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January 08, 2025
CFPB Hit With Industry Suit Over Medical Debt Reporting Rule
A top trade group for the credit reporting industry has moved to challenge the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new rule that would take billions of dollars in medical debt off credit reports, accusing the agency of overreach in a lawsuit filed in Texas federal court.
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January 08, 2025
3 Firms Steer Galapagos' Plan To Spin Off New Drug Company
Belgian biotechnology firm Galapagos NV said Wednesday that it will spin off certain operations into a second company focused on developing innovative medicines with about €2.45 billion ($2.5 billion) in cash to start, while Galapagos in turn focuses on cell therapies, through a deal guided by three law firms.
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January 08, 2025
Shoppers Say Kroger Merger Suit Still Alive After Nixed Deal
Consumers challenging the abandoned merger between Kroger Co. and Albertsons urged a California federal court not to toss their case despite two court injunctions against the deal, arguing that they have effectively prevailed on their antitrust claims and should get an injunction and attorney fees.
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January 08, 2025
US Declares Genocide In Sudan, Sanctions Military Leader
The U.S. government has declared genocide in Sudan and sanctioned paramilitary leader Gen. Mohammad Hamdan Dagalo for engaging in war crimes and human rights abuses, according to a statement.
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January 08, 2025
Fried Frank-Led Bonaccord Clinches $1.6 Billion Fund II
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP-advised Bonaccord Capital Partners, a private equity business of private markets solutions provider P10 Inc., on Wednesday announced that it wrapped its second general partner stakes fund after securing $1.6 billion in total commitments.
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January 08, 2025
Criminal Case Against Terraform Founder Said To Exceed SEC's
The $40 billion criminal case against Terraform founder Do Kwon contains evidence such as recordings and seized mobile phones that exceed what securities regulators presented when they prevailed against him at a civil fraud trial, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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January 08, 2025
Auto Financing Co. Vroom's Equity Swap Ch. 11 Plan Gets OK
A Texas bankruptcy judge on Wednesday approved automotive financing and analytics company Vroom Inc.'s Chapter 11 plan to convert $290.5 million of debt into equity, overruling an objection to the deal from the U.S. Department of Justice's bankruptcy watchdog and allowing Vroom to continue operating.
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January 08, 2025
Mortgage Cos. Fined $20M Over Cybersecurity Breach
Bayview Asset Management LLC and three affiliates on Wednesday agreed to pay a $20 million fine and improve their cybersecurity programs to settle allegations from 53 state financial regulators that the mortgage companies had deficient cybersecurity practices and didn't fully cooperate with regulators after a 2021 data breach.
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January 08, 2025
SeaWorld Strikes $1.25M Deal In 401(k) Mismanagement Suit
SeaWorld agreed to pay $1.25 million to resolve a class action alleging it hindered its $237 million retirement plan with pricey funds and expensive recordkeeping fees, a California federal court filing said.
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January 07, 2025
Oilfield Services Firm Flowco Set to Drill Down On $392M IPO
Oilfield equipment and services provider Flowco Holdings Inc. on Tuesday launched plans for an estimated $392 million initial public offering, represented by Sidley Austin LLP and underwriters' counsel Latham & Watkins LLP, marking the latest company to join the new year's IPO pipeline.
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January 07, 2025
NFT Buyers Can't Sue Over Market Fluctuations, Gallery Says
A Metaverse-based art collection club has urged a federal judge to dismiss a fraud suit brought by investors claiming it lied about the benefits of investing in its members-only NFT opportunity, arguing that the alleged losses aren't attributable to anything other than market fluctuations and that New York's consumer protection laws do not protect out-of-state investors.
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January 07, 2025
Carlyle Beats Chancery Challenge To $77.5M Authentix Sale
The Carlyle Group on Tuesday beat a more than four-year-old suit accusing the global investment giant and three directors of authentication provider Authentix Inc. of breaching their fiduciary duties in approving Authentix's $77.5 million sale to private equity firm Blue Water Energy LLP in 2017.
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January 07, 2025
AT&T, Biz Groups Urge Justices To Back Cornell's ERISA Win
Top business and employee benefits industry lobbying groups along with telecommunications giant AT&T urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Cornell University's victory over a federal benefits lawsuit alleging retirement plan mismanagement, in a flood of amicus briefs at the high court before arguments later this month.
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January 07, 2025
'Unflattering' Story Not Defamatory, Gannett Says
A tax firm's defamation suit against USA Today should be tossed, the newspaper's owner told Texas justices Monday, arguing that a 2021 investigative series was not defamatory even if its "gist" was "unflattering."
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January 07, 2025
Canada Needs Catalysts To Heat Up Cold IPO Market
Following another chilly year for initial public offerings in Canada, capital markets lawyers in the Great White North are approaching 2025 with caution, hoping that a few catalysts can break through and thaw an otherwise frozen market for public listings.
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January 07, 2025
5 Argument Sessions Benefits Attys Should Check Out In Jan.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear from Cornell University workers looking to revive a retirement plan mismanagement suit and a former firefighter who says federal disability bias law protects post-employment benefits, while circuit courts will weigh gender-affirming care restrictions and a battle over pension annuity payments. Here, Law360 looks at five arguments that benefits attorneys ought to keep an eye on this month.
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January 07, 2025
Grayscale Rival Insists Connecticut Law Allows $2M Suit
Digital asset management firm Grayscale cannot duck a smaller rival's unfair trade practices suit based on its argument that the relevant Connecticut state law has a carveout for conduct involving securities transactions, Osprey Funds said in opposing summary judgment.
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January 07, 2025
Treasury Dept. Provides Sanctions Relief To Syria
The U.S. has expanded certain authorizations and issued additional sanctions relief for the Syrian people following the collapse of Bashar al-Assad's government in December, with the goal of ensuring that the current U.S. sanctions on Syria don't impede activities to meet basic human needs.
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January 07, 2025
Bass Pro To Pay $5M To End Worker's Tobacco Penalty Suit
Bass Pro Shops has agreed to pay $4.95 million to settle a proposed class action claiming the retailer unlawfully charged employees who use tobacco an extra $2,000 per year for health insurance without properly telling them how to avoid the charge, according to a Missouri federal court filing.
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January 07, 2025
Davis Polk, Kirkland Guide Paychex's $4.1B Paycor Buy
Human capital management company Paychex Inc., advised by Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, on Tuesday unveiled plans to buy fellow human capital management, payroll and talent acquisition software company Paycor, led by Kirkland & Ellis LLP, in a deal with an enterprise value of $4.1 billion.
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January 06, 2025
Nasdaq Gets SPAC Investor's Racial Bias Claims Tossed
A federal judge decided Monday to toss a suit from an investor in a minority-led special purpose acquisition company claiming the Nasdaq Stock Market participated in race-based discrimination against investors, saying the plaintiff fails to allege that its injuries were a direct result of Nasdaq's actions.
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January 06, 2025
Law School Grad Gets 2 Years For JPMorgan Insider Trading
A law school graduate was sentenced in California federal court Monday to two years in prison for insider trading on tips from a JPMorgan Chase analyst, while another defendant was spared jail time for his role in the same scheme.
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January 06, 2025
Terraform Victims May Exceed 1M, Feds Say In Notice Request
The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday asked a Manhattan federal judge for permission to issue a public notice to notify potential victims of defunct cryptocurrency firm Terraform Labs' creator Do Kwon's alleged $40 billion fraud, saying there are too many victims — potentially more than one million — to do individual outreach.
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January 06, 2025
Biden OKs Social Security Fix In Move Cheered By Unions
Former government employees who have had their Social Security checks slashed because they receive a pension will see larger payouts this year now that President Joe Biden signed a bill repealing the decades-old benefit cuts, a move applauded by government employee unions.
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January 06, 2025
Investment Adviser Says Attys' Mistakes Cost Him His Career
A Colorado investment adviser has sued two of his former attorneys for malpractice in state court, claiming one failed to clarify that a deal he signed over securities violations also would bar him from working in other states, while the other allegedly failed to timely file an appeal to dispute the settlements.
Expert Analysis
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Opinion
It's Time For A BigLaw Associates' Union
As BigLaw faces a steady stream of criticism about its employment policies and practices, an associates union could effect real change — and it could start with law students organizing around opposition to recent recruiting trends, says Tara Rhoades at The Sanity Plea.
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How Justices Upended The Administrative Procedure Act
In its recent Loper Bright, Corner Post and Jarkesy decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court fundamentally changed the Administrative Procedure Act in ways that undermine Congress and the executive branch, shift power to the judiciary, curtail public and business input, and create great uncertainty, say Alene Taber and Beth Hummer at Hanson Bridgett.
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Jarkesy May Thwart Consumer Agencies' Civil Penalty Power
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy not only implicates future SEC administrative adjudications, but those of other agencies that operate similarly — and may stymie regulators' efforts to levy civil monetary penalties in a range of consumer protection enforcement actions, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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Opinion
Texas Judges Ignored ERISA's Core To Stall Fiduciary Rule
Two recent rulings from Texas federal courts, which rely on a plainly wrong reading of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act to effectively strike a forthcoming rule that would impose functional fiduciary duties onto sellers of investment services, may expose financially unsophisticated 401(k) participants to peddlers of misleading advice, says Mark DeBofsky at DeBofsky Law.
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2nd Circ. Ruling Reaffirms Short-Swing Claims Have Standing
The Second Circuit's recent ruling in Packer v. Raging Capital reversing the dismissal of a shareholder's Section 16(b) derivative suit seeking to recover short-swing profits for lack of constitutional standing settles the uncertainty of the district court's decision, which could have undercut Congress' intent in crafting Section 16(b) in the first place, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.
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Inside OCC's Retail Nondeposit Investment Products Refresh
In addition to clarifying safe and sound risk management practices generally, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's revised booklet on retail nondeposit investment products updates its guidance around certain sales practices in light of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's adoption of Regulation Best Interest, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Is My Counterclaim Bound To Fall?
A Pennsylvania federal court’s recent dismissal of the defendants’ counterclaims in Morgan v. Noss should remind attorneys to avoid the temptation to repackage a claim’s facts and law into a mirror-image counterclaim, as this approach will often result in a waste of time and resources, says Matthew Selmasska at Kaufman Dolowich.
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Bank M&A Continues To Lag Amid Regulatory Ambiguity
Bank M&A activity in the first half of 2024 continued to be lower than in prior years, as the industry is recovering from the 2023 bank failures, and regulatory and macroeconomic conditions have not otherwise been prime for deals, say Robert Azarow and Amber Hay at Arnold & Porter.
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Why The SEC Is Targeting Short-And-Distort Schemes
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent crackdown on the illegal practice of short-and-distort trades highlights the urgent need for public companies to adopt proactive measures, including pursuing private rights of action, say attorneys at Baker McKenzie.
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Series
Playing Dungeons & Dragons Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Playing Dungeons & Dragons – a tabletop role-playing game – helped pave the way for my legal career by providing me with foundational skills such as persuasion and team building, says Derrick Carman at Robins Kaplan.
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3 Leadership Practices For A More Supportive Firm Culture
Traditional leadership styles frequently amplify the inherent pressures of legal work, but a few simple, time-neutral strategies can strengthen the skills and confidence of employees and foster a more collaborative culture, while supporting individual growth and contribution to organizational goals, says Benjamin Grimes at BKG Leadership.
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Series
After Chevron: Don't Let Loper Lead To Bank Compliance Lull
Banking organizations are staring down a period of greater uncertainty over the next few years as the banking agencies and industry navigate the post-Chevron world, but banks must continue to have effective compliance programs in place even in the face of this unpredictability, say Lee Meyerson and Amanda Allexon at Simpson Thacher.
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E-Discovery Quarterly: Rulings On Hyperlinked Documents
Recent rulings show that counsel should engage in early discussions with clients regarding the potential of hyperlinked documents in electronically stored information, which will allow for more deliberate negotiation of any agreements regarding the scope of discovery, say attorneys at Sidley.
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Enron Law Is Still Threat To Execs After Justices' Jan. 6 Ruling
While the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Fischer v. U.S. decision is a setback for prosecutors’ obstruction charges against Jan. 6 defendants, it also represents a strong endorsement of the post-Enron Sarbanes-Oxley Act’s original purpose, serving as a corporate compliance reminder for executives, say Michael Peregrine and Ashley Hoff at McDermott.
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Loper Bright Limits Federal Agencies' Ability To Alter Course
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision to dismantle Chevron deference also effectively overrules its 2005 decision in National Cable & Telecommunications Association v. Brand X, greatly diminishing agencies' ability to change regulatory course from one administration to the next, says Steven Gordon at Holland & Knight.