Artificial intelligence-powered stablecoin neobanking platform Fasset on Monday revealed that it reached a $1 billion valuation after closing its latest funding round with $68 million in tow.
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Neobanking Biz Hits $1B Valuation After Series C Round

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Artificial intelligence-powered stablecoin neobanking platform Fasset on Monday revealed that it reached a $1 billion valuation after closing its latest funding round with $68 million in tow.

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3 Firms Build Biotech Merger With $150M In Private Funding

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Biopharmaceutical company Werewolf Therapeutics and clinical-stage biotechnology firm Ambros Therapeutics have agreed to merge in an all-stock deal built by three law firms, and includes $150 million in private funding.

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Drone Co. Investor Says Early Lock-Up Waiver Tanked Stock

By Sydney Price

Drone-maker Aevex Corp. has been accused in a shareholder's proposed class action of abruptly ending share restrictions after its April initial public offering, allowing a major stakeholder to profit while the company lost $900 million in market share due to a resulting decline in share price.

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Landlord Inks 2nd Deal To Repair Unsafe Conn. Complex

By Nate Beck

Connecticut's attorney general announced a second settlement with the landlord of a 544-unit apartment site to resolve an investigation into unsafe conditions at the property, a deal that comes after the owner paid out $5.1 million in February to compensate tenants for problems at the complex. 

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Brief

ATI Retirees To Appeal Toss Of Pension De-Risking Suit

By Patrick Hoff

Former ATI employees will ask the Third Circuit to reopen a proposed class action alleging the aerospace company put their retirement benefits at risk by converting $1.5 billion in pension obligations to insurance-backed annuities, according to a filing in Pennsylvania federal court.

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A&O Shearman Adds M&A Pro As Partner In Texas From MoFo

By Lynn LaRowe

Allen Overy Shearman Sterling announced Monday that it has strengthened its transactional capabilities with an Austin-based partner who came aboard from Morrison Foerster LLP.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week saw a wave of lawsuits involving corporate oversight, take-private deals, financing transactions, bankruptcy fallout, stockholder voting rights and disputes over control.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

AGs Want Meta's Privilege Claims Reviewed In Bellwether Trial

By Dorothy Atkins

During a break in a jury trial Monday over states' claims Meta hid social media's harm, states' counsel urged a California federal judge to require Meta to re-review all of its attorney-client privilege designations, arguing that "it seems actually logically impossible" that Meta described the wrong standard in only a single document.  

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Legal Center Says DOJ Is Stonewalling Fund Records Request

By Jared Foretek

A voting rights nonprofit is accusing the U.S. Department of Justice of stonewalling a request for records on the Trump administration's attempted "anti-weaponization fund," claiming that the agency has spent the summer unlawfully ducking a Freedom of Information Act submission.

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Galindo Law Files For Ch. 11 After Camp Lejeune Fee Fight

By Ben Zigterman

A Houston-based personal injury law firm sought bankruptcy relief on Monday with more than $50 million in liabilities after a mass tort litigation marketing company sued for over $9 million in fees related to finding potential victims of water contamination at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.

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Attys Ask Court To Toss Suit Alleging They Stole 1,000 Cases

By Spencer Brewer

Multiple attorneys asked a Texas federal court to toss claims that they conspired to hijack 1,000 cases filed by hurricane survivors who had hired and built cases with a different firm, claiming the firm that brought the suit failed to plead a viable RICO claim.

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