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1 天前 · In October, the Corporate Counsel Business Journal named Richardson to its list of 50 Women to Watch in the legal industry. She leads an in-house team of eight. Private equity giant KKR & Co. acquired a majority stake in the California-based CLM company last year as the company’s founders retired. KKR views Agiloft as a potential IPO candidate.. Legal Dive’s conversation with Richardson ...

5 天之前 · The Department of Justice sued in federal district court Thursday to stop Hewlett Packard Enterprise from acquiring Juniper Networks on the grounds it would leave 70% of the enterprise wireless local area network market controlled by just two companies. “The threat this merger poses is not theoretical,” Acting Assistant Attorney General Omeed Assefi of the Justice Department's Antitrust ...

2025年1月28日 · Dive Brief: T he Trump administration has paused federal financial assistance programs starting Jan. 28, setting up a legal challenge on the scope of a president’s authority to refuse disbursing funds Congress has appropriated. The memo Monday from the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, Matthew Vaeth, excludes direct government aid to individuals, including Medicare and ...

2025年1月29日 · Dive Insight: For several years, CLOs have been trying to execute C-suite mandates to cut costs by reducing their biggest budget exposure — outside counsel spend. In ACC’s survey last year, almost two-thirds of CLOs said they’re having their in-house staff do more legal work themselves.. But that strategy is under pressure as CLOs wrestle with insufficient staff to take on more legal work.

FDIC weighs lawsuit against ex-SVB execs The regulator is considering taking legal action against six former officers and 11 former directors of Silicon Valley Bank over their role in the bank’s collapse and $23 billion hit to the Deposit Insurance Fund.

2025年1月17日 · Dive Brief: The plaintiffs bar has orchestrated the largest-ever transfer of wealth from companies to their clients in the last three years through massive class action settlements, including almost three dozen settlements of $1 billion or more from 2022 to 2024, an analysis by the law firm Duane Morris shows. “This string of settlements marks the most extensive set of billion-dollar class ...

2025年1月10日 · Dive Brief: Almost 75% of corporate lawyers and risk leaders call lawsuits related to environmental, social and governance values their biggest concern, according to a survey by global law firm Baker McKenzie. The previous two times the firm conducted the annual survey respondents called cyber issues their biggest worry, but that’s no longer the case.

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2024年7月17日 · Johnson & Johnson drug benefits suit ‘absolutely’ a wake-up call for employers, exec says Employer health plans are being held to account for drug costs, but they may lack key information when negotiating with pharmacy benefit managers and similar intermediaries.