictions of two executives at the now-shuttered education startup Frank, multidefendant criminal trials pose unique obstacles, but with some planning, defense counsel can mitigate the harm and maximize the chances of a good outcome, says Kenneth Notter at MoloLamken.
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Playing Guitar Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Being a lawyer not only requires logic and hard work, but also belief, emotion, situational awareness and lots of natural energy — playing guitar enhances all of these qualities, increasing my capacity to do my best work, says Kosta Stojilkovic at Wilkinson Stekloff.
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Crisis Management Lessons From The Parenting Playbook
The parenting skills we use to help our kids through challenges — like rehearsing for stressful situations, modeling confidence and taking time to reset our emotions — can also teach us the fundamentals of leading clients through a corporate crisis, say Deborah Solmor at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and Cara Peterman at Alston & Bird.
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Adapting To Private Practice: From NY Fed To BigLaw
While the move to private practice brings a learning curve, it also brings chances to learn new skills and grow your network, requiring a clear understanding of how your skills can complement and contribute to a firm's existing practice, and where you can add new value, says Meghann Donahue at Covington.
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Top 3 Litigation Finance Deal-Killers, And How To Avoid Them
Like all transactions, litigation finance deals can sometimes collapse, but understanding the most common reasons for failure, including a lack of trust or a misunderstanding of deal terms, can help both parties avoid problems, say Rebecca Berrebi at Avenue 33 and Boris Ziser at Schulte Roth.
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How Attys Can Use A Therapy Model To Help Triggered Clients
Attorneys can lean on key principles from a psychotherapeutic paradigm known as the "Internal Family Systems" model to help manage triggered clients and get settlement negotiations back on track, says Jennifer Gibbs at Zelle.
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3 Steps For In-House Counsel To Assess Litigation Claims
Before a potential economic downturn, in-house attorneys should investigate whether their company is sitting on hidden litigation claims that could unlock large recoveries to help the business withstand tough times, says Will Burgess at Hilgers Graben.
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Teaching College Students Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Serving as an adjunct college professor has taught me the importance of building rapport, communicating effectively, and persuading individuals to critically analyze the difference between what they think and what they know — principles that have helped to improve my practice of law, says Sheria Clarke at Nelson Mullins.
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Adapting To Private Practice: From DOJ Enviro To Mid-Law
Practitioners leaving a longtime government role for private practice — as when I departed the U.S. Department of Justice’s environmental enforcement division — should prioritize finding a firm that shares their principles, values their experience and will invest in their transition, says John Cruden at Beveridge & Diamond.