/mergersacquisitions?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Mergers & Acquisitions Copyright 2025 ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ. en-US Fri, 11 Jul 2025 20:33:08 +0000 /mergersacquisitions/articles/2362042?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /mergersacquisitions/articles/2362042 In the two weeks since the U.S. Supreme Court curtailed federal judges' ability to issue universal injunctions, Trump administration attorneys have begun pushing to expand the decision's limits to other forms of relief used in regulatory challenges and class actions. So far, judges don't appear receptive to those efforts.  Fri, 11 Jul 2025 19:25:50 +0000 /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363711?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363711 A Soros Fund Management LLC portfolio manager says a radio CEO cannot sue him in Connecticut because he's beyond the state's long-arm jurisdiction, seeking to shake the CEO's claim that he was boxed out of dividends and a potential job after allegedly helping the fund acquire broadcasting company Audacy Inc. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 19:23:44 +0000 /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363005?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363005 A Virginia federal judge refused a request from the U.S. Department of Justice Friday to force Google to hand over submissions it made to European enforcers when trying to settle their investigation as the sides ready for a remedies trial in the ad tech monopolization case. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 18:52:20 +0000 /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363018?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363018 Life sciences parties should utilize due diligence strategically to review and draft deal documents, address issues identified during the diligence, and craft solutions to achieve the party's transactional goals, says Anna Zhao at Gunner Cooke. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 18:39:18 +0000 /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363187?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363187 When Merck agreed to purchase respiratory disease-focused Verona Pharma plc for $10 billion, it became one of Merck's largest deals ever, and the pharmaceutical giant made clear that its bet on a potentially transformative pulmonary therapy was much more than a speculative pipeline acquisition. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 18:17:41 +0000 /mergersacquisitions/articles/2364017?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /mergersacquisitions/articles/2364017 Federal Communications Commission staff late Friday approved the license transfers needed for T-Mobile to complete its $4.4 billion acquisition of UScellular wireless operations. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 18:11:49 +0000 /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363787?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363787 A Florida country club operator asked a North Carolina judge to find that it controls a Charlotte-area country club and golf course within a gated community, alleging that a homeowners association has refused to recognize the company as the club's owner. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 17:50:03 +0000 /mergersacquisitions/articles/2361858?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /mergersacquisitions/articles/2361858 Artificial intelligence systems' integration into business operations creates new considerations for intellectual property due diligence in mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions, and implementing a practical approach to identifying AI assets can help avoid litigation and losses, say Armin Ghiam and Senna Hahn at Hunton. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 16:54:08 +0000 /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363924?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363924 Walgreens Boots Alliance said Friday its shareholders have approved a plan for the company to be purchased by private equity firm Sycamore Partners, in a transaction with a total value of up to $23.7 billion. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 16:39:30 +0000 /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363483?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363483 Defunct telehealth provider Better Therapeutics Inc. has reached a roughly $1 million settlement with a shareholder to end a Delaware Chancery Court suit challenging its take-public merger, according to court filings. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 16:25:21 +0000 /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363705?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363705 Clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company BridgeBio Oncology Therapeutics, advised by Goodwin Procter LLP, and White & Case LLP-led special purpose acquisition company Helix Acquisition Corp. II on Friday revealed that their $949 million merger had been cleared by U.S. regulators. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 15:57:36 +0000 /mergersacquisitions/articles/2362788?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /mergersacquisitions/articles/2362788 The U.S. Tax Court’s June 17 opinion in AbbVie v. Commissioner, finding that a $1.6 billion break fee was an ordinary and necessary business expense, marks a pivotal rejection of the Internal Revenue Service’s position on the tax treatment of termination fees related to failed mergers or acquisitions, say attorneys at Holland & Knight. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 15:52:23 +0000 /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363680?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363680 As the parties await the result of a critical arbitration proceeding that could sink a planned $53 billion sale of Hess to Chevron, a shareholder is arguing that the deal disproportionately benefits CEO John Hess at the expense of the company's investors. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 15:45:08 +0000 /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363820?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363820 A Charter Communications Inc. shareholder has asked a Connecticut state court judge to block a July 31 vote on the Stamford-based company's proposed $37.9 billion acquisition of Cox Communications Inc., claiming the deal will enrich executives and their financial advisers but provide few benefits to shareholders. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:18:01 +0000 /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363812?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363812 In this week's Taxation With Representation, Merck buys U.K. drugmaker Verona Pharma, CoreWeave acquires fellow data center company Core Scientific, Royal Gold acquires Sandstorm Gold and Horizon Copper, and Italian food company Ferrero buys WK Kellogg. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 10:31:56 +0000 /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363542?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363542 Glaser Weil Fink Howard Jordan & Shapiro LLP is boosting its corporate team, bringing in an Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP mergers and acquisitions expert as a partner in its Los Angeles office in Century City. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 10:14:40 +0000 /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363584?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363584 Flutter Entertainment PLC said Friday that it has agreed to acquire a 5% stake in FanDuel Group from Boyd for approximately $1.76 billion to take outright ownership of the leading sports betting and iGaming business in the U.S. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 06:04:34 +0000 /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363583?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363583 The board of Warehouse REIT switched allegiance to Blackstone on Friday, after the private equity heavyweight pitched a sweetened £489 million ($662 million) cash offer in a bidding war with property investor Tritax Big Box. Thu, 10 Jul 2025 23:42:58 +0000 /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363562?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363562 Venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz on Wednesday announced plans to reincorporate in Nevada, saying that it was no longer a "no-brainer" to launch a company and incorporate in the historically corporate-friendly state of Delaware. Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:36:33 +0000 /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363234?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /mergersacquisitions/articles/2363234 Tyson Foods wants to block any claim to damages in a poultry rendering company's antitrust lawsuit, telling a Georgia federal judge Wednesday that a Delaware state court already ruled that it overpaid to buy out the company and asserting that precludes any claims that it forced the firm into an underpriced buyout.