Former banking middleware firm Synapse Financial Technologies Inc.'s Chapter 11 has been dismissed by a California bankruptcy judge after the debtor said it didn't have the funds to try to sell its assets again.
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Fintech Co. Synapse's Ch. 11 Tossed After Failed Sale Efforts

By Clara Geoghegan

Former banking middleware firm Synapse Financial Technologies Inc.'s Chapter 11 has been dismissed by a California bankruptcy judge after the debtor said it didn't have the funds to try to sell its assets again.

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DOJ Targets North Korean IT Job Fraud, $15M Crypto Heist

By Joyce Hanson

Four United States nationals and one Ukrainian have pled guilty in federal court to scheming with North Korea to help its citizens illegally secure remote information technology jobs with U.S. companies, the Department of Justice said Friday.

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Mawson Says Ex-CEO Misled Board To Land $2.6M Bonus

By Emily Lever

Mawson Infrastructure Group has accused its former CEO in Delaware's Chancery Court of concealing the bitcoin mining company's deteriorating finances and the collapse of a key prospective contract so he could secure board approval for a bonus worth about $2.6 million.

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POLICY & REGULATION

SEC's Atkins Turns A Critical Lens On BlackRock, Vanguard

By Jessica Corso

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins said Friday morning that his agency is working to rein in large institutional asset managers like BlackRock and Vanguard that "get out of line" by trying to influence management decisions.

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ENFORCEMENT & COMPLIANCE

Crypto Firm Founder Gets 5 Years For $9.4M Fraud Scheme

By Sydney Price

An Oklahoma federal court has ordered the co-founder of a cryptocurrency investment firm to serve five years in prison and pay more than $1.1 million for his role in a fraud conspiracy that involved making false promises of returns to thousands of investors via social media posts.

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LITIGATION

Stanford Credit Union Says Pig Butchering Scam Suit Misfires

By Sydney Price

Stanford Federal Credit Union has asked a federal judge to toss claims alleging it failed to reasonably investigate fraud allegations by a couple who claim they lost $600,000 in a so-called pig butchering investing scam, arguing the wire transfers are outside the Fair Credit Billing Act's scope.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Laura Stewart Liberty

This past week in London has seen Freeths face a professional negligence claim from a Scottish car dealership, Rolls-Royce sue logistics giant Kuehne + Nagel, and a team of Oberon Investments Group investment managers sued by their former employer.  

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DEALS

3 Firms Guide $746M Teamshares SPAC Merger

By Jared Foretek

Brooklyn, New York-based Teamshares announced Friday that it will join the Nasdaq Composite through special purpose acquisition company Live Oak Acquisition Corp. V with a $746 million valuation.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Breaking Down Article 12 Of The Uniform Commercial Code

Thirty-two states and the District of Columbia have enacted Article 12 of the Uniform Commercial Code, providing the alternative to perfection by control of assets like cryptocurrency and nonfungible tokens, but before accepting these assets as collateral, lenders and creditors should consider how to best maintain priority, say attorneys at Miller Nash.

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The Legal Issues With AI Agents In Consumer Transactions

Enabling artificial intelligence agents to handle not just research and recommendations, but the execution of purchases themselves, fundamentally alters commercial relationships and introduces new practical and legal questions for card issuers, merchants, acquirers and consumers, say attorneys at Davis Wright.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Analysis

UK Firms Drive Transatlantic Appetite For M&A Dealmaking

By Aebra Coe and Chris Villani

The merger announced Monday between British legal giant Ashurst LLP and American law firm Perkins Coie LLP is the latest in a spate of deals driven, in part, by an appetite among global firms to gain a strong presence in the U.S.

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'Astounding' Holland & Knight Conduct Drives Liability Ruling

By Ryan Boysen

Holland & Knight LLP has forfeited a malpractice lawsuit in Alaska by refusing to turn over information to a Native American tribal corporation, with a state judge entering a default judgment as a sanction and calling the firm's conduct "a head scratcher" and "astounding."

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Brief

ABA Decries Lawmaker Calls For Impeachments Of Judges

By Courtney Bublé

The American Bar Association said on Monday it's "alarmed" by lawmakers' interest in impeaching judges just because they don't like their rulings.

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Judge Orders Grand Jury Docs Released In Comey Case

By Brandon Lowrey

A Virginia federal magistrate judge Monday ordered the disclosure of all grand jury materials related to the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, saying government misconduct may have tainted the grand jury proceedings.

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DOJ Backs White House's Military Lawyer Transfers

By Courtney Bublé

A newly released legal opinion from the U.S. Department of Justice says the Trump administration is allowed to detail military lawyers to serve as immigration judges and special assistant U.S. attorneys in the District of Columbia.

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Senator Slams Trump For 'Blowing Up' Wis. US Atty Process

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., accused President Donald Trump on Monday of skirting the process to nominate U.S. attorneys in Wisconsin with his pick of a failed Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate for the office that covers Milwaukee.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court and Delaware Supreme Court last week had a dense slate of fiduciary duty battles, merger-process challenges, post-bankruptcy fights and a series of cases probing the limits of fraud pleading, credible-basis inspections and board-level disclosure duties.

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Law School Admission Council Pushes To Toss Antitrust Suit

By Andrea Keckley

The Law School Admission Council is continuing its push to toss a proposed class action accusing it of fixing application fees with its member schools, saying in a Pennsylvania federal court filing last week that the applicant's opposition to its dismissal motion "entirely fails to engage with the incoherence at the core of his case."

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Holyoak Leaves FTC For Interim U.S. Atty In Utah

By Bryan Koenig

Melissa Holyoak left the Federal Trade Commission on Monday to become Utah's interim U.S. attorney, leaving the FTC down to two commissioners, both Republicans, in the Trump administration's latest use of interim U.S. attorney appointments.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

American Bar Association

Binance Holdings Ltd.

BlackRock Inc.

Brennan Center for Justice

CITGO Petroleum Corp.

Cloudflare Inc.

Coinbase Global Inc.

Competitive Enterprise Institute

Elliott Investment Management LP

EngageSmart

Evolve Bank & Trust NA

Federal Communications Bar Association

General Growth Properties Inc.

Gold Reserve Inc

Google LLC

LEGO System AS

Law School Admission Council Inc.

LinkedIn Corp.

London Stock Exchange Group PLC

M & F Worldwide Corp.

Major Lindsey & Africa LLC

MasterCard Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Murgitroyd Group PLC

Nasdaq Inc.

Natuzzi SpA

Nomura Holdings Inc.

Paramount Global

Payward Inc.

Rolls-Royce PLC

Santander Holdings USA Inc.

Skydance Media LLC

Solicitors Regulation Authority Ltd.

T. Rowe Price Group Inc.

TabaPay Inc.

Vista Equity Partners Management LLC

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Ashurst LLP

Bryan Cave

CMS Cameron McKenna

Carmichael Ellis

Cashion Gilmore

Clyde & Co

Cooley LLP

Cravath Swaine

DWF LLP

Davis Polk

Davis Wright Tremaine

Ellenoff Grossman

Ellis Jones Solicitors

Eversheds Sutherland

Freeths LLP

Gordon Rees

Gordons LLP

Grant & Eisenhofer

HSF Kramer

Hamilton Lincoln

Hilgers Graben

Holland & Knight

Joelson JD LLP

Keller Benvenutti

Kennedys Law LLP

Keystone Law

Kramer Levin

Latham & Watkins

Lewis Brisbois

MILS Legal Ltd

Miller Nash LLP

Mishcon de Reya

Nabarro LLP

O'Melveny & Myers

Perkins Coie

Potter Anderson

Richards Layton

Russell-Cooke

Slarskey LLC

Squire Patton

Stephenson Harwood

Stewarts Law LLP

Thackray Williams

Welsh & McGough

WilmerHale

Womble Bond

Zaiwalla & Co

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Companies House

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Delaware Court of Chancery

Executive Office for Immigration Review

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Federal Trade Commission

National Economic Council

New York Attorney General's Office

Small Business Administration

U.S. Army

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Utah

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of State

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

US Office of Management and Budget

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington

United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia

Wisconsin Supreme Court