Corporate

  • January 21, 2025

    FTC Gives Nod To Chevron's $53B Hess Buy, With Conditions

    The Federal Trade Commission has formally approved a consent order resolving antitrust concerns over Chevron Corp.'s planned $53 billion acquisition of Hess Corp., one that bars CEO John Hess from joining the combined company's board.

  • January 21, 2025

    Trump Elevates Mark Christie To FERC Chairmanship

    Republican Commissioner Mark Christie thanked President Donald Trump on Monday for appointing him to lead the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, while touting his own emphasis on addressing the "reliability crisis."

  • January 21, 2025

    New Tariff Moves Still In Flux As Trump Retakes Office

    President Donald Trump's first day in office did not yield the range of new tariffs he promised, though the president stressed that several actions are still under discussion, including sanctions against China regarding control of the popular social network TikTok.

  • January 21, 2025

    Paul Weiss Hires Exec Comp Head From Sullivan & Cromwell

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP is bringing on Matt Friestedt, the former head of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's executive compensation mergers and acquisitions practice, as a partner in its New York office.

  • January 21, 2025

    Trump Picks Acting DOL Head

     A U.S. Department of Labor staffer and 2016 transition officer will lead the agency until the Senate confirms President Donald Trump's pick for labor secretary, according to the agency.

  • January 17, 2025

    Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year

    Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2024, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and significant transaction work that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.

  • January 17, 2025

    Law360 Names Firms Of The Year

    Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 54 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2024 and securing high-profile litigation wins, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • January 17, 2025

    Real Estate Recap: Trump Policy Priorities, Natural Disasters

    Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including policy expectations under President Donald Trump and the way natural disasters such as the LA wildfires are shaping commercial real estate deals.

  • January 17, 2025

    Employment Authority: Justices' FLSA Evidence Ruling

    Law360 Employment Authority covers the biggest employment cases and trends. Catch up this week with how the U.S. Supreme Court's decision that Fair Labor Standards Act exemptions do not warrant higher evidence standards brings clarity, what employers should keep in mind amid the wildfires in Southern California, and how a Donald Trump presidential sequel can bring quick changes at the National Labor Relations Board. 

  • January 17, 2025

    Walgreens Knowingly Filled Invalid Prescriptions, Feds Say

    The U.S. Department of Justice has accused Walgreens of knowingly filling millions of prescriptions for opioids and other controlled substances that did not have a legitimate medical purpose or were not valid, intervening in cases brought by four whistleblowers in Illinois federal court.

  • January 17, 2025

    Epic Wary Of Apple's Privilege Claims As Doc Review Wraps

    Epic Games' counsel took issue with the rising number of privilege assertions Apple is maintaining over its discovery documents in their ongoing antitrust compliance fight, telling a magistrate judge Friday he's "frankly surprised and concerned" by the sudden increase as Apple's privilege-assertion rereview draws to a close.

  • January 17, 2025

    Tennessee, BlackRock Settle Suit Over ESG Goals

    Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti announced Friday that his office has dismissed its lawsuit accusing BlackRock of misleading customers about its environmental, social and corporate governance investment strategies, with the asset manager committing to certain transparency and compliance measures.

  • January 17, 2025

    P&G Accused Of 'Greenwashing' And Making 'Frankenforests'

    Procter & Gamble is greenwashing its Charmin toilet paper by misleading consumers into believing it is ethically sourced and that the multinational consumer goods company is following through with sustainable reforestation promises, a 48-count proposed class action alleges.

  • January 17, 2025

    Up Next At High Court: Forum Shopping & TCPA Definitions

    The U.S. Supreme Court will return to the bench Tuesday for a short argument session, during which the justices will consider the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's bid to limit forum shopping by manufacturers challenging agency decisions and how much deference district courts must give to Federal Communications Commission orders.

  • January 17, 2025

    Walgreens Can't Hold Great-Grandson To Decade-Old TM Deal

    A federal judge in Illinois has found that Charles Walgreen didn't break the terms of a deal he made a decade ago to not compete with the retail and pharmacy giant that his great-grandfather founded, which is now suing him over his commercial use of his last name.

  • January 17, 2025

    Pot Labs Say Mass. Co. Sold Dud Test Devices In $286M Suit

    The owners of more than two dozen cannabis testing labs across the United States and Canada have accused PerkinElmer Health Services Inc. of knowingly selling them equipment that it knew was incapable of handling the sort of tests the labs performed.

  • January 17, 2025

    Nasdaq Pulls Board Diversity Rules After 5th Circ. Loss

    Nasdaq has moved to formally undo its rules requiring that companies listed on the exchange disclose board diversity data, following a narrow, en banc ruling from the Fifth Circuit last month finding that the rules ran afoul of federal securities law.

  • January 17, 2025

    Wells Fargo, BofA Units Pay SEC $60M Over Cash Sweeps

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday announced that Merrill Lynch and two units of Wells Fargo will pay a combined $60 million to settle claims they failed to implement preventative procedures concerning their cash sweep programs.

  • January 17, 2025

    Drink Maker Celsius Settles SEC's Accounting Claims For $3M

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday fined beverage company Celsius Holdings Inc. $3 million to settle claims that it issued financial statements that were materially inaccurate and misleading due to misreported stock award information.

  • January 17, 2025

    NYC Mall Lenders, Developer Want Foreign Investor Suit Nixed

    Financial backers of a Staten Island mall project are asking a federal judge to toss a suit by foreign investors seeking damages, arguing that the investors are just trying to "claw back" whatever they can from others who lost even more money.

  • January 17, 2025

    Prime Sports Drink Fight In Wrong Venue, Chancery Finds

    A beverage bottler's lawsuit seeking damages tied to sports-drink startup Prime Hydration's alleged failure to honor a production contract has come up empty in Delaware's Court of Chancery, with a Thursday ruling that the complaint never tapped into the court's equity jurisdiction.

  • January 17, 2025

    SEC Fines Crypto Giant DCG, Ex-Genesis CEO $38.5M

    Crypto venture capital firm Digital Currency Group and the ex-CEO of its bankrupt lending subsidiary Genesis Global Capital LLC agreed to a combined $38.5 million civil penalty Friday to settle claims they misled investors about Genesis' financial condition ahead of its collapse.

  • January 17, 2025

    GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

    A report says the market is heating up for the hiring of general counsel and chief compliance officers. Meanwhile, Meta is having trouble hanging on to its lawyers, with its deputy general counsel for civil rights leaving, and an outside IP counsel quitting over the CEO's "toxic masculinity." These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.​

  • January 17, 2025

    Polsinelli Commercial Litigation Vice Chair Joins Honigman

    Honigman LLP announced the addition of Polsinelli PC's vice chair of commercial litigation on Thursday, saying his experience will support the growth Honigman anticipates in the commercial real estate market.

  • January 17, 2025

    Insurer Tried To 'Embarrass' Cadwalader, NC Court Told

    Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP has accused a Lloyd's of London syndicate of attempting to "embarrass" the firm by publicly revealing the firm's data breach recoveries amid the insurer's bid to toss a coverage suit stemming from a 2022 hack.

Expert Analysis

  • Parsing SEC's Emerging Trend Of Section 204A Enforcement

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently settled with Sound Point Capital Management for violating Section 204A of the Investment Advisers Act, adding to a slew of charges against investment advisers that allegedly failed to safeguard material nonpublic information, say attorneys at Cozen O'Connor.

  • Comparing Antitrust Outlooks Amid Google Remedy Review

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    As the U.S. Justice Department mulls potential structural remedies after winning its recent case against Google, increased global scrutiny of Big Tech leaves ex post and ex ante antitrust approaches ripe for evaluation, say Nishant Chadha at the Indian School of Business and Manisha Goel at Pomona College.

  • SEC Rulemaking Radar: The View From Election Day

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission seems poised to tackle many of the remaining items on its most recent Regulatory Flexibility Agenda by early 2025, despite the presidential election and the potential for a new chair to be nominated soon, say attorneys at Goodwin.

  • How The Presidential Election Will Affect Workplace AI Regs

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    The U.S. has so far adopted a light-handed approach to regulating artificial intelligence in the labor and employment area, but the presidential election is unlikely to have as dramatic of an effect on AI regulations as it may on other labor and employment matters, say attorneys at Littler.

  • A Look At Grewal's Record-Breaking Legacy After SEC Exit

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    Gurbir Grewal resigned as director of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Enforcement last month after more than three years on the job, leaving behind a legacy marked by record numbers of penalties and enforcement actions, as well as mixed results in aggressive lawsuits against major crypto players, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • Striking A Balance Between AI Use And Attorney Well-Being

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    As the legal industry increasingly adopts generative artificial intelligence tools to boost efficiency, leaders must note the hidden costs of increased productivity, and work to protect attorneys’ well-being while unlocking AI’s full potential, says Ed Sohn at Factor.

  • A Novel Expansion Of Alien Tort Statute In 9th Circ.

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    The Ninth Circuit's Doe v. Cisco rehearing denial allows a new invocation of the Alien Tort Statute to proceed, which could capture the U.S. Supreme Court's attention, and has potentially dramatic consequences for U.S. companies doing business with foreign governments, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

  • Empathy In Mediation Offers A Soft Landing For Disputes

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    Experiencing a crash-landing on a recent flight underscored to me how much difference empathy makes in times of crisis or stress, including during mediation, says Eydith Kaufman at Alternative Resolution Centers.

  • Series

    Being An Artist Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My work as an artist has highlighted how using creativity and precision together — qualities that are equally essential in both art and law — not only improves outcomes, but also leads to more innovative and thoughtful work, says Sarah La Pearl at Segal McCambridge.

  • How Judiciary Can Minimize AI Risks In Secondary Sources

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    Because courts’ standing orders on generative artificial intelligence and other safeguards do not address the risk of hallucinations in secondary source materials, the judiciary should consider enlisting legal publishers and database hosts to protect against AI-generated inaccuracies, say attorneys at Lankler Siffert & Wohl.

  • 3 Steps For Companies To Combat Task Scams

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    On the rise in the U.S., the task scam — when scammers offer a victim a fake work-from-home job — hurts impersonated businesses by tarnishing their name and brand, but companies have a few ways to fight back against these cons, says Chris Wlach at Huge.

  • Nvidia Case's Potential Impact On Securities Class Actions

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    In Nvidia v. Ohman Fonder, the U.S. Supreme Court could strip lower courts of their long-standing ability and obligation to holistically weigh all relevant facts supporting plaintiffs' allegations of securities fraud, which would have a wide-ranging impact on securities fraud class actions in the U.S., say attorneys at Labaton Keller.

  • How Attorneys Can Break Free From Career Enmeshment

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    Ambitious attorneys can sometimes experience career enmeshment — when your sense of self-worth becomes unhealthily tangled up in your legal vocation — but taking the time to discover and realign with your core personal values can help you recover your identity, says Janna Koretz at Azimuth Psychological.

  • Short-Seller Implications Of 10th Circ.'s Overstock Decision

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    The Tenth Circuit's Oct. 15 decision in Overstock Securities Litigation provides clarity on the pleading standard for a market manipulation claim under the Exchange Act, and suggests that short sellers might not be able to rely on the fraud-on-the-market presumption typically invoked by securities plaintiffs, say attorneys at Paul Weiss.

  • Lawyers With Disabilities Are Seeking Equity, Not Pity

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    Attorneys living with disabilities face extra challenges — including the need for special accommodations, the fear of stigmatization and the risk of being tokenized — but if given equitable opportunities, they can still rise to the top of their field, says Kate Reder Sheikh, a former attorney and legal recruiter at Major Lindsey & Africa.

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