Mergers & Acquisitions

  • November 04, 2024

    Bell Canada Paying $3.65B For US Internet Co. Ziply Fiber

    Bell Canada has agreed to acquire U.S. internet provider Ziply Fiber for approximately CA$5 billion ($3.65 billion), Bell parent company BCE Inc. said Monday.

  • November 04, 2024

    Paul Hastings Adds NY Finance Atty From Winston & Strawn

    Paul Hastings LLP announced Monday that it has added a leveraged finance lawyer from Winston & Strawn LLP as a partner in New York to strengthen its private equity and mergers and acquisitions platforms.

  • November 04, 2024

    4 Firms Guide $3.1B Take-Private Deal For Aviation Co. ATSG

    Private equity firm Stonepeak, advised by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and Hogan Lovells, is buying Air Transport Services Group Inc., guided by Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LLP, at an enterprise value of roughly $3.1 billion, the aviation company said Monday. 

  • November 04, 2024

    US IPO Activity Hits Standstill As Election Takes Center Stage

    U.S. initial public offerings have screeched to a halt amid peak election season, and dealmakers expect new listings to largely remain iced until next year as market participants sort out ramifications of Tuesday's presidential and congressional contests.

  • November 04, 2024

    Latham Guides Anglo American's $1.1B Coal JV Stake Sale

    Anglo American PLC said Monday that it has agreed to sell its minority interest in an Australian coal mining joint venture to Zashvin Pty Ltd. for AU$1.6 billion ($1.1 billion) in a deal guided by Latham & Watkins LLP.

  • November 04, 2024

    Relief Therapeutics To Merge With US Biotech Renexxion

    Switzerland's Relief Therapeutics Holding SA said Monday that it plans to merge with Renexxion Inc. in a move to bring the U.S. biotechnology company on to the Swiss stock exchange.

  • November 01, 2024

    Atty Suing Ex-Partner Asks Judges For 'Fairly Nominal' Bond

    An attorney suing his ex-CEO over the breakup of their law firm has asked a Connecticut Superior Court judge to clear up two orders from different jurists by explaining how much bond he'll be required to post, saying a "fairly nominal" bond would ensure he keeps the case on track.

  • November 01, 2024

    Kroger Blasts 'Food Desert' Fears From Wash. Nonprofits

    Kroger and Albertsons said the trial judge in Washington's bid to block a $24.6 billion merger should reject amicus briefs from two cities, a food bank and a poverty nonprofit, saying their assertions that the deal would inflate grocery prices and create food deserts in some communities rehash claims by activists and the media.

  • November 01, 2024

    2nd Circ. Won't Revive Warner Bros. Discovery Merger Suit

    The Second Circuit refused Friday to resurrect a putative shareholder class action over the $43 billion tie-up that created Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., saying pre-merger documents adequately informed investors about streaming subscriber numbers and planned business strategies for the combined media giant.

  • November 01, 2024

    Newbury Street SPAC Returns To Market With $150M Offering

    Special purpose acquisition company Newbury Street II Acquisition Corp. began trading Friday after raising a $150 million initial public offering, guided by three law firms, and marking the second Newbury Street vehicle to go public under similar management.

  • November 01, 2024

    Treasury Expands Foreign Land Transaction Authority

    The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced Friday that it has added 59 new military installations to the list of those over which it has jurisdiction to review any nearby real estate transactions involving foreign citizens.

  • November 01, 2024

    Big Lots Says $760M Bid Wins In Ch. 11 Auction

    Discount retailer Big Lots got approval from a Delaware bankruptcy judge to sell off nearly three-dozen store leases the day after it said it had received no offers to beat a $760 million bid for the business as a whole.

  • November 01, 2024

    Blockchain Coinvestors SPAC To Dissolve With No Biz Combo

    Special purpose acquisition company Blockchain Coinvestors Acquisition Corp. I will dissolve and return investors their money after two failed merger attempts, the company has announced, marking the latest SPAC to close shop amid lean market conditions.

  • November 01, 2024

    CMA Raises Concerns Over GXO's £762M Logistics Deal

    Britain's competition enforcer said Friday the completed £762 million ($950 million) takeover of supply-chain group Wincanton PLC by GXO Logistics Inc. could raise prices for businesses that rely on contract logistics providers to move goods around the country.

  • November 01, 2024

    ISS Advises Frontier Shareholders To Abstain On Verizon Vote

    Proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services on Friday recommended that Frontier Communications shareholders abstain from voting on Verizon's planned $20 billion takeover, noting that there could be an advantage to waiting to see if the company can generate more value.

  • November 01, 2024

    Taxation With Representation: Kirkland, Davis Polk, Wachtell

    In this week's Taxation with Representation, BC Partners sells its majority equity interest in GardaWorld, Lone Star Funds sells specialty chemicals company AOC to Nippon Paint Holdings, Crescent Biopharma takes GlycoMimetics private, and Francisco Partners buys AdvancedMD from Global Payments.

  • November 01, 2024

    Up To $755M Added To AZ Scuttled-Drug Damage Claim In Del.

    A stockholder representative for former shareholders of biopharmaceutical company Syntimmune has proposed up to $755 million in additional damages after a Delaware vice chancellor found that an AstraZeneca PLC unit failed to reasonably pursue drug development milestones after acquiring Syntimmune in 2018.

  • November 01, 2024

    Stericycle Has All Approvals For $7.2B WM Sale

    Medical waste company Stericycle said Friday that it has obtained all antitrust and foreign regulatory approvals needed to proceed with its $7.2 billion sale to Waste Management, a deal inked in June with guidance from three law firms.

  • November 01, 2024

    General Atlantic Leads $500M Funding Of AI-Focused Insider

    Marketing platform Insider said Friday it has secured a $500 million Series E funding round led by global growth investor General Atlantic, which will help the company's marketing software offering and fuel AI-focused research and development. 

  • November 01, 2024

    Pillar Aught, Kilpatrick Guide $127M Pa. Bank Merger

    Pillar Aught and Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP are guiding a roughly $127 million all-stock merger of two Pennsylvania community banks, Mid Penn Bancorp Inc. and William Penn Bancorporation, the banks announced Friday.

  • October 31, 2024

    CVS Unit Exec's Ex-Partner Charged With Insider Trading

    The former domestic partner of a top executive at Oak Street Health Inc., a primary care provider network owned by CVS Health Corp., was charged in Philadelphia federal court Thursday with insider trading on advance information about CVS' $10.6 billion deal to buy Oak Street in 2023.

  • October 31, 2024

    Instructure Sued In Del. For Books On $4.8B Take-Private Deal

    A stockholder of educational technology venture Instructure Holdings LLC has sued the company for records on its $4.8 billion take-private sale to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. LP, citing concern that Instructure's controller, Thoma Bravo, abandoned another prospect for its own benefit.

  • October 31, 2024

    A Boeing Space Exit, $3B Hot Dogs And More Deal Rumors

    Like the two astronauts currently stranded on the International Space Station, Boeing is reportedly looking to get out of space — by exiting its NASA business. In earthly news, foreign meat companies are reportedly eyeing popular hot dog brand Oscar Mayer at a price tag that could approach an arguably gluttonous $3 billion, and Blackstone could shell out five big ones — $5 billion, that is — for a cellphone infrastructure business. Here, Law360 breaks down these and other deal rumors from the past week.

  • October 31, 2024

    Meta Users Fight Uphill For Cert., But Advertisers Have A Shot

    A California federal judge who was asked to certify two classes in litigation alleging that Facebook parent Meta Platforms monopolized the social media advertising market and misused users' data said Thursday that the users' damage theory wasn't "plausible," but appeared open to the advertisers' claim they suffered the same alleged injury.

  • October 31, 2024

    Oversight GOP Reps. Take Big Swing At FTC Chair

    House Republicans on Thursday accused Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan of becoming a "political tool" of the Biden administration, which they say has undermined the independent nature of the agency.

Expert Analysis

  • Circuit Judge Writes An Opinion, AI Helps: What Now?

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    Last week's Eleventh Circuit opinion in Snell v. United Specialty Insurance, notable for a concurrence outlining the use of artificial intelligence to evaluate a term's common meaning, is hopefully the first step toward developing a coherent basis for the judiciary's generative AI use, says David Zaslowsky at Baker McKenzie.

  • A Look At M&A Conditions After FTC's Exxon-Pioneer Nod

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    The Federal Trade Commission's recent consent decree imposing several conditions on Exxon Mobil's acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources helps illustrate key points about the current merger enforcement environment, including the probability of further investigations in the energy and pharmaceutical sectors, say Ryan Quillian and John Kendrick at Covington.

  • FTC Theories Of Harm After Anesthesia Co. Ruling

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    As Federal Trade Commission litigation against U.S. Anesthesia Partners proceeds following a Texas federal court's recent decision to dismiss a private equity sponsor from the suit, the case attempts to incorporate and advance some of the commission's theories of competitive harm from the final 2023 Merger Guidelines, say attorneys at Mintz.

  • BF Borgers Clients Should Review Compliance, Liability

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    After the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recently announced enforcement proceedings against audit firm BF Borgers for fabricating audit documentation for hundreds of public companies, those companies will need to follow special procedures for disclosure and reporting — and may need to prepare for litigation from the plaintiffs bar, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • Perspectives

    Trauma-Informed Legal Approaches For Pro Bono Attorneys

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    As National Trauma Awareness Month ends, pro bono attorneys should nevertheless continue to acknowledge the mental and physical effects of trauma, allowing them to better represent clients, and protect themselves from compassion fatigue and burnout, say Katherine Cronin at Stinson and Katharine Manning at Blackbird.

  • What Updated PLR Procedure May Mean For Stock Spin-Offs

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    A recently published Internal Revenue Service revenue procedure departs from commonly understood interpretations of the spinoff rules by imposing more stringent standards on companies seeking private letter rulings regarding tax-free stock spinoff and split-off transactions, and may presage regulatory changes that would have the force of law, say attorneys at Skadden.

  • Series

    Playing Music Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My deep and passionate involvement in playing, writing and producing music equipped me with skills — like creativity, improvisation and problem-solving — that contribute to the success of my legal career, says attorney Kenneth Greene.

  • What's New In Kentucky's Financial Services Overhaul

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    Kentucky's H.B. 726 will go into effect in July and brings with it some significant restructuring to the Kentucky Financial Services Code, including changes to mortgage loan license fees and repeals of provisions relating to installment term loans and savings associations, say attorneys at Frost Brown.

  • How Attys Can Avoid Pitfalls When Withdrawing From A Case

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    The Trump campaign's recent scuffle over its bid to replace its counsel in a pregnancy retaliation suit offers a chance to remind attorneys that many troubles inherent in withdrawing from a case can be mitigated or entirely avoided by communicating with clients openly and frequently, says Christopher Konneker at Orsinger Nelson.

  • Using A Children's Book Approach In Firm Marketing Content

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    From “The Giving Tree” to “Where the Wild Things Are,” most children’s books are easy to remember because they use simple words and numbers to tell stories with a human impact — a formula law firms should emulate in their marketing content to stay front of mind for potential clients, says Seema Desai Maglio at The Found Word.

  • FTC Noncompete Rule Risks A Wave Of State AG Actions

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    The Federal Trade Commission's final rule language banning noncompetes may contribute to a waterfall enforcement effect in which state attorneys general deploy their broad authority to treat noncompetes as separate and independent violations, say Ryan Strasser and Carson Cox at Troutman Pepper.

  • What Transactional Attys Must Know About Texas Biz Courts

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    As Texas prepares to launch its new business courts, transactional attorneys — especially those involved in commercial, securities and internal governance matters — should keep several issues in mind when considering use of the state's business court system to facilitate deals and settle disputes, say attorneys at Katten.

  • A Comparison Of FDIC, OCC Proposed Merger Approaches

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    Max Bonici and Connor Webb at Venable take a closer look at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's respective bank merger proposals and highlight certain common themes and important differences, in light of regulators continually rethinking their approaches to bank mergers.

  • Series

    Being An EMT Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    While some of my experiences as an emergency medical technician have been unusually painful and searing, the skills I’ve learned — such as triage, empathy and preparedness — are just as useful in my work as a restructuring lawyer, says Marshall Huebner at Davis Polk.

  • The Opportunities, Risks And Rewards Of AI Acquisitions

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    As artificial intelligence acquisitions become an increasing area of focus for investors and technology buyers, entities should pay special attention to target identification, due diligence and more when structuring and executing a transaction with a company that has an AI-centric business model, say attorneys at Foley & Lardner.

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