Litigation funders are braced for months of uncertainty as the U.K. government drops a key bill, designed to overturn a piece of proposed legislation, which they believe would have made it easier for members of the public to secure litigation funding for complex claims. The Litigation Funding Agreements (Enforceability) Bill—which…

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Latham & Watkins and Weil Gotshal & Manges are advising on the $2.6 billion acquisition of the London-headquartered infrastructure company Atlantica by a U.S. private equity consortium headed by Energy Capital Partners. Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure group, which has been listed on Nasdaq since 2014,…

A multi-firm legal team led by Kirkland & Ellis attorneys locked in a major defense win for Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. in a patent case where plaintiffs sought $500 million in damages. U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap of the Eastern District of Texas, in an order entered May 24, found…

Varney & Co. host Stuart Varney discusses whether Elon Musks latest technological gamble will pay off for investors. Tesla CEO Elon Musk is encouraging Tesla shareholders to vote on their shares with the offer of a chance to win a personally guided tour of the company’s Texas plant as the…

The Manhattan jury set to weigh Donald Trump’s culpability were offered competing frameworks for evaluating the testimony of Michael Cohen during closing arguments on Tuesday—with the defense painting Cohen as “the greatest liar of all time” while prosecutors called him the perfect “tour guide” to Trump’s alleged crimes. “He’s the…

The binding nature of attorney-client arbitration clauses was put to the test when Morgan & Morgan asked the Georgia Court of Appeals to reconsider a Savannah trial court’s decision that invalidated an arbitration agreement between the firm and a former client. Plaintiff-appellee Brian Brown retained the firm after a trucking…