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  K&L Gates Helps Hexagon Buy Baker Hughes Unit For $1.45B

  By Najiyya Budaly

  Industrial technology company Hexagon AB said Monday that it has agreed to buy a German industrial testing busin...(read more)

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  Trump Taps Personal Atty For 2nd Circ.

  By Courtney Bublé

  President Donald Trump announced on Friday evening he's tapping Matthew Schwartz, his attorney in the New York h...(read more)

• Stikeman-Led GFL Inks $4.6B Waste Management Deal

  By Al Barbarino

  GFL Environmental Inc. has agreed to buy Secure Waste Infrastructure Corp. in a CA$6.4 billion ($4.6 billion) deal that would combine one of North America's largest waste haulers with a Western Canadian disposal and industrial waste infrastructure operator.

• Texas Appeals Court Upholds Dismissal In $250M Fraud Case

  By Spencer Brewer

  A split Texas appeals court panel found that a company cannot bring claims against Morgan Stanley after an executive at the bank ran an alleged kickback scheme involving $250 million in mineral interests, saying the executive was working by himself when the alleged fraud occurred.

• Tesla Wins Chancery Suit Dismissal After Move To Texas

  By Sarah Jarvis

  A consolidated Delaware Chancery Court suit leveling breach of fiduciary duty claims against Elon Musk and Tesla Inc. directors belongs in Texas, a vice chancellor said Monday, finding that a forum selection bylaw applies retroactively even though the conduct at issue occurred before the company reincorporated in the Lone Star State.

• BREAKING: Trump Picks DOL Wage Official For NLRB Seat

  By Braden Campbell

  President Donald Trump tapped a U.S. Department of Labor wage official Monday to serve on the National Labor Relations Board in a move that could avert another quorum lapse and facilitate a shift away from the labor-friendly policy of the last administration.

• Gov't Appeal Could Throw Wrench In Tariff Refunds

  By Dylan Moroses

  U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced its court-ordered tariff refund system will be available for its first entries in a week's time, but practitioners remain concerned that a potential government appeal of the ruling could narrow the amount of imports and companies that can qualify for the relief.

• Chinese Developer Kaisa Files $15.7B Ch. 15 Recognition Bid

  By Rick Archer

  Chinese property developer Kaisa Group is asking a New York bankruptcy judge to extend U.S. recognition to a restructuring of its $15.7 billion in debt that it underwent last year after being hit with Chinese and U.S. lawsuits over missed payments.

• Cleary, Latham Steer $2.5B Somnigroup Bedding Deal

  By Al Barbarino

  Somnigroup International Inc. said Monday it has agreed to acquire Leggett & Platt Inc. in an all-stock transaction valued at about $2.5 billion, with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP advising Somnigroup and Latham & Watkins LLP representing Leggett & Platt.

• Trump's $10B WSJ Suit Tossed Over Thin Defamation Claims

  By David Minsky

  A Florida federal judge tossed a $10 billion defamation suit President Donald Trump brought against the Wall Street Journal over a published article linking him to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, ruling Monday that the newspaper didn't knowingly or recklessly run a false story. 

• UK Calls For Feedback On $110B Paramount, Warner Deal

  By Najiyya Budaly

  Britain's antitrust authority called on interested parties on Monday to comment on whether Paramount Skydance's $110 billion deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery has the potential to harm competition in any U.K. markets.

• IBM To Pay $17M Over DOJ's Claims Of Illegal DEI Practices

  By Lauren Berg

  IBM agreed to pay the Trump administration $17 million to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act with efforts to increase the diversity of its workforce, which the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday said was the first settlement under its initiative against diversity, equity and inclusion.

• ICE Quietly Changes I-9 Offenses, Raising Employer Fine Risk

  By Britain Eakin

  Employers are staring down bigger fines for I-9 violations after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement quietly redefined substantive violations to include common administrative errors that were previously correctable without penalty.

• Tech's AI Coding Boom On Collision Course With Copyright

  By Ivan Moreno

  Tech companies embracing generative tools to write their software code — and boasting about it — may be running into a gap in copyright protection: the more they rely on them, the harder it may be to claim exclusive rights when that code is copied or leaked.