The European Commission’s decision to review a $2.5 billion telecoms deal illustrates the executive branch’s resolve to scrutinize any future acquisition of EU businesses by foreign companies that have received outsized financial support from their governments. Last week, Brussels officials announced they would probe a state-controlled United Arab Emirates company’s…

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The European Commission’s green legislative agenda has come to an abrupt halt following significant gains by nationalist, populist, and far-right parties, along with substantial losses for the environmental left in June’s European Parliament elections. For American companies selling products or services in the EU—the U.S.’ largest export market—the legislative shift…

A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit dismissed an appeal for lack of personal jurisdiction Thursday in a case brought by six women attempting to reinstate their lawsuit against their sorority, Kappa Kappa Gamma, after the organization allowed a transgender woman to join their chapter. Judge Carolyn B.…

Gov Abbott Appoints Judges to New Business Courts in Houston, San Antonio | Texas Lawyer Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/texaslawyer/2024/06/14/new-judges-new-courts-appointees-named-in-houston-san-antonio/ Texas Administrative Judicial Regions. Source: Texas Judicial Branch With the appointments this week of two judges to each of five new business courts for the Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, Houston and…

An investment fund represented by Baker Botts on Thursday filed a breach of contract suit against the biopharmaceutical company Dendreon Pharmaceuticals in the Southern District of New York, arguing that Dendreon paid only $4 million of a $13 million agreement. The plaintiff AMC Fund L.P. and Dendreon agreed in May…