Corporate

  • August 01, 2025

    Marsh McLennan Sues In Del. Claiming Mass 'Poach'

    Insurance brokerage and risk management giant Marsh & McLennan Cos. sued U.S. affiliates of London-based Howden Holdings Ltd. in Delaware's Court of Chancery on Friday, alleging Howden arranged a mass "lift out" of M&M employees and clients around the country.

  • August 01, 2025

    Employment Authority: The Push For NYC's $30 Min Wage

    Law360 Employment Authority covers the biggest employment cases and trends. Catch up this week with coverage on New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani's pitch for a $30 an hour minimum wage, why a new report is raising alarms that digital surveillance systems at work are causing wage theft and discrimination, and why experts say it was an unusual move for President Trump to call on the National Labor Relations Board to clarify the status of college athletes. 

  • August 01, 2025

    Texas Judge Says States Can Pursue BlackRock Coal Suit

    A Texas federal judge Friday gave Texas and other states the go-ahead to pursue claims that BlackRock Inc. and other asset managers used market muscle to decrease coal production, saying the states plausibly showed that the asset managers breached antitrust laws.

  • August 01, 2025

    4 Mass. Rulings You May Have Missed In July

    A cannabis company in the process of going out of business cannot rely on a state court receivership to shield it from creditors in other states, and the owners of shuttered Norwood Hospital can't renew an expired permit issued to bankrupt Steward Health.

  • August 01, 2025

    Monthly Merger Review Snapshot

    The U.S. Department of Justice abandoned its challenge of a corporate travel management deal, while lawmakers are calling for scrutiny of the agency's recent decision to settle a different case, and the Federal Trade Commission agreed to nix the requirements placed on a pair of oil and gas deals.

  • August 01, 2025

    Chancery Rules Gallagher Owes $50M In 'Earnout' Suit

    An Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. subsidiary breached a contract by withholding $50 million owed to a patent insurance and underwriting venture under first-year terms of a three-year merger and earnout deal, a Delaware vice chancellor has found.

  • August 01, 2025

    'Reverse Acquihires' Multiply Inside Regulatory Gray Zone

    Big Tech firms are increasingly turning to so-called reverse acquihires to quickly secure talent and technology, but as these deals grow in size and frequency, they may invite the very regulatory scrutiny the strategy is designed to avoid.

  • August 01, 2025

    GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

    Department store retailer Dillard's has asked for a special shareholder's vote on Aug. 19 on management's plan to move its incorporation from Delaware to Texas, becoming the latest company to join the so-called DExit trend.

  • August 01, 2025

    Ex-Bank GC Must Pay $2.5M Fraud Restitution By Oct. 1

    A former Webster Bank general counsel who pled guilty to bank fraud must pay by Oct. 1 the remaining $2.5 million he owes in restitution, a federal judge has ruled, finding that the man's bank accounts and securities are enough to cover the difference.

  • August 01, 2025

    The Top In-House Hires Of July

    Legal department hires over the past month included high-profile appointments at Warner Bros. Discovery, Deutsche Bank and Kroger. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from July.

  • August 01, 2025

    Taxation With Representation: Skadden, Wachtell, Latham

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, Union Pacific Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp. announce megamerger plans, Palo Alto Networks acquires identity security company CyberArk, Brookfield buys British life insurer Just Group, and Duke Energy sells its Piedmont Natural Gas Tennessee local distribution business to Spire Inc.

  • August 01, 2025

    Tesla Hit With $329M Verdict In Trial Over Fatal Autopilot Crash

    A Miami jury in a highly publicized trial over Tesla's autopilot on Friday found the product to be defective and awarded $329 million in damages to the loved ones of a woman killed in a 2019 Florida Keys crash.

  • July 31, 2025

    Flo Settles Privacy Fight Midtrial, Leaving Meta To Face Jury

    Flo Health Inc. told a California federal judge Thursday it had reached an agreement to settle claims that its popular menstrual-tracking app illegally shared sensitive health data of millions of women with Meta Platforms Inc. and Google, partially resolving a sweeping privacy case midtrial, and leaving Meta as the sole remaining defendant.

  • July 31, 2025

    Plaintiffs Seek $345M For Fatal Crash In Tesla Autopilot Trial

    The plaintiffs in a suit seeking to hold Tesla accountable for a fatal crash in the Florida Keys asked jurors Thursday to award $345 million in damages for putting out an allegedly defective autopilot product into the market.

  • July 31, 2025

    Del. Court OKs Investor Check Of Trade Desk Charter Move

    A Delaware magistrate in Chancery issued a split decision Thursday on document demands by a stockholder of The Trade Desk Inc. who sought, in part, details on the company's conversion into a Nevada chartered business, allegedly in order to preserve a billionaire co-founder's control.

  • July 31, 2025

    Zoom Investor Gets Final OK For Derivative Suit Settlement

    A Delaware federal judge granted final approval on Thursday to a settlement reached in a shareholder derivative suit accusing the top brass of Zoom of pulling in $172.9 million via insider sales after its 2019 initial public offering and before shares fell during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • July 31, 2025

    10th Circ. Says Water Exclusion Bars Co.'s $1.75M Loss

    A Kansas office building's property insurer has no duty to provide coverage for roughly $1.75 million in repairs over a broken water pipe, the Tenth Circuit ruled, rejecting the building owner's argument that an exception in one exclusion conflicted with a separate exclusion for water damage.

  • July 31, 2025

    Robotic Surgery Co.'s Antitrust Appeal Backed At 9th Circ.

    Surgical Instrument Service Co. Inc. has received backing at the Ninth Circuit from a trade association and others groups as it looks to revive its case accusing Intuitive Surgical Inc. of blocking third parties from refurbishing components for its popular da Vinci surgery robot.

  • July 31, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Judges Cast Doubts On Trump Tariff Powers

    Several Federal Circuit judges raised concerns about whether President Donald Trump's tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act override constitutional and congressional authority during oral arguments Thursday in their questions to better understand the extent of the appeals court's review.

  • July 31, 2025

    Full FCC Hearing Sought On T-Mobile, UScellular Tie-Up

    Several trade and public interest groups urged the Federal Communications Commission to hold a full agency review of T-Mobile's plan to take over most of UScellular after FCC staff gave the deal a green light almost three weeks ago.

  • July 31, 2025

    Microsoft Fights Demand For AI Deal Data In Databricks Suit

    Third-party Microsoft Corp. urged a California magistrate judge Thursday to block a subpoena by a group of writers accusing San Francisco-based Databricks of using their copyrighted works to train its artificial intelligence tool MosaicML, arguing that Microsoft has already exceeded third-party obligations by providing certain data agreements and that the request is overbroad.

  • July 31, 2025

    PE Firm Risking Contempt, Receiver In Del. Over Legal Bills

    Noting that unpaid legal bills might already support a contempt or limited receivership order against private equity 777 Partners, a Delaware magistrate in Chancery gave the company and its counsel a Monday deadline to report still-accumulating fee advancement debts.

  • July 31, 2025

    Conn. Atty Pins Failed Redaction On Tech In Gunmaker Suit

    A third party's ability to bypass redactions and view protected documents was due to a software issue, a Connecticut civil litigator has told a federal judge, urging the court not to authorize sanctions for what he said was a "good faith" effort at redacting filings amid his dueling lawsuits with gunmaker Sig Sauer.

  • July 31, 2025

    9th Circ. Upholds Google's Play Store Antitrust Trial Loss

    A Ninth Circuit panel Thursday affirmed Epic Games' 2023 antitrust jury trial win, along with an injunction requiring Google to open its Google Play Store to rivals, backing a landmark finding that Google monopolized the Android app-distribution market.

  • July 31, 2025

    2nd Circ. Vacates OpenSea Crypto Insider Trading Conviction

    The Second Circuit on Thursday overturned the fraud conviction of a former OpenSea manager accused of insider trading on nonfungible token sales on his employer's platform, finding that a Manhattan jury may have convicted him "based on conduct that it found to be unethical rather than fraudulent."

Expert Analysis

  • New Interpol Silver Notice Could Be Tool For Justice Or Abuse

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    Interpol has issued dozens of Silver Notices to trace and recover assets linked to criminal activity since January, and though the tool may disrupt organized crime and terrorist financing, attorneys must protect against the potential for corrupt misuse, say attorneys at Clark Hill and Arktouros.

  • How NJ's Proposed Privacy Rules Could Reshape AI Data Use

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    Although not revolutionary, New Jersey's proposed privacy rules would create obligations around the management and processing of consumer personal data that will require careful planning before they can be successfully implemented, say attorneys at Norton Rose.

  • Why SEC Abandoned Microcap Convertible Debt Crackdown

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has recently dismissed several cases targeting microcap convertible debt lenders, a significant disavowal of what was a controversial enforcement initiative under the Biden administration and a message that the new administration will focus on clear fraud, say attorneys at O'Melveny.

  • The Metamorphosis Of The Major Questions Doctrine

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    The so-called major questions doctrine arose as a counterweight to Chevron deference over the past few decades, but invocations of the doctrine have persisted in the year since Chevron was overturned, suggesting it still has a role to play in reining in agency overreach, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

  • New PTAB Denial Processes Grow More And More Confusing

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    Guidance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office about the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's new workload management and discretionary denial processes has been murky and inconsistent, and has been further muddled by the acting director's seemingly contradictory decisions, say attorneys at Finnegan.

  • Arguing The 8th Amendment For Reduction In FCA Penalties

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    While False Claims Act decisions lack consistency in how high the judgment-to-damages ratio in such cases can be before it becomes unconstitutional, defense counsel should cite the Eighth Amendment's excessive fines clause in pre-trial settlement negotiations, and seek penalty decreases in post-judgment motions and on appeal, says Scott Grubman at Chilivis Grubman.

  • Business Takeaways Following CCPA Enforcement Actions

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    Advisories and recent enforcement activity by the California Privacy Protection Agency against Honda and Todd Snyder underscore the agency's enforcement interest in the intersection of data minimization and consumer rights, and could make it more challenging for a business to provide a streamlined consumer rights process, say attorneys at Covington.

  • Compliance Lessons From 1st-Ever Product Safety Sentences

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    A California federal judge’s recent sentencing of two former Gree USA executives in a landmark Consumer Product Safety Act case serves as a reminder of the federal government’s willingness to pursue criminal prosecution of individuals who fail to report safety hazards, as well as companies’ need to strengthen their reporting and compliance programs, say attorneys at Cooley.

  • Unpacking Enforcement Challenges Of DOJ's Bulk Data Rule

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    Now fully effective, the U.S. Department of Justice's new data security program represents the U.S.' first data localization requirement ripe for enforcement, but its implementation faces substantial practical challenges that may hinder the DOJ's ability for wide-ranging or swift action, say attorneys at Cleary.

  • 'Loss' Policy Definition Is Key For Noncash Settlements

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    A recent Delaware decision in AMC Entertainment v. XL Specialty Insurance, holding that the definition of loss includes noncash settlement payments, is important to note for policyholders considering other settlement options — like two other class actions that recently settled for vouchers, say attorneys at Reed Smith.

  • Biotech Collaborations Can Ease Uncertainty Amid FDA Shift

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    As concerns persist that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's reduced headcount will impede developments at already-strapped biotech companies, licensing and partnership transactions can provide the necessary funding and pathways to advance innovative products, say attorneys at Troutman.

  • Series

    Playing Mah-Jongg Makes Me A Better Mediator

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    Mah-jongg rewards patience, pattern recognition, adaptability and keen observation, all skills that are invaluable to my role as a mediator, and to all mediating parties, says Marina Corodemus.

  • Business Court Bill Furthers Texas' Pro-Corporate Strategy

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    The Texas Legislature's recent bill to enhance corporate protections and expand access to the Texas Business Court by refining its jurisdictional standards is just the latest step in the state's playbook for becoming the new center of corporate America, say attorneys at Katten.

  • Tips For Business Users After 2 Key AI Copyright Decisions

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    Because two recent artificial intelligence copyright decisions from the Northern District of California — Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta — came out mostly in favor of the developers using the plaintiffs' works to train large language models, business users should proceed with care, says Chris Wlach at Acxiom.

  • FTC Staff Cuts Unlikely To Curb Antitrust Enforcement Agenda

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    While Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson's recent commitment to reducing agency staff may seem at odds with the Trump administration's commitment to antitrust enforcement, a closer analysis shows that such reductions have little chance of derailing the president's efforts, say attorneys at Squire Patton.

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