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SPACs Under the Microscope as Lawsuits Mount
As litigation over special acquisition vehicles heats up, deal lawyers are taking steps to help avoid such challenges.
Analysis: Dealmakers See M&A Rush, Then Chills, in Biden's Antitrust Crackdown
Dealmakers expect a new wave of transformative U.S. mergers and acquisitions (M&A), as companies rush to complete deals before President Joe Biden's antitrust push takes shape, to be followed by a slowdown when regulators start cracking down.
Musk Tells SolarCity Trial That Tesla Would 'Die' If He Wasn't CEO
Elon Musk insisted in court that Tesla Inc's (TSLA.O) board controls the company but also said the electric vehicle maker would "die" if he wasn't the chief executive, as he ended his first day of testimony on Monday in defense of Tesla's 2016 acquisition of SolarCity.
Del. Court OKs Investors’ Payout Fight Over $2.8 bln Exela Merger
A group of investors can proceed with a suit over a $2.8 billion merger that created business management technology company Exela Technologies, a Delaware Chancery Court judge ruled in a matter of first impression on Tuesday.
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SEC Rule Tweak A Partial Fix For Underrepresented Founders
Ramona Ortega, a former associate who left the legal world to found a millennial-centric personal finance education platform, knows off the top of her head how much funding her startup's competitors were able to raise.
In-Limbo Finders Exemption Legitimizes Market's Open Secret
Finders, or unlicensed people who help private companies raise capital, have long been relegated to the shadows and limited in how they can be paid, but an exemption proposed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission would legitimize their part in the private fundraising process.
New Latham Partner Says It's 'Back To Biz' For Emerging Cos.
Latham's latest addition to its emerging companies practice expects the sector to maintain its current rapid pace in 2020 as budding enterprises and their backers find creative ways to navigate the coronavirus pandemic.
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Public Universities Struggle to Support Black Students, Report Finds
When Kaidee Akullo moved nearly 400 miles from her hometown of Fort Collins, Colorado to attend Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado in 2016, she felt lucky to have been assigned to one of the few black resident assistants on campus.
Lasting Fire Damage Scars Some of SoCal's Most Scenic Parks
When the Paramount movie ranch and Western Town burned in a wildfire that swept through Southern California, one woman lost more than a local historic site.
’This Is Us’ Star Susan Kelechi Watson Honored at NYU Tisch Event
The exposed brick walls at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, New York, were adorned with warm string lights, “Imagine the Future" signs and multicolor neon square panels reminiscent of a '70s disco floor. The performing arts venue located below the Brooklyn Bridge was filled with New York University faculty, alumni and student performers who had gathered to honor some of the institution’s best and brightest.
2019 State of the Union Fact Check: Trump's Full Speech, Annotated
President Donald Trump delivered his second State of the Union speech Tuesday, hailing the country's booming economy and warning of human traffickers flooding across the border. Here's a closer look at some of the statements from his address.
Danez Smith, Youngest Winner of Top UK Poetry Prize, Wants Trump Fans to Read Their Work
Baptist bishops preaching from the pulpit are poets. The wino on the corner is a poet. Grandparents who repeat oral stories from the comfort of their favorite chair are poets, too.
That’s what Danez Smith, the newest and youngest poet to receive a prestigious British Forward Prize, believes.
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University of Puerto Rico Student Uprooted by Hurricane Maria Finds Support at Brown
This past summer, Jennifer Mojica Santana studied the works of Nuyorican poet Tato Laviera at a course at Brown University, then returned home to San Germán, a city on the southwestern side of Puerto Rico. By Aug.14, she had started her fourth year at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR).
At the time, she never would have imagined that only two months later, a hurricane would force her to leave her friends, family and home behind and return to Brown.