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Amazon's Whole Foods Cart Could Include In-House Lawyers, Liabilities
Amazon wants to buy Whole Foods. But will it wind up picking up extra lawyers and extra liability in the deal?
Unpublished Opinions for the Week of August 21, 2017
42-2-4038 Bart Commodities v. Hudson Coffee, Inc., N.J. Super. App. Div. (per curiam) (6 pp.) Plaintiffs appealed from the orders denying the appointment…Unpublished Opinions for the Week of August 14, 2017
11-2-3945 Markeim-Chalmers, Inc. v. Willingboro Urban Renewal, LLC, N.J. Super. App. Div. (per curiam) (36 pp.) Defendant sought a new tenant for its…Third-Party Cybersecurity Strategies Critical to Preparedness
Understanding third-party service provider relationships and the security risks they present to any organization is an essential element of cybersecurity planning. Bad actors continue to exploit the risks presented by third-party service providers that maintain access to corporate-owned information systems. Over the last several years, companies have found themselves the victim of costly and high profile data breaches occurring as a result of a third-party service provider's security failures. See, e.g., In re Target Corp. Data Sec. Breach Litig., 66 F. Supp. 3d 1154 (D. Minn. 2014); In re: The Home Depot, Inc., Customer Data Sec. Breach Litig., No. 1:14-MD-2583-TWT, 2016 WL 2897520, at 1 (N.D. Ga. May 18, 2016).
'A Better Deal' on Antitrust Enforcement: Can Democrats Catch the Populist Wave?
Antitrust Trade and Practice columnists Shepard Goldfein and James Keyte write: Although there was no meaningful proposal by Congress during the Obama administration to re-write the antitrust laws to make big "bad" once again, to regulate the pricing of lawful monopolists, or to use the antitrust laws as a tool for social and economic engineering, harkening back to the trust-busting days of old, the 2018 midterm elections beckon, and Congressional Democrats do not want to miss the populist wave a second time.
Deborah Feinstein, FTC's Top Antitrust Enforcer, Returns to Arnold & Porter
After nearly four years as the Federal Trade Commission's top antitrust enforcer, Debbie Feinstein is returning in September to Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, where she will lead the global antitrust group, the firm said Wednesday.
When Lawyers are CEOs, Good Things Happen (Most of the Time)
Move over philosopher-kings—let's hear it for the lawyer-CEOs. A new study of publicly traded companies headed by chief executives who also have law degrees found that such companies don't get sued as often, and when they do, the consequences of litigation are less severe.
Deal Watch: Skadden Snags Top Spot for First Half M&A
Despite early uncertainty about market volatility, global M&A activity is up 2 percent compared to last year, totaling $1.6 trillion for the first half of 2017, according to league tables released by Bloomberg LP and Thomson Reuters Corp. Skadden topped league tables when measured by number of deals by value during the first half.
Deal Watch: Five Firms Advise on Amazon's Bid to Buy Whole Foods
Wachtell, Weil, Sullivan & Cromwell, Paul Hastings and Latham & Watkins are advising various parties on e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc.'s $13.4 billion offer to acquire organic upscale grocery Whole Foods Markets Inc.
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