Mergers and Acquisitions
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Health Care / Medicine
LabCorp Reportedly Planning $8B Buyout Of Global Contract Research Organization
Acquisition rumors have also followed this company for some time. -
Biglaw, Mergers and Acquisitions
Stats Of The Week: New Global M&A Law Firm Leaders
Despite a geopolitically tumultuous 2016, the U.S. M&A market had a robust year. - Sponsored
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
ChatGPT ushers in the age of generative AI – even for law firms. -
Antitrust
Judge Blocks $37B Aetna Merger With Humana On Antitrust Grounds
The deal would “substantially” reduce competition in the Medicare Advantage market.
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Biglaw, Donald Trump, Lateral Moves, Sponsored Content
Hot Law Firm Practices In A Trump Presidency
Am Law firms are sharing with Lateral Link recruiters their predictions for the legal practice areas that will experience growth in a Trump presidency. -
Health Care / Medicine
Deals Roundup: The Latest In The Healthcare Industry
The latest billion dollar deals. -
Rankings, Sponsored Content
Life Sciences Law Firm Index: Top Deal Firms Update
Discover which firms played a significant role in transactional achievements over the course of 2016. -
Technology
Graduating The Hype Cycle In alt.legal: Three Areas Of Change In 2017
Change says easy and does hard; it visualizes in a flash but materializes at a crawl. -
Mergers and Acquisitions
What’s The Health Tech Investment And M&A Outlook For 2017?
The future of the industry will be affected by the agenda of the new administration. - Sponsored
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
The rise of remote work has dramatically reshaped the relationship between Lawyers and Law Firms, see how Scale LLP has taken the steps to get… -
Litigation Finance, Litigators, Money
Lessons From The Burford-Gerchen Keller Deal
What might have motivated this major deal in the litigation financing space? -
Litigation Finance, Litigators, Money
A Major Merger In Litigation Finance Means A Giant Payday For Three Young Lawyers
They're all in their thirties, and they'll split an eight-figure payout. -
Technology
Wall Street Is Dreaming Of Megamergers Under Trump -- Including A Verizon-Comcast Super Union
Things are going to get big in telecom... -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.21.16
* Despite the fact that President-elect Trump has called for the cast of “Hamilton” to apologize to Vice President-elect Pence for delivering a message to him after the show, Pence handled it well, saying he “wasn’t offended,” and that he reminded his kids that the mixture of boos and cheers from the audience as he took his seat was “what freedom sounds like.” [PLAYBILL]
* President-elect Donald Trump may be able to get a pretty hefty tax write-off for settling the Trump University fraud case for $25 million, since according to tax lawyer Robert Wood, most business settlements are fully tax deductible. Perhaps the president-elect — or his legal team — really does know the tax code better than anyone else. [Forbes]
* Libertarian vice presidential candidate Bill Weld is settling back into private practice after the election. The former Massachusetts governor has returned to the Boston office of Mintz Levin as a partner in the firm’s government relations practice, says that being back is a “pure pleasure because you get to sit at a desk and think.” [Am Law Daily]
* In an effort to slash their legal bills, rival fantasy sports rivals DraftKings and FanDuel will be merging in the second half of 2017. As the two sites are market leaders and their union would likely create a monopoly, there will be some antitrust issues to review before the merger closes. We wonder which firms are working on the deal. [Reuters]
* Kaplan’s Concord Law School, an unaccredited, for-profit, online-only institution, is petitioning several states to allow its students to sit for the bar exam. California is the only state that allows Concord graduates to sit for its bar exam, and their passage rate for first-timers on the July 2015 administration of the exam was 25 percent. [ABA Journal]
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Money, Wall Street
Lawyers Advising Business Owners May Find Value In Investment Banking Services
A new study offers insights about whether and how investment bankers add value to middle-market transactions.
Sponsored
Navigating Financial Success by Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Maximizing Firm Performance
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
Sponsored
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve
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Biglaw, Donald Trump, Lateral Moves
Hot Law Firm Practices In A Trump Presidency
Am Law firms are sharing with Lateral Link recruiters their predictions for the legal practice areas that will experience growth in a Trump presidency. -
Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology
Making Corporate Law Great Again: Intelligize Sold, alt.legal Entrepreneurs Cheer
The alt.legal industry is a booming, vibrant, and viable part of the legal ecosystem. -
Biglaw, In-House Counsel, Mergers and Acquisitions
5 Tips For Executing Major M&A Transactions
Advice for in-house counsel on how to handle some of the most important events in a company's existence. -
Conferences / Symposia, In-House Counsel, Quote of the Day
What Will (And Won't) Get Your M&A Deal Killed
When dealing with government regulators, it's all about the facts. -
Biglaw, Mergers and Acquisitions
Evaluating Global M&A: A Bad Year... Except For One Firm
How are we going to afford all those raises? -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.15.16
* Judge Posner tells lawyer for Mike Pence: “You are so out of it.” Was he talking about the case or the election? [LA Times]
* Vibrator sparks class action of bachelorette party attendee class. [Corporate Counsel]
* Bayer is looking to buy Monsanto and multiple Biglaw firms are working on this headache. [The Am Law Daily]
* Former Simpson Thacher clerk gets 46 months for insider trading. [Law360]
* Guess who is funding the battle over pot legalization? [The Intercept]
* The next Brown v. Board? [Law.com]
* The least shocking lawsuit award goes to this suit claims Georgia’s voter registration laws violate federal law. [ABC News]
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Law Schools, Rankings
The Best Law Schools For A Career in M&A (2016)
Which law schools will give you the competitive edge to make your dreams of a career in M&A come true?