After some production delays, a heavy-hitter roster of law firms, including Sullivan & Cromwell, Latham & Watkins, Ropes & Gray, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Cravath, Swaine & Moore, finally pushed the long-anticipated Paramount merger through. Under the structure of the deal, Skydance Media acquired National Amusements, the controlling shareholder…

Pierson Ferdinand, the law firm that spun off of FisherBroyles earlier this year, has stepped into London with continued lateral hiring from its legacy firm as well as other firms with an established presence in the U.K. market. At the time of its London office launch in July, Pierson Ferdinand has recruited…

Law.com Radar, ALM’s AI-enhanced tool for alerting legal professionals to federal and state court filings and trends, announced on July 1 a new initiative to incorporate the civil claims taxonomy of the Standards for the Legal Industry (SALI) Alliance in order “to create more actionable new suit alerts, to reduce…

A state circuit court in Florida is expected to enter a decision on a motion seeking reconsideration of an unusual ruling by the judge to set aside an over $10 million verdict, largely over impermissible evidence presented to a jury during a three-week trial. Lewis Murphy, a partner at Murphy…

Brazilian law firms topped the league tables for principal legal adviser in announced M&A deals that involved Latin America during the first half of 2024, while Simpson Thacher & Bartlett led the rankings for completed deals in the region. Those results came as M&A activity with emerging markets involvement fell…

In an era where digital threats loom large, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has taken several steps to safeguard a strong national cybersecurity framework. In particular, on October 6, 2021, DOJ announced the Cyber-Fraud Initiative (the Initiative), which uses the False Claims Act (FCA) to combat cybersecurity fraud committed by…