Business Wire M&A

APRIL 18, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #Alzheimersdisease--Headlands Research, a leading multinational network of clinical trial sites, today announced the acquisition of an established clinical research site, now known as Headlands Research Eastern Massachusetts.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Posted by Dirk Jenter (London School of Economics and Political Science), Egor Matveyev (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Lukas Roth (University of Alberta), on Tuesday, October 24, 2023 Editor's Note: Dirk Jenter is a Professor of Finance at London School of Economics and Political Science, Egor Matveyev is a Senior Lecturer and Research (..)

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Business Wire M&A

MAY 25, 2023

grocery-anchored shopping center investment, management and operating platform, together with its joint venture (“JV”) partners, Pantheon and a leading global institutional investor, today announced their entry into Massachusetts with the acquisition of Heritage Park Plaza. (“ShopOne”), a fully integrated U.S. The strategic

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Benzinga

DECEMBER 14, 2023

LONGMEADOW, Mass., 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Regency Centers today announced the acquisition of The Longmeadow Shops in Longmeadow, MA. The Longmeadow Shops have been a fixture in this community dating back 50 years and serves as a town gathering spot for shopping and dining," said Barry Argalas, Managing Director of Transactions.

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Law 360 M&A

MARCH 27, 2024

A shareholder in Massachusetts-based emergency management platform Everbridge Inc. is asking a state court to intervene in a pending $1.8 billion acquisition by private equity firm Thoma Bravo LP, alleging in a Wednesday lawsuit that investors are being misled about the true value of shares and the motives of those promoting the deal.

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Benzinga

MAY 4, 2022

a leading home care provider serving Medicaid, dual-eligible and private pay clients throughout Eastern Massachusetts, Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard. has been providing compassionate, high-quality personal care services throughout Massachusetts for nearly thirty years.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Merton (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Richard T. Kothari (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Robert Pozen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), on Thursday, February 16, 2023 Tags: Board of Directors , CEOs , Corporate governance , Executive Compensation , GAAP , S&P 500

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Benzinga

APRIL 11, 2024

The Massachusetts-based company said the green light from the Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation for the acquisition allows MariMed to fully consolidate the financial results of the company's Thrive-branded dispensary in Casey, Illinois. Multi-state marijuana operator MariMed Inc.

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Law 360 M&A

APRIL 23, 2024

and its counsel at Ropes & Gray and Quinn Emanuel allegedly fabricated claims that a Mexican corporation's lawyers corruptly influenced prosecutors and judges in the country to freeze the private equity firm's assets and issue arrest warrants for executives, according to a filing in Massachusetts federal court. Advent International Corp.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Kothari (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Robert Pozen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), on Thursday, February 16, 2023 Editor's Note: Nicholas Guest is an Assistant Professor of Accounting at Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management; S.P. Posted by Nicholas Guest (Cornell University), S.P.

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Law 360 M&A

JANUARY 16, 2024

A Massachusetts federal judge on Tuesday blocked a proposed $3.8 billion merger between JetBlue Airways Inc. and Spirit Airlines, finding in a lengthy order that the deal would stifle competition in the low-cost carrier market.

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Mckinsey and Company

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Andrew McAfee explores reasons for the dysfunction—and how to fix it. Too often, business initiatives get mired in bureaucracy, overconfidence, and lack of ownership.

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Law 360 M&A

MARCH 22, 2024

The private plaintiffs challenging the failed JetBlue-Spirit merger indicated they're not done despite the companies' abandonment of the deal, pushing a Massachusetts federal court to grant them a win on their antitrust claims.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

MAY 26, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission, on Saturday, May 20, 2023 Tags: Asset management , Cybersecurity , Fiduciary duties , Private funds , registered funds , SEC enforcement , Securities Act The State of Climate Investing Posted by Chris Goolgasian and Cheryl Duckworth, Wellington Management, on Sunday, May 21, 2023 Tags: Asset Managers , Climate change (..)

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Law 360 M&A

MARCH 26, 2024

Evolv Technologies, which makes metal detectors that purportedly use artificial intelligence to detect weapons, is facing a proposed shareholder class action in Massachusetts federal court alleging that false claims about its products' abilities to screen for types of tactical knives and guns led to federal investigations and share declines.

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Law 360 M&A

MARCH 4, 2024

Department of Justice convinced a Massachusetts federal court to block the deal earlier this year. JetBlue Airways said Monday that it has reached an agreement with Spirit Airlines to end their planned $3.8 billion merger, after the U.S.

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Law 360 M&A

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Last week, a Tesla stockholder threw a rock at Elon Musk's glass house, Floor & Decor shareholders got an updated order, Abercrombie & Fitch's former CEO sought legal fees, and Rwanda moved ahead in its lawsuit against a Massachusetts pharmaceutical company.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Posted by John Bai (Northeastern University), Anya Mkrtchyan (UMass Amherst), on Tuesday, December 20, 2022 Editor's Note: John Bai is an Associate Professor at D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University; and Anya Mkrtchyan is an Associate Professor at Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts–Amherst.

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Business Wire M&A

MARCH 22, 2023

--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #batterystorage--Standard Solar, a leader in the ownership, operation, funding and development of commercial and community solar assets, today announced it has acquired a planned 21 megawatts (MW) of solar projects in New York and Massachusetts, from New Leaf Energy.

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Law 360 M&A

JANUARY 19, 2024

JetBlue and Spirit Airlines said Friday that they will appeal a Massachusetts federal judge's decision blocking their proposed $3.8 billion merger, an effort to preserve a deal that antitrust enforcers claimed would illegally stifle competition in the low-cost carrier market.

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Law 360 M&A

JANUARY 19, 2024

A Massachusetts man who admitted to trading on insider information about an Analog Devices Inc. deal to buy a California semiconductor company is on track to avoid prison after federal prosecutors recommended Friday that he serve six months of home detention.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Merton (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Richard T. Posted by Robert C. Thakor (University of Minnesota), on Monday, February 13, 2023 Editor's Note: Richard T.

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Law 360 M&A

JULY 3, 2023

The second half of 2023 could bring clarity to several questions in Massachusetts courts, including whether the "Varsity Blues" case will finally come to an end and how a new governor will shape the state judiciary.

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Law 360 M&A

JANUARY 11, 2024

The Department of Justice is telling the Massachusetts federal judge overseeing its case against the JetBlue and Spirit Airlines merger that he should take guidance from the Southern District of New York's recent ruling in the IQVIA merger case, which held that even in fast-changing markets the current state of competition has relevance.

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Law 360 M&A

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Robinhood and four companies whose shares were available for purchase through the platform are being accused of failing to alert an investor to significant developments, including a reverse stock split and two acquisitions, in a pair of lawsuits filed in Massachusetts state court.

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Law 360 M&A

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Department of Justice merger challenge, telling a Massachusetts federal judge the deal will bolster competition against the Big Four airlines and will, in particular, bolster labor conditions. The AFL-CIO's flight attendants' union on Wednesday sought to back JetBlue's planned $3.8 billion purchase of Spirit Airlines against a U.S.

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Law 360 M&A

MAY 19, 2023

A Massachusetts federal judge on Friday nixed a partnership between JetBlue and American Airlines, finding that the deal involving several major Northeast airports stifles competition in the airline industry by allowing two of the top carriers to join forces.

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Benzinga

AUGUST 9, 2022

LLC , headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts. EMCOR Group, Inc. NYSE: EME ) has acquired Gaston Electrical Co., Deal terms were not disclosed. Founded in 1934, Gaston is a full-service electrical construction and low voltage contractor. It designs, installs, constructs, and maintains electrical and low voltage systems.

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Business Wire M&A

MARCH 16, 2023

(NYSE: SITE) announced today the company completed its acquisition of J&J Materials (“J&J”), a leading wholesale distributor of hardscapes products with five locations in Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts. “We

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Benzinga

APRIL 26, 2024

The acquisition represents a significant addition to The Granite Group's branch network, which consisted of 57 locations before this deal closed, and reinforces the company's commitment to expand into new markets offering a strong outlook for both customers and employees.

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Law 360 M&A

JANUARY 30, 2024

JetBlue and Spirit Airlines are asking the First Circuit to expedite their appeal after a Massachusetts federal judge blocked the two low-cost airlines' plans for a merger valued at $3.8 billion, saying a decision should be made before the deal's closing date this summer.

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Benzinga

APRIL 26, 2022

SinglePoint Inc (OTC: SING ) has acquired The Boston Solar Company LLC , a provider of comprehensive solar energy services in New England, primarily in Massachusetts, since 2011. The deal value was not disclosed. Boston Solar generated sales of $17.7

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Law 360 M&A

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Department of Justice told a Massachusetts federal court there's nothing inconsistent about contentions that JetBlue's planned merger with Spirit and a previously blocked alliance with American Airlines would both hurt competition but in different ways.

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Law 360 M&A

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

A Massachusetts expert witness consulting firm says it's owed $2.2 million in connection with Twitter's litigation with Elon Musk, in the latest suit alleging Twitter failed to pay its bills after the billionaire's acquisition of the company.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

MARCH 6, 2024

For example, the majority of the partners at the now defunct Long-Term Capital Management worked at Salomon Brothers and studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anecdotal evidence suggests that driven by homophily, portfolio managers prefer working alongside other managers with similar backgrounds.

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Law 360 M&A

JANUARY 23, 2024

A Massachusetts town's former police chief told a Manhattan federal judge Tuesday that he unlawfully profited from secret information about a healthcare-sector merger provided to him by a "lifelong friend," pleading guilty to insider trading charges.

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Law 360 M&A

JANUARY 20, 2023

is facing yet another suit over allegedly unpaid bills, this time from a Massachusetts consulting company that says it's owed $2.2 Elon Musk's Twitter Inc. million for services connected to the social media giant's suit against the billionaire that ultimately pushed him to follow through on a $44 billion acquisition.

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