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Latest News in Mergers & Acquisitions
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October 22, 2024
Day Trader Seeks Early Win In Verifone Insider Trading Suit
A day trader moved for an early win in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission insider trading case alleging the trader was tipped off by a former Francisco Partners consultant about the firm's $3.4 billion purchase of Verifone Systems Inc., arguing there is no evidence that he knew he received material nonpublic information, let alone traded on it.
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October 22, 2024
Blakes, Wachtell Lead JM Smucker In $305M Cookie Biz Sale
American food manufacturing giant The J.M. Smucker Co., advised by Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, on Tuesday announced that it has agreed to sell its Voortman cookie brand to private equity-backed Second Nature Brands in a $305 million cash deal.
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October 22, 2024
MVP: Latham's Justin Hamill
Justin Hamill led the Latham & Watkins LLP team representing Endeavor Group Holdings Inc. in its $13 billion take-private acquisition by private equity firm Silver Lake, and also advised Skydance Media in its multibillion-dollar merger with Paramount Global, putting him among the 2024 Law360 Mergers & Acquisitions MVPs.
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October 22, 2024
In-House Counsel For Veeva, SingleStore Joins Stoel Rives
Stoel Rives LLP has hired the former in-house counsel for technology companies SingleStore and Veeva Systems Inc. in Boise, Idaho, positioning the firm to better serve the increasing demand for sophisticated transactional representations in the area.
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October 22, 2024
UK Probes Iberdrola's €5B Electric Power Co. Deal
Britain's antitrust authority said Tuesday that it has decided to investigate Spanish utility company Iberdrola's proposed acquisition of an 88% stake in Electricity North West to examine whether it could weaken competition in U.K. markets.
Areas of Coverage
- TRANSACTIONS
- Mergers and acquisitions valued at $100MM or more
- Company spinoffs and splitups
- Transactions involving stakes of $100MM or more
- Hostile takeovers and leveraged buyouts
- Poison pill implementation
- Bankruptcy selloffs
- AGENCIES
- Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
- Federal Trade Commission
- U.S. Department of Justice
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Dodd-Frank Act
- International banking legislation and regulation
- ENFORCEMENT
- Merger reviews
- Second requests
- Challenges and divestitures
- LITIGATION
- Antitrust suits
- Bankruptcy proceedings
- Shareholder disputes
- Corporate governance fights
- Proxy battles and hostile takeover suits
- Poison pill challenges
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of mergers and acquisitions practices
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