Analysis

$1.3B Airtable Deal Highlights Software M&A Revival

By Al Barbarino

Italian software company Bending Spoons' plan to buy Airtable is highlighting a surge in software industry consolidation following a sharp reset in private market valuations, as artificial intelligence adds another layer of pressure on companies to sell.

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Bezos-Backed Group Inks $7B Deal For Liverpool FC Stake

By Al Barbarino

Fenway Sports Group announced Friday that it has agreed to sell a minority stake in Liverpool Football Club to an investor consortium that includes a sports investment fund backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, in a deal that values the team at more than $7 billion. 

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Goodwin, DLA Piper Guide Dynatrace's $915M Arize Deal

By Al Barbarino

Goodwin Procter LLP and DLA Piper are advising Dynatrace and Arize, respectively, on Dynatrace's $915 million planned acquisition of the artificial intelligence observability company.

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Rising Star: Wachtell Lipton's Meng Lu

By Al Barbarino

Meng Lu of Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz has advised industry giants like Salesforce Inc. and eBay Inc. on novel and complex multibillion-dollar transactions during her career, earning her a spot among the practitioners of mergers and acquisition law under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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Analysis

Can Texas, Nevada Replicate Delaware's Corporate Edge?

By Jarek Rutz

Texas and Nevada have spent the past few years rewriting corporate laws and building specialized business courts in an effort to challenge Delaware's long-standing dominance as the preferred home for U.S. companies. While a handful of high-profile corporations have already made the move, corporate law experts say creating another Delaware will require far more than new statutes and judges.

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Mexico OK Leaves AGs, WGA Last Paramount Deal Obstacle

By Bryan Koenig

Paramount Skydance Corp. celebrated Mexican antitrust approval Friday of its planned $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery as the final government sign-off needed globally, leaving only the California federal court challenge from a group of attorneys general and the Writers Guild of America.

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Charter-Cox Tie-Up Gets Last Needed OK With Calif. Approval

By Christopher Cole

California regulators have approved the $34.5 billion merger of major cable providers Charter and Cox, providing the last needed regulatory green light but also imposing conditions meant to help consumers.

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Brief

Jones Day-Led Saputo Selling UK Dairy Biz For $1.3B

By Al Barbarino

Jones Day-advised Saputo Inc. said Friday that it has agreed to sell its U.K. dairy business to France's Lactalis at an enterprise value of about £988 million ($1.3 billion), as the Canadian dairy processor said it is looking to streamline global operations and free up capital.

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Freshfields-Led Property Co. To Sell Valuation Biz Hometrack

By Tom Fish

Property portal owner ZPG Ltd. said Friday that it has agreed to sell its data and analytics business Hometrack to private equity firm Providence Equity Partners, as the U.K. group focuses on its other businesses.

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Diversified Energy In Talks To Acquire Texas Oil Producer

By Dawood Fakhir

Petroleum company Diversified Energy said Friday that it is in talks to acquire Birch Resources in a move that could significantly strengthen Diversified's position in the Permian Basin in western Texas.

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Roundup

Taxation With Representation: Miller Thomson, Bennett Jones

By Zak Kostro

In this week's Taxation With Representation, GO Residential Real Estate Investment Trust and a consortium of buyers acquire H&R Real Estate Investment Trust, insurance exchange Accelerant goes private in a deal with Thoma Bravo, and Goldman Sachs acquires NEOS Investments.

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Texas Justices Pass On Atty's Bid To Undo Exxon Sanctions

By Spencer Brewer

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday declined to take up an appeal brought by a law firm challenging a sanction order issued after a lower court found it launched a frivolous lawsuit against Exxon Mobil Corp. related to the company's acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources.

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Stratasys Scores $2.7M In Feud Over Origin Acquisition

By Caroline Simson

Israeli-American 3D printing company Stratasys has won more than $2.7 million in arbitration after fending off a $440 million claim stemming from its acquisition of Origin Laboratories Inc., a developer of 3D printing software, according to documents made public Thursday.

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How To Approach Rising Foreign Direct Investment Hurdles

Attorneys advising on cross-border transactions need to take a practical but risk-aware approach as U.S.-led deals are encountering longer and more intrusive foreign direct investment reviews, say attorneys at Wilson Sonsini.

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Are your summer associates prepared for a legal career?

How does your firm shape the summer associate experience and mentor new talent? Invite your summer associates to share their perspectives in this year’s Law360 Pulse Summer Associates Survey.

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Immigration Judge Says Anti-DEI Bias Led To Her Ousting

By Elaine Briseño

A Black immigration judge has sued the U.S. Department of Justice for discrimination, alleging her firing was related to anti-DEI sentiments at the agency that overwhelmingly targeted older, nonwhite women.

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White House, BigLaw Atty Picked For Tenn. Federal Bench

By Jack Karp

President Donald Trump announced Friday that he is nominating a White House attorney and former BigLaw associate to serve as a Tennessee federal judge.

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Holland & Knight Loses Bid To Escape GWG Fraud Suit

By Emily Sawicki

Holland & Knight LLP must face adversary claims in Houston bankruptcy court after a Texas federal judge found the trustee for bankrupt life insurance bond seller GWG Holdings Inc. had made a plausible case that the firm and one of its attorneys engaged in a racketeering conspiracy with its ex-chairman.

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Law Student's Race Bias Claim Survives In Kirk Discipline Suit

By Matt Perez

A Texas federal judge on Friday allowed a former Texas Tech law student to proceed with her claim that the university board was discriminatory in disciplining her over comments she made allegedly celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk because non-Black students who spoke about the assassination weren't investigated.

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Roundup

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

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen newly signed Real Madrid footballer Yan Diomandé sued over access to his image rights, Nigel Farage and Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice accuse the NCA of leaking confidential financial information, and a right-wing American journalist hit The Guardian with a libel claim. 

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Boeing has won dismissal of a Delaware suit brought by pension funds accusing its board of putting profits before safety. And in-house counsel helped pick Latham & Watkins as the leader on an annual list of client service all-stars.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Baker Botts LLP and King & Spalding LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Ninth Circuit enforced an over $2 billion arbitral award issued to a satellite communications company, ruling that the legal concept of an optimal venue for a case doesn't apply in matters concerning the enforcement of international arbitral awards.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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