Full Disclosure:​

Practice Area News​

By Jaysen Sutton​
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Hi Reader 👋🏽,

It's the second week of July, 2024. Here are the most relevant stories for you to be aware of as an aspiring lawyer, from all of the main practice areas:
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Mergers & Acquisitions​
  • Latham & Watkins, Sullivan & Cromwell, Ropes & Gray, Simpson Thacher and Cravath advise as Paramount Global agreed to merge with Skydance Media (Law.com)
  • Morrison & Foerster and Orrick advise as SoftBank buys UK chipmaker Graphcore (Mofo)
  • Linklaters and Bakers advises as Carlsberg acquires Britvic (Global Legal Post)
  • Ropes & Gray and Paul Weiss lead as US private equity group buys Envestnet (Bloomberg)
Competition
  • Microsoft and Apple gives up board seat at OpenAI amid scrutiny from competition regulators (The Guardian)
Capital Markets / Finance
  • FCA publishes plan to change the listing rules (FCA)
  • Index Ventures raises $2bn to target AI companies (Business Wire)
Restructuring & Insolvency
  • Travers Smith advises as Carpetright is on the brink of collapse (The Guardian)
  • Ofwat places Thames Water into special measures (The Guardian)
  • Mike Jatania to buy The Body Shop out of administration (Bloomberg)
Economy
  • Joe Biden refuses to withdraw from the election after Trump debate (BBC)
  • UK economy grows by 0.4% in May (BBC)
Law Firms as a Business
  • Reed Smith and Ashurst increases NQ pay to £125,000 (Law Gazette)

Have any thoughts? I'd love to hear your perspective below!

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