Mergers & Acquisitions

  • November 18, 2024

    Treasury Finalizes Tougher Foreign Investment Law Penalties

    The Treasury Department on Monday finalized a rule sharpening its enforcement authority to stop or demand additional information regarding foreign-investment deals that the U.S. deems potential threats to national security.

  • 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

    Simpson Thacher Adds Cleary Gottlieb Banking, Credit Pro

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced Monday that a former Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP attorney will be joining the firm's New York office to focus on banking and credit matters, touting her history representing some of the world's largest financial sponsors and their portfolio companies.

  • 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

    Health Care Co. CareMax Hits Ch. 11 With Plans To Sell Assets

    Medical services company CareMax Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 protection in Texas bankruptcy court, listing $422.6 million of funded debt and disclosing plans to sell its assets during the case.

  • November 18, 2024

    Spirit Airlines Files For Ch. 11 With Equity-Swap Plan

    Budget air carrier Spirit Airlines filed for Chapter 11 protection in a New York bankruptcy court Monday with $3.6 billion in funded debt and a preapproved equity swap restructuring plan.

  • November 18, 2024

    Segro Lets £552M Offer For Tritax EuroBox Lapse

    British real estate investment trust Segro PLC said Monday that its all-stock bid of approximately £552 million ($697 million) for Tritax EuroBox has lapsed after the latter accepted asset management giant Brookfield's competing cash bid of £557 million.

  • November 15, 2024

    Jordan Says DOJ, FTC, CFTC Teed Up Actions Ahead Of Trump

    House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, lambasted three federal departments and their leaders, accusing them of either trying to push out enforcement actions or make last-minute hires during President Joe Biden's final days in office.

  • 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

    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

    Pennsylvania AG Can't Stop Glass Plant From Moving To Ohio

    A Pennsylvania federal judge denied the Keystone State attorney general's bid to stop a private equity firm from shutting down a Pyrex plant it purchased and moving its operations to Ohio, ruling that "there is simply insufficient evidence presented" to show that the move will be anticompetitive.

  • November 15, 2024

    4 Oil Giants Invest $500M To Boost Global Energy Access

    Four oil and gas industry giants — BP, Equinor, Shell and TotalEnergies — announced a commitment Friday to invest a total of $500 million in support of a United Nations goal to ensure access to clean and affordable energy worldwide by 2030. 

  • 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

    Danone Boosts Lifeway Bid To $306M After Rejection

    Danone North America PBC has boosted its bid to buy the remainder of Lifeway Foods Inc. from $25 per share to $27 per share — for a total offer of roughly $306 million — after being "disappointed" by Lifeway's rejection of the prior offer, Danone said in a letter to Lifeway on Friday. 

  • November 15, 2024

    Electronics Biz Makes £249M Bid For UK Tech Parts Co.

    Electronics component manufacturer Volex PLC said Friday that it has made a second offer to buy TT Electronics PLC, a British multinational technological parts maker, that values the company at £248.6 million ($315.6 million).

  • November 14, 2024

    Man Found Guilty Of Scamming NBA Players Seeks New Trial

    A Georgia businessman and recidivist fraudster is seeking a retrial after being convicted of swindling former NBA players Dwight Howard and Chandler Parsons out of a combined $8 million, in a scheme under which the pro basketball players believed their money was going toward legitimate investments.

  • November 14, 2024

    All Merger Fixes 'Should Be On Table,' FTC's Holyoak Says

    One of the Federal Trade Commission's Republican members on Thursday signaled a significant softening of the Biden era's tough stance against merger remedies meant to fix otherwise problematic mergers is likely once the GOP takes the majority at the agency.

  • November 14, 2024

    FTC's Holyoak Says New Comment Portal Shows Merger Bias

    Federal Trade Commissioner Melissa Holyoak said Thursday the design of a new portal allowing the public to comment on pending deals shows signs of the current leadership's view that all mergers are bad.

  • November 14, 2024

    XL Fleet SPAC Suit Tentatively Settled For $4.75M In Del.

    Investors in a December 2020 blank-check company merger that took hybrid-car retrofit venture XL Fleet public have preliminarily settled a four-count fiduciary duty breach suit in Delaware's Court of Chancery for $4.75 million.

  • November 14, 2024

    Paramount Ruling Breaks Key Litigation Tool, Chancery Told

    A Delaware magistrate in a Chancery decision shielding company records from stockholder demands based on anonymous, presuit sources and purportedly new, post-demand requests threatens one of the few sources available for probing corporate wrongdoing, a stockholder attorney told a vice chancellor on Thursday.

  • November 14, 2024

    DOJ Deputy Says Biden Stance Led To Fewer Harmful Mergers

    The deputy head of the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division offered a full-throated defense Thursday of the Biden administration's aggressive competition enforcement record, arguing, with a Republican takeover imminent, that "more demanding standards" for transaction remedies prompted real change by merging companies seeking to avoid a merger challenge.

  • November 14, 2024

    Boeing Could Sell Navigation Unit For $6B, And More Rumors

    Boeing is mulling a sale of its Jeppesen navigation unit at potential $6 billion price tag, Pfizer may be seeking billions for its hospital drug unit, and a U.S. gas station and convenience store business could be sold at a $1.5 billion value. Here, Law360 breaks down these and other notable deal rumors from the past week.

  • November 14, 2024

    Ovintiv Buys Montney Assets For $2.4B, Sells Others For $2B

    Natural gas producer Ovintiv Inc. said Thursday it will purchase certain Montney Basin assets in Canada from Paramount Resources Ltd. in an all-cash deal worth about $2.38 billion, and also announced plans to divest its Uinta Basin assets in a sale to FourPoint Resources Ltd. and its private equity partners for $2 billion, with at least five law firms advising on the deals.

  • November 14, 2024

    Greenberg Traurig Adds Procopio Corporate Ace In San Diego

    Greenberg Traurig LLP has added a San Diego corporate partner who previously led the corporate and transactional practice at Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP.

  • November 14, 2024

    Paul Weiss Reps General Mills On $1.45B Pet Food Biz Buy

    Cereal and snacks giant General Mills Inc., advised by Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP, announced plans Thursday to buy Whitebridge Pet Brands' North American premium cat food and pet treat business from Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP-advised European investment firm NXHM for $1.45 billion.

Expert Analysis

  • E-Discovery Quarterly: Recent Rulings On Metadata

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    Several recent rulings reflect the competing considerations that arise when parties dispute the form of production for electronically stored information, underscoring that counsel must carefully consider how to produce and request reasonably usable data, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • Striking A Balance Between AI Use And Attorney Well-Being

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    As the legal industry increasingly adopts generative artificial intelligence tools to boost efficiency, leaders must note the hidden costs of increased productivity, and work to protect attorneys’ well-being while unlocking AI’s full potential, says Ed Sohn at Factor.

  • Empathy In Mediation Offers A Soft Landing For Disputes

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    Experiencing a crash-landing on a recent flight underscored to me how much difference empathy makes in times of crisis or stress, including during mediation, says Eydith Kaufman at Alternative Resolution Centers.

  • Series

    Being An Artist Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My work as an artist has highlighted how using creativity and precision together — qualities that are equally essential in both art and law — not only improves outcomes, but also leads to more innovative and thoughtful work, says Sarah La Pearl at Segal McCambridge.

  • How Judiciary Can Minimize AI Risks In Secondary Sources

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    Because courts’ standing orders on generative artificial intelligence and other safeguards do not address the risk of hallucinations in secondary source materials, the judiciary should consider enlisting legal publishers and database hosts to protect against AI-generated inaccuracies, say attorneys at Lankler Siffert & Wohl.

  • How Attorneys Can Break Free From Career Enmeshment

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    Ambitious attorneys can sometimes experience career enmeshment — when your sense of self-worth becomes unhealthily tangled up in your legal vocation — but taking the time to discover and realign with your core personal values can help you recover your identity, says Janna Koretz at Azimuth Psychological.

  • Lawyers With Disabilities Are Seeking Equity, Not Pity

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    Attorneys living with disabilities face extra challenges — including the need for special accommodations, the fear of stigmatization and the risk of being tokenized — but if given equitable opportunities, they can still rise to the top of their field, says Kate Reder Sheikh, a former attorney and legal recruiter at Major Lindsey & Africa.

  • Fostering Healthcare Industry Success With Joint Ventures

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    As the healthcare industry continues to evolve, joint ventures remain a key strategy to unite health systems, private equity firms and physician practices in leveraging their collective strengths to foster innovation and improve patient care, say Carole Becker and Travis Jackson at McDermott.

  • Opinion

    Judicial Committee Best Venue For Litigation Funding Rules

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    The Advisory Committee on Civil Rules' recent decision to consider developing a rule for litigation funding disclosure is a welcome development, ensuring that the result will be the product of a thorough, inclusive and deliberative process that appropriately balances all interests, says Stewart Ackerly at Statera Capital.

  • The Strategic Advantages Of Appointing A Law Firm CEO

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    The impact on law firms of the recent CrowdStrike outage underscores that the business of law is no longer merely about providing supplemental support for legal practice — and helps explain why some law firms are appointing dedicated, full-time CEOs to navigate the challenges of the modern legal landscape, says Jennifer Johnson at Calibrate Strategies.

  • Inside FTC's Decision To Exit Key Merger Review Labor Memo

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    Despite the Federal Trade Commission's recent withdrawal from a multiagency memorandum of understanding to step up enforcement of labor issues in merger investigations, the antitrust agencies aren't likely to give up their labor market focus, say attorneys at Stinson.

  • Comments Show Need For Clarity On SBA Proposed Rule

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    The recent public comments period for the Small Business Administration's proposed rule on recertification and other regulations underscores the need for more precision, particularly on agreements in principle, which the SBA should address as it moves forward with this rulemaking, say attorneys at Covington.

  • Series

    Beekeeping Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The practice of patent law and beekeeping are not typically associated, but taking care of honeybees has enriched my legal practice by highlighting the importance of hands-on experience, continuous learning, mentorship and more, says David Longo at Oblon McClelland.

  • Election Unlikely To Overhaul Antitrust Enforcers' Labor Focus

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    Although the outcome of the presidential election may alter the course of antitrust enforcement in certain areas of the economy, scrutiny of labor markets by the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice is likely to remain largely unaffected — with one notable exception, say Jared Nagley and Joy Siu at Sheppard Mullin.

  • Opinion

    Legal Institutions Must Warn Against Phony Election Suits

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    With two weeks until the election, bar associations and courts have an urgent responsibility to warn lawyers about the consequences of filing unsubstantiated lawsuits claiming election fraud, says Elise Bean at the Carl Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy.

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