President Donald Trump has nominated four candidates to fill vacant federal judgeships in North Carolina, praising them as “rock-solid constitutionalists.” Among the nominees is a partner from Troutman Pepper Locke, as well as former attorneys from McGuireWoods and O’Melveny & Myers. One of the nominees is Matt Orso, a white-collar litigator based in Charlotte, who…

Last week, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; A&O Shearman; Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; and Kirkland & Ellis led the two largest announced deals, each valued at over $12 billion. Additionally, at least five other deals were announced that exceeded $5 billion, which is a notable occurrence even for the “Big Deal” culture of…

Through two strategic acquisitions, Norton Rose Fulbright has counseled the Halliwell Group, a preeminent forensic, engineering, and technical consulting catering to insurance and associated sectors, on its ongoing growth in the Asia Pacific area.

PatientPoint, L Catterton, and Littlejohn & Co., LLC are being advised by Gibson Dunn in the sale of PatientPoint to Advent International by an investor group headed by Littlejohn and L Catterton.

Brett M. Pinkus, a partner in the Intellectual Property practice division at Spencer Fane LLP, has joined the firm’s Dallas office. In addition to representing clients in federal district courts and other venues across the nation, Brett focuses his practice on patent, trademark, and trade secret litigation.

In the US$181 million IPO of BlueStone Jewellery & Lifestyle Limited, a prominent digital-first jewelry brand in India that provides an omni-channel retail experience for its contemporary lifestyle jewelry under its flagship brand “BlueStone,” Hogan Lovells served as US counsel to the book running lead managers.

Burr & Forman is happy to announce the hiring of Dylan Patel as an associate in Birmingham in the firm’s Financial Services Litigation practice group.

Houlihan Lokey, which acted as Vital Energy, Inc.’s financial advisor and provided the board of directors with a fairness assessment in Vital’s merger with Crescent Energy Company, had Gibson Dunn as its counsel. Crescent will pay almost $3.1 billion to buy Vital under the terms of the merger agreement.

Regarding the antitrust and competition issues surrounding Bayer’s worldwide exclusive license and precision oncology partnership with Kumquat Biosciences, Inc., Baker McKenzie provided advice.

With a cross-border team from Germany and the Netherlands, Hogan Lovells has advised longtime client JTL-Software-GmbH on the purchase of Bringly, a sustainable logtech platform with intelligent logistics software for Dutch merchants and sustainable carriers.