Asset Management

  • November 18, 2024

    J&J Posts $1.17B Bond For Del. Merger Milestone Appeal

    Johnson & Johnson Inc. has posted a $1.167 billion surety-backed bond ahead of its planned appeal challenging a Delaware Chancery Court's finding that it owes more than $1 billion to a medical robotics developer's former shareholders caught up in a post-acquisition dispute.

  • November 18, 2024

    Mutual Fund Manager Owes SEC, CFTC $11M After Trial

    A Wisconsin federal judge has ordered the operator of a mutual fund to pay more than $11 million to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission after being found liable by a jury of making untrue statements and breaching his fiduciary duty to investors.

  • November 18, 2024

    StraightPath Execs Must Face $386M IPO Fraud Charges

    A New York federal judge denied a bid Monday by three principals of Florida-based private equity firm StraightPath Venture Partners to dismiss an indictment accusing them of raising $386 million by defrauding over 2,000 investors through false promises about purchases of pre-IPO shares in private companies.

  • November 18, 2024

    Latham-Led Software Startup ServiceTitan Joins IPO Pipeline

    Venture-backed software startup ServiceTitan Inc. filed plans on Monday for an initial public offering, represented by Latham & Watkins LLP and underwriters' counsel Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC, joining a growing list of IPO prospects.

  • November 18, 2024

    Chancery Orders Paybacks In Decade-Old Lease Co. Suit

    Former directors of a global temporary housing business that served corporations worldwide must repay indemnification payouts under a multipart Court of Chancery ruling on a suit originally brought in 2014 alleging breaches of a shareholder agreement and fiduciary duty.

  • November 18, 2024

    Bain Capital Lands $5.7B For Global Special Situations Fund

    Private equity giant Bain Capital, advised by Ropes & Gray LLP, on Monday announced that it finished fundraising for its second global special situations fund after securing $5.7 billion from investors.

  • November 18, 2024

    Wachtell-Led CVS Adds Glenview CEO, Others To Board

    CVS Health, represented by Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, said Monday it has struck a deal with activist investor Glenview Capital Management to appoint four new board members, including Glenview CEO Larry Robbins. 

  • November 18, 2024

    Bechtel Retiree Seeks Class Status In 401(k) Fee Suit

    A Bechtel Global Corp. retiree asked a Virginia federal judge to let her represent 7,000 retirement plan participants in her suit claiming the engineering company overcharged its $5.7 billion plan by tapping a pricey default investment option.

  • November 18, 2024

    Comtech Agrees To Board Shake-Up With Ex-CEOs

    Comtech Telecommunications Corp. said Monday it has reached an "amicable resolution" with an investor group that includes two former CEOs who had sought a board shake-up, agreeing to the appointment of two new directors and the withdrawal of the CEOs' proposed full slate of directors.

  • November 18, 2024

    Silver Point Clinches 3rd Credit Fund With $8.5B In Tow

    Connecticut-based credit investing firm Silver Point Capital on Monday announced that it closed its latest credit fund with more than $8.5 billion in tow.

  • November 15, 2024

    Trump's SDNY Pick A Familiar Face In Wall Street's Legal Wing

    Jay Clayton's nomination to be the Manhattan U.S. attorney would seat a highly regarded Wall Street lawyer in one of the top law enforcement jobs in the country, but he may face headwinds over his industry relationships and lack of criminal prosecution experience.

  • November 15, 2024

    Venezuelan Lawyer Relied On Ex-Dentons Atty In $54M Swap

    A Venezuelan lawyer suing Dentons over a failed $54 million bolivar-to-dollars currency swap admitted Friday on the stand that he did not do any due diligence for the transaction but instead relied on what he called misinformation from an ex-Dentons attorney that she relayed to his representative.

  • November 15, 2024

    3rd Circ. Won't Rehear Moroccan Hotel Fight Over $60M Award

    The Third Circuit has declined to rethink its decision reviving a dispute over the enforcement of a $60 million arbitral award favoring the current owner of a luxury hotel in Casablanca, despite an investment group's claims that the ruling is unprecedented and disregards well-established Delaware law.

  • November 15, 2024

    SEC Says Risky Bond Recommendations Violated Reg BI

    A Texas-headquartered broker-dealer has agreed to pay nearly $154,000 to resolve U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that it improperly recommended risky bonds in violation of the federal investor protection measure known as Regulation Best Interest.

  • November 15, 2024

    SEC's Top Cop Says Election Hasn't Slowed Enforcers Down

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's enforcement attorneys continue to work with "urgency" in the waning months of the Biden administration, the acting leader of the enforcement division said Friday at an event where he also spoke about a shuttered task force and the agency's approach to pursuing cases involving cybersecurity breaches.

  • November 15, 2024

    Hedge Fund Group Urges Trump To Reject 'Punitive' Policies

    A leading industry group representing hedge funds and other alternative asset managers is urging President-elect Donald Trump to abandon "punitive" economic policies and instead propose tax and regulatory relief, including business-friendly priorities at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

  • November 15, 2024

    Tenneco Asks Justices To Review 6th Circ. Arbitration Denial

    Automotive parts company Tenneco asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to review a Sixth Circuit decision from August that refused to force individual arbitration of a proposed class action from workers alleging retirement plan mismanagement, arguing lower courts had disagreed on how to apply federal arbitration law.

  • November 15, 2024

    Chinese Self-Driving Startup Pony Revs Up $180M IPO

    Chinese autonomous-driver technology provider Pony AI Inc. has launched plans for an estimated $180 million initial public offering, represented by Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and underwriters' counsel Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, marking the latest self-driving startup to seek U.S. capital in order to fund its growth ambitions.

  • November 15, 2024

    MVP: Weil's Stephanie E. Srulowitz

    Stephanie E. Srulowitz of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's U.S. private funds practice led real estate investment firm Crow Holdings Capital Partners in raising a $3.1 billion Fund X, guided Lee Equity Partners to close an oversubscribed $1.3 billion Fund IV and shepherded Graycliff Partners in a $600 million fundraise push, earning her a spot as one of the 2024 Law360 Fund Formation MVPs.

  • November 15, 2024

    Katten Atty Brings Derivatives Expertise To Faegre Drinker

    Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP announced a new addition to its New York office on Thursday, touting the derivatives focus the former Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP partner takes to the firm's investment management group.

  • November 15, 2024

    Taxation With Representation: Cravath, MoFo, Gibson Dunn

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, Cardinal Health takes a majority stake in GI Alliance and acquires Advanced Diabetes Supply Group, Just Eat offloads Grubhub to Wonder Group, Rivian Automotive and Volkswagen Group launch a joint venture, and Ovintiv Inc. buys Montney Basin assets from Paramount Resources Ltd.

  • November 15, 2024

    Biden Withdraws Cohen Weiss Atty's PBGC Nomination

    President Joe Biden has withdrawn his nomination of a Cohen Weiss & Simon LLP attorney to lead the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., four months after putting her name forward and less than two weeks after former President Donald Trump secured a return to the White House.

  • November 14, 2024

    Student Loan Servicer Wants CFPB Deal Paused Amid Appeal

    The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency has asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to pause its obligation to pay more than $3.2 million as a part of a settlement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that is being challenged in the Third Circuit by a third party.

  • November 14, 2024

    Ex-JP Morgan Rep To Stop Soliciting Clients Amid Arbitration

    A former J.P. Morgan Securities LLC employee who left to work for Morgan Stanley has agreed not to solicit customers from her former employer while the parties arbitrate the broker-dealer's claims she lured clients with more than $12 million in assets away to its rival.

  • November 14, 2024

    Judge Presses SEC Over 'Rogue Employee' In PE Fund Fight

    A Texas federal judge grilled the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over the circumstances that led to a private equity fund suing the regulator alleging it carried out a "fishing expedition" investigation, asking the agency about a "rogue employee" during a hearing Thursday.

Expert Analysis

  • How To Survive Shareholder Activism

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    In an era where shareholder activism is on the rise, companies must identify weaknesses, clearly communicate strategies, update board composition and engage with shareholders consistently in order to avoid disruptive shareholder activism and safeguard the interests of both the company and its shareholders, say J.T. Ho at Orrick and Greg Taxin at Spotlight Advisors.

  • 'Outsourcing' Ruling, 5 Years On: A Warning, Not A Watershed

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    A New York federal court’s 2019 ruling in U.S. v. Connolly, holding that the government improperly outsourced an investigation to Deutsche Bank, has not undercut corporate cooperation incentives as feared — but companies should not completely ignore the lessons of the case, say Temidayo Aganga-Williams and Anna Nabutovsky at Selendy Gay.

  • Series

    Serving In The National Guard Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My ongoing military experience as a judge advocate general in the National Guard has shaped me as a person and a lawyer, teaching me the importance of embracing confidence, balance and teamwork in both my Army and civilian roles, says Danielle Aymond at Baker Donelson.

  • Big Business May Come To Rue The Post-Administrative State

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    Many have framed the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decisions overturning Chevron deference and extending the window to challenge regulations as big wins for big business, but sand in the gears of agency rulemaking may be a double-edged sword, creating prolonged uncertainty that impedes businesses’ ability to plan for the future, says Todd Baker at Columbia University.

  • Will Texas Stock Exchange Provide Regulatory Haven?

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    While the newly proposed Texas Stock Exchange may represent a market reaction to increasingly complex regulations, those looking to list on a national securities exchange should consider that their choice of an exchange may not relieve them of some of the most burdensome public company requirements, say Elizabeth McNichol and Ryan Lilley at Katten.

  • A Midyear Forecast: Tailwinds Expected For Atty Hourly Rates

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    Hourly rates for partners, associates and support staff continued to rise in the first half of this year, and this growth shows no signs of slowing for the rest of 2024 and into next year, driven in part by the return of mergers and acquisitions and the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence, says Chuck Chandler at Valeo Partners.

  • Opinion

    Discount Window Reform Needed To Curb Modern Bank Runs

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    We learned during the spring 2023 failures that bank runs can happen extraordinarily fast in light of modern technology, especially when banks have a greater concentration of large deposits, demonstrating that the antiquated but effective discount window needs to be overhauled before the next crisis, says Cris Cicala at Stinson.

  • Series

    After Chevron: Creating New Hurdles For ESG Rulemaking

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's Loper Bright decision, limiting court deference to agencies' statutory interpretations, could have significant impacts on the future of ESG regulation, creating new hurdles for agency rulemaking around these emerging issues, and calling into question current administrative actions, says Leah Malone at Simpson Thacher.

  • A Timeline Of Antisemitism Legislation And What It Means

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    What began as hearings in the House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce has expanded to a House-wide effort to combat antisemitism and related issues, with wide-ranging implications for education, finance and nonprofit entities, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • Opinion

    States Should Loosen Law Firm Ownership Restrictions

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    Despite growing buzz, normalized nonlawyer ownership of law firms is a distant prospect, so the legal community should focus first on liberalizing state restrictions on attorney and firm purchases of practices, which would bolster succession planning and improve access to justice, says Michael Di Gennaro at The Law Practice Exchange.

  • 50 Years Later, ERISA Remains A Work In Progress

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    A look at the 50 years since the Employee Retirement Income Security Act’s passage shows that while the law safeguards benefits through vesting rules, fiduciary responsibilities and anti-discrimination provisions, the act falls short in three key areas, says Carol Buckmann at Cohen & Buckmann.

  • Series

    Solving Puzzles Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Tackling daily puzzles — like Wordle, KenKen and Connections — has bolstered my intellectual property litigation practice by helping me to exercise different mental skills, acknowledge minor but important details, and build and reinforce good habits, says Roy Wepner at Kaplan Breyer.

  • Dapper Settlement Offers Rules Of The Road For NFT Issuers

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    The terms of a $4 million settlement in a class action alleging that Dapper Labs sold its NBA Top Shot Moments as unregistered securities may be a model for third parties that wish to avoid securities liability in connection with offering digital asset non-fungible token collectibles, say attorneys at K&L Gates.

  • Texas Ethics Opinion Flags Hazards Of Unauthorized Practice

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    The Texas Professional Ethics Committee's recently issued proposed opinion finding that in-house counsel providing legal services to the company's clients constitutes the unauthorized practice of law is a valuable clarification given that a UPL violation — a misdemeanor in most states — carries high stakes, say Hilary Gerzhoy and Julienne Pasichow at HWG.

  • In Memoriam: The Modern Administrative State

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    On June 28, the modern administrative state, where courts deferred to agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes, died when the U.S. Supreme Court overruled its previous decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council — but it is survived by many cases decided under the Chevron framework, say Joseph Schaeffer and Jessica Deyoe at Babst Calland.

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