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September 02, 2025
Financial Firm Can't Pierce Atty-Client Privilege, Judge Rules
Wealth Enhancement Group LLC cannot override privilege laws to view communications between a former financial adviser's new employer and its lawyers at Spencer Fane LLP, according to a Connecticut judge who viewed the contested documents privately.
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September 02, 2025
Freddie Mac Beats Investor Suit Over Subprime Exposure
An Ohio federal judge has tossed a nearly two-decade-old lawsuit accusing Freddie Mac of failing to warn investors about its exposure to the flagging subprime market, ruling that the lawsuit hadn't identified any material misleading statements made by the company in the lead-up to the housing crisis.
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September 02, 2025
Kirkland, Cleary Guide Close Of $2.3B Private Credit Fund
Kirkland & Ellis LLP-advised credit-focused alternative asset manager Benefit Street Partners LLC and private market secondaries manager Coller Capital, led by Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, on Tuesday announced that they clinched a $2.3 billion private credit continuation fund.
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September 02, 2025
Plains Takes Majority Stake In EPIC Crude In $1.57B Deal
Plains All American Pipeline said Tuesday that a subsidiary has agreed to acquire a 55% non-operated stake in EPIC Crude Holdings LP, owner of the EPIC Crude Oil Pipeline, from subsidiaries of Diamondback Energy and Kinetik Holdings in a deal valued at about $1.57 billion, including roughly $600 million of debt.
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September 02, 2025
TMX Customers Get Final OK For $42M Data Breach Suit Deal
Customers of title loan and payday lender TMX Finance have gotten a final nod for their $42 million settlement of class action claims arising from a data breach affecting an estimated 4.8 million people, with class counsel receiving just under $6 million in fees and expenses.
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September 02, 2025
Davis Polk-Led Klarna Seeks $1.3B In Revived IPO Plans
Swedish financial technology startup Klarna, advised by Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, announced Tuesday the buy-now, pay-later business is resuming its initial public offering plans, months after those plans were paused amid backlash to U.S. President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs announcement in April, saying the company is looking to raise up to $1.27 billion.
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September 02, 2025
Evernorth Health Plugs $3.5B Into Shields Health Solutions
Evernorth Health Services, led by Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Holland & Knight LLP, on Tuesday unveiled plans to plug $3.5 billion into specialty pharmacy management company Shields Health Solutions.
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September 02, 2025
Apollo, Brookfield-Backed Group Inks $28.2B Air Lease Deal
Milbank LLP-advised Apollo Global Management and Brookfield are backing a $28.2 billion deal to take aircraft lessor Air Lease Corp. private, alongside Japan's Sumitomo Corp. and SMBC Aviation Capital, in a deal disclosed Tuesday that is being steered by five law firms.
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August 29, 2025
DC Judge Says Fed. Reserve Gov. Can't Get TRO Just Yet
Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook didn't walk away from her emergency hearing with the temporary restraining order she was looking for, but a D.C. federal judge said she was willing to expedite briefing over the president's attempt to strip Cook of her position.
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August 29, 2025
Federal Judge Blocks New Texas ESG Disclosure Law
A Texas federal judge temporarily blocked the state attorney general from enforcing a new state law that requires proxy advisory firms to disclose when their advice stems from factors such as diversity and inclusion, siding with the companies that argued the law breaches the First Amendment.
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August 29, 2025
Dems Urge FHFA Director To Focus On Housing Costs
Democratic senators on Friday urged Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte to focus on measures to bring housing costs down — including by forestalling any privatization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — while lambasting Pulte for his role in the firing of Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook.
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August 29, 2025
SEC Enters New Enforcement Era With Unlikely Leader
As the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission prepares to welcome a new enforcement director after nearly a year without someone permanently in the role, securities industry insiders are waiting to see how the former military judge will leave her mark on an agency that is already in the midst of transformation.
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August 29, 2025
RICO, Fraud Claims Tossed In LA Real Estate Investment Suit
A Georgia federal court has determined that fraud and racketeering claims from a group of Chinese and American investors in a real estate investment suit alleging a group of fraudsters duped them out of millions of dollars with bogus representations are barred by merger clauses and federal securities regulations.
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August 29, 2025
7th Circ. Backs $4.5M Fraudster's 8-Year Prison Sentence
A real estate investment firm owner who transferred investor money to his friends' companies without permission and advertised to his own less-educated Amish community was properly sentenced to eight years in prison, the Seventh Circuit has ruled.
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August 29, 2025
Vanguard To Pay $19.5M Over Adviser Conflict Disclosures
Vanguard Advisers Inc. agreed to pay $19.5 million to resolve claims from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it failed to adequately disclose conflicts of interest in connection with its recommendation to clients to enroll in its managed account program.
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August 29, 2025
4 Appellate Arguments For Benefits Attys To Watch In Sept.
Yellow Corp. seeks to revive a $137 million breach dispute against the Teamsters at the Tenth Circuit, married retirees will ask the Eleventh Circuit to restart a pension conversion fight, and the en banc Fifth Circuit reconsiders a challenge to a rule implementing a 2020 surprise health billing law.
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August 29, 2025
Taxation With Representation: White & Case, Paul Weiss
In this week's Taxation With Representation, private equity firm Sycamore Partners completes its $24 billion acquisition of Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc., telecommunications company EchoStar sells wireless spectrum licenses to AT&T and Keurig Dr Pepper acquires JDE Peet's in a deal that aims to create a "global coffee champion."
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August 29, 2025
Connexa Sports, JuCoin Launch $500M Digital Asset Platform
Connexa Sports Technologies Inc. and JuCoin Capital Pte. Ltd. on Friday revealed that they have entered into a strategic partnership to jointly establish a $500 million digital asset platform called aiRWA.
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August 29, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen Prosecco DOC Consortium bring an intellectual property claim against a distributor, the Serious Fraud Office bring a civil recovery claim against the ex-wife of a solicitor jailed over a £19.5 million fraud scheme, and law firm Joseph Hage Aaronson & Bremen LLP sue its former client, the bankrupt Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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August 29, 2025
Kirkland, Skadden Advise On $1.8B DuPont-Arclin Deal
DuPont said Friday it has agreed to sell its Aramids business, best known for Kevlar and Nomex synthetic fibers, to TJC portfolio company Arclin in a deal valuing the unit at about $1.8 billion.
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August 28, 2025
Barings Denied Ex-Employee Emails In Corporate Raid Case
Investment giant Barings LLC can't force five former employees to hand over their personal emails and text messages in a corporate-raiding suit because their current employer doesn't have them, nor does it have a right to them, a North Carolina Business Court judge ruled.
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August 28, 2025
Guardian Capital Goes Private In $1.67B Deal With Desjardins
Canadian investment management firm Guardian Capital Group Ltd. on Thursday announced plans to go private after being bought by financial services company Desjardins Global Asset Management in a deal that values it at $1.67 billion and was built by three law firms.
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August 28, 2025
Justices Asked To Limit Private Investment Fund Suits
A group of investment funds seeking to fend off a challenge from an activist investor are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to issue a ruling in the case that would end the ability of private parties to file contractual disputes under the Investment Company Act.
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August 28, 2025
Truist, Ex-Execs Clash In Bids To End Poaching Dispute
Charlotte, North Carolina-based Truist Financial Corp. and its mortgage banking arm resisted a bid for a pretrial win by its former executives' new employer, arguing that troves of evidence sustain its claims that over 50 employees were illegally poached, costing the bank tens of millions of dollars in losses.
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August 28, 2025
'Bitcoin Infrastructure' SPAC Files Plans To Raise $200M
Special purpose acquisition company Bitcoin Infrastructure Acquisition Corp. Ltd. has filed plans with regulators to raise up to $200 million in an initial public offering, a move that follows a pair of crypto-focused special purpose acquisition companies that began trading on Wednesday amid surging interest in digital assets.
Expert Analysis
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What To Know As SEC Looks To Expand Private Fund Access
As the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission considers expanding retail access to private markets, understanding how these funds operate — and the role of financial intermediaries in guiding investors — is increasingly important, say attorneys at K&L Gates.
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Balancing The Promises And Perils Of Tokenizing Securities
Tokenizing listed securities offers the promise of greater efficiency, accessibility and innovation, but a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission statement makes clear that the federal securities laws continue to apply to tokenized securities, so financial institutions and technology developers must work together to create clear rules, say attorneys at Orrick.
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SEC, FINRA Obligations In Changing AI Regulatory Landscape
Despite the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent withdrawal of its proposed artificial intelligence conflict rules, financial regulators remain focused on firms developing the correct AI compliance framework, as well as continuously testing and supervising them to ensure they're fit for purpose, say attorneys at Cahill Gordon.
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Playing Baseball Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Playing baseball in college, and now Wiffle ball in a local league, has taught me that teamwork, mental endurance and emotional intelligence are not only important to success in the sport, but also to success as a trial attorney, says Kevan Dorsey at Swift Currie.
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Managing Risks As State AGs Seek To Fill Enforcement Gap
Given an unprecedented surge in state attorney general activity resulting from significant shifts in federal enforcement priorities, companies must consider tailored strategies for navigating the ever-evolving risk landscape, say attorneys at Cozen O'Connor.
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A Deep Dive Into 14 Nixed Gensler-Era SEC Rule Proposals
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last month formally withdrew 14 notices of proposed rulemaking, including several significant and widely criticized proposals that had been issued under former Chair Gary Gensler's leadership, signaling a clear and definitive shift away from the previous administration, say attorneys at Dechert.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Skillful Persuasion
In many ways, law school teaches us how to argue, but when the ultimate goal is to get your client what they want, being persuasive through preparation and humility is the more likely key to success, says Michael Friedland at Friedland Cianfrani.
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A Look At Trump 2.0 Antitrust Enforcement So Far
The first six months of President Donald Trump's second administration were marked by aggressive antitrust enforcement tempered by traditional structural remedies for mergers, but other unprecedented actions, like the firing of Federal Trade Commission Democrats, will likely stoke heated discussion ahead, says Richard Dagen at Axinn.
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How Real Estate Funds Can Leverage Del. Statutory Trusts
Over the last two years, traditional real estate fund sponsors have begun to more frequently adopt Delaware Statutory Trust programs, which can help diversify capital-raising strategies and access to new sources of capital, among other benefits, say attorneys at Polsinelli.
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Litigation Inspiration: How To Respond After A Loss
Every litigator loses a case now and then, and the sting of that loss can become a medicine that strengthens or a poison that corrodes, depending on how the attorney responds, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.
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While On Firmer Ground, Uncertainty Remains For SEC's ALJs
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia's recent opinion in Lemelson v. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission affirmed the legitimacy of the SEC's administrative proceedings, but pointedly left unanswered the constitutional merits of tenure protection enjoyed by SEC administrative law judges — potentially the subject of future U.S. Supreme Court review, says Dean Conway at Carlton Fields.
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Tips For Cos. From California Climate Reporting FAQ
New guidance from the California Air Resources Board on how businesses must implement the state's sweeping climate reporting requirements should help companies assess their exposure, understand their disclosure obligations and begin documenting good-faith compliance efforts, says Thierry Montoya at Frost Brown.
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Why SEC Abandoned Microcap Convertible Debt Crackdown
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has recently dismissed several cases targeting microcap convertible debt lenders, a significant disavowal of what was a controversial enforcement initiative under the Biden administration and a message that the new administration will focus on clear fraud, say attorneys at O'Melveny.
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The Metamorphosis Of The Major Questions Doctrine
The so-called major questions doctrine arose as a counterweight to Chevron deference over the past few decades, but invocations of the doctrine have persisted in the year since Chevron was overturned, suggesting it still has a role to play in reining in agency overreach, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.
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GENIUS Act Creates 'Commodity' Uncertainty For Stablecoins
Half a century ago, Congress made trading in onion futures on commodity exchanges unlawful, and payment stablecoins could soon face a similarly unstable fate in the markets as the GENIUS Act heads to the president's desk for signature, says Peter Malyshev at Cadwalader.