Asset Management

  • February 08, 2024

    High Court Sides With Whistleblower Against UBS

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday found that whistleblowers don't need to show retaliatory intent on the part of their employers in order to be protected under federal law, in a unanimous ruling in favor of a former UBS employee and whistleblower who fought to restore a $900,000 jury verdict he secured in 2017.

  • February 07, 2024

    SEC Inks Deal To End Oppenheimer Muni Bond Disclosure Case

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has reached a settlement with Oppenheimer & Co., putting to rest a suit that was one of the commission's first-ever enforcement actions accusing underwriters of skirting municipal bond disclosure requirements, according to a letter filed Wednesday.

  • February 07, 2024

    Skadden, Wilson Sonsini Steer Disney's $1.5B Epic Investment

    The Walt Disney Co., represented by Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, and Epic Games, guided by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC, announced Wednesday that they will collaborate on an "all-new games and entertainment universe," with Disney investing $1.5 billion to acquire an equity stake in the "Fortnite" maker.

  • February 07, 2024

    Ex-Fintech Exec Convicted Of Crypto Manipulation Conspiracy

    The former head of financial engineering at fintech company Hydrogen Technology Corp. was convicted by a Florida federal jury Wednesday of conspiring to manipulate the market for Hydrogen's digital assets.

  • February 07, 2024

    Goldman Sachs Fined By FINRA For Trade-Monitoring Failures

    Goldman Sachs agreed to pay over $500,000 to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority to settle claims that it failed to include certain information in surveillance reports designed to identify potentially manipulative trading.

  • February 07, 2024

    TradeStation To Pay SEC, States $3M Over Crypto Lending

    State and federal securities regulators on Wednesday unveiled a $3 million set of settlements with TradeStation Crypto Inc. to resolve claims that the crypto-focused brokerage failed to register its interest-earning program for digital assets as a security.

  • February 07, 2024

    Truist Will Pay $6.3M To End BB&T High-Yield Rate Cut Suit

    Truist Financial Corp. has reached a $6.3 million settlement to resolve claims that it wrongfully lowered the interest rate on high-yield money market accounts that customers opened three decades ago.

  • February 07, 2024

    Athens Airport's $845M IPO Takes Flight, Steered By 8 Firms

    Shares of Athens International Airport SA rose in debut trading Wednesday following an $845 million initial public offering that priced at the top of its range, a landmark IPO for the Greek government that was guided by eight law firms.

  • February 07, 2024

    ​​​​​​​Full Del. High Court Asked To Revive $1.2B Crypto Merger

    Cryptocurrency wallet provider BitGo deserves the chance to go to trial with digital assets firm Galaxy Digital over their broken $1.2 billion merger because the dispute involves complex questions of administrative, agency and securities laws, as well as regulatory guidance, BitGo told Delaware's highest court Wednesday.

  • February 07, 2024

    NGL Deal Adviser Urges Del. Justices To Uphold $36M Verdict

    An attorney for LCT Capital told Delaware's Supreme Court on Wednesday that a $36 million Delaware jury verdict favoring the institutional broker-adviser in a merger services dispute with NGL Energy Partners should carry "enormous" weight on its second appeal despite client protests.

  • February 07, 2024

    Mich. Judge Rips Romantics Singer For Copying Trial Brief

    A founding member of the Romantics will likely have a tough time regaining control of the band's finances after a Michigan appellate judge said Wednesday he couldn't condone the "incompetence" of the musician's trial attorneys, who filed a brief that was a copy of the opposing side's argument. 

  • February 07, 2024

    Trump Trial Judge Gets Little Info On Exec's Alleged Perjury

    An attorney for Donald Trump and his companies' former chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg told the New York state judge presiding over their civil fraud trial Wednesday that she could not respond to "unsubstantiated" reports that the ex-CFO was in plea negotiations for allegedly lying on the stand, citing her ethical obligations.

  • February 07, 2024

    Matterport Stockholders Say Officials Wrongly Cashed $225M

    Shareholders of 3D model maker Matterport Inc. accused top company officials in Delaware Chancery Court of self-dealing by paying themselves performance rewards following a 2021 merger, even though the company hadn't met benchmarks to allow them to cash out $225 million in shares.

  • February 07, 2024

    Aera Energy Valued At $2.1B In California Resources Merger

    California Resources Corp. on Wednesday agreed to buy oil and gas producer company Aera Energy at a $2.1 billion valuation, in a deal the companies say will create California's top oil and gas producer, led by Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Latham & Watkins LLP, respectively.

  • February 07, 2024

    Edward Jones Worker Says Race Quota Concern Led To Firing

    Edward Jones pushed out a Black marketing employee after he raised concerns that the company used illegal race quotas that favored white men in a quiz used to connect customers with financial advisers, according to a suit filed in New York federal court.

  • February 07, 2024

    With PE Exits Set To Surge, Buyers Must Act Quickly, Wisely

    Private equity exits are expected to rebound this year after a decade low in 2023, as investment time horizons expire and investors demand returns, but strategic buyers will need to act quickly and keep a finger on the market's pulse as competition heats up.

  • February 07, 2024

    BDO Inks $2.25M Deal In 401(k) Mismanagement Suit

    A proposed class of workers asked an Illinois federal judge to greenlight a $2.25 million settlement with accounting firm BDO, which they allege failed to verify that its retirement plan's funds were evaluated properly.

  • February 07, 2024

    Refrigeration Co. Can't Put ESOP Valuation Suit On Ice

    An industrial refrigeration company can't avoid a former executive's suit alleging it mismanaged an employee stock ownership plan by grossly undervaluing the business, after a North Carolina federal judge ruled he could still sue on behalf of the plan even if he's no longer a trustee.

  • February 07, 2024

    Worker Says J&J Mismanaged Prescription Benefits

    A Johnson & Johnson employee told a New Jersey federal court in a proposed class action that workers were overcharged for prescription drug benefits, including through an expensive contract with pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts.

  • February 07, 2024

    4 Private Equity Firms Wrap Funds Totaling $1.45B

    Four private equity funds announced Wednesday that they have held final closings for investment vehicles that in total raised around $1.45 billion, the largest of which was a $900 million debut fund from Latham & Watkins LLP-led Coalesce Capital.

  • February 07, 2024

    Del. Justices Uphold Clovis Holdings Cash-Drain Claims

    The Delaware Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld, without elaboration, a Chancery Court award of nearly $7.8 million in damages, fees and prejudgment interest to the sole investor in a stone powder-based paper investment venture that was allegedly drained of cash by insiders.

  • February 07, 2024

    REIT Raises $672M IPO At Low End While Insurer Pulls Plans

    Senior housing real estate investment trust American Healthcare REIT Inc. rose in debut trading Wednesday after pricing a $672 million initial public offering at the bottom of its range, while insurer The Fortegra Group Inc. canceled its offering given market conditions, revealing mixed signals about the nascent IPO recovery.

  • February 07, 2024

    Bybit Wants $953M FTX Suit Axed For 'Threadbare' US Ties

    Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit Fintech Ltd. has urged a Delaware bankruptcy judge to throw out an FTX lawsuit that aims to recover $953 million that Bybit and affiliates allegedly raced to withdraw before FTX collapsed, arguing that the case has "no connection" to the U.S. and even if it did, FTX's claims all fail.

  • February 07, 2024

    Fund Formation Group Of The Year: Fried Frank

    Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP attorneys counseled on the formation of multibillion-dollar funds, including five totaling $37 billion for Goldman Sachs, a €16.7 billion ($18 billion) fund for Permira and a $17 billion fund for Brookfield Asset Management, landing the firm among Law360's 2023 Fund Formation Groups of the Year.

  • February 07, 2024

    House Panel's Top Dem Floats Bill To Require Automatic IRAs

    The House Ways and Means Committee's top Democrat introduced legislation Wednesday that would expand workers' retirement coverage by requiring employers with 10 or more employees to establish a federal automatic individual retirement account program.

Expert Analysis

  • How To Recognize And Recover From Lawyer Loneliness

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    Law can be one of the loneliest professions, but there are practical steps that attorneys and their managers can take to help themselves and their peers improve their emotional health, strengthen their social bonds and protect their performance, says psychologist and attorney Traci Cipriano.

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    Litigation Funding Disclosure Should Be Mandatory

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    Despite the Appellate Rules Committee's recent deferral of the issue of requiring third-party litigation funding disclosure, such a mandate is necessary to ensure the even-handed administration of justice across all cases, says David Levitt at Hinshaw.

  • 4 Employer Action Steps For New Mental Health Parity Rules

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    A recently released guidance under the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act reiterated that employers contracting with outside service providers to administer their health plans are not relieved of their compliance obligations — so all employers sponsoring a group health plan should consider four action items for success, say attorneys at Ice Miller.

  • Recalling USWNT's Legal PR Playbook Amid World Cup Bid

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    As the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team strives to take home another World Cup trophy, their 2022 pay equity settlement with the U.S. Soccer Federation serves as a good reminder that winning in the court of public opinion can be more powerful than a victory inside the courtroom, says Hector Valle at Vianovo.

  • A Closer Look At Competing Stablecoin Legislative Proposals

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    Attorneys at Davis Polk dissect the key similarities and differences between competing stablecoin discussion drafts from Reps. Patrick McHenry and Maxine Waters, and while neither bill is enjoying overwhelming bipartisan support, there appears to be a greater sense of urgency for legislative intervention in the crypto industry.

  • How Calif. Privacy Law Changes Affect Asset Managers

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    Asset managers need to understand the important ways in which the California Consumer Privacy Act applies to their work, despite a recent update to the law that exempts information subject to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, say Kevin Angle and Catherine Skulan at Ropes & Gray.

  • CRE Guidance Helps Lenders Work With Struggling Borrowers

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    In recognition of growing troubles with commercial real estate loans, four federal regulators' recently updated loan accommodations guidance provides a helpful framework for approaching loan workouts without the punitive results of adverse classifications, say Jaclyn Grodin and Muryum Khalid at Goulston & Storrs.

  • ESG Mandates For Banks May Bring Compliance Challenges

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    As jurisdictions expand their ESG or anti-ESG mandates to encompass banks that hold public funds, depository institutions should prepare to dedicate meaningful resources to these new requirements, and expect a few bumps in the road as the debate over use of environmental, social and corporate governance factors continues in the U.S., say attorneys at Mintz.

  • SVB Bankruptcy Case Raises Asset Control Questions

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    The initial disputes in Silicon Valley Bank's bankruptcy case between the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the debtor over tax refunds and deposits are likely to signal the rekindling of old battles for limited assets last fought during the Great Recession, say Jeffrey Rothleder and Maura McIntyre at Squire Patton.

  • Who Owns Crypto Assets? Know The Bankruptcy Risks

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    Amid a wave of recent crypto custodian Chapter 11 filings, the legal character of customer deposits give rise to a deluge of questions, because in the absence of a concrete regulatory regime, the terms and conditions are likely going to be how the court determines legal rights, says Heidi Hockberger at Levenfeld Pearlstein.

  • 5 Considerations To Give Crypto Sellers Pause Post-Ripple

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    The Southern District of New York's holding in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Ripple Labs appears to provide a mechanism to distribute tokens to the public through programmatic sales to market makers without complying with the federal securities laws, but the order also raises a number of difficult questions, says Mark Hiraide at Mitchell Silberberg.

  • Senate Hearing Highlights Antitrust Hazards In PGA-LIV Deal

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    The U.S. Senate's recent questioning of PGA Tour COO Ron Price on the proposed deal with LIV Golf and its release of a dossier of framework agreements covered a variety of issues that could exacerbate antitrust concerns, including the predatory purchasing theory of competitive harm, free-riding and alternate funding, say attorneys at Perkins Coie.

  • An In-Depth Look At FDIC Reform Options After Bank Failures

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    Anthony Pirraglia and Melissa Hall at Loeb & Loeb explain the three coverage options for reforming the deposit insurance system, which were proposed in a recent report from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank failures.

  • IRS Criminal Probe Spells Uncertainty For Malta Pension Plans

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    The IRS’ recent scrutiny of Malta pension plan arrangements — and its unusual issuance of criminal administrative summonses — confirms that it views many of these plans as illegal tax evasion schemes, and the road ahead will not be smooth and steady for anyone involved, say attorneys at Kostelanetz.

  • Hedging Variable Interest Rates In A Volatile Market

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    Variable rate loans, which were an advantageous borrowing method prior to the recent Federal Reserve rate hikes and subsequent volatility, are now the difference between borrowers remaining current on their obligations and defaulting due to the sharply increasing debt service requirements of their loans, say attorneys at Cassin & Cassin.

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