Corporate

  • May 29, 2026

    Luminar Exits Investor Suit Over Chip Image Rip-Off Claims

    Bankrupt autonomous vehicle technology company Luminar Semiconductor Inc. no longer faces a proposed investor class action over claims it passed off an image of a competitor's technology as its own, though the suit remains ongoing against a former Luminar executive.

  • May 29, 2026

    Facing Scrutiny, 'Schedule A' Suits Grow Beyond Chicago

    Federal lawsuits that target dozens or even hundreds of online sellers at once kept climbing in 2025 and spread beyond their Chicago stronghold, even as new data shows more friction for brand owners' mass anti-counterfeiting strategy.

  • May 29, 2026

    Sacramento Makes Pitch For Full-Time MLB Expansion Team

    Sacramento business and political leaders have started a campaign to bring a Major League Baseball expansion team to the area, unveiling plans to build a stadium and mixed-use development next to the temporary minor league home of MLB's Athletics.

  • May 29, 2026

    Hawaiian Electric Gets Final OK Of $100M Wildfire Deal

    A Hawaii federal judge has given final approval to a $100 million deal to settle a shareholder derivative suit alleging the directors and executives of Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. failed to prepare for the deadly 2023 Maui wildfire.

  • May 29, 2026

    AI Voice Co. Files Ch. 7 Amid Actors' Copyright Suit

    Artificial intelligence-enabled voice generating software company Lovo Inc. has filed for Chapter 7 protection In New York in the midst of an ongoing putative class action brought by voice actors alleging their voices were used by the company without permission.

  • May 29, 2026

    GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

    Kirkland & Ellis says it's investing a half billion dollars into developing its own artificial intelligence platform to better serve clients. And Law360 looks at the general counsel who is guiding BP through its latest leadership crisis after the company abruptly dismissed its board chair.

  • May 29, 2026

    Universal Music Rejects $65B Pershing Square Proposal

    Universal Music Group said Friday it has rejected an unsolicited takeover proposal from Pershing Square Capital Management, saying the offer worth roughly $65 billion fundamentally undervalues the music company.

  • May 29, 2026

    Taxation With Representation: Latham, White & Case, Vischer

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, Fertitta Entertainment acquires Caesars Entertainment, Eli Lilly and Co. buys three companies involved in vaccine development, and nuclear energy company Newcleo Ltd. says it plans to go public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company, NewHold Investment Corp. III.

  • May 29, 2026

    UnitedHealthcare Defrauded Mass. Of $100M, AG Says

    UnitedHealthcare's "growth at all costs strategy" led the insurer's Massachusetts subsidiary to overcharge the state by more than $100 million by exaggerating the medical conditions and needs of seniors, the state's attorney general said in a Friday lawsuit.

  • May 29, 2026

    Skadden-Led IFF Selling Ingredients Biz To CVC For $4.3B

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP is advising food and fragrance company IFF on an agreement to sell its food ingredients business to White & Case LLP-advised CVC Capital Partners, valuing the unit at about $4.3 billion, according to a Friday announcement. 

  • May 29, 2026

    SEC Unveils Plan To End Biden-Era Climate Disclosure Regs

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday put forth a proposal that would overturn a Biden-era regulation requiring publicly traded companies to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions, saying the rule fell outside the agency's "core mandate."

  • May 29, 2026

    Comcast Says EchoStar Must Face Contract Meddling Suit

    Comcast urged a Colorado federal judge to reject Dish Wireless parent EchoStar's bid to escape a suit alleging the company directed Dish Wireless to abandon a fiber connection contract through baseless force majeure claims after EchoStar had sold $42 billion in spectrum licenses.

  • May 29, 2026

    REIT Take-Privates Pick Up As Valuation Gaps Persist

    Real estate investment trust take-private activity is showing signs of momentum after a relatively subdued period, as private capital and real estate investors increasingly converge around valuation gaps between public markets and underlying asset values.

  • May 29, 2026

    Cuts To Benefits Come With Risks For Employers, Attys Say

    Some employers have been reducing employee benefits, attorneys say, a move that brings both legal and reputational risks. Here's a look at three areas where practitioners are seeing cutbacks and the pitfalls they present. 

  • May 29, 2026

    Davis Polk Adds A&O Shearman Antitrust Partner In NY

    Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP has hired a former A&O Shearman partner, who joined its antitrust and competition practice in New York.

  • May 28, 2026

    WHO 'Changed The Rule' To Find Talc-Cancer Link, Jury Told

    A Johns Hopkins epidemiologist told a California jury Thursday considering bellwether claims that Johnson & Johnson's talc products caused deadly ovarian cancer in three women that a World Health Organization agency's recent reclassification of talc as being probably carcinogenic only came about because it "changed the rule" over what evidence it considered.

  • May 28, 2026

    Trump Amends $10B WSJ Defamation Suit Over Epstein Story

    President Donald Trump has filed a new version of the complaint in his $10 billion defamation suit against The Wall Street Journal over an article reporting that he sent a "bawdy" birthday letter to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, this time claiming that the reporters knew or should've known the letter didn't exist.

  • May 28, 2026

    Hospital Operator, Execs Ink $32M FCA Settlement With Feds

    Psychiatric hospital operator Oglethorpe Inc. has agreed to pay $32 million and be excluded from all federal healthcare programs for 10 years to resolve allegations it knowingly failed to return Medicare overpayments in violation of the False Claims Act.

  • May 28, 2026

    Ex-TD Bank Worker Admits Role In $3M Customer Fraud Scam

    A former TD Bank NA financial service representative entered a plea deal in New Jersey federal court Wednesday, admitting to defrauding bank customers and bribing an employee at another financial institution to falsify bank records to facilitate a $3.4 million fraud scheme.

  • May 28, 2026

    Tesla Must Face Calif. Agency's Race Bias Fight In July Trial

    A California state judge has mostly rejected Tesla Inc.'s bid for a summary judgment win in the California Civil Rights Department's lawsuit alleging the electric-auto maker has allowed racism to run rampant at its Fremont factory, sending the high-stakes civil rights dispute to a July 20 jury trial.

  • May 28, 2026

    Akerman Says Colo. Roofing Co. Owes $650K From IP Suit

    Akerman LLP claimed in Colorado state court on Wednesday that a roofing company has not paid nearly $650,000 in attorney fees and costs related to a trademark infringement lawsuit from a competing business in Nevada.

  • May 28, 2026

    Paxton Says Mass. Court Can't Halt ActBlue Case In Texas

    Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton urged a Massachusetts federal judge to toss a lawsuit claiming his fraud allegations against Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue are politically motivated, saying the Bay State court cannot interfere in his Texas case.

  • May 28, 2026

    Meta Must Face Contract Claim In Facebook Ad Pricing Suit

    A California federal judge trimmed a putative class action accusing Meta Platforms Inc. of secretly changing Facebook's ad auction system in a way that caused advertisers to pay more than promised, but said "ambiguity" in the social media giant's agreements meant a breach of contract claim survives the company's motion to dismiss.

  • May 28, 2026

    HSBC Defeats Most Claims In First Citizens' Poaching Suit

    A California federal judge has dismissed the bulk of First Citizens Bank & Trust Co.'s suit against HSBC alleging the latter induced a mass resignation and misappropriated trade secrets, saying the court still didn't have any jurisdiction over some defendants and that an amended complaint had not cured issues with a previously dismissed complaint.

  • May 28, 2026

    Athletes Decry Antitrust Immunity In College Sports Bill

    College athlete advocacy groups have criticized a proposed bipartisan U.S. Senate bill that provides congressional oversight to college sports and allows athletes to have agents, but also limits player movement and compensation and grants the NCAA antitrust immunity.

Expert Analysis

  • SEC's Co-Investment Relief Broadens Private Market Access

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent no-action letter to J.P. Morgan Investment Management permits open-end funds to co-invest with affiliates, removing a long-standing barrier open-end fund sponsors have faced in sourcing private market investments at scale, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • Your Next Litigation Hold Should Cover AI Chat Logs

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    The Delaware Chancery Court’s recent decision in Fortis Advisors v. Krafton to treat a CEO’s artificial intelligence chats as substantive evidence is being read as a discovery warning to litigators, but there is a second duty-to-preserve lesson that is especially pertinent to in-house counsel, say attorneys at Faegre Drinker.

  • Musk-OpenAI Verdict Shows Value Of Early-Stage Governance

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    A California federal court's ruling last week in Musk v. Altman preserves the status quo at OpenAI, but signals to the technology industry at large that courts will not relitigate the governance decisions of early-stage organizations on a founder's competitive timetable, surfacing questions that will outlast the litigation, says attorney Alan N. Walter.

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    Studying Foreign Languages Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Studying Italian and Japanese has shown me that learning a new language can benefit a legal career in several ways, including by demonstrating the importance of approaching problems from a fresh perspective and the value of practicing patience with colleagues and clients, says Anna King at Genworth Financial.

  • 10 US Patent Pressure Points For EU Life Sciences Cos.

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    U.S.-specific patent issues can be challenging for European life sciences companies because they require decisions at the intersection of legal, scientific, regulatory and commercial functions, necessitating proactive, cross-functional steps from EU patent counsel, says Paul Calvo at Sterne Kessler.

  • Sold Inventory May Drive Tax Treatment Of Tariff Refunds

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    Companies determining the tax treatment of refunds expected following the U.S. Supreme Court's February decision invalidating tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act should consider whether the tariff costs have already reduced their income considering the cost of goods sold, say attorneys at McDermott.

  • Del. Justices' Ripeness Ruling Shields Advance Notice Bylaws

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    The Delaware Supreme Court’s recent decision dismissing two AES and Owens Corning stockholder challenges of advance notice bylaws as unripe provides corporations more room to insulate their nomination procedures from activist pressure, say attorneys at Reed Smith.

  • Operational AI Washing: Fortifying The Disclosure Record

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    The same artificial intelligence-driven workforce narratives that once appeared in earnings calls and Form 8-Ks can easily become raw material for future operational AI washing claims, so companies must be careful when drafting public disclosures because winning a federal motion to dismiss starts months before a lawsuit is ever filed, say attorneys at Akerman.

  • Tax Teams Get No Bright-Line Rule From AI Privilege Cases

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    Three recent appellate decisions that considered artificial intelligence in the context of attorney-client privilege protections illustrate that taxpayers and tax practitioners alike must consider the pertinent facts on a case-by-case basis, with particular attention to confidentiality, disclosure risk and system design, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • Claiming The Narrative Before The SEC Files Charges

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    Following the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent rescission of its no-deny rule, Scott Schneider at FTI Consulting, a former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission communications official, details when and how to publicly respond to news of a pending regulatory inquiry targeting your company.

  • Looking Beyond Calif. Climate Laws As NY Bills Advance

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    California's climate disclosure legislation has made emissions and risk reporting a practical reality — and now that New York is working on its own climate disclosure bills, companies must confront a future in which compliance systems will need to be ready for multiple states' reporting regimes, says Thierry Montoya at FBT Gibbons.

  • Cuba Sanctions Shift Puts Foreign Cos. In OFAC's Crosshairs

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    A recent executive order marks an extreme shift for foreign companies whose Cuban dealings have no relation to the U.S. and are entirely lawful under the laws of their home jurisdictions, such that their existing ring-fence protocols no longer offer protection from the Office of Foreign Assets Control’s secondary sanctions, says Jeremy Paner at Hughes Hubbard.

  • SEC Enforcement Has Continued Its Asset Management Focus

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    While the total number of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement actions is down, certain novel theories of liability have been abandoned, and the SEC has embraced a back-to-basics posture, most of the regulatory risks for asset managers that existed in the prior commission have not gone away, say attorneys at Weil.

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    NY Times Word Puzzles Make Me A Better Lawyer

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    Every morning I let The New York Times humble me with word games, which offer a chance to recalibrate my brain before the day's chaos arrives and remind me that a solution — whether to a puzzle or employment law issue — almost always exists once I find the right angle, says Amy Epstein Gluck at Pierson Ferdinand.

  • Big Issues Linger After Senate Prediction Market Trading Ban

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    Whether the Senate can — or should — extend prediction market trading restrictions beyond itself will test not only the boundaries of insider trading law, but also the structural limits of legislative power in an era where information itself has become a tradable asset, say attorneys at Benesch.

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