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May 20, 2026
Kirkland & Ellis LLP-advised media and entertainment-focused investment firm Shamrock Capital on Wednesday revealed that it had closed its fourth content acquisition fund with $813 million in total capital commitments.
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May 20, 2026
A life insurance company defeated a proposed class action alleging it failed to remove an underperforming fund from its $2 billion 401(k) plan, with a New Jersey federal judge concluding the suit didn't provide valid comparisons to better-performing funds.
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May 20, 2026
Two New Jersey men have settled charges from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that they traded shares of a company before it was acquired by CoStar Group in April 2024 after learning of the transaction through a family member.
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May 19, 2026
Counsel for grocery store consumers urged the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to find they substantially prevailed in their proposed class action challenging Kroger's since-abandoned $24.6 billion bid for Albertsons and are entitled to attorney fees, arguing that the lower court wrongly concluded the case was mooted by other federal actions blocking the merger.
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May 19, 2026
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Tuesday issued a revised policy on cooperation credit in enforcement matters, outlining how factors such as self-reporting, cooperation and remediation can help respondents secure fine reductions or potential declinations.
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May 19, 2026
Albaron Partners, advised by McDermott Will & Schulte, on Tuesday revealed it has closed its flagship fund after securing $185 million in commitments, which will be used to invest in healthcare companies.
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May 19, 2026
Cigna can't escape a proposed class action alleging that underperforming investment offerings and misallocated forfeitures in its employee 401(k) plan cost workers millions, after a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Tuesday that alleged violations of federal benefits law were sufficiently backed up to reach discovery.
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May 19, 2026
A California federal judge certified a class of Alphabet investors accusing Google and CEO Sundar Pichai of misleading the market about whether its digital ad auctions favored Facebook's advertising network, finding common questions outweigh individualized issues.
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May 19, 2026
InMed Pharmaceuticals Inc. on Tuesday announced plans to merge with migraine prevention drugmaker Mentari Therapeutics Inc. in an all-stock deal that is backed by a $290 million private placement and was guided by three law firms.
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May 19, 2026
A Delaware vice chancellor has told Friedlander & Gorris PA and two other firms to provide more information in their second bid to disqualify her from presiding over Chancery Court litigation because she previously was an attorney at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP.
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May 19, 2026
Lower middle market direct lender Stellus Capital Management LLC on Tuesday revealed that it closed its fourth credit fund with $1.5 billion in tow.
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May 19, 2026
A former trader said a cryptocurrency company is using an "unfounded" characterization of his deposition conduct to seek sanctions and lend credence to facts it hasn't otherwise been able to prove in its suit accusing him of usurping $8.1 million in digital assets.
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May 19, 2026
Two former marketing company employees said they're going to ask the Second Circuit to revive their proposed class action alleging that 401(k) plan forfeitures were misused after a New York federal judge dismissed their case in April.
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May 18, 2026
Ropes & Gray LLP-advised private equity giant Bain Capital has wrapped fundraising on its sixth Asia-focused fund after securing $10.5 billion in total capital.
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May 18, 2026
Former American Express workers hit the credit card giant with a proposed class action in New York federal court, alleging that underperforming target-date and other investment funds in the company's 401(k) plan — with approximately $9 billion in assets and 40,000 participants — lost workers hundreds of millions in future savings.
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May 18, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday scrapped a decades-old enforcement policy that prohibited settling parties from denying the agency's allegations against them, saying the policy made it appear as though the SEC was trying to "shield itself from criticism."
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May 18, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to take up the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.'s challenge to a Second Circuit decision that said the agency erred by rejecting the union pension fund's application for a $132 million bailout.
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May 15, 2026
An inspector with the U.S. Postal Service told a California federal jury considering securities fraud charges against Citron Research founder Andrew Left on Friday that even as she participated in the FBI's raid of his home, Left called her and spoke at length about the allegations against him for over an hour.
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May 15, 2026
Artificial intelligence computing company Cerebras Systems Inc.'s blockbuster debut was well received by deals attorneys who track the pipeline for initial public offerings, with lawyers saying the upsized $5.6 billion IPO is a sign that investor confidence in the AI sector is growing.
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May 15, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission wants to let publicly traded companies move from a quarterly to a semiannual earnings reporting schedule, but energy industry volatility and investor expectations may make oil and gas firms reluctant to embrace the option.
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May 15, 2026
The Federal Reserve said Friday it has terminated an enforcement action against UBS AG that was tied to its former Swiss rival Credit Suisse's business dealings with the now-defunct Archegos Capital Management.
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May 15, 2026
Media personality and former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner faces potential class action fraud claims in California state court over the collapse of her meme coins after a similar action was tossed from federal court last month because a judge said the plaintiff couldn't sustain his securities fraud claims.
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May 15, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently put forth a plan that could allow publicly traded companies to move from a quarterly to a semiannual reporting schedule, but whether they choose to do so and how that could impact both the growth of the public markets and insider-trading plans for corporate leaders remains up for debate.
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May 15, 2026
Proskauer Rose LLP announced this week that it has added two partners to its New York office — a restructuring attorney who joins from Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and a private funds attorney who comes from advisory-focused investment bank PJT Partners.
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May 15, 2026
The Eighth Circuit's recent decision affirming the dismissal of a proposed class action claiming Wells Fargo misspent 401(k) forfeitures won't dissuade workers from filing similar suits, attorneys say, but those plan participants will likely include more details on how they were allegedly hurt.