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July 15, 2026
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP announced on Wednesday that U.S. restructuring co-chair Matt Barr will assume the newly created role of global restructuring chair.
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July 15, 2026
Britain's competition watchdog said Wednesday it has begun the early stages of reviewing Danone SA's proposed acquisition of meal replacement brand Huel Ltd., inviting businesses and consumers to comment on whether the deal could reduce competition in the U.K.
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July 14, 2026
The Writers Guild of America's East and West branches piled Tuesday against Paramount Skydance's proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery in a California federal court complaint adding buy-side claims of harming screenwriters to state attorneys general allegations focused on film distribution and basic cable.
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July 14, 2026
Semiconductor maker Diodes Inc. said Tuesday it has agreed to acquire privately held ElevATE Semiconductor Inc. for $250 million in cash, expanding its presence in the automated test equipment market and broadening its analog and mixed-signal product portfolio.
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July 14, 2026
A key high court win for the Federal Communications Commission and its plans to reshape the regulatory code, reorder the nation's telecom priorities, and take broadcasters to task for purported leftward leanings all headlined a busy first half of 2026 in telecom law.
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July 14, 2026
The Fifth Circuit unraveled a Texas court's judgment against BP that held the oil giant was liable to company retirees for miscommunicating their pension benefits' value following a plan conversion, holding on Tuesday that the lower court didn't perform a rigorous enough standing analysis.
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July 14, 2026
Australian gold miners Genesis Minerals and Vault Minerals said Tuesday that they have agreed to merge in a deal that values Vault at about AU$5.6 billion ($3.9 billion), superseding an earlier merger agreement between Vault and Regis Resources.
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July 14, 2026
A dozen Democratic attorneys general are seeking an emergency temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to block Paramount Skydance's controversial proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. while litigation continues.
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July 14, 2026
Total funding for legal technology companies increased in the first half of 2026 while deal count fell, suggesting that investors are deploying more capital into fewer companies as artificial intelligence becomes more embedded in the industry.
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July 13, 2026
Aircraft parts maker TransDigm has abandoned its $960 million plan to buy private equity-owned Stellant Systems after the U.S. Department of Justice told the companies it planned to take the matter to court if they decided to go through with it.
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July 13, 2026
California-based Edwards Lifesciences and Singapore's Genesis Medtech agreed to pay a combined $12 million to settle claims from the Federal Trade Commission that Edwards attempted to evade the Hart-Scott-Rodino notification and waiting period when it acquired medical device maker JC Medical from Genesis in 2024.
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July 13, 2026
Former Viking Plastics CEO Kelly Goodsel has asked the Delaware Chancery Court to order VPI Acquisition LLC to advance his legal fees in litigation accusing him of fraud during the company's $40 million sale, arguing the purchase agreement mandates this because the claims stem directly from his service as chief executive.
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July 13, 2026
First Hawaiian Inc. said Monday it will acquire California-based TriCo Bancshares in an all-stock deal valued at just over $2 billion, expanding its mainland U.S. presence and creating a combined banking institution with roughly $34 billion in assets.
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July 13, 2026
An Illinois federal judge Friday dismissed a proposed investor class action claiming Assertio misled shareholders about threats to sales of its arthritis drug Indocin, saying the company's public filings explicitly and repeatedly warned that the drug lacked patent protection and faced imminent generic competition at any time.
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July 13, 2026
Ferguson Enterprises said Monday it has agreed to acquire industrial flow-control distributor FloWorks from private equity firm Wynnchurch Capital in a deal valuing FloWorks at about $1.6 billion, about 3½ years after Wynnchurch acquired the business.
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July 13, 2026
McDermott Will & Schulte LLP announced Monday that it has hired a private equity attorney to co-head its global private equity group in a move that matches the firm's ambitions for its new state-of-the-art midtown Manhattan office.
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July 13, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court last week handled disputes involving corporate control, post-closing competition, executive departures, arbitration awards and shareholder litigation.
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July 13, 2026
Cole Schotz PC announced Monday that it expanded its corporate transactions department with the addition of a new member in Miami from Holland & Knight LLP.
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July 13, 2026
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced Monday that it has brought two Clifford Chance LLP attorneys and one Mayer Brown LLP attorney to its mergers and acquisitions practice, touting their experience in insurance M&A, reinsurance, private equity-backed insurance transactions and complex regulatory matters.
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July 13, 2026
Corporate buyers seized a record share of North American dealmaking in the first half of 2026, powering a surge in M&A volumes while private equity activity pulled back amid higher financing costs and valuation gaps, according to a Mergermarket report.
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July 13, 2026
Loctite maker Henkel's planned $725 million acquisition of Liquid Nails would create a construction adhesives market behemoth with a "staggering" 80% retail share, the Federal Trade Commission told a Manhattan federal judge Monday as it challenges the deal.
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July 13, 2026
A dozen Democratic attorneys general on Monday sought to block Paramount Skydance's proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, arguing in a California federal court challenge that the deal threatens competition for film distribution and basic cable.
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July 13, 2026
AkzoNobel NV said Monday that Nippon Paint is still interested in acquiring its decorative paints business for €7.5 billion ($8.6 billion) after the owner of Dulux brand rejected an earlier joint takeover attempt from the Japanese rival and another company worth €12.5 billion.
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July 10, 2026
A California federal judge has scheduled an early July 2027 trial date in DirecTV and a coalition of states' lawsuit seeking to stop Nexstar Media Group Inc.'s integration with rival broadcast company Tegna Inc.
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July 10, 2026
Three groups told the Federal Communications Commission that Verizon failed to address shortcomings in the agency's decision to approve its $1 billion takeover of onetime rival UScellular's spectrum in a June filing.