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  Latham, PedersoliGattai Lead Funds In €10.7B Recordati Bid

  By Najiyya Budaly

  Investment firms CVC and Groupe Bruxelles Lambert said Friday that they are heading up a group of investors that...(read more)

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  Goldman Pens $500M Deal To End Investors' 1MDB Suit

  By Jessica Corso

  Goldman Sachs has agreed to pay $500 million to end a lawsuit brought by investors who say they lost money after...(read more)

• EU, Mexico Sign Trade Deal Reached Last Year

  By Dylan Moroses

  The European Union and Mexico formally signed a trade agreement Friday that was reached at the beginning of last year but put on hold as U.S. President Donald Trump's trade strategy cast global economic uncertainty for both trading partners.

• EDTX Jury Awards $3.3M In Battery Components Patent Trial

  By Adam Lidgett

  A jury in the Eastern District of Texas found Friday that South Korean company Solus Advanced Materials Co. Ltd. owes almost $3.3 million for infringing a rival's patents tied to copper foils used for batteries.

• DOJ Hid Grand Jury Misconduct In ICE Case, Ill. Judge Says

  By Celeste Bott

  An Illinois federal judge said Thursday her trust in U.S. Department of Justice attorneys had been "broken" after reviewing unredacted grand jury transcripts in a criminal case against anti-ICE protesters that revealed prosecutorial misconduct, shortly after which Chicago's top federal prosecutor moved to dismiss the charges.

• World Cup Trafficking Raises Alarm For More Than Just Banks

  By Chris Villani

  An unusual Trump administration notice exhorting financial institutions to be on guard for human trafficking activity during the 2026 FIFA World Cup could create compliance challenges not just for banks, but an array of other industries, experts told Law360.

• Some Attys Say Remote Hearing Expansion Comes At A Cost

  By Julie Manganis

  A push in Massachusetts to expand the number of proceedings held via videoconference is raising concerns among some attorneys, who question if the time savings of remote hearings is outweighed by the hidden costs of lawyers and judges staring into a screen.

• Fed. Judiciary Urged To Drop Unified Atty Admission Effort

  By Jack Karp

  The federal judiciary should scrap any proposal to do away with state bar admission requirements for U.S. district courts and create a national district court bar, according to a recent report finding it would undercut those courts' control over bar membership and that it lacks the necessary support.

• Green Card Candidates To Now Apply From Abroad, Feds Say

  By Britain Eakin

  The Trump administration announced Friday that noncitizens in the U.S. on nonimmigrant visas who want to become lawful permanent residents must apply from abroad, marking a sharp shift in how U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has handled such requests.

• Prosecutors Seek $1.98M Forfeiture In Goldstein Case

  By Jared Foretek

  Federal prosecutors are seeking a nearly $2 million forfeiture judgment against convicted SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein and asking a Maryland federal judge to turn the Supreme Court lawyer's Northwest D.C. home over to the government to pay it.

• Seven County's Legacy Still Unwritten A Year Later

  By Keith Goldberg

  The U.S. Supreme Court's curtailment of federal environmental reviews in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition et al. v. Eagle County was seen as a game changer for project development, but one year later, cautious business sentiment has left its legacy untested.

• Estée Lauder, Spanish Beauty Co. Puig End Merger Talks

  By Tom Fish

  Estée Lauder and Spanish beauty group Puig Brands SA have ended discussions over a potential business combination that would have created a $40 billion global luxury cosmetics company, as the U.S. group reaffirmed confidence in its turnaround strategy.

• Apple Wants Justices To Review Epic Games Contempt Order

  By Hailey Konnath

  Apple Inc. has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on exactly when and how civil contempt sanctions can be issued for violating a court order, arguing that the Ninth Circuit missed the mark by upholding such sanctions against Apple in its App Store battle with Epic Games.

• OpenAI Ouster About Governance, Not Bad Counsel, Pros Say

  By Dorothy Atkins

  Witness testimony offered during a recent high-profile jury trial over Elon Musk's challenge to OpenAI's for-profit restructuring accused the artificial intelligence company's nonprofit board of following bad legal advice when it fired CEO Sam Altman in 2023, although experts say the incident was more likely the product of poor governance rather than lousy legal counsel.