Asset Management

  • August 27, 2025

    Ga. Law Firm's Fee Fight With Broker-Dealer Moved To Mich.

    A Georgia federal judge moved an Atlanta-area law firm's suit accusing a Michigan-based investment firm of failing to pay $180,000 in legal fees to the Great Lakes State after finding there is no evidence linking the Michigan-based company's Georgia branches to the alleged breach of contract.

  • August 27, 2025

    Co-Founder Says Weapons Tech Co. Undercut Stock Buy

    A co-founder of Armaments Research Co. sued the artificial intelligence-enabled weapons sensor company in North Carolina's business court, alleging that it failed to abide by their agreement to buy back his founding shares after he left the company.

  • August 27, 2025

    Home Depot Avoids Ex-Worker's 401(k) Forfeiture Suit

    A Georgia federal judge agreed to dismiss a proposed class action alleging Home Depot misspent forfeitures from an employee 401(k) plan by using the assets to reduce employer-side contribution obligations instead of lowering fees planwide, concluding allegations failed to state a claim for violating federal benefits law.

  • August 27, 2025

    Jailed Pastor Cites Adams Dismissal In Bid To Beat Charges

    A clergyman serving a nine-year sentence for fraud cited his ties to New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Wednesday in a bid to have his conviction overturned in the wake of the Trump administration's dismissal of the charges against Adams.

  • August 27, 2025

    Skadden, Sidley Advise On Sompo's $3.5B Aspen Acquisition

    Japanese insurer Sompo Holdings has agreed to acquire Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd. for $3.5 billion in cash, with Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP representing Sompo and Sidley Austin LLP advising Aspen, the companies said Wednesday.

  • August 26, 2025

    Vesttoo Venture Capital Feud Goes To Arbitration In Israel

    A New York federal magistrate judge has ordered that fraud and negligence claims against a venture capital firm over $1 million of an investor's money that was placed into Israeli fintech firm Vesttoo Ltd., which was later ensnared in a scandal over $4 billion worth of forged letters of credit, go to arbitration in Israel. 

  • August 26, 2025

    Five Below Beats Some Investor Claims On Growth Potential

    A Pennsylvania federal judge has trimmed some claims from a shareholder suit accusing discount retailer Five Below and its executives of overstating the company's growth prospects and its ability to curb inventory loss, finding some of the suit's challenged statements to be inactionable, among other things.

  • August 26, 2025

    Ex-Genentech Worker Urges 9th Circ. To Revive ERISA Suit

    Counsel for a former Genentech employee urged the Ninth Circuit at a hearing Tuesday to revive his client's proposed class action alleging the biotechnology company kept unwise investment options in its 401(k) plan for years, saying the case is "vastly different" from one the lower court cited when tossing the suit.

  • August 26, 2025

    Standard General's Racial Bias Claims Against FCC Fall Flat

    Hedge fund manager Soo Kim has failed to convince a D.C. federal judge that the Federal Communications Commission and a cadre of media players were part of a racist conspiracy to kill his $8.6 billion merger with broadcaster Tegna.

  • August 26, 2025

    Fed Pushes To Dismiss Trump Ally's Suit Over Meeting Access

    Federal Reserve officials and members of the Federal Open Market Committee have urged a D.C. federal judge to toss a suit brought by an investment firm led by a supporter of President Donald Trump that seeks public access to monetary policy meetings, arguing they are not covered by the federal Sunshine Act as the investment firm claims.

  • August 26, 2025

    Firm Says It Shouldn't Owe SEC For Ex-Owner's Alleged Fraud

    A now-shuttered investment advisory firm has opposed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's attempt to hold it jointly liable for a $5 million judgment alongside its former owner who was accused of scamming elderly clients, arguing it did not profit from the alleged exploitation.

  • August 26, 2025

    FINRA Fines US Bank Unit $500K Over Missed AML Reports

    A broker-dealer unit of U.S. Bank has been fined $500,000 by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority following the FINRA member's realization that it had missed windows for filing certain reports of suspicious transactions.

  • August 26, 2025

    Legal Funding Firm Cartiga To Go Public Via $540M SPAC Deal

    Blank check company Alchemy Investments Acquisition Corp. 1, led by Loeb & Loeb LLP, has announced plans to acquire and take public legal-focused asset management platform Cartiga LLC, advised by Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, in a $540 million deal.

  • August 26, 2025

    White & Case-Led EchoStar Sells Spectrum To AT&T For $23B

    Telecommunications company EchoStar, advised by White & Case LLP, on Tuesday unveiled plans to sell certain wireless spectrum licenses to AT&T in a $23 billion all-cash deal.

  • August 26, 2025

    Fed's Lisa Cook Preps Lawsuit Over Trump Firing

    Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook is preparing to file a lawsuit over President Donald Trump's announcement that she has been terminated from her position, allegedly for committing mortgage fraud, her lawyer said Tuesday.

  • August 26, 2025

    Trump Media, SPAC And Crypto.com Create $6.42B Crypto Biz

    Blank check company Yorkville Acquisition Corp., Truth Social operator Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. and Crypto.com unveiled a partnership Tuesday that would establish a $6.42 billion digital asset treasury company focused on the acquisition of the native cryptocurrency token of the cronos ecosystem.

  • August 26, 2025

    Trucking Co. Strikes Deal To End Class Suit Over 401(k) Fees

    Knight-Swift Transportation reached a deal to settle a 23,500-member class action claiming the trucking business failed to rein in excessive fees charged to workers in its $432 million retirement plan, according to a filing in Arizona federal court.

  • August 25, 2025

    Trump Fires Fed's Lisa Cook Over Mortgage Fraud Allegation

    President Donald Trump on Monday evening fired Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook over his administration's allegation that she committed mortgage fraud, thrusting the White House into uncharted territory in its campaign to exert control over the central bank. 

  • August 25, 2025

    Auto Parts Supplier Targets Tilton In $39M Clawback Case

    An auto parts supplier asked a Michigan state court to hold collateralized debt promoter Lynn Tilton and several other defendants liable to the tune of nearly $40 million, alleging they had been involved in an asset transfer aimed at ducking a judgment in the plaintiff's favor.

  • August 25, 2025

    Texas Stock Exchange Wants In On Proxy Advisory Lawsuit

    The Texas Stock Exchange and Texas Association of Business have moved to intervene in two lawsuits that proxy advisory firms have filed against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over a state law restricting the firms, aiming to back up the law known as Senate Bill 2337.

  • August 25, 2025

    CFPB Plans To Limit Nonbank Supervision With Rule Proposal

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to propose a rule that would rein in the use of the agency's power to designate individual nonbanks for supervision, according to a notice of rulemaking scheduled to publish in the Federal Register on Tuesday.

  • August 25, 2025

    Cooley, Latham Lead $360M ScPharmaceuticals Acquisition

    Cooley LLP-advised biopharmaceutical company MannKind on Monday unveiled plans to buy scPharmaceuticals, led by Latham & Watkins LLP, for up to $360 million.

  • August 25, 2025

    AbbVie Nabs Depression Drug From Gilgamesh In $1.2B Deal

    Covington & Burling LLP-advised biotech company AbbVie on Monday announced plans to acquire Ropes & Gray LLP-led Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals' lead investigational candidate, which targets the treatment of patients with moderate to severe major depressive disorder, for up to $1.2 billion.

  • August 25, 2025

    3 Firms Advise On Crescent's $3.1B Vital Energy Acquisition

    Crescent Energy Co. will acquire Vital Energy Inc. in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.1 billion, including Vital's net debt, the companies said Monday, with three law firms advising on the transaction.

  • August 25, 2025

    Judge Says Alcoa Must Reinstate Nixed Retiree Benefits

    An Indiana federal judge ordered Alcoa to revive its company-provided life insurance benefits for a group of retirees after they claimed the aluminum production company illegally ditched the program that had been enshrined in collective bargaining agreements.

Expert Analysis

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Navigating Client Trauma

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    Law schools don't train students to handle repeated exposure to clients' traumatic experiences, but for litigators practicing in areas like civil rights and personal injury, success depends on the ability to view cases clinically and to recognize when you may need to seek help, says Katie Bennett at Robins Kaplan.

  • Yacht Broker Case Highlights Industry Groups' Antitrust Risk

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    The Eleventh Circuit recently revived class claims against the International Yacht Brokers Association, signaling that commission-driven industries beyond real estate are vulnerable to antitrust challenges after the National Association of Realtors settled similar allegations last year, says Miles Santiago at the Southern University Law Center and Alex Hebert at Southern Compass.

  • Opinion

    4 Former Justices Would Likely Frown On Litigation Funding

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    As courts increasingly confront cases involving hidden litigation finance contracts, the jurisprudence of four former U.S. Supreme Court justices establishes a constitutional framework that risks erosion by undisclosed financial interests, says Roland Eisenhuth at the American Property Casualty Insurance Association.

  • Quantifying Trading-Based Damages Using Price Impact

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will likely increasingly rely on price impact analyses to demonstrate pecuniary harm from trading-related misconduct, meaning measuring price impact will be helpful in challenging SEC disgorgement, determining appropriate remedies, and assessing loss causation and damages in private litigation, says Vyacheslav Fos at Boston College and Erin Smith at Compass Lexecon.

  • Congress Crypto Movement Could Bring CFTC 'Clarity' At Last

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    The Clarity Act's arrival at the House floor during "Crypto Week" in Congress demonstrates enduring bipartisan support for legislation addressing digital assets and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's important role in a future regulatory structure, say attorneys at DLA Piper.

  • Stablecoin Bills Present Opportunities, Challenges For Banks

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    Stablecoin legislation that Congress is expected to adopt in the coming weeks — the GENIUS and STABLE Acts — would create openings for banks to engage in digital asset activities, but it also creates a platform for certain tech-savvy nonbanks to directly compete, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.

  • How Attys Can Use AI To Surface Narratives In E-Discovery

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    E-discovery has reached a turning point where document review is no longer just about procedural tasks like identifying relevance and redacting privilege — rather, generative artificial intelligence tools now allow attorneys to draw connections, extract meaning and tell a coherent story, says Rose Jones at Hilgers Graben.

  • A Look At Florida's New Protected Series LLC Legislation

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    A new law in Florida enhances the flexibility of using limited liability companies as the entities of choice for most privately held businesses, moving Florida into a small group of states with reliable uniform protected series legislation for series LLCs, says Louis Conti at Holland & Knight.

  • Gauging The Risky Business Of Business Risk Disclosures

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    With the recent rise of securities fraud actions based on external events — like a data breach or environmental disaster — that drive down stock prices, risk disclosures have become more of a sword for the plaintiffs bar than a shield for public companies, now the subject of a growing circuit split, say attorneys at A&O Shearman.

  • Series

    Playing The Violin Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Playing violin in a string quartet reminds me that flexibility, ambition, strong listening skills, thoughtful leadership and intentional collaboration are all keys to a successful legal practice, says Julie Park at MoFo.

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    NY Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q2

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    In the second quarter of the year, New York utilized every available tool to fill gaps left by federal retrenchment from consumer finance issues, including sweeping updates to its consumer protection framework and notable amendments to cybersecurity rules, say attorneys at Steptoe.

  • SEC Proposal Could Hurt Foreign Issuers' US Market Access

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s June call for feedback on potentially narrowing how it designates foreign private issuers of securities could ultimately result in significant new barriers for traders that rely on FPI accommodations to participate in U.S. markets, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.

  • DOJ's 1st M&A Declination Shows Value Of Self-Disclosures

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    The U.S. Department of Justice's recent decision not to charge private equity firm White Deer Management — the first such declination under an M&A safe harbor policy announced last year — signals that even in high-priority national security matters, the DOJ looks highly upon voluntary self-disclosures, say attorneys at Perkins Coie.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Self-Care

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    Law schools don’t teach the mental, physical and emotional health maintenance tools necessary to deal with the profession's many demands, but practicing self-care is an important key to success that can help to improve focus, manage stress and reduce burnout, says Rachel Leonard​​​​​​​ at MG+M.

  • Nev. Steps Up Efforts To Attract Incorporations With New Law

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    Recent amendments to Nevada corporate law, which will narrow controlling stockholders’ liability, streamline mergers and allow companies to opt out of jury trials, show the interstate competition to attract new and reincorporating companies is still heating up, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.

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