Private investment company Bridgepoint Group PLC said Monday that it will buy Kayne Anderson, an alternative real estate investor, for $1.4 billion in a deal steered by Simpson Thacher and Kirkland.
Private investment company Bridgepoint Group PLC said Monday that it will buy Kayne Anderson, an alternative real estate investor, for $1.4 billion in a deal steered by Simpson Thacher and Kirkland.
The U.S. Supreme Court has thrown its weight behind Federal Reserve independence by rejecting President Donald Trump's bid to immediately oust Fed Gov. Lisa Cook, but experts say the fight over central bank control may not be finished — just moving to a new phase.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook cannot be immediately removed from her post, a setback for President Donald Trump as he seeks to further remake the central bank's leadership.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP-led independent midstream energy company Cardinal Midstream Partners LLC on Monday revealed that it has agreed to sell its Cardinal Delaware Basin LLC and Cardinal New Mexico LLC to San Mateo Midstream LLC, led by Baker Botts LLP and O'Melveny & Myers LLP, in a $752 million deal.
Organizational consulting firm Korn Ferry, advised by Blank Rome LLP, on Monday announced plans to acquire private equity-backed British talent and consulting firm AMS in a roughly £850 million ($1.1 billion) transaction.
The Delaware Chancery Court this past week handled disputes involving controlling stockholders, executive compensation, take-private transactions, books and records demands and board governance, while the Delaware Supreme Court issued decisions in two corporate records cases previously decided in the Chancery.
Black Diamond-affiliated investment funds sued Harvey Gulf International Marine Inc.'s chief executive and other major stockholders in the Delaware Chancery Court, alleging they improperly orchestrated a stock transfer that gave CEO Shane J. Guidry majority control of the offshore vessel company.
A Pennsylvania federal judge has granted two Bank of New York Mellon investors' bid to appeal an order dismissing their claims that the bank breached investment management agreements by investing in underperforming mutual funds with which it was affiliated.
King & Spalding LLP has hired another former practice leader from Proskauer Rose LLP amid its ongoing efforts to build out its fund finance capabilities, the firm announced Monday.
An Illinois bill prohibiting law firms from certain business arrangements with management service organizations, sent to the governor for signature last week, encroaches upon the courts' constitutional powers and goes beyond the Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct in regulating investment in law-related services, says Matthew O’Hara at Smith Gambrell.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down federal limits on political party spending in coordination with individual candidates, agreeing with a Republican-led challenge that the caps violate the First Amendment.
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP has expanded its offices in Northern California with eight new partners who have expertise in multiple practice areas, a firm spokesperson told Law360 Pulse on Tuesday.
Following two recent incidents that drew scrutiny over their handling, the New York State Bar Association is calling for new standardized protocols to be followed should emergencies occur during the administration of the bar exam.
A North Carolina city's characterization of how a fired paralegal allegedly misused city resources is not enough to sustain her suit accusing the city of trampling on her reputation and using her as a scapegoat for her boss's misdeeds, a federal judge said in throwing out the case.
Philadelphia-based personal injury firm Simon & Simon PC and its founder have failed to support a counterclaim in Pennsylvania federal court saying Uber Technologies Inc. and FedEx Corp. filed a sham litigation and abused the legal process with their ongoing RICO complaint against the firm, the companies argued Monday.
Holland & Knight LLP announced that an experienced real estate finance attorney who most recently practiced at Buchalter PC has joined the firm's Los Angeles office as a partner.
Amid Hogan Lovells' rapid growth in multiple practice areas and ahead of its merger with Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP, the firm has expanded its downtown Boston office to include space for more than a dozen additional attorneys.
The New Jersey Assembly passed a bill requiring the disclosure of third-party litigation funding arrangements on Tuesday by an overwhelming margin after similar pending legislation in the state Senate received pushback from trial lawyers and litigation finance representatives.
A onetime McCarter & English LLP partner in Hartford testified Tuesday that he did not research New York's municipal contracting laws before helping two insurers enter into doomed $20 million loan repayment agreements with a Long Island town, but contended that he was under no obligation to do so.
