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  Stikeman-led Axia Offers CA$1.23B For Plaza Retail REIT

  By Al Barbarino

  Canadian real estate investment firm Axia Real Assets said Tuesday it has taken its roughly CA$1.23 billion ($86...(read more)

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  Taylor Swift Sends Poet's $25M IP Suit To The Dismissed Dept.

  By Craig Clough

  A Florida federal judge dismissed Monday a poet's $25 million copyright infringement lawsuit against Taylor Swif...(read more)

• 5 Midyear White Collar Trends To Watch

  By Phillip Bantz

  The practice of white collar criminal defense is fraught with uncertainty halfway into 2026, as lawyers try to navigate upheaval in the U.S. Department of Justice, the prospect of big changes in Congress and the rapidly developing use of artificial intelligence.

• DC Circ. Backs Tax Bribery Convictions Despite Jury Error

  By Jack McLoone

  A D.C. Circuit panel refused on Tuesday to reverse a lower court's judgments against two men in connection to a bribery scheme carried out to evade $2.3 million in business tax obligations, finding a jury instruction error "harmless," among other unsuccessful arguments.

• DC Circuit Nixes Part Of IAM Fund's $13M Liability Win

  By Kellie Mejdrich

  The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday partially unraveled an early win for a multiemployer pension fund in a dispute over $13 million in withdrawal liability against several Illinois truck dealership companies, holding the lower court needed to recalculate some of the interest and damages assessed.

• 11th Circ. Upholds Block of Fla. 'Stop WOKE' Law

  By David Minsky

  The Eleventh Circuit upheld a lower court's preliminary injunction on a Florida law that restricts classroom discussion of race and gender, finding on Tuesday that the law violates the First Amendment's free speech protections. 

• CFPB Eyes Credit-Card Late Fees For Possible Rulemaking

  By Jon Hill

  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is readying a request for information on credit-card late fees, signaling a renewed look at an affordability issue that the agency's Biden-era $8 fee cap sought to address before banking industry opposition helped sink it in court.

• Feds Push 3rd Circ. To Restore ACA Birth Control Exemptions

  By Matthew Santoni

  Lawyers for the Trump administration and a Catholic religious order Tuesday asked the Third Circuit to restore broad exemptions to the Affordable Care Act's birth control coverage mandate, arguing federal agencies had discretion to pass rules that effectively enabled employers to "opt in" to the mandate rather than opt out.

• How Gibson Dunn Helped SpaceX Pull Off Its $75B Global IPO

  By Al Barbarino

  When SpaceX completed its record-breaking $75 billion initial public offering last month, the transaction was notable not only for its size — the largest IPO ever — but also for breaking new ground in how public offerings can be structured to reach retail investors around the world.

• Spain Cert Denial Clears A Path, But Creditors Face Hurdles

  By Caroline Simson

  The U.S. Supreme Court's decision last week not to review a D.C. Circuit decision laying a path to enforce more than $400 million in arbitral awards against Spain has removed a jurisdictional hurdle for other similarly situated creditors, but other sticking points in the cases are likely to remain.

• Fed. Circ. Won't Revive Dental Patent Claims In Align Feud

  By Adam Lidgett

  The Federal Circuit on Tuesday said it won't bring back claims in a pair of dental arch image analysis patents their owner accused Invisalign maker Align Technology Inc. of infringing, backing a lower court's finding that they were invalid.

• Weil-Led PE Firm To Buy German Tire Maker's Unit For €4.25B

  By Dawood Fakhir

  Continental has said it will sell its rubber, plastics and industrial fabrics division ContiTech to investment firm Lone Star Funds in a deal worth up to €4.25 billion ($4.85 billion) as the German company moves to focus solely on manufacturing tires.

• Thales Seeks Full Purchase Of Drone Maker Exail For €3.9B

  By Tom Fish

  Defense and aerospace group Thales has agreed to acquire a controlling stake in Exail Technologies and plans to buy its remaining shares, a transaction that values the maritime drone maker at €3.9 billion ($4.5 billion).

• Ex-SVB Exec Recounts Pressure For 'More Yield' At FDIC Trial

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  Silicon Valley Bank's ex-head of corporate investments and capital markets testified in a deposition shown during a California federal bench trial Monday over the FDIC's claims the bank's brass mismanaged its assets, saying that he felt pressure from the bank's then-chief financial officer to add riskier, higher-yielding assets to the bank's securities portfolio.