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June 02, 2026
Financial services company Raymond James and a former vice president who said she was fired for complaining about sexism and denied promotions formally ended their Florida federal court battle Tuesday, almost two years after the company got her case kicked to arbitration.
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June 02, 2026
A U.S. Department of Labor proposal to expand retirement plans' access to alternative investments, such as private equity and digital assets, garnered over 47,000 comments, with investment industry groups seeking minor changes while Democratic attorneys general, unions and other critics warned that protections for savers could be weakened.
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June 02, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday said it plans to reevaluate how administrative proceedings operate and to write regulations governing the cryptocurrency industry, calling for public feedback as it put forth Chairman Paul Atkins' vision for running the agency over the next four years.
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June 02, 2026
Software-focused investment firm Wingman Growth Partners, advised by Kirkland & Ellis LLP, on Tuesday announced it closed its inaugural fund after securing $215 million in investor commitments.
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June 02, 2026
Aerospace and defense company Arxis on Tuesday announced that it has agreed to acquire aerospace and defense manufacturer Omnetics Connector Corp. and torque sensor-maker MagCanica Inc. for a combined purchase price of $890 million.
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June 02, 2026
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has awarded more than $8 million to five whistleblowers who, the derivatives market regulator said, provided information leading to an enforcement action against a fraudulent scheme.
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June 02, 2026
The Texas State Securities Board announced it has entered an emergency order to halt a purported property group, its principals and an associated Texas resident from offering and selling unregistered and fraudulent tokenized real estate investments, saying the conduct "threatens immediate and irreparable public harm."
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June 02, 2026
Several Eleventh Circuit judges voiced support during en banc arguments Tuesday for overturning precedent backing the appellate court's exhaustion requirement for federal benefits claims, signaling the potential reinstatement of a proposed class action alleging mismanagement of a seafood company's employee stock ownership plan.
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June 02, 2026
Federal banking regulators said Tuesday that they are reissuing a slew of longstanding guidance documents to take out mentions of so-called reputation risk, the latest move in the Trump administration's push to eliminate bank examiners' use of the concept.
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June 02, 2026
Two Florida men accused of using "hard-money" commercial real estate finance companies to steal $15 million in customer fees told a Manhattan federal judge Tuesday they will challenge the charges at trial, including by arguing they made legitimate loans.
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June 01, 2026
A California federal jury Monday returned a verdict finding Citron Research founder Andrew Left guilty of using his public platform, including tweets, to manipulate the stock prices of a slew of companies, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
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June 01, 2026
Allen Overy Shearman Sterling and Winston & Strawn LLP are steering a deal under which financial infrastructure platform OpenPayd will be acquired and taken public at an estimated equity value of $1.15 billion by Titan Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company purportedly focused on high-growth fintechs, the parties announced Monday.
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June 01, 2026
A New York federal judge on Monday denied a quantitative trader's bid to escape a charge of trade secret theft but granted his request for prosecutors to turn over information on the source code he allegedly stole.
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June 01, 2026
ERock, a company that makes natural gas power systems for data centers, said it aims to raise $600 million at midpoint in an upcoming initial public offering guided by Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.
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June 01, 2026
The North Carolina Business Court rounded out May by appointing a discovery referee in a healthcare antitrust class action and ordering the deposition of a top executive in a trade secrets battle, in addition to fielding a new complaint alleging unpaid capital contributions for a captive insurance company.
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June 01, 2026
General Motors investors who alleged the automotive giant misrepresented technological capabilities and commercial readiness of its self-driving unit's robotaxis urged a Michigan federal judge to grant class certification, arguing Friday the merits of their securities fraud case "turn on a common course of misconduct — defendants' public misrepresentations."
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June 01, 2026
A Michigan appellate panel has said a disbarred northeastern Michigan attorney's decision not to back up her arguments sank her appeal arising from a lawsuit accusing her of converting or embezzling trust funds, affirming summary disposition against the attorney and saying she "simply failed to brief the issue."
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May 29, 2026
A litigation group combating what it views as overreach by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is backing a pair of microcap dealers' bid to undo their over $31 million disgorgement order, arguing that recent enforcement changes at the SEC have created "a one-way ratchet" harming small investors and entrepreneurs.
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May 29, 2026
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Friday took a leap forward in bringing so-called crypto perpetual derivatives to U.S. traders with a first-of-its-kind approval of Kalshi's bitcoin perpetual futures contract and no-action relief that allows Coinbase to connect U.S. customers with global offerings.
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May 29, 2026
Universal Music Group said Friday it has rejected an unsolicited takeover proposal from Pershing Square Capital Management, saying the offer worth roughly $65 billion fundamentally undervalues the music company.
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May 29, 2026
The past week in London has seen the billionaire who donated £5 million ($6.7 million) to Nigel Farage sue Ben Habib, the leader of far-right party Advance UK, for defamation; Mashreqbank bring claims against three subsidiaries of dissolved private equity giant Abraaj Group for commercial fraud; and the property and investment vehicle of the State of Kuwait be targeted by four real estate figures who filed a miscellaneous claim. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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May 29, 2026
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Fertitta Entertainment acquires Caesars Entertainment, Eli Lilly and Co. buys three companies involved in vaccine development, and nuclear energy company Newcleo Ltd. says it plans to go public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company, NewHold Investment Corp. III.
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May 29, 2026
Real estate investment trust take-private activity is showing signs of momentum after a relatively subdued period, as private capital and real estate investors increasingly converge around valuation gaps between public markets and underlying asset values.
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May 29, 2026
Some employers have been reducing employee benefits, attorneys say, a move that brings both legal and reputational risks. Here's a look at three areas where practitioners are seeing cutbacks and the pitfalls they present.
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May 28, 2026
Blockchain infrastructure firm Paxos said Thursday that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has signed off on its clearing agency registration for blockchain-based settlement in what Paxos said is a first-of-its-kind approval.