Mergers & Acquisitions

  • November 04, 2024

    Door Factory Buyer Wants To Defend Deal In Antitrust Case

    The proposed buyer of a door-skin manufacturing plant asked a Virginia federal court for permission to intervene in the private antitrust case that led to a landmark order forcing Jeld-Wen to unload the factory.

  • November 04, 2024

    Nextdoor Inc. Investors Sue After De-SPAC Stock Drop

    Investors in a special purpose acquisition company that took neighborhood network app Nextdoor Inc. public at a $4.3 billion valuation in July 2021 have sued the SPAC's sponsors and founding directors for damages in Delaware's Court of Chancery, accusing architects of the deal of overvaluing the business.

  • November 04, 2024

    Asia-Pacific Helped Prop Up Q3 M&A Activity, Report Says

    Mergers and acquisitions in the Asia-Pacific region hit numbers during the third quarter this year that haven't been seen since 2021's dealmaking heyday, helping to boost global figures amid mixed performances in the U.S. and Europe, S&P Global found in a recent report.

  • November 04, 2024

    Sports Collectibles Co. Sued For Books And Records

    An early investor in a sports collectibles seller sued the company in Delaware's Chancery Court demanding access to its books and records, saying that its failure to comply with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reporting requirements in the wake of struggles following its 2023 acquisition "raises performance concerns."

  • November 04, 2024

    Vinson & Elkins Adds Simpson Thacher Atty As M&A Co-Head

    Vinson & Elkins LLP has brought on a veteran mergers and acquisitions lawyer as a New York-based co-head of strategic M&A, the firm said Monday.

  • November 04, 2024

    Federal Trade Commission Atty Returns To Katten In DC

    An attorney who spent more than a decade at the Federal Trade Commission has returned to private practice at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, where he began his legal career, boosting the firm's offerings for clients as they navigate increased antitrust scrutiny and enforcement. 

  • 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. 

Expert Analysis

  • What's Inside Feds' Latest Bank Merger Review Proposals

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    Recent bank merger proposals from a trio of federal agencies highlight the need for banks looking to grow through acquisition to consider several key issues much earlier in the planning process than has historically been necessary, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.

  • State Of The States' AI Legal Ethics Landscape

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    Over the past year, several state bar associations, as well as the American Bar Association, have released guidance on the ethical use of artificial intelligence in legal practice, all of which share overarching themes and some nuanced differences, say Eric Pacifici and Kevin Henderson at SMB Law Group.

  • How Biden Admin Has Used Antitrust Tools, And What's Next

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    The last four years have been marked by an aggressive whole-of-government approach to antitrust enforcement using a broad range of tools, and may result in lasting change regardless of the upcoming presidential election result, say attorneys at Norton Rose.

  • How BIS' Rule Seeks To Encourage More Voluntary Disclosure

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    Updated incentives, penalties and enforcement resources in the Bureau of Industry and Security's recently published final rule revising the Export Administration Regulations should help companies decide how to implement export control compliance programs and whether to disclose possible violations, say attorneys at Freshfields.

  • 8 Childhood Lessons That Can Help You Be A Better Attorney

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    A new school year is underway, marking a fitting time for attorneys to reflect on some fundamental life lessons from early childhood that offer a framework for problems that no legal textbook can solve, say Chris Gismondi and Chris Campbell at DLA Piper.

  • Harris Unlikely To Shelve Biden Admin's Food Antitrust Stance

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    A look at Vice President Kamala Harris' past record, including her actions as California attorney general, shows why practitioners should prepare for continued aggressive antitrust enforcement, particularly in the food and grocery industries, if Harris wins the presidential election, says Steve Vieux at Bartko.

  • Opinion

    This Election, We Need To Talk About Court Process

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    In recent decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has markedly transformed judicial processes — from summary judgment standards to notice pleadings — which has, in turn, affected individuals’ substantive rights, and we need to consider how the upcoming presidential election may continue this pattern, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

  • Series

    Playing Diplomacy Makes Us Better Lawyers

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    Similar to the practice of law, the rules of Diplomacy — a strategic board game set in pre-World War I Europe — are neither concise nor without ambiguity, and weekly gameplay with our colleagues has revealed the game's practical applications to our work as attorneys, say Jason Osborn and Ben Bevilacqua at Winston & Strawn.

  • Mental Health First Aid: A Brief Primer For Attorneys

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    Amid a growing body of research finding that attorneys face higher rates of mental illness than the general population, firms should consider setting up mental health first aid training programs to help lawyers assess mental health challenges in their colleagues and intervene with compassion, say psychologists Shawn Healy and Tracey Meyers.

  • John Deere Penalty Shows Importance Of M&A Due Diligence

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent $10 million penalty against John Deere underscores the risks of not conducting robust preacquisition due diligence and not effectively integrating a new subsidiary into the existing compliance framework, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

  • 8 Issues AI Firms May Encounter As M&A Action Accelerates

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    As the AI merger climate heats up, potential complications may arise, including antitrust scrutiny, talent retention agreements, and aggressive and protective deal terms intended to compensate for lofty valuations, say Scott Schwartz and Kishan Barot at Manatt.

  • Series

    Collecting Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The therapeutic aspects of appreciating and collecting art improve my legal practice by enhancing my observation skills, empathy, creativity and cultural awareness, says attorney Michael McCready.

  • Del. Dispatch: Cautionary Tales Of 2 Earnout Effort Breaches

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    The Delaware Court of Chancery's tendency to interpret earnout provisions precisely as written, highlighted in two September rulings that found buyers breached their shareholder obligations when they failed to make reasonable efforts to hit certain product development milestones, demonstrates the paramount importance of precisely wording these agreements, say attorneys at Fried Frank.

  • Building US-Japan Relationships In The M&A Market

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    The prospect of U.S.-Japanese mergers and acquisitions presents stronger competition to U.S. investors in the global M&A markets, while also opening up an additional exit route for sellers looking to offload strategic assets, says Nick Wall at A&O Shearman.

  • Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession

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    About 30,000 people who took the bar exam in July will learn they passed this fall, marking a fitting time for all attorneys to remember that they are members in a specialty club of learned professionals — and the more they can keep this in mind, the more benefits they will see, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

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