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Twitter and Hilton Ride Wave of IPOs
The much-anticipated initial public offering of the social networking company was made official Thursday, along with those for Hilton Worldwide and the U.K.'s Royal Mail, all of which enlisted the efforts of a handful of leading Am Law 100 and global firms.Once upon a time, the insider trading case against Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam looked like a slam dunk. But lawyers at Akin Gump are making it interesting.
Retail space availability to fall next year, CBRE says
Space available for leasing at U.S. local shopping centers will decline next year for the first time since 2005 as a growing economy spurs retailer expansion, commercial-property brokerage CBRE Group Inc. said.Spoliation Sanctions For Fen-Phen Maker
A Massachusetts state court judge has hit drug maker American Home Products Corp. (AHP) with potentially damaging sanctions for destroying e-mail evidence in a fen-phen wrongful death case.Toll Brothers buys Seattle homebuilder CamWest Development
Toll Brothers, the largest U.S. luxury-home builder, will enter the Seattle market through its acquisition of CamWest Development LLC.View more book results for the query "US Securities and Exchange Commission"
No one expects executives to suffer any personal financial consequences when they're sued by shareholders. Except, perhaps, Manhattan U.S. district judge Lewis Kaplan. The judge has expressed concerns about a $90 million no-consequences settlement with former Lehman officers that will be paid entirely out of D&O insurance, and wants to know more about the defendants' wealth.
DOJ Unveils Merger Investigations Reform
The DOJ's antitrust division has announced further efforts to streamline the time and cost of merger investigations. The changes are part of a 2001 merger process reform effort and closely mirror changes the FTC announced in February. But there's a big catch for merging parties that participate -- the DOJ requires the parties to agree to as much as six months of pretrial discovery should regulators seek a court order to block a merger. The FTC's streamlining requires only two months of discovery.White-Collar Wiretaps: Will Your Own Words Come Back to Haunt You?
Jonathan B. New, a partner at Baker & Hostetler, and Sammi Malek, an associate at the firm, write that in light of the Rajaratnam prosecution, many commentators have suggested that the newly aggressive use of wiretaps will have a profound chilling effect on the practices of the financial services sector.Trending Stories
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