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June 20, 2025
DC Circ. Rejects Chicago Suburbs' Rail Merger Challenge
A D.C. Circuit panel has rejected a petition from Chicago suburbs that are challenging the approval of Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.'s $31 billion merger with Kansas City Southern Railway Co., finding that regulators addressed the environmental and other concerns the communities raised.
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June 20, 2025
PE Firm Demands FDA Docs For Defense In Deal Challenge
Private equity firm GTCR BC Holdings LLC is seeking a court order for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to produce over a decade's worth of medical device approval applications, arguing the documents are necessary in its defense against a merger challenge by the federal government.
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June 20, 2025
2 Firms Guide $455M BMO-Burgundy Asset Management Deal
BMO, advised by Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, has unveiled plans to purchase Torys LLP-led Burgundy, a Canadian independent asset management firm, for CA$625 million (about $455 million) and fold it into the bank's wealth management business.
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June 20, 2025
Norton Rose Adds Holland & Knight Tax Partner In DC
Norton Rose Fulbright has expanded its tax insurance underwriting offerings in the nation's capital with the addition of a partner from Holland & Knight LLP.
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June 20, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Latham, Paul Weiss, Covington
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Nippon Steel closes its purchase of U.S. Steel, Hunter Point Capital buys a minority stake in Equitix, Eaton acquires Ultra PCS Ltd. from the Cobham Ultra Group, and Eli Lilly and Co. acquires Verve Therapeutics.
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June 20, 2025
Tech-Focused PE Firm Takes Couchbase Private In $1.5B Deal
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC-advised software company Couchbase on Friday announced plans to go private through an acquisition by technology-focused investment firm Haveli Investments, advised by Latham & Watkins LLP, in a $1.5 billion all-cash deal.
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June 20, 2025
UK Miner Sweetens Bid For Aussie Rival To $128M
U.K. miner Central Asia Metals said Friday it has increased its bid for Australian rival New World Resources to approximately AU$197 million ($128 million) and proposed an alternative method to complete the deal after it noted that another investor was bolstering its stake in the company.
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June 19, 2025
Henderson, Fidelity European To Merge To Create £2.1B Trust
Henderson European Trust, advised by Stephenson Harwood LLP, and Fidelity European Trust said Thursday that they plan to merge in order to create a combined London-listed entity with £2.1 billion ($2.8 billion) of net assets.
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June 19, 2025
EU Clears £1.7B KKR, Stonepeak Bid For Property Biz Assura
The European Commission has approved the planned £1.7 billion ($2.3 billion) acquisition of healthcare property business Assura PLC, co-bidder KKR said on Thursday.
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June 19, 2025
Miner Weir Expands In N. America With £111M Townley Deal
Global miner Weir Group PLC has agreed to acquire Townley, a minerals processing products maker, for an enterprise value of £111 million ($149 million), as it moves to "enhance" its presence in North America.
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June 18, 2025
Dealmakers Eye More Crypto-Targeted SPAC Mergers
More special purpose acquisition companies plan to seize upon the revival of cryptocurrencies under a second Trump administration and take cryptocurrency-related ventures public in the coming months, an attorney told a gathering of dealmakers on Wednesday.
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June 18, 2025
FCC Approves Windstream-Uniti Tie-Up
The Federal Communications Commission signed off on Windstream's merger with Uniti Group Inc. on Wednesday, approving the transfer of Windstream, Uniti and their respective subsidiaries to the newly formed New Windstream LLC.
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June 18, 2025
MLB's Rays Discussing Sale To Fla. Real Estate Developer
The Tampa Bay Rays confirmed on Wednesday the Major League Baseball franchise is in "exclusive discussions" to be sold to a group led by real estate developer Patrick O. Zalupski, three months after the team pulled out of an agreement to build a new stadium in St. Petersburg.
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June 18, 2025
Online Bookstore Investors Seek Del. Sale Suit Revival
Stockholders of an online "virtual" bookstore that lost money for years urged Delaware's Supreme Court Wednesday to reverse a Court of Chancery decision upholding a $12.5 million sale to the company's preferred shareholders under a disputed liquidation preference.
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June 18, 2025
Google's $32B Wiz Bid Gets DOJ Scrutiny, And Other Rumors
The U.S. Department of Justice is reviewing Google’s $32 billion Wiz deal, Mitsubishi could pay $8 billion for Aethon Energy's assets, and hedge fund Millennium could fetch a $14 billion valuation with a minority stake sale. Here’s a breakdown of the notable deal rumors from the past week.
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June 18, 2025
Trump Set To Delay TikTok Sale-Or-Ban Deadline For 3rd Time
President Donald Trump is planning to extend for an additional 90 days a looming deadline for TikTok to cut ties with its Chinese parent company or face a nationwide ban, according to the White House, which said that the administration would use the extra time to finalize a deal to keep the popular social media app from going dark.
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June 18, 2025
3 Firms Build Array's $179M Buy Of Fellow Solar Tech Biz
Solar tracking products provider Array Technologies on Wednesday announced plans to acquire engineered foundations company APA Solar LLC in a deal that boasts an enterprise value of roughly $179 million and was guided by three law firms.
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June 18, 2025
Judge Skeptical That Assa Abloy Needn't Extend Supply Deal
A D.C. federal judge suggested Tuesday that Assa Abloy faces an uphill fight resisting efforts by its divestiture buyer to extend a supply agreement inked as part of an asset sale deal resolving a U.S. Department of Justice merger lawsuit.
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June 18, 2025
DOJ Defends Using Written Depos In HPE-Juniper Merger Trial
The U.S. Department of Justice is defending its proposal to include written deposition testimony into the record for its upcoming antitrust trial against Hewlett Packard Enterprise's $14 billion purchase of Juniper Networks, saying that playing depositions live would waste crucial time in what is scheduled to be an eight-day trial.
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June 18, 2025
Former Holland & Knight Partner Joins Husch Blackwell
Husch Blackwell has announced that former Holland & Knight LLP partner Bruce Toppin has joined the Kansas City, Missouri-headquartered law firm as a partner in its financial services and capital markets industry group.
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June 18, 2025
New PGA Tour CEO Arrives From NFL With LIV Deal Unsettled
The PGA Tour made its change in leadership structure and leader official by hiring longtime National Football League executive Brian Rolapp as its chief executive officer, with Commissioner Jay Monahan ceding day-to-day operations but staying with the tour through the end of 2026.
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June 18, 2025
Simpson Thacher Steers $1.3B Buyout Of Mortgage Co. Guild
Growth-oriented mortgage company Guild Holdings Company, advised by Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, on Wednesday said that it has agreed to be bought by a fund managed by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP-led investment firm Bayview Asset Management LLC for $1.3 billion.
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June 18, 2025
Squire Patton Adds Polsinelli Trio To New Private Credit Group
Squire Patton Boggs has added a three-lawyer team from Polsinelli PC to its private credit and direct lending practice group.
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June 18, 2025
Nippon, US Steel Officially Close Deal, Backed By 5 Law Firms
Nippon Steel has officially closed its purchase of U.S. Steel, the companies announced Wednesday, forming a global steelmaking partnership backed by $11 billion in planned U.S. investments and a national security agreement with the federal government.
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June 18, 2025
PE Firm's £570M Buy Of Tech Biz Clears US Antitrust Check
U.S. private equity firm TA Associates said Wednesday that the U.S. antitrust authorities have not objected to its approximately £570 million ($756 million) cash acquisition of British tech businesses FD Technologies PLC.
Expert Analysis
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How BigLaw Executive Orders May Affect Smaller Firms
Because of the types of cases they take on, solo practitioners, small law firms and public interest attorneys may find themselves more dramatically affected by the collective impact of recent government action involving the legal industry than even the BigLaw firms named in the executive orders, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
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4th Circ. Health Data Ruling Opens Door To State Law Claims
In Real Time Medical v. PointClickCare, the Fourth Circuit recently clarified that state law claims can rest in part on violations of a federal law that prohibits electronic health information blocking, expanding legal risks for health IT companies and potentially creating exposure to a range of competitive implications, say attorneys at BCLP.
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Opinion
Lawsuits Shouldn't Be Shadow Assets For Foreign Capital
Third-party litigation financing amplifies inefficiencies from litigation and facilitates national exposure to foreign influence in the U.S. justice system, so full disclosure of financing arrangements should be required as a matter of institutional integrity, says Roland Eisenhuth at the American Property Casualty Insurance Association.
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2 Del. Rulings Reinforce Proof Needed For Records Demands
Two recent Delaware Court of Chancery decisions involving Amazon and Paramount Global illustrate the significance of the credible basis standard on books and records requests, underscoring that stockholders seeking to investigate wrongdoing must come forward with actual evidence of misconduct — not mere allegations, say attorneys at Cleary.
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How To Accelerate Your Post-Attorney Career Transition
Professionals seeking to transition to nonattorney careers may encounter skepticism as nontraditional candidates, but there are opportunities for thought leadership and to leverage speaking and writing to accelerate a post-attorney career transition, say Janet Falk at Falk Communications and Evgeny Efremkin at Toronto Metropolitan University.
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Key Takeaways From The 2025 Spring Antitrust Meeting
Leadership changes, shifting priorities and evolving enforcement tools dominated the conversation at the recent American Bar Association Spring Antitrust Meeting, as panelists explored competition policy under a second Trump administration, agency discretion under the 2023 merger guidelines and new frontiers in conduct enforcement, say attorneys at Freshfields.
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How Tariffs May Affect Proxy Contests This Season
While global tariffs imposed by the Trump administration will certainly chill at least some activity this proxy season, and make defending contests significantly easier, there will likely be many new activist investments once there is more economic certainty, meaning more proxy fights this fall, say attorneys at Sidley.
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A Closer Look At New NYSE, Nasdaq Listing Rule Changes
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has recently approved changes to the New York Stock Exchange's and the Nasdaq's listing rules on reverse stock splits, minimum share price requirements and required liquidity for initial listings, meaning listed companies facing delisting will have fewer means to regain compliance, say attorneys at Cahill Gordon.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Be An Indispensable Associate
While law school teaches you to research, write and think critically, it often overlooks the professional skills you will need to make yourself an essential team player when transitioning from a summer to full-time associate, say attorneys at Stinson.
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23andMe Case Highlights Privacy Complexities In Ch. 11
Attorneys at Pryor Cashman discuss the interplay between a sale of personally identifiable information and bankruptcy law in light of genetics and health company 23andMe's recent filing for Chapter 11 relief.
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SEC Confidential Review Process Provides Issuers Flexibility
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recently announced enhancements to the process for confidentially submitting draft registration statements will be immediately impactful for issuers seeking to access the public capital markets, and should provide more grounds to explore and plan public offerings, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.
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Series
Birding Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Observing and documenting birds in their natural habitats fosters patience, sharpens observational skills and provides moments of pure wonder — qualities that foster personal growth and enrich my legal career, says Allison Raley at Arnall Golden.
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How Del. Law Rework Limits Corporate Records Requests
Newly enacted amendments to a section of the Delaware General Corporation Law that allows stockholders and beneficial owners to demand inspection of Delaware corporations' books and records likely curtails the scope of such inspections and aids defendants in framing motions to dismiss at the pleading stage, says Jonathan Richman at Brown Rudnick.
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Series
Adapting To Private Practice: From DOJ Leadership To BigLaw
The move from government service to private practice can feel like changing one’s identity, but as someone who has left the U.S. Department of Justice twice, I’ve learned that a successful transition requires patience, effort and the realization that the rewards of practicing law don’t come from one particular position, says Richard Donoghue at Pillsbury.
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Issues To Watch At ABA's Antitrust Spring Meeting
Attorneys at Freshfields consider the future of antitrust law and competition enforcement amid agency leadership changes and other emerging developments likely to dominate discussion at the American Bar Association's Antitrust Spring Meeting this week.