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In part two of this M&A market review, industry attorneys dig into how regulatory shifts are impacting the M&A landscape, from increased paperwork to continued scrutiny of tech transactions. They also outline how and why private equity has emerged as a bright spot in the market, playing an outsize role in dealmaking.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 2025

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Analysis

PE Dealmakers Best-Suited To Cut Through M&A Challenges

By Al Barbarino

In part two of this M&A market review, industry attorneys dig into how regulatory shifts are impacting the M&A landscape, from increased paperwork to continued scrutiny of tech transactions. They also outline how and why private equity has emerged as a bright spot in the market, playing an outsize role in dealmaking.

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Asset Manager's Suit Against Lowenstein Sandler Tossed

By Emily Sawicki

A New York state judge has handed an early win to Lowenstein Sandler LLP against allegations it provided faulty advice in a client's bankruptcy, finding the asset manager that brought the suit was simply attempting "to shift the financial cost of the troubled company's failed business from its owners to its lawyers."

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SEC Reopens Discussion On Small Biz 'Finder' Exemption

By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday signaled that it could revive an abandoned 2020 proposal to exempt some individuals from agency oversight in order to help small businesses raise capital, a proposal that received criticism from a key trade group and a fellow regulator at the time it was issued.

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EQUITY

2 SPACs Seek To Raise $210M Combined Amid Rebound

By Tom Zanki

Two special purpose acquisition companies have filed plans for initial public offerings totaling $210 million, expanding a growing pipeline of new listings, led by Asia-focused Chenghe Acquisition's third vehicle and a new entrant to the SPAC market.

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Canadian Tungsten Producer Plans $86 Million US IPO

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Canadian tungsten concentrate producer Almonty Industries on Monday told U.S. regulators that it plans to raise up to $86 million in its initial public offering.

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CRYPTOCURRENCY

Crypto Group, Treasury Drop 11th Circ. Tornado Cash Case

By Aislinn Keely

Crypto think tank Coin Center Inc. and the U.S. government have ended their battle over the Biden-era blacklisting of Tornado Cash now that the U.S. Treasury Department has removed the crypto mixing service from its list of blocked entities and a federal judge has deemed the designation unlawful.

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Strategy Eyes $4.2B Offering To Bolster Bitcoin-Buying Spree

By Tom Zanki

Michael Saylor's Strategy Inc. said Monday it has launched another preferred stock offering that can raise up to $4.2 billion in order to acquire bitcoin, building on the company's blueprint for stockpiling the flagship cryptocurrency.

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LITIGATION

11th Circ. Backs UBS' $6.5M Arbitration Win

By Sydney Price

The Eleventh Circuit has rejected a Puerto Rican man's bid to vacate a roughly $6.5 million arbitration award given to UBS Financial Services Inc. that stems from a long-running account contract dispute, finding there was no misconduct in the proceedings.

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Citron Founder Seeks Dismissal Of 'Absurd' DOJ Fraud Case

By Craig Clough

An attorney for Citron Research's founder, short-seller activist Andrew Left, urged a California federal judge Monday to dismiss the federal government's "absurd" criminal securities fraud case against Left, arguing that it's an unprecedented effort to criminalize free speech. 

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Katryna Perera and Jeff Montgomery

In Delaware in the past week, a vice chancellor awarded just $1 in damages to a China-tied company looking to secure a $50 million stake in SpaceX while also slamming the fund's manager for acting "insincerely," Tyson Foods won $55 million in damages in a suit claiming the owner of two poultry rendering plants Tyson acquired hid that it relied on a "disfavored" practice of recovering "unappetizing remnants of butchered chickens," and a suit over a one-site bank's 11-aircraft fleet was moved into the discovery phase.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

3rd-Party Audit Tactics To Improve Export Control Compliance

Companies should take a strategic approach to third-party audits in response to the Trump administration's ramp-up of export control enforcement with steps that strengthen their ability to identify the control weaknesses of distributors, dealers and resellers, say Michael Huneke at Hughes Hubbard, and John Rademacher and Abby Williams at Secretariat Advisors.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

US Supreme Court Term In Review: What You Need To Know

The U.S. Supreme Court considered many significant legal issues this term, including the proper venue for challenging agency actions and the level of scrutiny courts should apply to bans on gender-affirming care for transgender minors. But the emergency docket and a decision limiting nationwide injunctions loomed large. Here, Law360 takes a look at the cases and those who litigated them, as well as the sharpest writings from the justices.

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Grieving Texas Legal Community Steps Up After Flood Losses

By Lynn LaRowe

Texas lawyers are rallying around colleagues whose children were killed in the Guadalupe River's floodwaters last weekend, as attorneys around the Lone Star State organize widespread efforts to assist victims and hard-hit communities.

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Audio

Top Supreme Court Atty Touts AI Version Of Own Argument

By Jeff Overley

You're not hallucinating — a tech-savvy U.S. Supreme Court advocate generated a near-facsimile of his voice, had an artificial intelligence chatbot use it to argue the same case he recently argued, and told Law360 on Tuesday that "many of its answers were as good or better than mine."

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Gordon Rees Taps Calif. Employment Atty As Next Firm Head

By James Mills

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP announced Tuesday that a 20-year veteran employment litigator who has long been involved with firm management has been tapped to become the firm's new managing partner effective next year.  

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Analysis

Trump Tariff Fights Put Spotlight On Major Questions Doctrine

By Natalie Olivo

Challenges to President Donald Trump's global tariffs have brought renewed attention to the U.S. Supreme Court's major questions doctrine, including observations that lower courts have so far inconsistently applied this approach when scrutinizing a range of agency actions.

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Calif. Bar Seeks 30-Day Suspension For Ex-Exec's Misconduct

By Emily Sawicki

The California State Bar Court has recommended a 30-day "actual" suspension for its onetime executive director, who last year was found culpable for a "significant ethical violation" in making misrepresentations to the State Bar Board of Trustees regarding his 2014 visit to Mongolia, which allegedly cost thousands of dollars in bar funds.

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'Practice Better Judgment,' Judge Tells Comscore Foe

By Bryan Koenig

A California federal judge "strongly" admonished a film distribution and data company for filing an amended monopolization complaint against Comscore on the Fourth of July, while also concluding that the filing mooted, for now, a bid to force the box office giant to continue sharing data.

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Ex-DC Prosecutors Rip Pick Of Emil Bove For 3rd Circ.

By Jake Maher

A group of former federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., panned Emil Bove as a "dangerous" pick for the Third Circuit and criticized his record as a prosecutor as that of a loyal follower of President Donald Trump, in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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Jackson Walker, US Trustee Have A Week To Finish Mediation

By Catherine Marfin

A Texas federal judge has given Jackson Walker LLP and the federal government's bankruptcy watchdog a week to finish mediation in a fee dispute stemming from a former bankruptcy judge's secret relationship with a former firm partner.

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Analysis

The Biggest Copyright Rulings Of 2025: A Midyear Report

By Ivan Moreno

Two California judges were the first to deliver crucial rulings about what constitutes fair use in training generative artificial intelligence models — a question expected to test the boundaries of the copyright doctrine amid the emergence of the groundbreaking technology. Here is Law360's list of the biggest copyright decisions so far this year.

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Analysis

PE Attorneys Remain Optimistic Despite First-Half Slump

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

While many private equity attorneys predicted a booming environment heading into 2025 with President Donald Trump's incoming pro-business administration, uncertainty surrounding tariffs and antitrust regulations has been a hurdle for dealmaking and fundraising, causing an unanticipated slowdown in private equity activity.

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Trade Court Judge Sworn In As USDA Deputy Secretary

By Courtney Bublé

Judge Stephen A. Vaden of the U.S. Court of International Trade has resigned from his judgeship to join the U.S. Department of Agriculture as the second-in-command.

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Approach The Bench: Judge Biery Has Fun Writing

By Cara Bayles and Steven Trader

U.S. District Judge Fred Biery is now famous for the quirky written opinions he's produced during three decades as a trial judge for the Western District of Texas, but he was on the federal bench for a few years before he started to experiment in his opinion writing.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Aaron Katz Law

Akin Gump

Alan L Frank Law

ArentFox Schiff LLP

Arnold & Porter

Baker Botts

Bressler Amery

Cleary Gottlieb

Consovoy McCarthy

Davis Polk

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dynamis LLP

Ferraro Law Firm

Finnegan

Foley & Lardner

Fried Frank

Friedlander & Gorris

Gana Weinstein

Geragos & Geragos

Girardi & Keese

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani

Gray Reed

Greenberg Gross

Hodgson Russ

Hughes Hubbard

Jackson Walker LLP

Jenner & Block

Latham & Watkins

Law Office of Shawn C. Brown

Loeb & Loeb

Lowenstein Sandler

Milbank LLP

Morrison Foerster

Munger Tolles

Norton Rose

Paul Hastings

Phillips Lytle

Robbins Geller

Rusty Hardin & Associates

Sichenzia Ross

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Skadden Arps

Stinson LLP

Venable LLP

Williams & Connolly

WilmerHale

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Anthropic PBC

Apple Inc.

Australian Securities Exchange

BDT & MSD Partners

BTIG LLC

Barclays PLC

Clear Street LLC

Coin Center

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc.

Google LLC

Institute for Policy Integrity

Johnson & Johnson

Learning Resources Inc.

Medley Management Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

MicroStrategy Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Morgan Stanley

NVIDIA Corp.

Nasdaq Inc.

New York University

Novo Nordisk A S

OpenAI OpCo LLC

Preqin Ltd.

SIFMA

Secretariat Advisors LLC

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

State Bar of California

State Bar of Texas

TD Securities Inc.

TMX Group Ltd.

The Benchmark Co. LLC

The Walt Disney Co.

Thomson Reuters Corp.

Tyson Foods Inc.

UBS Group AG

UCLA School of Law

Versity Invest LLC

comScore Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Industry and Security

California Supreme Court

Commodity Credit Corp.

Delaware Court of Chancery

Executive Office of the President

Federal Trade Commission

New York Supreme Court, New York County

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Office of Foreign Assets Control

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Florida

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Department of Agriculture

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of State

U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court