• April 2, 2024 | Legaltech News

    Luminance Raises $40 Million in Series B Funding, Plans U.S. Expansion

    Law firm Slaughter and May, a longtime Luminance investor, also participated in the round.

    3 minute read

  • March 25, 2024 | The American Lawyer

    The Law Firms and Lawyers That Benefit Most From Private Equity Designation

    An in-depth investigation featuring interviews with a wide range of market leaders has shown the law firms and lawyers that frequently get designated mandates on private equity transactions in the UK.

    5 minute read

  • March 22, 2024 | Legaltech News

    Compliance Startup SingleFile Raises $6.5M With Investments From Am Law 100 and TLTF

    SingleFile, a startup that offers a platform to automate the compliance filing process, is financially backed by a number of firms, including Wilson Sonsini, Cooley and others.

    3 minute read

  • Sec. and Exch. Comm'n v. Rashid

    Publication Date: 2024-03-21
    Practice Area: Securities Litigation
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge John M. Walker, Jr.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellee: Michael A. Conley, Acting General Counsel, on the brief, William K. Shirey, Counsel to the Solicitor, Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, DC.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellant: Faith E. Gay, Ryan W. Allison, Selendy & Gay PLLC, New York, NY; Theresa Van Vliet, Genovese Joblove & Battista, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, FL, on the brief, Caitlin J. Halligan, Selendy & Gay PLLC, New York, NY.

    Case Number: 20-4080-CV

    Equity Funds' Reimbursement of Their Manager's Expenses Not Reasonably Foreseeable

  • March 14, 2024 | Legaltech News

    DraftWise Announces $20 Million Investment, Plans to Expand Its Gen AI Contract Platform

    The new investment comes less than a year after DraftWise, which offers a generative AI-powered contract drafting, knowledge and collaboration platform, announced $5 million in seed funding.

    2 minute read

  • Murdick Capital Mgmt. L.P. v. QuarterNorth Energy Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-11
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Energy | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bradley R. Aronstam, Roger S. Stronach, Benjamin M. Whitney, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jordan A. Goldstein, Lauren J. Zimmerman, Babak Ghafarzade, Selendy Gay PLLC, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Blake Rohrbacher, Matthew W. Murphy, John M. O’Toole, Edmond S. Kim, Spencer V. Crawford, Margaret Rockey, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Harry P. Susman, Susman Godfrey L.L.P., Houston, TX; Thomas W. Briggs, Jr., Kirk Andersen, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Andrew K. Glenn, Glenn Agre Bergman & Fuentes LLP, New York, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: 2024-0106-LWW

    Court declined to preliminarily enjoin invocation of drag-along rights where the invocation was not inconsistent with the terms of the proposed merger agreement or the minority securityholders' agreements and the minority could obtain monetary relief if the court ultimately found an improper invocation.

  • February 27, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

    Current Issues for Estate Planners: The CTA, Rising Interest Rates and More

    There are a number of prominent issues on the horizon for estate planners this year. In this article, we provide a brief overview of some of those issues, including the Corporate Transparency Act, rising interest rates, Pennsylvania recognition of irrevocable grantor trusts, pandemic-related probate delays and upcoming scheduled sunset of the historically large federal gift and estate tax exemption.

    6 minute read

  • Friddle v. Moehle

    Publication Date: 2024-02-19
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thad J. Bracegirdle, Emily L. Skaug, Bayard, P.A., Wilmington, Delaware; Brian A. Katz, John G. Moon, Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Steve L. Caponi, Matthew B. Goeller, K&L Gates LLP, Wilmington, DE; Christopher M. Verdini, K&L Gates LLP, Pittsburgh, PA for defendants.

    Case Number: 2021-0306-SG

    Court interpreted the scope of the parties' joint waiver of their contractual mandatory arbitration provision to include only those claims the parties had asserted in their pleadings at the time they executed the waiver, so as to avoid an unintended waiver of bargained-for rights.

  • Jaroslawicz v. M&T Bank Corp.

    Publication Date: 2024-02-19
    Practice Area: Securities Litigation
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Wallach
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Francis J. Murphy, Jr., Jonathan L. Parshall, Murphy, Spadaro & Landon, Wilmington, DE; Steven M. Coren, Benjamin M. Mather, Matthew R. Williams, Kauffman, Coren & Ress, P.C, Philadelphia, PA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Brian M. Rostocki, Anne M. Steadman, Justin M. Forcier, Reed Smith LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jonathan K. Youngwood, Janet A. Gochman, Tyler A. Anger, Katherine A. Hardiman, Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, New York, NY; Kevin R. Shannon, Daniel Rusk, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Tracy Richelle High, Scott A. Foltz, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: 15-00897-EJW

    Although plaintiffs' experts' report in support of their damages theory for class certification used sufficiently reliable methodologies under the Daubert standard, the evidence was wholly speculative to demonstrate economic loss or proximate causation, such that plaintiffs could not meet the commonality or predominance standards.

  • Larian v. Momentus Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-02-12
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Aerospace | Investments and Investment Advisory | Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dominick T. Gattuso, Elizabeth A. DeFelice, Gillian L. Andrews, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jonathan K. Cooperman, Kelly Drye & Warren LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Joseph L. Christensen, Christensen & Dougherty LLP, Wilmington, DE; Perrie M. Weiner, Baker & McKenzie, LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Peter P. Tomczak, Michael D. Lehrman, Baker & McKenzie LLP, Chicago, IL for defendant.

    Case Number: N22C-07-133 EMD CCLD

    Court declined to resolve breach of contract claim on summary judgment where parties had material factual disputes over the contractual conditions precedent to payment.