States Settle Challenge Of Paramount's Warner Bros. Deal

By Matthew Perlman

State enforcers suing to block Paramount Skydance's planned $110 billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery reached a settlement on Monday to end the case with a package of concessions.

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STB Denies Bid To Halt UP-Norfolk Southern Merger Review

By Linda Chiem

The Surface Transportation Board will press ahead with its review of Union Pacific's proposed $85 billion merger with Norfolk Southern, denying requests from rival railroads and major freight rail shipping customers seeking to have the board stop the deal in its tracks.

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Endeavor, Silver Lake Sue To Block Appraisal Claims

By Jarek Rutz

Endeavor Group Holdings Inc. and Silver Lake Technology Management LLC on Monday sued dozens of hedge funds and other investors in Delaware Chancery Court, seeking to block them from pursuing appraisal claims over Silver Lake's $27.50 per-share buyout of Endeavor and alleging that many bought shares only after the deal was announced to profit from litigation.

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Telix Pharma Bets Up To $2.3B For ITM In Radiopharma Push

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Telix Pharmaceuticals Ltd. on Monday unveiled plans to acquire ITM Isotope Technologies Munich SE in a deal worth up to $2.3 billion that was built by three law firms.

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4 Firms Steer $1.6B Priority Technology Take-Private

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Payments and banking solutions provider Priority Technology Holdings Inc., advised by Nixon Peabody LLP, on Monday announced plans to become a private company after being bought for $1.6 billion by a McDermott Will & Schulte LLP-led investor group helmed by the company's chair and CEO.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court this past week dismissed a challenge to Alteryx Inc.'s $4.4 billion take-private sale, resolved a fight over the removal of a security technology company's director and declined to let Empery Digital Inc. immediately appeal a proxy contest ruling.

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Law Firm Lark Steers US Spirits Giant's €53.3M Takeover Bid

By Irene Madongo

U.S. spirits maker Sazerac on Monday said it plans to make a voluntary takeover of German drinks firm Berentzen in an estimated €53.3 million ($61 million) cash transaction that it expects will boost its business in Europe and beyond.

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Real Estate Platform WT Realty Lands $600M SPAC Merger

By Nate Beck

Real estate firm WT Realty Group is set to go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company FortuneX Acquisition Corp. with an implied acquisition value of $600 million in a deal advised by Winston Taylor and Celine & Partners PLLC.

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Ex-PetIQ CEO's Brother Admits To Illicit Trades Over Deal Info

By Gina Kim

An Idaho man pled guilty Monday in federal court to trading on confidential information he received from his brother, the former CEO of PetIQ, about the company's acquisition by Bansk Group in August 2024.

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Willkie Hires Ex-Gibson Dunn Energy Pro In Paris

By Isaac Monterose

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP has picked ex-Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP attorney Pauline Portos for an energy and infrastructure-focused partner role in its Paris office, the firm announced.

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Legal Deserts: Millions Across America Struggle To Access Lawyers

Tens of millions of Americans live in towns and counties across the nation with limited or no access to legal services. By one estimate, at least a third of the nation's counties qualify as a "legal desert," having only one or no attorney per 1,000 residents. Roughly 24 million Americans reside in these counties.

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Greenberg Traurig Hit With Action Over Client Data Breach

By Matt Perez

A proposed class of Greenberg Traurig LLP clients said the New York law firm failed to secure their personal data prior to a preventable data breach and delayed notifying clients of the breach for two weeks, in an action filed over the weekend in New York federal court seeking injunctive and other equitable relief to protect client data.

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Tesla Atty Misled Witness Days Before Bias Trial, Judge Hears

By Dorothy Atkins

The California Civil Rights Department asked a California judge for a protective order Monday on the first day of a bench trial over claims Tesla Inc. fostered racism at its Fremont factory, after a witness testified that an in-house Tesla attorney recently called him and misled him into believing he represented the agency.

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New Calif. Law Bars Legal Funders From Influencing Litigation

By Jack Karp

Corporate investors and litigation funders will be barred from influencing litigation strategy in California under a new bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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She Has A Point: Fenwick's Jessica Kaempf

By Theresa Schliep

Jessica Kaempf of Fenwick & West LLP is a pragmatic yet tenacious attorney whose representation of her clients has earned her plaudits from Kathi Vidal of Winston Taylor, who praised Kaempf as part of a Law360 series celebrating women litigators.

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$1.35M Class Deal Reached Over Botched Calif. Bar Exam

By Emily Johnson

Takers of the February 2025 California bar exam that was marred by technical failures have agreed to settle their proposed class action against the proctor for $1.35 million, while the company also agreed to complete quality checks before proctoring future bar examinations, according to a motion seeking preliminary approval in federal court.

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Ex-Prosecutor Escapes Jan. 6 Atty's Defamation Suit

By Jared Foretek

Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann on Monday won judgment on the pleadings in a defamation case brought by attorney Stefan Passantino, who had represented Cassidy Hutchinson, after Passantino alleged Weissmann had defamed him when saying he'd "coached" Hutchinson "to lie" to the January 6th Select Committee.

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