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Latest News in Mergers & Acquisitions
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March 17, 2026
Were Musk's Tweets 'Deliberate' Or 'Stupid'? Jury To Decide
Elon Musk made "deliberate and carefully devised" statements to drive down Twitter's stock price after offering $44 billion for the company, Twitter investors' counsel told a California federal jury during closing arguments Tuesday, while Musk's lawyer insisted that there's no evidence of securities fraud and that it's not a crime to "tweet stupid things."
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March 17, 2026
EY Beats Brooge Petroleum, SPAC Merger Fraud Suit
A New York federal judge Tuesday tossed a suit against EY's Middle East affiliates that claimed they botched audits of United Arab Emirates-based Brooge Petroleum before its merger with a blank check company to enable a fraudulent scheme against investors, finding that the suit's claims are time-barred or inadequately pled.
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March 17, 2026
Skechers Controllers Accused Of Unfair $9.4B 3G Buyout
A Detroit pension fund is challenging the $9.4 billion take-private sale of Skechers U.S.A. Inc. to 3G Capital in Delaware Chancery Court, alleging the footwear company's controlling stockholders engineered an unfair deal that favored themselves at the expense of minority investors.
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March 17, 2026
Barnes & Thornburg Brings On M&A Pros In Georgia, Illinois
Barnes & Thornburg LLP announced Tuesday that it has boosted its mergers and acquisitions capabilities with new partners in Atlanta and Chicago.
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March 17, 2026
Alcon Drops $430M Lensar Deal Under Pressure From FTC
Swiss eye care company Alcon Inc. has abandoned its planned purchase of a Florida-based maker of laser treatments for cataracts, Lensar Inc., after the Federal Trade Commission threatened to block the $430 million deal.
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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