Squarespace’s $6.9 billion take-private deal, announced Monday, kicked off a flurry of work to several law firms. It was the largest announced transaction in deal value of the past week. The website developer company has entered into a definitive agreement to go private by Permira, the London-based private equity firm,…

Donald Trump approved allegedly phony payments for legal fees to his former personal attorney just days before his inauguration as the 45th president of the United States, his ex-lawyer testified on Monday. “This is going to be one heck of a ride in D.C.,” Michael Cohen told the then-president-elect during…

An Am Law 50 firm was among the law firms that hit aircraft engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney with an antitrust lawsuit on May 10 in a federal district court in Pennsylvania, accusing the company of trying to monopolize the U.S. market for two types of widely used turboprop engines.…

Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal reversed a final summary judgment of a foreclosure ruling on the Tides Hotel in Miami Beach by the Miami-Dade Circuit Court, which—before it was reversed—allowed over $20 million in retroactively calculated default interest on a loan. The foreclosure involves three main actors: First, the…

In deciding personal jurisdiction in a medical malpractice suit, the Virginia Supreme Court determined that North Carolina physicians’ responses to a Virginia patient through various form of communication were not sufficient to establish purposeful availment. The Virginia Supreme Court unanimously concluded Virginia courts did not have personal jurisdiction over a case brought…

The Hong Kong legal market is going through a paradigm shift. International law firms are scaling back in the city in droves and cross-border work has all but dried up, threatening domestic Hong Kong law firms and their livelihood. Recent news about Mayer Brown separating from its Hong Kong affiliate,…