Samsung Electronics, represented by Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, has filed an antitrust complaint against Broadcom, alleging that the semiconductor manufacturer violated U.S. law by monopolizing the supply of critical components used in its Galaxy series smartphones, tablets and other high-end mobile devices. The suit, filed Monday in the U.S.…

Three Swiss law firms merged on Monday to create a one-stop business law hub, seizing an opportunity in a market that doesn’t have much penetration by global law firms other than Baker McKenzie. Valfor (styled “valfor”) is a merger of German-speaking BianchiSchwald, GHR Rechtsanwälte, and French-speaking Python, bringing together more…

After information implicating Tenaris S.A. (Tenaris) executives in an alleged scheme to bribe Argentinian government officials was disclosed in 2018, Tenaris’s stock price dropped. Later that year, plaintiff Charles Atanasio filed a securities class action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York against Tenaris and…

Global fintech company Intuit was hit on Monday with a proposed class action lawsuit alleging that it failed to protect customers’ information from a data breach. The proposed class action lawsuit was filed by Chicago-based firm Strauss Borrelli in the California Northern District Court, San Jose Division, and includes more than…

International law firm Dechert is to close three of its offices—in Chicago, Beijing, and Hong Kong. In a statement, the firm said: “Following a strategic review of our office locations, we have made the careful decision to close our Chicago, Beijing and Hong Kong offices around the end of 2024.…

It’s hard to imagine a more eventful month for a Washington, D.C. white-collar litigator than the June that Barry Pollack of Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler just had.  On June 12, in a trial that pushed off just after Memorial Day, jurors in D.C. Superior Court found Pollack’s client—fellow D.C.…