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Mergers & Acquisitions

  • July 23, 2025

    Yale Wins Bid To Keep $435M Hospital Sale Suit In State Court

    A Connecticut federal judge has sided with Yale New Haven Health Services Corp., the state's largest hospital system, in sending a contract suit with a bankrupt hospital seller back to state court, finding that remand would best preserve court resources rather than transferring it to a bankruptcy judge in Texas.

  • July 23, 2025

    DLA Piper Employment Atty Jumps To Davis Wright In LA

    Davis Wright Tremaine LLP is expanding its employment law team, announcing this week that it has brought in a DLA Piper litigator as a partner in its Los Angeles office.

  • July 23, 2025

    Rising Star: Wachtell's Mark Stagliano

    Mark Stagliano of Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz led the team representing T-Mobile in large joint venture transactions with EQT and KKR, and companies as diverse as Azek and Capri Holdings, in deals involving billions of dollars in payments and investments, earning him a spot among the mergers and acquisitions practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 23, 2025

    Bradley Arant Taps Arnall Golden Fintech Pro In Atlanta

    Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP has added a former Arnall Golden Gregory LLP attorney as a partner in the firm's banking and financial services group to extend its Atlanta team counseling technology companies.

  • July 23, 2025

    Rocket Maker IRocket To Go Public Via $400M SPAC Merger

    Greenberg Traurig LLP-advised Innovative Rocket Technologies Inc., also called iRocket, and White & Case LLP-led special purpose acquisition company BPGC Acquisition Corp. unveiled plans Wednesday to merge in a $400 million deal that would take iRocket public.

  • July 23, 2025

    Katten Welcomes Ex-Gibson Dunn Tax Pro In New York

    Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP announced on Tuesday that it has added a former Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP of counsel to its transactional tax planning practice, noting her extensive experience in the finance space.

  • July 23, 2025

    Career Cooley Corporate Lawyer Joins DLA Piper In Va.

    A career Cooley LLP emerging growth companies lawyer who got his law degree after serving as a captain in the U.S. Air Force is moving from the platform he's spent a decade with to DLA Piper's office just outside the nation's capital.

  • July 23, 2025

    Paramount, Skydance Defend Merger Plan At FCC

    Paramount Global and Skydance Media continued to lobby the Federal Communications Commission for approval of their proposed $8 billion merger last week, telling the agency not to side with commenters calling for additional regulation as a condition.

  • July 23, 2025

    PE-Backed Consumer Data Giant NIQ Prices $1.1B IPO

    Private equity-backed consumer research services provider NIQ Global Intelligence began trading after pricing its initial public offering at $1.1 billion within its marketed range, one of two new listings to debut Wednesday.

  • July 23, 2025

    Jones Day Guides Corpay On $2.2B Alpha Group Acquisition

    Jones Day-advised Corpay Inc. said Wednesday it has agreed to acquire Alpha Group International PLC in a deal that values the U.K.-based foreign exchange platform at approximately $2.2 billion (£1.6 billion), following a months-long courtship that included the rejection of a prior Corpay offer. 

  • July 22, 2025

    Investor Sanctioned For Ignoring Telecom Arbitration Award

    A New York federal judge has sanctioned an investor in telecommunications infrastructure firm Continental Towers LATAM Holdings Ltd. for ignoring an arbitral award issued in a bitter, yearslong dispute over control of the company, saying he hasn't done enough to vacate offending judgments in the British Virgin Islands.

  • July 22, 2025

    EQT Investors' $167.5M Deal To End Merger Suit Gets 1st OK

    Investors in energy company EQT Corp. have gotten an initial green light for their $167.5 million settlement to end claims the company overstated the benefits of its $6.7 billion merger with Rice Energy, drawing what's purported to be the largest shareholder settlement in the Western District of Pennsylvania closer to a close.

  • July 22, 2025

    DC Circ. Puts Fired FTC Dem's Restoration On Ice, For Now

    One of the Federal Trade Commission Democrats who was removed from the agency before her term was up by the Trump administration will not be returning to her seat just yet after the D.C. Circuit agreed to put the order mandating her return to work on hold.

  • July 22, 2025

    DOJ Backs Door Maker's Divestiture Order In 4th Circ. Appeal

    The U.S. Department of Justice cleared a door maker's merger twice by the time a rival challenged the tie-up in court and won a landmark divestment order, but now the government is standing behind the company that won the order and asking the Fourth Circuit to keep it in place.

  • July 22, 2025

    Fubo Streamers Get Own Attys In Disney Suit

    DiCello Levitt and Lite DePalma have won out over Bathaee Dunne in a battle to represent FuboTV subscribers suing Disney over ESPN streaming rates, with a judge saying he had "grave doubts" that Yavar Bathaee could adequately represent the plaintiffs after Bathaee undercut their case in a status conference.

  • July 22, 2025

    Del. Boutique Wins 'Heated' Battle To Lead Endeavor Suit

    Litigation boutique Abrams & Bayliss LLP has been handed the reins to a potential blockbuster lawsuit alleging that sports and entertainment giant Endeavor Group Holdings was undervalued in a $13 billion take-private deal, with a Delaware vice chancellor on Tuesday settling what she described as a "heated," and at times personal, leadership fight in the case.

  • July 22, 2025

    Dickinson Wright, Shumaker Guide $95M Bank Merger

    Mercantile Bank Corp. and Eastern Michigan Financial Corp. announced Tuesday that they have entered into an agreement under which Eastern Michigan Financial and its wholly owned subsidiary will merge with Mercantile in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $95.8 million, in a deal guided by Dickinson Wright PLLC and Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP.

  • July 22, 2025

    Quantum Wants FTC To Lift Order On $5.2B Natural Gas Deal

    The Federal Trade Commission is asking for public feedback on a Quantum Energy Partners petition aiming to set aside a consent order the agency entered over a $5.2 billion deal that EQT Corp. struck with Quantum for oil and gas assets in Appalachia.

  • July 22, 2025

    Charter Shareholder Drops Suit Over $37.9B Cox Deal

    A Charter Communications Inc. shareholder has withdrawn from Connecticut state court an 11-day-old lawsuit that sought to block a July 31 vote on the company's proposed $37.9 billion acquisition of Cox Communications Inc.

  • July 22, 2025

    Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Fred De Albuquerque

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner Fred de Albuquerque has shepherded several billion-dollar deals, including Cisco Systems' $28 billion purchase of software platform Splunk and KSL's $1.4 billion take-private acquisition of Hersha Hospitality, earning him a spot among the mergers and acquisitions practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 22, 2025

    McCarter & English Taps Capital Markets Duo For NY Team

    Two transactional attorneys specializing in capital markets and corporate securities have recently moved their practices to McCarter & English LLP's New York office from Sichenzia Ross Ference Carmel LLP.

  • July 22, 2025

    Tax Software Co. Avalara, Universal Music Submit IPO Plans

    Avalara Inc. and music giant Universal Music Group NV have confidentially filed plans for initial public offerings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, marking the latest two companies to join the private-to-public pipeline.

  • July 22, 2025

    EU Deepens Look Into Universal Music $775M Downtown Deal

    European Union antitrust enforcers kicked off an in-depth probe Tuesday into Universal Music Group's bid to buy Downtown Music Holdings, raising concerns that the $775 million transaction could give UMG access to the "commercially sensitive data of its rival record labels" held by Downtown.

  • July 22, 2025

    BCLP Adds PE Transactions Pro From Golenbock Eiseman

    Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner announced the addition of a former Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe LLP attorney to its corporate transactions practice Monday, touting her work in private equity-backed transactions.

  • July 22, 2025

    4 Firms Advise On $2.5B Insignia Financial Take-Private Deal

    Private investment firm CC Capital and global alternative asset manager One Investment Management have agreed to acquire Australia's Insignia Financial Ltd. at a 3.9 billion Australian dollar ($2.5 billion) enterprise value, in a deal steered by four law firms.

Expert Analysis

  • Overseas Investment Rule Calls For Compliance Caution

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    Investors should be leery of who and what they are investing in now that the federal outbound investment regime, effective Jan. 2, has extended the governement's regulatory reach to businesses and parties not previously subject to trade restrictions, says Thaddeus McBride at Bass Berry.

  • Recent Suits Show Antitrust Agencies' Focus On HSR Review

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    The U.S. Department of Justice's suit this month against KKR for inaccurate and incomplete premerger filings, along with other recent cases, highlights the agency's increasing scrutiny of Hart-Scott-Rodino Act compliance for private equity firms, say attorneys at Willkie.

  • The 7th Circ.'s Top 10 Civil Opinions Of 2024

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    Attorneys at Jenner & Block examine the most significant decisions issued by the Seventh Circuit in 2024, and explain how they may affect issues related to mass arbitration, consumer fraud, class certification and more.

  • Mentorship Resolutions For The New Year

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    Attorneys tend to focus on personal achievements or career milestones when they set yearly goals, but one important area often gets overlooked in this process — mentoring relationships, which are some of the most effective tools for professional growth, say Kelly Galligan at Rutan & Tucker and Andra Greene at Phillips ADR.

  • PE Strategies To Manage Adjacent Portfolio Firm Conflicts

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    A variety of tools can mitigate potential risk for a private equity director sitting on the board of directors of multiple companies, including the disclosure of potential conflicts in fundraising documents to help mitigate risk under the securities laws, says Michael Kendall at Goodwin.

  • Series

    Coaching Little League Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    While coaching poorly played Little League Baseball early in the morning doesn't sound like a good time, I love it — and the experience has taught me valuable lessons about imperfection, compassion and acceptance that have helped me grow as a person and as a lawyer, says Alex Barnett at DiCello Levitt.

  • 5 Litigation Funding Trends To Note In 2025

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    Lawyers and their clients must be prepared to navigate an evolving litigation funding market in 2025, made more complicated by a new administration and the increasing overall cost of litigation, says Jeffery Lula at GLS Capital.

  • How FTC Sent A $5.6M Warning Against Jumping The Gun

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    The Federal Trade Commission's recent record $5.6 million "gun jumping" action against Verdun Oil, for allegedly exerting control over EP Energy before the mandatory waiting period under U.S. antitrust law expired, warns companies that they must continue to operate independently during review, say attorneys at Ballard Spahr.

  • Rethinking Litigation Risk And What It Really Means To Win

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    Attorneys have a tendency to overestimate litigation risk before summary judgment and underestimate risk after it, but an eight-stage litigation framework can clarify risk at different points and help litigators reassess what true success looks like in any particular case, says Joshua Libling at Arcadia Finance.

  • Mass Arbitration Procedures After Faulty Live Nation Ruling

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    Despite the Ninth Circuit's flawed reasoning in Heckman v. Live Nation, the exceptional allegations of collusive conduct shouldn't be read to restrict arbitration providers that have adopted good faith procedures to ensure that consumer mass arbitrations can be efficiently resolved on the merits, says Collin Vierra at Eimer Stahl.

  • Forecasting The Future Of The FTC Post-Inauguration

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    The incoming Federal Trade Commission leadership's agenda, which is expected to be in sharp contrast with the Biden administration's enforcement posture, will be noticeable right away in the first few weeks of the Trump administration, say attorneys at Cooley.

  • US-China Deal Considerations Amid Cross-Border Uncertainty

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    With China seemingly set to respond to the incoming U.S. administration's call for strategic decoupling and tariffs, companies on both sides of the Pacific should explore deals and internal changes to mitigate risks and overcome hurdles to their strategic plans, say attorneys at Covington.

  • Series

    Playing Rugby Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My experience playing rugby, including a near-fatal accident, has influenced my legal practice on a professional, organizational and personal level by showing me the importance of maintaining empathy, fostering team empowerment and embracing the art of preparation, says James Gillenwater at Greenberg Traurig.

  • Nippon, US Steel Face Long Odds On Merger Challenge

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    Following the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States' review of Japan's Nippon Steel's proposed acquisition of U.S. Steel, the companies face a formidable uphill battle in challenging the president's exercise of authority to block the deal on national security grounds, say attorneys at Kirkland.

  • Opinion

    No, Litigation Funders Are Not 'Fleeing' The District Of Del.

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    A recent study claimed that litigation funders have “fled” Delaware federal court due to a standing order requiring disclosure of third-party financing, but responsible funders have no problem litigating in this jurisdiction, and many other factors could explain the decline in filings, say Will Freeman and Sarah Tsou at Omni Bridgeway.

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