Glencore To Sell 40% Stake In Congo Assets For $3.6B

By Dawood Fakhir

A consortium of investors has reached a deal with Glencore to acquire a stake in the assets of the Anglo-Swiss mining giant in the Congo for approximately $3.6 billion to secure critical minerals for the U.S. and its partners.

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Autonomous Construction Startup Raises $270M In Series B

By Nate Beck

Autonomous construction technology company Bedrock Robotics said Wednesday that it has raised $270 million in Series B funding after completing a mass excavation of a manufacturing site last year.

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Fintech Broker Clear Street Targets $1B IPO

By Sydney Price

Cloud-based financial services provider Clear Street Group Inc. said Wednesday it anticipates a $1 billion initial public offering, represented by Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and underwriters counsel Cooley LLP.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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Private Equity Group Of The Year: Debevoise

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP advised financial services investor Kelso & Co. in its largest transaction ever when Brown & Brown Inc. unveiled plans to purchase Kelso portfolio company Accession Risk Management in a nearly $10 billion deal, earning the firm a spot among the 2025 Law360 Private Equity Groups of the Year.

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SEC Cases May Rise After 'Unprecedented' 2025, Attys Say

By Jessica Corso

Following an "unprecedented" year in which the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission dismissed the bulk of its crypto docket and filed few new lawsuits, former SEC staff members said Wednesday that there are signs that enforcement actions could begin to ramp up this year.

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Analysis

Clemency Was 'Broken' Long Before Trump. Can It Be Fixed?

By Phillip Bantz

President Donald Trump has transformed what has historically been a bureaucratic process for seeking federal pardons and commutations into a more freewheeling affair with few clear rules — and no easy solutions for reform, experts say.

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Stem-Cell Drug Developer PrimeGen Inks $1.5B SPAC Merger

By Al Barbarino

Regenerative medicine developer PrimeGen US said Wednesday it has agreed to go public through a merger with blank check company DT Cloud Star Acquisition Corp., in a deal that values the company at about $1.5 billion.

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Ropes Leads Hair-Loss Firm Veradermics' Upsized $256M IPO

By Rae Ann Varona

Hair loss drug developer Veradermics Inc. began trading Wednesday after raising $256 million in an upsized initial public offering, with Ropes & Gray LLP representing the company and Cooley LLP representing the underwriters.

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Stockholders Ask Del. Justices To Revive Bylaw Suits

By Jarek Rutz

Stockholders challenging advance notice bylaws at AES Corp. and Owens Corning urged the Delaware Supreme Court on Wednesday to revive their dismissed suits, saying boards should face fiduciary duty scrutiny the moment they adopt allegedly entrenching bylaws, not only after a proxy contest is triggered.

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Seidler Family Resolves Most Of Padres Ownership Dispute

By Alex Lawson

A dispute over control of the San Diego Padres appears to be over, as the widow of the team's late owner has dropped several claims against his brothers just months after the Major League Baseball team announced it was putting itself up for sale.

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DiCello Levitt Taps SEC Vets For Whistleblower Practice

By Emilie Ruscoe

DiCello Levitt has acquired a boutique practice that represents U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission whistleblowers, bringing on a pair of former SEC attorneys whose clients have helped the government secure more than $2 billion in monetary sanctions, according to the firm.

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Series

Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Resilience

Resilience is a skill acquired through daily practices that focus on learning from missteps, recovering quickly without internalizing defeat and moving forward with intention, says Nicholas Meza at Quarles & Brady.

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Paul Weiss' Karp Steps Back After Epstein Email Revelations

By Hailey Konnath and Aebra Coe

Longtime Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP chair Brad S. Karp has resigned from his leadership role, the firm announced Wednesday, a move that comes after the U.S. Department of Justice released numerous emails between Karp and Jeffrey Epstein.

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Baker McKenzie To Downsize Business Professional Jobs

By Tracey Read

Baker McKenzie, which has a legal services hub in Tampa, Florida, is in the process of downsizing business professionals' jobs, a firm spokesperson confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Wednesday.

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Ex-DLA Piper Partner Aims To Toss Claim He Raped Associate

By Jack Karp

Allegations that an ex-DLA Piper partner raped a former Boston-based associate in Delaware in 2022 should be tossed since the Massachusetts state court the case was filed in has no jurisdiction over the Delaware claim, according to the accused former partner.

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Goldstein Accountant Admits Tax Return Errors

By Jared Foretek

A star government witness and the top outside accountant for SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein and his law firm admitted to making mistakes on Goldstein's tax returns and offering the grand jury erroneous testimony, under cross-examination in the U.S. Supreme Court lawyer's tax fraud trial Wednesday.

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Wachtel Missry Settles Liability In $26M Atty Malpractice Case

By Emily Sawicki

A dispute over who is liable for a former Wachtel Missry LLP partner's alleged exploitation of an elderly client has been settled on the eve of trial, while the Brooklyn federal judge declined to consider recusing himself despite "inadvertently" meeting with the firm's founding partner before the matter was fully put to rest.

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Ex-Fox News Host Decries Judge Pick's Arbitration Stance

By Courtney Buble

Gretchen Carlson, a former Fox News anchor and a leading advocate for ending forced arbitration of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace, has come out against a federal judicial nominee for Louisiana for her past comments on the issue.

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Trump Bid To Move NY Appeal Faces 'Fatal' Error, Judge Says

By Frank G. Runyeon

A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday repeatedly aired doubts that President Donald Trump can upend the pending New York state appeal of his hush-money conviction by moving the case to federal court.

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