3 Firms Guide MasTec's $1.7B Acquisition Of Superior Group

By Nate Beck

MasTec, a Coral Gables, Florida-based engineering and construction company, said it has reached a deal to buy The Superior Group, an Ohio-based, data center infrastructure-focused electrical contractor, for $1.7 billion.

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Dream Finders Raises Beazer Buyout Offer To $875M

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Homebuilder Dream Finders Homes, led by Foley & Lardner LLP, on Wednesday revealed that it has submitted an updated proposal to acquire King & Spalding LLP-advised Beazer Homes USA in a roughly $875 million all-cash deal, a move that comes as Dream Finders said that Beazer has demanded "onerous" preconditions to engaging with the company.

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UniCredit Stake In Commerzbank Now Just Short Of Control

By Najiyya Budaly

Italian lender UniCredit said Wednesday that it holds 49.65% of the voting rights in Commerzbank AG of Germany despite resistance from the German state about the approach.

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Citi Should Be Shrinking, Not Shopping, Sen. Warren Says

By Jon Hill

If Citigroup thinks now is a good time to expand its "financial empire" with a major acquisition, its already-mammoth size and past compliance troubles should make it think again, the top Democrat on the U.S. Senate Banking Committee told the bank on Wednesday.

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AstraZeneca Employee Traded On Icosavax Deal, SEC Says

By Sydney Price

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday accused a former AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP employee of using nonpublic information to trade ahead of the company's $1.1 billion acquisition of vaccine design company Icosavax Inc., yielding approximately $10,000 in illicit gains.

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FTC Can't Get Zillow-Redfin Deal Held Illegal Before Trial

By Bryan Koenig

A Virginia federal judge refused in a bench ruling Wednesday to limit Zillow and Redfin's ability to defend a rental listings syndication deal the Federal Trade Commission says was a $100 million payoff for Redfin to exit the market, teeing up "multiple" factual disputes for trial next month.

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Dish Ch. 11 Plan Disclosure Hearing Pushed Back 2 Weeks

By Vince Sullivan

A Texas bankruptcy judge said Wednesday creditors of EchoStar Corp.'s bankrupt video distribution and wireless network units should be able to conduct discovery of the debtors before they seek approval of Chapter 11 plan disclosures, resetting a hearing on those documents for July 23.

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M&A Private Equity Atty Rejoins Akin From Paul Weiss

By Tracey Read

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP announced Wednesday that a Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP mergers and acquisitions and private equity partner has returned to its New York office.

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Foley Adds Attys From Kirkland, Goodwin To Corporate Team

By Lynn LaRowe

Foley & Lardner LLP has strengthened its corporate bench with a Dallas-based partner who came aboard from Kirkland & Ellis LLP and a Boston-based partner from Goodwin Procter LLP.

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Norton Rose Adds Greenberg Traurig Corporate Duo

By Lynn LaRowe

Norton Rose Fulbright announced Wednesday that it has brought on a pair of former Greenberg Traurig LLP corporate attorneys who bring particular experience in the data center, digital infrastructure and energy sectors.

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Structuring Space Nuclear Deals For Regulatory Risk

With the White House's recent focus on space nuclear power, a highly important question for companies that want to build orbital reactors, lunar surface systems or critical components is whether the transaction documents can handle foreign investment constraints, export controls and treaty-linked liability, says Kristie Blase at Frazer + Blase.

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Texas Business Court Rulings Show Deal Terms Paramount

As the courts within the Texas Business Court system have begun reaching the substantive merits of the cases before them, they are persuasively demonstrating they will not only enforce the terms of transactions as written, but will also embrace a holistic approach to complex transaction documentation interpretation, says Christopher Pace at Winston Taylor.

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Attys Win $2.5M Fee Award After $63K Native Bias Verdict

By Joyce Hanson

A South Dakota hotel must pay an Indigenous advocacy group about $2.5 million in attorney fees following a trial jury's $63,191 verdict in a civil rights case claiming the business discriminated against Native American tribe members based on race, a federal judge has ruled.

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Conn. To Develop Pilot Behavioral Health Court In New Haven

By Christine DeRosa

A new task force has been formed in Connecticut aimed at developing a pilot behavioral health court in New Haven, with an eye toward expanding the program throughout the state.

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Ex-Associate Says Jackson Lewis Pushed Her Out After Leave

By MJ Koo

A former associate attorney who was on the partnership track at Jackson Lewis PC has brought suit against the employment law firm in California state court, alleging that it refused to accommodate her temporary medical restrictions after she returned from leave and pressured her to accept a demotion or resign.

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Squire Patton Adds Atty From House Epstein, Trump Probes

By Tracey Read

A key player in government investigations into Jeffrey Epstein's crimes and the assassination attempts on President Donald Trump has joined Squire Patton Boggs LLP to lead the firm's congressional investigations group, the firm announced Thursday.

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Ex-Wis. Judge Appeals Conviction In ICE Obstruction Case

By Ganesh Setty

A former Wisconsin state judge convicted of obstructing immigration authorities trying to arrest a defendant after he appeared in her courtroom lodged an appeal before the Seventh Circuit on Thursday, after avoiding a prison sentence but being fined $5,000.

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