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July 30, 2026
A Florida executive who once tried to buy England's Everton soccer club on Thursday denied new charges accusing him of engaging in a $500 million fraud on lenders, before the judge hearing his case declined to adjourn his October trial.
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July 30, 2026
A Sixth Circuit panel looked askance at Kalshi's push to have its sports event contracts shielded from state gambling regulators Thursday, pointedly questioning the prediction market giant about the difference between its offerings and traditional sports bets.
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July 30, 2026
An attorney who is an expert in private investment in public equity transactions told a Florida jury hearing a malpractice case against Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Thursday that companies who enter into an agreement similar to the one Patriot National Inc. did take on "grave risk."
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July 30, 2026
Private equity-backed womenswear brand Reformation Inc. began trading publicly on Thursday after raising $210.9 million in its initial public offering, hitting the low end of its marketed range.
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July 30, 2026
The soccer federation representing 55 European countries announced Thursday that it will boycott World Cup competition in protest of FIFA's plan to sell billions of dollars in shares of the sport's premier international tournament to private investors.
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July 30, 2026
Two men pled guilty Thursday in Massachusetts federal court to their roles in a sweeping scheme to trade on inside information stolen from huge corporate law firms about upcoming deals.
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July 30, 2026
Private equity-backed sandwich chain Jersey Mike's hit the public markets Thursday after raising $1 billion in its initial public offering steered by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.
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July 30, 2026
An Atlanta investment company asked a Georgia federal court to order Bank of America and Merrill Lynch to explain why they have not credited what the investment company said is a $7.5 billion wire transfer to its account, saying it needs details about where the money is.
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July 30, 2026
A former Blackstone executive who started his legal career at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP has returned to the revamped firm as a New York-based investment management partner.
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July 30, 2026
A Manhattan federal judge delivered a significant victory to Coinbase on Thursday with a split ruling that found the crypto exchange can't be held responsible as a "statutory seller" for the vast majority of transactions on its platform, though the proposed securities class action will continue over a smaller number of orders Coinbase fulfilled from its own inventory of tokens.
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July 30, 2026
The parent company of the New York Stock Exchange announced Thursday it has agreed to acquire MarketAxess Holdings Inc., a trading platform for fixed-income markets, for $6 billion, in a deal steered by three law firms.
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July 30, 2026
Shell began a $4.2 billion share buyback program on Thursday, resuming its plan to reduce its share capital after ARC Resources shareholders approved the British energy giant's $13.6 billion acquisition of the Canadian company.
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July 29, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday reversed a lower court's finding that Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP can't be held liable in a battle over a stock transfer agreement gone awry, ruling that California law does allow a party to the transfer to pursue equitable indemnity in the case.
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July 29, 2026
A group of 44 attorneys general warned the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to "start afresh" on its proposed rule for prediction markets or risk treading on state authority over gambling, while prediction market platforms backed the rule's plan to permit many sports-focused event contracts.
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July 29, 2026
A Wisconsin federal court on Wednesday rejected the Commodity Future Trading Commission's attempt to shield Kalshi and Crypto.com from the state's gambling laws during litigation, saying the court is not convinced sports event contracts are "swaps."
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July 29, 2026
A trio of circuit court appeals tied to the class certification process in shareholder suits and a U.S. Supreme Court appeal that also touches on certification are among the cases that securities litigators are keeping an eye on in the second half of 2026.
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July 29, 2026
A New York federal judge has trimmed claims from a suit alleging a Texas-based Coinbase vendor called TaskUs failed to protect the personal information of Coinbase customers from a bribery-fueled data compromise scheme involving TaskUs employees.
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July 29, 2026
Apple has been hit with a federal lawsuit in California over its alleged failure to warn consumers about fraudulent cryptocurrency wallet apps available on its App Store and the risk of cryptocurrency theft posed by those apps.
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July 29, 2026
A New Jersey federal judge narrowed a proposed securities class action against Novo Nordisk, preserving claims that it misled investors about the CagriSema obesity drug's tolerability and a flexible protocol used in a clinical trial.
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July 29, 2026
The individual defendants in a $300 million fraud lawsuit have accused King & Spalding LLP of appellate "shenanigans" while it seeks to exit the case due to an alleged ethics conflict, claiming the firm has falsely denied representing corporate clients despite an attorney's appearance suggesting otherwise.
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July 29, 2026
Canadian gold producer Allied Gold said Wednesday that its roughly $4 billion planned sale to China's Zijin Gold International has been terminated, citing "no reasonable likelihood" of closing the deal by its drop-dead date.
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July 29, 2026
A proposed class action in Massachusetts federal court accuses DraftKings of conducting sports betting in states that outlaw it, through prediction markets that are accessible through the same app as its sportsbook and daily fantasy sports.
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July 29, 2026
Counsel for a cryptocurrency business owner told a New York state judge on Wednesday that plea negotiations had hit a wall over how much money the state wanted in exchange for a deal without time behind bars over an alleged $1.5 million fraud scheme.
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July 28, 2026
As the Federal Reserve moves closer to giving fintech and crypto firms a direct on-ramp to its payment rails, critics inside and outside the banking industry say it needs a more robust off-ramp for those that get into trouble or fail.
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July 28, 2026
A surge in mergers and acquisitions-focused activist campaigns in the first half of 2026 came as companies adjusted to the universal proxy regime and activists increasingly turned to artificial intelligence to identify targets, according to a Diligent Market Intelligence report released on Tuesday.