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Mergers & Acquisitions

  • July 30, 2025

    Fenwick, Latham Lead Web Software Giant Figma's $1.2B IPO

    Web-design software maker Figma Inc. on Wednesday priced a $1.2 billion initial public offering above its upwardly revised price range, guided by Fenwick & West LLP and underwriters counsel Latham & Watkins LLP.

  • July 30, 2025

    Honest Co.'s $27.5M Investor Deal Gets Final OK

    An investor class action against The Honest Co. Inc., the "clean lifestyle" brand founded by actress Jessica Alba, has gotten a final nod for a $27.5 million deal to end claims that the company did not disclose certain negative business trends ahead of its 2021 initial public offering.

  • July 30, 2025

    Iowa Slams Schwab's 'Amorphous' Antitrust Compliance Deal

    The state of Iowa is among a slew of objectors to a settlement calling for Charles Schwab Corp. to implement an antitrust compliance program to resolve an investor class action stemming from its merger with TD Ameritrade, arguing the deal is unfair and completely fails to remedy the investors' harm.

  • July 30, 2025

    GTCR Denied Rival's Old Sales Prospects Data In FTC Case

    An Illinois federal judge refused Tuesday to force a rival medical device coatings company to cough up old sales projections data so private equity firm GTCR BC Holdings can defend against a Federal Trade Commission challenge to its $627 million purchase of Surmodics.

  • July 30, 2025

    Davis Polk, King & Spalding Build $2.35B AccuLynx Sale

    Data analytics and technology company Verisk, advised by Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, on Wednesday announced plans to acquire software-as-a-service company AccuLynx, led by King & Spalding LLP, in a $2.35 billion cash deal.

  • July 30, 2025

    4 Firms Steer Palo Alto Networks' $25B CyberArk Buy

    Cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks revealed plans Wednesday to acquire identity security company CyberArk in a cash-and-stock megadeal valued at $25 billion and built by four law firms.

  • July 30, 2025

    AI, Crypto Securities Class Actions On The Rise, Report Says

    The filing of new securities class actions has remained steady during the first half of 2025, but investor suits related to artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency are on pace to increase, according to a Cornerstone Research report released Wednesday, signaling the recent rapid growth of both industries.

  • July 30, 2025

    Sullivan & Cromwell-Led Evercore Pays £146M For UK Adviser

    Sullivan & Cromwell LLP-led Evercore Inc. said Wednesday it has agreed to acquire the U.K.-based boutique corporate adviser Robey Warshaw LLP, advised by Freshfields LLP, for £146 million ($195 million) as the U.S. global investment banking giant moves to expand into the London mergers and acquisitions market.

  • July 30, 2025

    Finance Biz Eyes £490M Acquisition Of UK Lender IPF

    British credit provider International Personal Finance said Wednesday that it is in talks to be bought by U.S. specialist finance group BasePoint Capital in a proposed £490 million ($656 million) cash deal.

  • July 30, 2025

    WilmerHale Taps Life Science Pro To Chair Transactions Dept.

    WilmerHale announced Wednesday that the former Latham & Watkins LLP attorney it hired last year to co-chair its life sciences practice is taking over as the chair of its transactional department.

  • July 29, 2025

    Hedge Fund Nets $54M In S. Korea Samsung Merger Fight

    South Korea has paid nearly $54 million owed under an arbitral award issued to a U.S. hedge fund in a dispute over a government bribery scandal that allegedly underpinned the $8 billion merger of two Samsung affiliates in 2015, Seoul said on Tuesday.

  • July 29, 2025

    Chancellor Partly Reverses Toss Of Pioneer Merger Doc Suit

    A Pioneer Natural Resources stockholder has won a battle but lost the war in a Delaware Court of Chancery review of a senior magistrate's denial of expanded access to books and records on Pioneer's $59.5 billion May 2024 merger with Exxon-Mobil.

  • July 29, 2025

    DOJ Drops Challenge Of Amex GBT's $570M Deal For CWT

    The U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday that enforcers have agreed to drop their case challenging American Express Global Business Travel Inc.'s planned $570 million purchase of corporate travel management rival CWT Holdings LLC.

  • July 29, 2025

    Bit Digital's AI Infrastructure Subsidiary Eyes $125M IPO

    Artificial intelligence infrastructure company WhiteFiber Inc. on Tuesday unveiled plans to spin off from its parent company Bit Digital by way of an initial public offering, with plans to raise an estimated $125 million in an offering built by four law firms.

  • July 29, 2025

    Latham Steers PE-Backed Eco Material On $2.1B Cement Deal

    Building materials supplier CRH announced Tuesday it will acquire Eco Material Technologies for $2.1 billion in cash, deepening its presence in North America's fast-growing market for lower-carbon cement alternatives.

  • July 29, 2025

    DOJ's Top Antitrust Deputy, Merger Chief Both Fired

    The U.S. Department of Justice has ousted two of its top Antitrust Division officials, citing insubordination amid growing signs of tension between merger enforcers and the wider Trump administration.

  • July 29, 2025

    4th Circ. Rejects BofA's Claim Of Tax Offsets After Mergers

    Bank of America cannot use its tax overpayments to offset interest on tax underpayments by Merrill Lynch just because the two companies later merged, the Fourth Circuit affirmed Tuesday in a $163 million case that affects more than 20 years' worth of tax adjustments.

  • July 29, 2025

    5 Firms Lead $2.48B Sale Of Piedmont Natural Gas' Tenn. Biz

    Duke Energy on Tuesday announced plans to sell its Piedmont Natural Gas Tennessee local distribution business to natural gas company Spire Inc. in a $2.48 billion all-cash deal that was built by five law firms.

  • July 29, 2025

    4 Firms Drive $250B Norfolk, Union Pacific Mega Deal

    Union Pacific Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp. on Tuesday announced plans to combine in a megamerger that will create the country's first transcontinental railroad boasting a combined enterprise value of approximately $250 billion, but which will also likely draw antitrust scrutiny.

  • July 29, 2025

    Baker Hughes Inks $13.6B Chart Buy, Topping Flowserve Deal

    Energy technology firm Baker Hughes said on Tuesday it will acquire natural gas equipment maker Chart Industries in a $13.6 billion all-cash transaction, superseding a previously announced all-stock megamerger between Chart and Flowserve Corp.

  • July 29, 2025

    Shareholders Of Just Eat Get More Time To Accept €4.1B Offer

    Dutch investment group Prosus said Tuesday that it has given the shareholders of Just Eat Takeaway more time to accept its €4.1 billion ($4.7 billion) take-private deal as it waits for the European Commission to clear its antitrust concerns.

  • July 28, 2025

    UpHealth Moves To Toss Glocal Ch. 11 Dispute

    Bankrupt medical tech company UpHealth is urging a Delaware bankruptcy judge to nix a $200 million adversary proceeding launched by Glocal Healthcare in a bitter feud over an ill-fated merger, accusing the Indian digital healthcare services platform of bad faith through a pattern of delay and obfuscation.

  • July 28, 2025

    SEC Pushes $630K Penalty Against Atty In Stock Fraud Suit

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission renewed its motion Monday for a more than $630,000 civil penalty and final judgment against securities attorney Henry Sargent, after years of litigation in Massachusetts federal court alleging he orchestrated a sham merger, saying Sargent "has never recognized the wrongfulness of his conduct."

  • July 28, 2025

    Newly Public Crypto Platform Tron Files Plans To Raise $1B

    Crypto platform Tron on Monday filed plans with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to raise $1 billion over time, making preliminary plans for future capital raises following its public listing on Nasdaq through a reverse merger.

  • July 28, 2025

    Berlusconi's MFE Boosts ProSieben Takeover Bid To $2.4B

    MFE-MediaForEurope said Monday it is raising its offer for ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE, valuing the German broadcaster at roughly €2.01 billion ($2.4 billion) as the Berlusconi family-backed media group seeks to expand its European media footprint.

Expert Analysis

  • Bill Would Bring Welcome Clarity To Del. Corporate Law

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    A recently proposed bill in Delaware that would provide greater predictability for areas including director independence and controlling stockholders reflects prudential adjustments consistent with the state's long history of refining and modernizing its corporate law, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.

  • Opinion

    Attorneys Must Act Now To Protect Judicial Independence

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    Given the Trump administration's recent moves threatening the independence of the judiciary, including efforts to impeach judges who ruled against executive actions, lawyers must protect the rule of law and resist attempts to dilute the judicial branch’s authority, says attorney Bhavleen Sabharwal.

  • Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises

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    “No comment” is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.

  • Del. Supreme Court TripAdvisor Ruling May Limit 'MFW Creep'

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    The Delaware Supreme Court's recent Maffei v. Palkon ruling regarding TripAdvisor's proposed reincorporation to Nevada potentially signals a turning point in the trend of expanding the protections from Kahn v. M&F Worldwide to other types of transactions, says Andrew J. Haile at Elon University.

  • Antitrust In Retail: Rude Awakening For FTC In Tempur Sealy

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    A Texas federal court's recent denial of a Federal Trade Commision order to stop a giant mattress merger because of lack of evidence on market segments shows that such definitions are only a viable path for regulating vertical mergers if antitrust agencies provide adequate documentation, says David Kully at Holland & Knight.

  • How Design Thinking Can Help Lawyers Find Purpose In Work

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    Lawyers everywhere are feeling overwhelmed amid mass government layoffs, increasing political instability and a justice system stretched to its limits — but a design-thinking framework can help attorneys navigate this uncertainty and find meaning in their work, say law professors at the University of Michigan.

  • Opinion

    US Steel-Nippon Merger Should Not Have Been Blocked

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    The Biden administration's block of the U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel merger on national security grounds was unconstitutional overreach and needs to be overturned, with the harms remedied in federal court, says attorney Chuck Meyer. 

  • Biden-Era M&A Data Shows Continuity, Not Revolution

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    While the federal antitrust agencies under former President Joe Biden made broad claims about increasing merger enforcement activity, the data tells a different story, with key claims under Biden coming in at the lowest levels in decades, say attorneys at Covington.

  • What Travis Hill's Vision For FDIC Could Portend For Banks

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    If selected to lead the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in a permanent capacity, acting Chairman Travis Hill is likely to prioritize removing barriers to innovation and institution-level growth, emphasizing the idea that eliminating rules, relaxing standards and reducing scrutiny will reinvigorate the industry, say attorneys at Mitchell Sandler.

  • Exploring China's 1st Administrative Merger Control Ruling

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    As the first judicial ruling in China's merger control regime, the Beijing Ƶ Court's recent upholding of Simcere's acquisition of Tobishi helps to clarify how the Chinese antitrust authority and court assess remedies, say attorneys at Tian Yuan Law Firm.

  • Series

    Competitive Weightlifting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The parallels between the core principles required for competitive weightlifting and practicing law have helped me to excel in both endeavors, with each holding important lessons about discipline, dedication, drive and failure, says Damien Bielli at VF Law.

  • Opinion

    DOJ's Visa Suit Shows Pitfalls Of Regulating Innovative Tech

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    A policy of allowing free-market mechanisms to operate without undue interference remains the most effective way to foster innovation, and the U.S. Department of Justice's 2024 case against Visa illustrates the drawbacks of regulating innovative technology, says attorney Thomas Willcox.

  • How New SBA Rule May Affect Small Government Contractors

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    By limiting competition from larger entities, the Small Business Administration's recently published final rule may help some small government contractors, but these restrictions on set-aside work following a merger, acquisition or sale may also deter small businesses' long-term growth, say attorneys at Akerman.

  • Nippon Order Tests Gov't Control Over Foreign Investments

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    The U.S. government is primarily interested in restraining foreign transactions involving countries of concern, but former President Joe Biden’s January order blocking the merger of Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel shows that all foreign direct investments are under the federal government’s microscope, say attorneys at Blank Rome.

  • Opinion

    Inconsistent Injury-In-Fact Rules Hinder Federal Practice

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    A recent Third Circuit decision, contradicting a previous ruling about whether consumers of contaminated products have suffered an injury in fact, illustrates the deep confusion this U.S. Supreme Court standard creates among federal judges and practitioners, who deserve a simpler method of determining which cases have federal standing, says Eric Dwoskin at Dwoskin Wasdin.

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