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Freshfields Picks Up Covington M&A Pro In Silicon Valley

Law 360 M&A

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP is growing its corporate practice, bringing in a Covington & Burling LLP mergers and acquisitions expert as a partner in its Silicon Valley office, the firm said Monday.

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Covington Adds Ex-FTC Atty To DC Office

Law 360 M&A

Federal Trade Commission's technology enforcement division has jumped from the agency to join Covington & Burling LLP in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Tuesday. The former deputy assistant director of the U.S.

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Akin Gump Bolsters PE Team With 2 Covington Attys

Law 360 M&A

Two private equity attorneys from Covington & Burling LLP with an extensive history of working together on complex global mergers and acquisitions have joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP as partners, part of a larger push to grow the firm's private equity practice.

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Syneos Health to be Acquired by a Private Investment Consortium for Approximately $7.1 Billion

Benzinga

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP is serving as legal counsel to Elliott; Kirkland & Ellis LLP is serving as legal counsel to Patient Square; and Millbank LLP and Covington & Burling LLP are serving as legal. per share in cash in a transaction valued at approximately $7.1 billion, including outstanding debt.

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Covington Discusses Corporate Political-Disclosure Shareholder Proposals

Reynolds Holding

A company’s failure to act on a shareholder proposal that is approved or that receives strong support can result in reputational damage to the company and could signal to shareholders and proxy advisory firms that the board is not responsive to a matter of significant shareholder concern.

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Covington Discusses SEC’s Focus on Cybersecurity Incident Disclosure

Reynolds Holding

This post comes to us from Covington & Burling LLP. It is based on the firm’s memorandum, “SEC’s Continued Focus on Cybersecurity Incident Disclosures,” dated March 14, 2023, and available here.

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Davis Polk Discusses Recent SEC and CFTC Enforcement Actions

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Specifically, according to the orders, employees at the firms communicated through various messaging platforms on their personal devices. According to the SEC, the firms did not maintain or preserve a majority of these “off-channel communications.” The firms agreed to pay combined penalties of $289 million to resolve the SEC’s claims.

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