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Asset Management - August, 2018

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• 9th Circ. Won't Rehear USC Arbitration Bid In ERISA Case
• $3.5B Forex Deal Was Legit, Ex-HSBC Exec Tells 2nd Circ.
• Real Estate Rumors: Blackstone, Lynx, Westwood Financial
• New Pass-Through Deduction Will Pass Over Many Lawyers
• SEC Fines Mass. Investment Co. $1.9M For Ad Misstatements
• The REIT Take-Private Process: Trends And Considerations
• How Reckless Judicial Impeachments Threaten Rule Of Law
• Firm Can Get Fees Despite Receivership, Judge Says
• Judging A Book: Fogel Reviews 'Good Judgment'
• Taxation With Representation: Sidley, Skadden, Norton
• SEC's Post-Lucia Case Rehearings Largely For Show
• A Look At SEC Enforcement Against Unregistered Finders
• 1st Circ. Rejects Priest's $100M Bloomberg Defamation Suit
• Judge Denies Redo Motions By Convicted Wilmington Execs
• Rakoff Won't Rethink Objector Attys' Fee Bid In Petrobras Deal
• Insurer Must Face $8M Verdict In Mayors' Group Suit
• Deals Rumor Mill: Fosun, Actis, Virgin Australia
• 3 Things You Need To Know About NY's Latest Cyber Regs
• Fraudster's Ex-Wife Wants Email Shield In Atty Tryst Case
• Franklin Templeton Class Slams Quick Win Bid In ERISA Suit
• Real Estate Rumors: Baring, Bridge, Jonas
• Campbell Trims Business Amid Activist's Pressure To Sell
• Clayton's SEC Looks To Streamline Private Offering Rules
• 10 Ways To Prevent E-Discovery Woes
• Investment Firms Sue US Bank Over RMBS Trust Losses
• Ex-Trading Firm GC Settles Investors' Mismanagement Claims
• IRS Guidance Could Help Workers With Student Debt: Group
• Insurer Cites Banks' Axed Forex Suit In Bid To Nix ERISA Row
• Toys R Us Plan Shortchanges Priority Claims, Trustee Says
• BNP Paribas Fined $90M Over Alleged ISDAfix Rigging
• Real Estate Rumors: WeWork, Henley, Blackstone
• NYU Fights 'Brazen' Bid To Expel 403(b) Plan Board Members
• Big Banks Get Agency Bond-Fixing Suit Tossed
• High Court Hears Banker Not Liable For Boss' Bogus Email
• Madoff Investors Fight To Keep $41M In Profit Withdrawals
• Investors Sue Clear Channel In Chancery Over $1B Claim
• Investors Seek $63M Atty Fees In Deutsche, HSBC Libor Deals
• Real Estate Rumors: Pan Am Equities, Sterling Bay, KKR
• Venable Adds Former Seyfarth Shaw Trusts And Estates Atty
• 10th Circ. Says Broker's Sentence Can't Be Based On Income
• Deals Rumor Mill: Yum China, Coronado Coal, Saudi Aramco
• F-Squared Was Wrong Test Case For SEC Disgorgement
• Hogan Lovells, Skadden Steer Brixmor's $250M Notes Offering
• Weil, Simpson Thacher Steer PJT's $165M Advisory Firm Buy
• Ill. Firm Can't Use Arbitration Over Exit Claims, Atty Says
• Ascent Creditors Sue Over Proposed $100M Funds Transfer
• Japan Retail Fund Investment Paying $50M For Chiba Property
• US Pension Safety Net Wants To See How Deep Its Trouble Is
• Objector Loses Lead Plaintiff Challenge In Credit Suisse Suit
• Sidley, Willkie Steer $2.6B Apollo Deal For Insurer Aspen
• 4 Key Components To New Firm Partnership Agreements
• 2nd Circ. Won't Rehear Martoma Insider Trading Case
• Puerto Rico Board Opposes Construction Wage Increase
• Legg Mason To Pay SEC $34.5M Over Libyan Bribery Claims
• Gleevec Buyers Ask For Time To Mull 1st Circ. Rehearing Bid
• $300M Brennan Investment JV Acquires 3-Building Portfolio
• SEC, Aegon Units Strike $97M Deal Over Investment Models
• Investors Beat Bid To Toss $40M NJ Ponzi Scheme Row
• Deals Rumor Mill: Total, Arco, Farallon
• Australia's IOF Draws Sweetened AU$3B Blackstone Deal
• Open The Federal Courthouses
• Chicago Financial Adviser Cops To $2M Trade Loss Fraud
• SEC To Reconsider Staff's Rejection Of 9 Bitcoin ETFs
• Australian REIT Scoops Up Office Tower For $200M
• Investors In 'Ponzi-Like' REIT Seek Initial OK Of $13.5M Deal
• Real Estate Rumors: Toys R Us, McSam Hotel, Mill Creek
• ERISA Claims Cannot Be Decided By A Jury, MIT Argues
• Jamba Juice Squeezed By 2 Del. Suits Over $200M Merger
• Qatar Removes $1B Suit Over NYC Hotel Deal To Fed. Court
• How Blockchain Could Rescue 10b-5 Damages
• Morgan Stanley Says Calif. AG Trashed Evidence In FCA Row
• Financial Advisers Sued By Victims Of $100M Loan Scheme
• Ex-Shkreli Atty Taps Williams Heavy Hitter For Appeal
• 8th Circ. OKs FHFA's Fannie And Freddie 'Net Worth Sweeps'
• Investor Sues To Block $4.9B Kapstone-WestRock Merger
• Venture-Backed Ticketing Website Eventbrite Files $200M IPO
• Fraudster Targets Ex-Wife's Emails In Case Over Atty Tryst
• Real Estate Rumors: Extell, Carlyle, Mercantil Bank
• Energy Minister Says Saudi Aramco's Huge IPO Not Canceled
• Puerto Rico Creditors Move To Halt Gov't Bank Restructuring
• TerraForm Global Wants Option To Terminate $57M Settlement
• Goodman, CPPIB Pour $1.75B Into China Logistics Venture
• Film Exec Denied Bail For Appeal Of $26M Fraud Conviction
• SEC Rejects 9 Proposed Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Funds
• Software Exec Must Face Spoofing Charges For Use Of Tech
• Boiler Room Manager, Employee Cop To $147M Stock Scheme
• Momentive Interest Trial Opens With Quizzing Of Rate Expert
• Investors' 'Assumption' Not Enough For Fraud Suit, Bank Says
• T. Rowe Price Must Face 401(k) Participants' ERISA Suit
• CBRE To Pay $100M To End Class Action By Realty Investors
• Startup Latch Nabs $70M From Brookfield-Led Investor Group
• Kokesh Does Not Bar SEC Disgorgement Orders, Judge Says
• Carlyle Drops $350M On Health Tech, Management Co. 1Life
• Norway's Wealth Fund Pays $291M For Boston Building Stake
• Winner's Playbook: Behind The Scenes Of China Ag V. Resh
• Novartis Beats Gleevec Monopolization Suit At 1st Circ.
• Puerto Rico Board Blames Short-Sighted Fixes For Debt Crisis
• DC Circ. Ends Delta Pilots' Pension Suit
• Microcap Issuer, 2 Men To Pay SEC $8M Over Offering Fraud
• Global Net Lease Lands $296M Loan For UK Portfolio
• Clifford Chance Steers Capital Dynamics' $1.2B Energy Fund
• BofA Escapes Investment Adviser's Antitrust Suit
• ADR Holders Seek Initial OK On $15M Deal With Citigroup
• In SDNY, Indicting Politicians Is The New Black
• 'High Availability' — A Key Term In Law Firm IT Strategy
• GOP Sens. Press Fed To Pare Regs For Less Risky Banks
• Calif. Fund Adviser Overcharged Clients By $7M, SEC Says
• Contractor Made New Company To Duck Pension, Union Says
• Schwab, Chamber Back USC In ERISA Arbitration Fight
• BlackRock Funds Overpaid For Advisory Services, Judge Told
• M7 Bolsters New Fund With $89.4M Seed Portfolio Buy
• Unregistered Brokers Sold Woodbridge Securities, SEC Claims
• Merrill Lynch Pays SEC $8.9M Over Conflict Of Interest Claims
• Sun Capital Pushes Del. Court To Throw Out RICO Suit
• FINRA Fines Interactive Brokers $5.5 Million For Violations
• Oasis Outsourcing Agrees To Settle 401(k) Claims For $6M
• The 'Post-Fact' Jury In The 'Fake News' Era
• SL Green Realty To Sell Stake In NY Building For $223M
• Stock Exchange Immunity Erodes As Biz Models Evolve
• Manafort Judge Talks Threats In Not Releasing Jurors' Names
• Chancery Rejects Bid To Unwind $170M Furniture Co. Merger
• Cooley Adds Ex-Boies Schiller Trial Partner In NY
• DOL Urges 2nd Circ. To Revive PwC Retirees' ERISA Fight
• US Takes Ex-HSBC Trader's Extradition Win To Top UK Court
• Trump Call For SEC To Study Reporting Rules Sparks Debate
• GE Must Face Retirement Plan Participants' Fiduciary Claims
• Dutch National Gets 17 Years For $2.5M Investment Schemes
• King & Wood Mallesons Nabs Ex-Cahill Gordon Tax Expert
• PG&E Fire Liability Has Calif. Considering Ch. 11 Alternative
• Fraudster's Ex-Wife Gets Email Hunt Paused In Atty Tryst Suit
• Ex-Katten Atty Gets 18 Months In Prison For Shkreli Fraud
• Scottrade To Face Mass. Securities Watchdog In State Court
• 2nd Circ. Won't Revive Madoff 'Feeder Fund' Class Action
• Investment Co., Irked Clients Clash On Securities Law's Reach
• Real Estate Rumors: Lennar, Amerra Capital, Google
• Judging A Book: Lipez Reviews 'Last Great Colonial Lawyer'
• How FIRRMA Will Change National Security Reviews: Part 2
• Kessler Topaz, Quinn Emanuel To Lead Volatility Index MDL
• Double Jeopardy Saves 3 Ex-Georgeson Advisers From Retrial
• Will Law Schools Start Counting 'Generation ADA'?
• Ambac Sues Deutsche Bank Over $900M RMBS Trust Losses
• Chancery Points To Contract In $167M Amur Finance Default
• Geothermal Firm Fights Chancery Toss Of $110M Merger Suit
• Rakoff Shaves Objector Atty's Fee Bid In $3B Petrobras Deal
• SEC Returns Clearing Firm Disciplinary Case To CBOE
• UChicago Workers' Attys Seek $1.95M In Fees In ERISA Row
• Long-Awaited Bonus Depreciation Insight For Partnerships
• Citigroup To Pay SEC $10M Over Faulty Loans, Trader Woes
• Buchalter Adds 2 Attys To Corp., Litigation Groups In LA
• How FIRRMA Will Change National Security Reviews: Part 1
• A Chat With Ogletree Knowledge Chief Patrick DiDomenico
• In Closing, Manafort Defense Says Gov't Is 'Desperate'
• Ameriprise To Pay SEC $4.5M To Settle Client Theft Claims
• 3rd Circ. Won't Revive Suit Over Hartford Management Fees
• Ex-Katten Atty Loses Bid To Dodge Shkreli Fraud Charges
• NYU Class Seeks To Oust Allegedly Inept 403(b) Plan Bosses
• Ex-CPA Gets 30 Months For $1.3M Client Fraud
• American Realty Investors Still Face $63M Judgment
• Dominican Man Gets 5 Years For Impersonating SEC Brass
• Hausfeld, Susman Awarded $58.4M In Libor MDL Fees, Costs
• Ex-Union Leader Guilty Of Taking Bribe From Hedge Fund
• Deutsche Bank To Pay $22M To Settle Workers' ERISA Suit
• Alternative Trading Systems Face New Regulatory Burdens
• A Guide To Terminating PBGC-Insured Benefit Plans
• Judges Can Demand Diversity In Rule 23(g) Applications
• SEC Strikes Deals In Municipal Bond 'Flipping' Scheme
• How One Firm Moved The Needle On Disability Inclusion
• Woodbridge Says Creditor Claims Aren't Backed By Liens
• Chicago Law Firm Wants Ex-Atty's Exit Pay Claim Arbitrated
• Cadwalader Guides Wells Fargo On $120M Loan To Vornado
• Bolivia Hit With Arbitration Bid Over Pension Fund Transfer
• Goldman Investors Win Cert. After 2nd Circ. Reversal
• Momentive, Noteholders Gear Up For Interest Revision Trial
• Judge Won't Redo Trim Of ERISA Row Against Johns Hopkins
• RMBS Investors Can't Get Orders Tossed In Wells Fargo Suits
• RBS Finalizes $4.9B Financial Crisis Settlement With DOJ
• You Can't Deadlock In 3 Hours, NY Judge Tells Bribery Jury
• Tesla's Latham-Guided Panel To Study Take-Private Scenarios
• REIT Seeks To Arbitrate Homeowner's Joist Defect Suit
• State Street, Shareholders Seek OK Of $4.9M Deal
• Real Estate Rumors: Columbia, Chiron, JPMorgan
• Class In $3B Petrobras Deal Wants Objector Atty Sanctioned
• Manafort's Defense Rests Without Bringing Evidence
• Interview Essentials For Attorneys On The Move
• David Boies On How Dyslexia Shaped His Practice
• BigLaw's Mental Health Stigma Shows Signs Of Fading
• Swiss Bank ZKB To Pay $98.5M For Role In US Tax Avoidance
• $7B USG-Knauf Merger Hit With Del. Chancery Class Suits
• Ky. High Court Takes Up Fight Over Pension-Cutting Law
• Ex-Union Boss Like 'Con Man' Cooperator, Bribery Jury Hears
• Deutsche Bank Gets Stay Of RMBS Indemnification Suit
• Tenn. Businessman Seeks To Exit Pension Theft Suit In Pa.
• Lehman Judge Keeps Mortgage Suits In NY Bankruptcy Court
• Elon Musk Says Saudis Expected To Fund Tesla Buyout
• Real Estate Rumors: Blackstone, Melo, Brookfield
• Ex-JPMorgan Banker Gets 4 Years For Selling Customer Info
• Ex-State Street Exec's Post-Verdict Acquittal Bid Denied
• IRS Seeks Early Win In FOIA Doc Fight With Highland Capital
• FXCM Nixes Investor Class Action Over Swiss Franc Losses
• GLP Sells Industrial Properties To REIT In $765M Deal
• Clerking For Ginsburg
• How The Legal Industry Lets Down Lawyers With Disabilities
• Gaining Access: Disabled Lawyers Share Their Stories
• Schwab Pushes Back On Banks' Latest Bid To Ax Libor Claims
• Ex-UBS Adviser Bilked Clients For Almost $4M, Feds Say
• American Airlines Stalling ERISA Class Cert. Fight: Workers
• Monster Beats $8.9M Fees Suit From Investment Bank
• SEC Gets $9.6M Judgment Against Galanis For Gerova Fraud
• Fox Rothschild Nabs Montgomery McCracken Litigator
• Man Who Stole Friends' $7M In Ponzi Scheme Gets 5 Years
• Investors Want Affiliate-Bank Claims To Stay In Libor MDL
• Clerking For Ginsburg: 3 Surprises
• Special Master To Reopen $4M State Street Fee Probe
• 'Man-Purse And Some TLC' Sweetened $60K Bribe, Jury Told
• Martoma Asks Full 2nd Circ. To Fix Insider Trading Rift
• Rebate Climate, Amazon Doom Cigna's Rx Deal, Icahn Says
• How Taxpayers Are Taking To Tax Reform So Far
• General Electric Calls On Court To Toss Retirement Suit
• PE-Backed GrafTech Prices $460M Secondary Offering
• 1st Circ. Hands Win To Puerto Rico In Bond Lien Dispute
• ERISA Class Actions After Epic Systems
• Clerking For Ginsburg: A Superhero Supreme
• 1st Circ. Opens Path For PREPA Bondholders' Receiver Bid
• Deutsche Bank RMBS Suit Should Not Get Cert., Judge Says
• Real Estate Rumors: Rockpoint, Schwartz Sladkus, Deutsche
• SEC Told Proposed Broker Standards Fall Short
• 5 ERISA Cases To Watch This Fall
• 4 Firms Steer KKR REIT's $100M Share Sale
• Bribery Trial Judge Asks How $60K Cash Fits In 'Man-Purse'
• Tax Court Won't Toss Cayman Partnership's $99M IRS Bill
• Nine West Creditors Seek Lenders' Info On 2014 Takeover
• TIAA Says It Should Be Only Lead Plaintiff In Valeant Suit
• 2 Strikes And You're Out: The Litvak Saga Comes To An End
• SEC Delays Action On Cboe Proposal To List Bitcoin ETF
• DOJ Seeks More Info On $4.9B WestRock, KapStone Merger
• Lenders In $25B EFH Loan Row Get No Priority, 3rd Circ. Says
• USC Asks Full 9th Circ. To Allow Arbitration Of ERISA Claims
• Ex-JP Turner Trader Recorded $24M Fake Sales, SEC Says
• Clerking For Ginsburg: 4 RBG Lessons On Having It All
• Reinsurers Freed From Battle Over Finance Co.'s $26M Award
• JP Morgan Can't Duck FINRA Arbitration, 3rd Circ. Says
• Ex-ConvergEx Exec Could See No Jail Time After Plea
• GWU Employees Fire Back At Bid To Nix ERISA Suit
• PE Firms Trade Fraud Claims In Chancery Over $115M Deal
• US Bank Backs Sampling Ban In Royal Park RMBS Suit
• Sidley Nabs New Blockchain, Fintech Head From McDermott
• Franklin Templeton Class Seeks Quick Win On ERISA Claims
• Fed Oversight Board Wins Power Fight With Puerto Rico Gov.
• Cooperator Tells Jury He Paid Off Ex-Union Boss As A Favor
• Opportunity Zones Abound But Investors, Tread Carefully
• King & Spalding Rehires Former Kirkland Securities Partner
• Rams Owner Kroenke Buys Arsenal Soccer Team For £550M
• KKR-Backed Clinical Trials Co. Prices $660M Stock Offering
• Jobs Act 3.0 May End Dodd-Frank Repeal Efforts
• Global Magnitsky: The Swiss Army Knife Of Sanctions
• Clerking For Ginsburg: How To Play The Long Game
• Proskauer Lands Ex-Dechert Corporate Partner In DC
• Alsup Fears 'Mistake' In OK'ing $125M LendingClub Deal
• Band Can't Yet Appeal Dismissal Of Claims Against Union
• Janus Ruling Finds Way Into Ex-Union Boss' Bribery Trial
• Bernstein Litowitz, Robbins Geller Tapped In Facebook Suit
• Groups Challenge SEC Paperless Reporting Rule At DC Circ.
• Biopharma Co. Aridis Launches $28M IPO For Clinical Trials
• Real Estate Rumors: Blackstone, Mautner-Glick, Bank OZK
• Hedge Fund Manager Barred From Industry For $10.5M Fraud
• Toshiba Asks 9th Circ. To Pause Investor Suit Pending Appeal
• Investment Co. Slams Schwab With $100M Defamation Suit
• New York Life Lends $131M For NJ Luxury Apartment Tower
• Clerking For Ginsburg: In Pursuit Of Precision
• How Delaware Refreshed Its LLC Act And General Corp. Law
• HSBC To Pay US Regulators $765M To Settle Loans Probe
• Lowe's 401(k) Participants Fight To Save ERISA Suit
• 5th Circ. Affirms Toss Of Funds' EisnerAmper Auditing Suit
• DC Circ. Slams DOJ's 'Blanket Refusals' In Atty's FOIA Row
• Ex-Shkreli Atty Claims Companies Can't Be Victims
• VW, Bondholders Spar Over Axing Emissions Fraud Suit
• Taxation With Representation: Kirkland, Baker, Davies, Foley
• Morgan Lewis Nabs Finance Pro For New York Office
• Judges Shouldn't Force Attorneys On Absent Class Members
• How Kavanaugh's Nomination Affects Financial Institutions
• Rising Star: Weil's Stephanie Srulowitz
• Developer Shvo, JV Score 100K-Square-Foot 5th Ave. Space
• Clerking For Ginsburg: My RBG Guide To Judging
• Wells Fargo Beats ERISA Suit At 8th Circ.
• New State Business Taxes May Yield Federal Savings
• What Lawyers Must Know About Financial Elder Abuse Claims
• Labaton Bid To DQ Judge In $75M Fee Fight A Risky Move
• 2nd Circ. Backs Toss Of RMBS Suit Against US Bank, BofA
• Platinum Demise Front And Center At Ex-Union Boss' Retrial
• Sidley Austin Must Give Investor More Info On Privilege Log
• Citigroup 401(k) Plan Participants Poised For $6.9M Deal
• Barclays, Citi $250M Libor MDL Deal With Investors OK'd
• Silverstein, Wilshire Get $3.5M In Raided-Trust Settlement
• How New SEC Rule Will Affect ETF Ecosystem
• Rising Star: Sidley Austin's Joy Lam
• REIT Investor Says $1.4B Merger Suit Has Legs
• Clerking For Ginsburg: 4 Things I Learned
• NYU's Victory In ERISA Battle Hinged On Expert Witnesses
• Devil Is In Details On OCC Fintech Charter, Attys Say
• Atty Fees Chopped By $1.6M In Energy Newsletter IP Suit
• KKR Loans A Combined $416M For Fla., Ga. Properties
• RMR, Portnoy Launch $306M Office-Focused RE Fund
• Valeant Can't Escape RICO Claims In 3 Investor Fraud Suits
• AIG, Carlyle Ink Partnership Over Bermuda Reinsurer
• Brookfield Infrastructure Inks $3.3B Deal For HVAC Co.
• UBS Doesn't Have To Turn Over Accounts, Swiss Court Says
• Wells Fargo To Pay $2B Over RMBS Failures
• Rising Star: Kasowitz Benson's Uri Itkin
• Clerking For Ginsburg: The Equality Lessons