Asset Management

  • June 24, 2025

    No New Trial For Convicted Crypto CEO Linked To Abramoff

    A California federal judge Tuesday declined to acquit a cryptocurrency company founder convicted of fraud and money laundering in a case that also involved disgraced ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, calling the defendant's assertions that the court wrongly blocked evidence showing Abramoff had conspired against the company "laughable."

  • June 24, 2025

    German Auto Parts Retailer Autodoc Scraps IPO Plans

    Autodoc SE on Tuesday postponed its initial public offering and related private placement, one week after the German auto parts retailer unveiled plans to raise up to €463.6 million ($535.8 million) on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

  • June 24, 2025

    Faulty Comparisons Doom Nordstrom 401(k) Fee Suit

    Nordstrom dodged a proposed class action claiming it saddled its 401(k) plan with excessive fees and used forfeited plan funds to offset its own contributions, with a Washington state federal judge saying inaccurate data and flawed comparisons to other plans couldn't sustain the case.

  • June 24, 2025

    CoastalSouth Bank Targets $59M IPO, Guided By 2 Firms

    CoastalSouth Bancshares Inc., the bank holding company for South Carolina state-chartered commercial bank Coastal States Bank, on Tuesday announced the launch of its initial public offering with plans to raise $58.5 million.

  • June 24, 2025

    Dechert Grows In DC With SEC Investment Management Atty

    Dechert LLP announced Tuesday that it has added the former assistant chief counsel of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Investment Management to enhance its capacity to advise clients about financial services and regulatory matters.

  • June 24, 2025

    Cataract Surgery Tech Co. Secures $125M Series B Funding

    Ophthalmic robotic surgery company ForSight Robotics on Tuesday revealed that it completed fundraising for its Series B financing round after securing $125 million from investors.

  • June 24, 2025

    Cooley-Led Sentinel Global Clinches $213.5M Inaugural Fund

    San Francisco-based venture capital firm Sentinel Global, led by Cooley LLP, on Tuesday revealed that it wrapped its inaugural fund after securing $213.5 million in committed capital.

  • June 23, 2025

    FTX Trust Slams Three Arrows' 'Illogical' $1.5B Claim

    The FTX bankruptcy recovery trust on Friday objected to a $1.53 billion claim made by the now-liquidated cryptocurrency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital Ltd., saying the "illogical and baseless" claim grossly inflates the actual value of assets associated with its customers' FTX accounts, while offering zero supporting evidence.

  • June 23, 2025

    Trump Media Authorizes $400M Share Repurchase

    Trump Media and Technology Group Corp., the owner of President Donald Trump's social media platform, said Monday it has authorized buying back up to $400 million of its shares, marking the company's latest cash management strategy.

  • June 23, 2025

    Texas Gov. Abbott Signs Bitcoin Reserve Bill Into Law

    Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed into law a bill to establish a strategic bitcoin reserve aimed at helping the Lone Star State's financial resilience, following the Trump administration's own creation of a bitcoin reserve earlier this year.

  • June 23, 2025

    Binance Agrees To Shutter Conn. Trading Operations

    Crypto platform Binance has agreed to shut down the Connecticut operations of its U.S. subsidiary BAM Trading Services Inc. after a majority owner of the company was convicted of money laundering and also admitted to violating state statutes, according to a new consent order.

  • June 23, 2025

    Wolfspeed To File Ch. 11 With Plan To Cut $4.6B Debt

    Semiconductor manufacturer Wolfspeed Inc. said it plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the near future as part of a restructuring plan to reduce its total debt by approximately 70%, which is approximately $4.6 billion.

  • June 23, 2025

    Execs Nix Worker's ERISA Suit Over Food Co. Sale Side Deals

    A Wisconsin federal judge tossed a worker's suit claiming PDQ Food Stores executives and GreatBanc brokered millions in self-serving side payments when organizing the company's sale, finding her complaint devoid of detail that any of the payments were illegal.

  • June 23, 2025

    Ex-SEC Atty Joins Bernstein Litowitz After Musk Fight

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's former chief litigation counsel announced on Monday that he is joining investor-side firm Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP as a partner in New York following a courtroom battle with Elon Musk that threatened to end his employment before it began.

  • June 23, 2025

    Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

    The Delaware Supreme Court reversed a year-old $199 million judgment against TransCanada in a suit challenging a merger that occurred nearly a decade ago, Aspen Technology Inc. was hit with another suit over its pending $7.2 billion merger with Emerson Electric, and Nielson Holdings Ltd. secured a temporary restraining order against its spinoff. In case you missed it, here's the latest from the Delaware Chancery Court.

  • June 23, 2025

    Wealthfront Joins IPO Pipeline With Confidential Filing

    Digital wealth management firm Wealthfront Corp. said Monday that it confidentially filed for an initial public offering, marking a first step toward going public as more technology firms join a recovering IPO pipeline.

  • June 23, 2025

    Mayer Brown Brings On Ex-Athene Atty For Insurance Team

    Mayer Brown said Monday that it added a former counsel for retirement services company Athene to its Chicago office, where he will serve as a partner in the firm's corporate and securities practice and global insurance industry group.

  • June 23, 2025

    4 Firms Build $1B Bitcoin SPAC Merger

    Bitcoin-native financial services firm ProCap BTC, which is led by American investor and entrepreneur Anthony Pompliano, on Monday announced plans to go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company Columbus Circle Capital Corp. I in a deal built by four law firms that will create a combined business with up to $1 billion in bitcoin on its balance sheet.

  • June 20, 2025

    MicroStrategy Brass Face Suit Over $5.9B Bitcoin Loss

    Executives and directors of bitcoin-focused software company MicroStrategy Inc. face a shareholder derivative complaint alleging they made over $31 million selling off company stock while its shares were artificially inflated by misrepresentations about the magnitude of upcoming changes to the company's accounting practices for its so-called bitcoin treasury.

  • June 20, 2025

    Many Foreign Firms Could Face Stricter Access To US Markets

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's reevaluation of the definition of a foreign private issuer could have far-reaching consequences, potentially tightening access to U.S. markets for companies based in China and beyond, lawyers say.

  • June 20, 2025

    SEC Weighs Settlement After 1st Circ. Pulls $93M Win

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has entered settlement negotiations with Massachusetts-based financial firm Commonwealth Financial Network, two months after the First Circuit nixed the agency's $93 million win against the company, according to a court document filed Friday.

  • June 20, 2025

    SEC Axes 3 More Dealer Suits In Continued Policy Shift

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has voluntarily dismissed three lawsuits accusing a hedge fund and two penny stock traders of operating as unregistered securities dealers, continuing the new Republican leadership's shift away from pursuing cases that defendants argued unlawfully expanded agency oversight.

  • June 20, 2025

    UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

    This past week in London has seen Pogust Goodhead face legal action from mining giant BHP Group, Trainline bring a procurement claim against the Department for Transport, Sworders auction house sue Conservative peer Patricia Rawlings, and Nokia hit with a patents claim by Hisense. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

  • June 20, 2025

    Off The Bench: Lakers Sale, NASCAR Antitrust, NIL Appeals

    In this week's Off The Bench, the Lakers fetch a $10 billion valuation as a new owner takes control of the franchise, a federal judge urges litigants in the NASCAR antitrust brawl to settle, and appeals pile up against the NCAA's landmark $2.78 billion athlete compensation settlement.

  • June 20, 2025

    Texas Justices Pass On USA Today, Tax Firm Defamation Fight

    The Texas Supreme Court on Friday declined to take up a venue dispute in a defamation suit against USA Today over a 2021 investigative series into tax services and technology company Ryan LLC.

Expert Analysis

  • Parsing The SEC's New Increased Co-Investment Flexibility

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's new co-investment exemptive orders simplify processes and reduce barriers for regulated funds — and rulemaking may evolve further to allow investors access to additional investment opportunities and increase available capital for issuers seeking to raise money from fund complexes, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.

  • Series

    Playing Guitar Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Being a lawyer not only requires logic and hard work, but also belief, emotion, situational awareness and lots of natural energy — playing guitar enhances all of these qualities, increasing my capacity to do my best work, says Kosta Stojilkovic at Wilkinson Stekloff.

  • Crisis Management Lessons From The Parenting Playbook

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    The parenting skills we use to help our kids through challenges — like rehearsing for stressful situations, modeling confidence and taking time to reset our emotions — can also teach us the fundamentals of leading clients through a corporate crisis, say Deborah Solmor at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and Cara Peterman at Alston & Bird.

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    Adapting To Private Practice: From NY Fed To BigLaw

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    While the move to private practice brings a learning curve, it also brings chances to learn new skills and grow your network, requiring a clear understanding of how your skills can complement and contribute to a firm's existing practice, and where you can add new value, says Meghann Donahue at Covington.

  • Reviewing Trump Admin's Rapid Pro-Crypto Regulatory Pivot

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    The digital asset industry has received a boost from the explicitly pro-crypto Trump administration, which in its first few months reversed Biden-era rules and installed industry proponents at regulatory agencies, marking one of the biggest regulatory about-faces by a government in recent memory, says Robert Appleton at Olshan Frome.

  • Top 3 Litigation Finance Deal-Killers, And How To Avoid Them

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    Like all transactions, litigation finance deals can sometimes collapse, but understanding the most common reasons for failure, including a lack of trust or a misunderstanding of deal terms, can help both parties avoid problems, say Rebecca Berrebi at Avenue 33 and Boris Ziser at Schulte Roth.

  • How Attys Can Use A Therapy Model To Help Triggered Clients

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    Attorneys can lean on key principles from a psychotherapeutic paradigm known as the "Internal Family Systems" model to help manage triggered clients and get settlement negotiations back on track, says Jennifer Gibbs at Zelle.

  • A Tale Of Two Admins: Parsing 1st Half Of SEC's FY 2025

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    The first half of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's fiscal year 2025, which ended March 31, was unusually eventful, marked by a flurry of enforcement actions in the last three months of former Chair Gary Gensler's tenure and a prompt pivot after Inauguration Day, say attorneys at Jones Day.

  • How Banks Can Manage Risk As AI Adoption Expands

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    Following new, supportive comments from financial regulatory leaders about the use of artificial intelligence in the industry, banks may move toward wider, less-tentative adoption of the technology, but will also need to deploy important risk management measures, say attorneys at WilmerHale.

  • What Bank Regulator Consolidation Would Mean For Industry

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    Speculation over the Trump administration’s potential plans to consolidate financial service regulators is intensifying uncertainty, but no matter the outcome for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the industry should expect continued policy changes, say attorneys at Foley & Lardner.

  • 3 Steps For In-House Counsel To Assess Litigation Claims

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    Before a potential economic downturn, in-house attorneys should investigate whether their company is sitting on hidden litigation claims that could unlock large recoveries to help the business withstand tough times, says Will Burgess at Hilgers Graben.

  • Despite SEC Climate Pause, Cos. Must Still Heed State Regs

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    While businesses may have been given a reprieve from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's rules aimed at standardizing climate-related disclosures, they must still track evolving requirements in states including California, Illinois, New Jersey and New York that will soon require reporting of direct and indirect carbon emissions, say attorneys at Husch Blackwell.

  • A Primer On The Trading And Clearing Of Perpetual Contracts

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    The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission recently released a request for comment on the trading and clearing of perpetual-style derivatives, most common in the cryptocurrency market, necessitating a deep look at how these contracts operate and their associated risks, say attorneys at Moore & Van Allen.

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    Teaching College Students Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Serving as an adjunct college professor has taught me the importance of building rapport, communicating effectively, and persuading individuals to critically analyze the difference between what they think and what they know — principles that have helped to improve my practice of law, says Sheria Clarke at Nelson Mullins.

  • Crunching The Numbers Of Trump SEC's 1st 100 Days

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    During the first 100 days of the second Trump administration, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission brought significantly fewer stand-alone enforcement actions than at the beginning of the Biden and the first Trump administrations, with every one of the federal court complaints including allegations of fraudulent conduct, say attorneys at Dentons.

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