No Password Required: From Heavy Metal to the Front Lines of Cyber Innovation
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10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending August 9, 2025
Compliance Tip of the Day – Final Thoughts on Pre - Acquisition Due Diligence in M&A
Compliance Tip of the Day: Why Engage in Pre-acquisition Due Diligence
Compliance Tip of the Day: Key M&A Enforcement Actions
Compliance Tip of the Day: M&A – International Issues
Daily Compliance News: August 5, 2025, The Staying Focused Edition
Compliance Tip of the Day: M&A Domestic Issues
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, August 2, 2025
Daily Compliance News: July 28, 2025, The Where is Grasshopper when you need him Edition
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels – The Hound of the Baskervilles: Uncovering M&A Compliance Lessons
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, July 26, 2025
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 74 - Global Women in AI/Corporate Director Liability: Discretionary, Not Fiduciary with Tram Anh Nguyen and Marc I. Steinberg
We get Privacy for work – Episode 6: The Potential Privacy Risks Inherent to Mergers and Acquisitions
Daily Compliance News: July 24, 2025, The In Phone Hell Edition
LathamTECH in Focus: Tech Deals: The Emerging Focus of FDI Regulators?
LathamTECH in Focus: Navigating National Security: The Impact of FDI Reviews on Tech M&A
Navigating Employee Integration in Mergers and Acquisitions: Lessons From Pretty Woman — Hiring to Firing Podcast
It both rivals and compounds the transformation brought to us by advancements in computing technology, mobile technology, and the internet. The rapid evolution and commercialization of artificial intelligence (AI) tools has...more
Key Points - - In 2024, securities litigation remained consistent with historical averages, with a slight increase in core filings and cases related to COVID-19 and artificial intelligence. - The U.S. Supreme Court had an...more
2025 promises a dynamic and challenging year for businesses as key antitrust cases set new precedent, private antitrust litigation will intensify, and legal battles evolve. In this first installment of the Wilson Sonsini...more
In the first nine months of 2022, plaintiffs filed 157 securities class action lawsuits, according to Cornerstone Research — a figure only slightly lower than the 162 filings in the same period in 2021. Looking behind the...more
Eighth Circuit Overturns Class Certification in Suit Against TD Ameritrade Holding Corp., Holding Individualized Evidence is Required for Each Putative Class Member; District Judge Approves Magistrate’s Recommendation to Deny...more
Despite unprecedented disruptions to the court system from the COVID-19 pandemic, plaintiffs continued to bring securities class actions at elevated levels in 2020 — a sign that filings will remain high in the year ahead....more
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR) is pleased to present its 2018 Antitrust Year in Review, which summarizes the most significant antitrust matters and developments of the past year. In this report, we examine the Trump...more
Takeaway: Strike suits against corporate mergers are often resolved in worthless “disclosure-only” settlements. Derided as a “peppercorn and a fee,” a disclosure-only settlement provides no monetary relief to the...more
It has become a common phenomenon for the announcement of a significant merger transaction to be quickly followed by shareholder class action or derivative litigation challenging the terms of the transaction and the accuracy...more
Vice Chancellor Tamika R. Montgomery-Reeves of the Delaware Court of Chancery (the “Court”) issued a Memorandum Opinion on January 4, 2017, dismissing a lawsuit arising from a short-form merger involving United Capital...more
After nearly a decade of prominence, disclosure-only settlements may be going extinct. These settlements occur in class action cases arising from the announcement of a merger or acquisition. The plaintiff class alleges that...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a lengthy opinion today in the long-running In re Vivendi, S.A. Securities Litigation, affirming the jury’s verdict on liability and addressing issues about loss...more
Cornerstone Research recently released its 2016 midyear assessment of federal securities class-actions filings. The report finds an increase in filings in the first half of 2016, with particular increases in M&A filings,...more
The Delaware Court of Chancery dealt another blow to disclosure-only settlements of merger litigation and refused to approve a proposed class-action settlement arising from Zillow, Inc.'s acquisition of Trulia, Inc. ...more
When I first looked at Judge Murphy's (unpublished) Order in Ehrenhaus v. Baker earlier this month awarding attorneys' fees to the class action attorneys who sued Wachovia and Wells Fargo over their merger in 2008, I was...more