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September 26, 2025
United Bank To Pay $2M Settling ESOP Class Action
United Bank Corp. has agreed to pay $2 million to settle claims it booted former employees out of its employee stock ownership plan and cut them out of the proceeds of a $23.3 million dividend, according to a filing in Georgia federal court.
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September 26, 2025
2nd Circ. Urged To Rethink Afghan Central Bank Ruling
Victims of two terrorist attacks have called on the en banc Second Circuit to reconsider a panel's August decision rejecting their attempts to secure blocked funds held by the central bank of Afghanistan, arguing the panel ignored U.S. Supreme Court and Second Circuit precedents.
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September 26, 2025
Capital One Resolves Ex-Workers' 401(k) Forfeiture Suit
Capital One has agreed to end a proposed class action alleging it unlawfully used tens of millions of dollars in forfeited 401(k) funds to reduce its own contributions to the plan rather than curtail administrative costs, the company told a New York federal court.
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September 26, 2025
JPMorgan Must Face Mich. Firm's Fraud Debt Collection Suit
JPMorgan Chase Bank must face a Michigan law firm's claim that the firm shouldn't have to repay debt for lines of credit a former controller took out fraudulently in the firm's name, a Michigan federal judge said, but the bank escaped allegations under the Michigan Consumer Protection Act.
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September 26, 2025
Wells Fargo Nears Deal With Investors In 'Sham' Hiring Suit
Wells Fargo and investors who said they lost money after allegations surfaced that the bank conducted fake interviews to show it met diversity goals have told a California federal court they've reached a settlement in principle, less than two weeks after the company announced a deal in a derivative lawsuit over similar claims.
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September 26, 2025
Jones Day Hires NY Public Finance Attorney From Orrick
Jones Day announced that its New York office has gained a former Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP lawyer who advises issuers, underwriters and lenders on public finance and real assets transactions.
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September 26, 2025
Taxation With Representation: De Brauw, Hengeler Mueller
In this week's Taxation With Representation, power grid operator TenneT Holding sells a stake in its German transmission business to institutional investors, Pfizer Inc. acquires biotechnology company Metsera Inc., and Dutch brewer Heineken NV buys most of Costa Rica's FIFCO beverage and retail operations.
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September 26, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen Sanjeev Gupta’s Liberty OneSteel sue its collapsed former lender Greensill Capital, television personality Janice Dickinson hit ITV with a personal injury claim after falling over while appearing on “I’m a Celeb …”, and energy investor Blasket bring fresh litigation against Spain amid a row over a $416 million arbitration award. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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September 25, 2025
Standing Questions Loom In Mozambique LNG Loan Dispute
The requirements for organizational standing dominated much of Thursday's oral argument over the Export-Import Bank of the United States' decision to back a massive liquefied natural gas project in Mozambique, as the challengers sought a preliminary injunction that could hinge on recent standing rulings from the D.C. Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court.
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September 25, 2025
Fed's Cook Warns Justices Of Fed Independence 'Death Knell'
Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to reject President Donald Trump's bid to immediately oust her, warning that allowing her dismissal at this juncture would "sound the death knell" for an independent Fed.
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September 25, 2025
CashCall Urges Justices To Overturn $134M CFPB Award
CashCall is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a Ninth Circuit order that left the loan company on the hook for $134 million in restitution to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, despite the firm's insistence that conflicting precedent deprived it of its right to a jury trial.
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September 25, 2025
Big Banks Beat Yearslong Libor-Rigging Claims In NY
A New York federal judge Thursday disposed of the remaining claims in long-running multidistrict litigation accusing Bank of America, Merrill Lynch and more than a dozen other large banks of Libor manipulation.
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September 25, 2025
Atkins Hints At Flexible Reporting Deadlines For Public Cos.
With the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission preparing to seek public feedback on President Donald Trump's proposal that public companies be allowed to report their financial results only twice a year, agency Chair Paul Atkins suggested Thursday that the SEC may not take a "one-size-fits-all" approach.
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September 25, 2025
Cleo AI Military Lending Suit Paused Amid 9th Circ. Appeal
A Washington federal judge has halted proceedings in an Army staff sergeant's proposed class action alleging Cleo AI Inc. violates the Military Lending Act by employing predatory lending practices through its cash advances.
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September 25, 2025
BBVA's Boosted $23B Sabadell Bid Gets Approval In Spain
Spain's securities regulator, the Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores, has approved BBVA's revised offer to Banco Sabadell shareholders, which includes a 10% increase in consideration and more favorable tax treatment, the lender announced Thursday.
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September 25, 2025
Mich. Judge Backs $778M Judgment Against Auto Parts Mogul
A Michigan federal judge on Thursday said Alter Domus LLC can pursue a judgment against a Detroit-area businessman's trust in a decades-old dispute over a guaranty agreement, renewing the more than $770 million award to the administrative agent after determining it properly took over the case from JPMorgan Chase.
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September 25, 2025
DC Circ. Backs Whistleblower In IRS Award Dispute
A whistleblower who received millions of dollars in awards for helping the IRS nab prominent Wall Street firms that helped offshore hedge funds evade taxes was wrongly blocked from receiving millions more, the D.C. Circuit ruled.
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September 25, 2025
Flagstar Seeks Instant Win In Ex-Live Well VP Fraud Case
Flagstar Bank has urged a Michigan federal judge to grant it an early win against a former executive of the now-bankrupt Live Well for his role in a scheme to defraud lenders by inflating the value of bonds, saying because the executive already pled guilty to securities fraud, he cannot now deny liability in the bank's civil case.
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September 25, 2025
First Merchants, First Savings Merge In $241M All-Stock Deal
Dentons-advised First Merchants Corp. and First Savings Financial Group Inc., led by Luse Gorman PC, on Thursday unveiled plans to merge in an all-stock deal valued at roughly $241 million.
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September 25, 2025
3rd Circ. Won't Revive Debt Collection Suit Against NJ Firm
The Third Circuit rejected a bid Thursday from a woman suing Cohn Lifland Pearlman Herrmann & Knopf LLP to revive her proposed class action over allegedly unfair debt collection practices after a federal trial court ruled that she filed her suit too late.
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September 25, 2025
Fed. Circ. Revives Apex Bank's TM Bid Over TTAB Error
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board incorrectly prevented a Tennessee bank from registering "Aspire Bank" for banking and financial services because of potential confusion with a credit card company's existing "Aspire" mark, the Federal Circuit said in a precedential decision Thursday that remanded the case for further analysis.
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September 24, 2025
Robocall Recipients Get Class Cert. Against Ill. Bank
Consumers who allegedly received unwanted robocalls from Illinois-based Federal Savings Bank will secure certification of a nationwide class of nearly 2.3 million consumers in a proposed Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action, an Illinois federal judge has decided.
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September 24, 2025
SEC Gets $7M Default Insider Trading Win Against UK Trader
A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday ordered a British-Lebanese trader to pay over $7.7 million, stemming from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's insider trading allegations, months after the defendant avoided extradition from the U.K. on parallel criminal charges.
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September 24, 2025
Texas Banker Says Co.'s $30M Fraud Suit Must Be Arbitrated
A South African company's lawsuit accusing a Texas family, a wealth manager and Frost Bank of orchestrating a $30 million embezzlement and money laundering scheme belongs in arbitration, the defendants have told a Fort Worth federal judge.
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September 24, 2025
FINRA To Nix Minimum Equity Requirement For Day Traders
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority announced Wednesday that its board approved changes to its rules for so-called pattern day trading that would remove a minimum equity requirement for such traders.
Expert Analysis
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Tips For Crypto AI Agent Developers Under SEC Watch
With agents powered by artificial intelligence increasingly making decisions in the cryptocurrency world, there's a chance the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission could use the Investment Advisers Act to regulate this technology in financial services, but there are ways developers can mitigate regulatory risks, say attorneys at Morrison Cohen.
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What's Next For CFPB After 'Big Beautiful' Funding Cuts
While the One Big Beautiful Bill Act's funding cuts to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are unlikely to have an independent effect in the short run, they could exacerbate the existing issue of wide regulatory fluctuations in successive administrations in the longer run, say attorneys at Covington.
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Adapting To Private Practice: From ATF Director To BigLaw
As a two-time boomerang partner, returning to BigLaw after stints as a U.S. attorney and the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, people ask me how I know when to move on, but there’s no single answer — just clearly set your priorities, says Steven Dettelbach at BakerHostetler.
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What To Know As SEC Looks To Expand Private Fund Access
As the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission considers expanding retail access to private markets, understanding how these funds operate — and the role of financial intermediaries in guiding investors — is increasingly important, say attorneys at K&L Gates.
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New DOJ Penalty Policy Could Spell Trouble For Cos.
In light of the U.S. Department of Justice’s recently published guidance making victim relief a core condition of coordinated resolution crediting, companies facing parallel investigations must carefully calibrate their negotiation strategies to minimize the risk of duplicative penalties, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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Influencer Marketing Partnerships Face Rising Litigation Risk
In light of recent class actions claiming that brands and influencers are misleading consumers with deceptive marketing practices — largely premised on the Federal Trade Commission's endorsements guidance — proactive compliance measures are becoming more important, say attorneys at Olshan Frome.
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5 Consumer Protection Compliance Issues In NY State Budget
Companies that engage with New York consumers should promptly familiarize themselves with new state budget provisions that require finance and retail companies to make certain business practices more transparent and easier for customers to execute, say attorneys at Mintz.
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Open Banking Is On Ice As CFPB Seeks To Toss Its Own Rule
Even as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's efforts to toss its open banking rule play out in Kentucky federal court, it remains statutorily required to effectuate consumer access to data, raising questions about how it would replace the previously finalized standard, say attorneys at Cooley.
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SEC, FINRA Obligations In Changing AI Regulatory Landscape
Despite the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent withdrawal of its proposed artificial intelligence conflict rules, financial regulators remain focused on firms developing the correct AI compliance framework, as well as continuously testing and supervising them to ensure they're fit for purpose, say attorneys at Cahill Gordon.
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Playing Baseball Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Playing baseball in college, and now Wiffle ball in a local league, has taught me that teamwork, mental endurance and emotional intelligence are not only important to success in the sport, but also to success as a trial attorney, says Kevan Dorsey at Swift Currie.
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How US Cos. Should Prep For Brazil's Int'l Data Transfer Rules
Brazil's National Data Protection Authority's new rules concerning the processing and storing of Brazilians' personal data carry significant reputational risks for the e-commerce, financial services, education and health sectors, so U.S. companies with business in Brazil should prepare ahead of the Aug. 23 compliance date, says Juliane Chaves Ferreira at Guimarães & Vieira de Mello.
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Roundup
Ohio Banking Brief
In this Expert Analysis series, attorneys provide quarterly recaps discussing the biggest developments in Ohio banking regulation and policymaking.
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Wells Fargo Suit Shows Consumer Protection Limits In Mass.
The Massachusetts Appeals Court's May decision in Wells Fargo Bank v. Coulsey underscores that consumer rights are balanced against the need for closure, and even the broad protections of state consumer protection law will not open the door to relitigating the same claims, say attorneys at Greenberg Traurig.
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Ohio Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q2
Ohio's financial services sector saw several significant developments in the second quarter of 2025, including a case that confirmed credit unions' setoff rights, another that established contract rights between banks and cardholders, and the House passage of a digital asset bill, say attorneys at Frost Brown.
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Managing Risks As State AGs Seek To Fill Enforcement Gap
Given an unprecedented surge in state attorney general activity resulting from significant shifts in federal enforcement priorities, companies must consider tailored strategies for navigating the ever-evolving risk landscape, say attorneys at Cozen O'Connor.