HealthSpan's Surgery Partners Bid Now $6B Amid Rival Offer

By Nate Beck

HealthSpan Partners, an affiliate of nonprofit system Bon Secours Mercy Health, raised its offer to $6 billion Monday in a proposed acquisition of short-stay surgical facility owner and operator Surgery Partners, after a third party made an unsolicited bid.

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Blue Owl Moves To End 'Broadside' Over Advisory Fees

By Jessica Corso

Blue Owl Capital Corp.'s investment adviser is seeking to exit an investor lawsuit it calls a "broadside" against business development companies, telling a New York federal judge that only the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission can challenge the valuation of Blue Owl's portfolio holdings.

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Mitsui Joins Bank To Buy Chip Materials Maker For $11.6B

By Al Barbarino

Mitsui Chemicals said Monday it has teamed up with the government-owned Development Bank of Japan to purchase semiconductor materials maker JSR for about $11.6 billion, including debt. 

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Milbank, White & Case Guide $4B LS Power, NRG Gas Deal

By Al Barbarino

LS Power has agreed to acquire six natural gas-fired power generation facilities across four U.S. states from NRG Energy Inc. for $4 billion, the companies announced Monday. 

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week cleared the way for Cloudflare Inc. to seek immediate review of an injunction blocking a stock restructuring designed to preserve its founders' control, while setting a January hearing in a similar dispute over Meta Platforms Inc.'s plan to create nonvoting shares.

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Massumi & Consoli Adds Weil Atty For New Silicon Valley Post

By Tracey Read

Massumi & Consoli LLP announced Monday that it plans to open a new office in California's Silicon Valley with the addition of a former Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP private equity and mergers and acquisitions partner.

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Ark. Senators Accused Of Blocking Trump's 8th Circ. Pick

By Courtney Bublé

With time waning for a Republican-controlled Senate, President Donald Trump might lose an opportunity to fill a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

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Simpson Thacher Hires Energy Regulatory Atty In DC

By Christine DeRosa

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has grown its energy regulatory capabilities in the nation's capital with the addition of a longtime Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP attorney.

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Kirkland Hires Weil DC Leader For Antitrust Team

By Alison Knezevich

A Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP antitrust partner who has led the dissolving firm's Washington, D.C., office is headed to Kirkland LLP.

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How A Child Of Immigrants Defends Abrego Garcia

By Corey Rothauser

Hecker Fink attorney Jeffrey Then grew up translating English-language letters for customers at his Dominican immigrant family’s Bronx business. Decades later, he drew on that experience while defending Kilmar Abrego Garcia from federal human smuggling charges, becoming a lifeline for Abrego Garcia during his detention.

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Milbank Moves To Newly Redone Century City Office In LA

By Nate Beck

Milbank LLP has taken space in a newly renovated office in Los Angeles, remaining in Century City.

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John Morgan On Why Luck Matters More Than Most Admit

By Y. Peter Kang

John Morgan, founder of personal injury giant Morgan & Morgan PA, built the largest personal injury firm in the U.S., with 1,110 attorneys in 140 locations. In his new memoir, "Life Is Luck," the attorney who Forbes estimates has a net worth of $1.5 billion argues that success is about more than talent, intelligence or determination. It is also about recognizing opportunities, taking risks and capitalizing on fortunate breaks when they appear.

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Wachtell To Probe Nvidia CEO's Affair With Alleged China Spy

By Anna Scott Farrell and Sue Reisinger

Nvidia has hired Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz to lead an investigation into allegations that its founder and CEO had an affair with a business executive who U.S. intelligence believes is a Chinese spy, the artificial intelligence chipmaker said Tuesday.

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Grassley Defends Rush To Confirm Trump Judicial Picks

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Tuesday defended how quickly the committee is moving to confirm President Donald Trump's judicial picks before Democrats control the Senate.

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Mass. Auditor Says Lawmakers Must Comply With Demands

By Julie Manganis

Massachusetts' state auditor asked a judge to force lawmakers to comply with demands for documents for her long-sought — and voter-endorsed — audit of the Legislature.

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