Kirkland & Ellis is advising Blackstone as the private equity giant makes its own bid for U.K. music rights investment company Hipgnosis, which has already drawn a $1.1 billion offer by Apollo-backed U.S. rival music group Concord Chorus. Blackstone said it had made an “improved” proposal to acquire Hipgnosis at a price…

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New York State Police has been the lone holdout regarding law enforcement agencies’ production of detailed officer accountability records, a Big Law attorney for civil libertarians told a state appeals court on Tuesday. The Appellate Division, Third Department in Albany heard arguments nearly four years into the Empire State’s repeal…

Defense motions that could have a domino effect on Delaware litigation over the pre-IPO Truth Social merger will be addressed in the next few weeks, Vice Chancellor Morgan Zurn decided at a recent hearing in which attorneys sparred over whether the court should first address a preliminary injunction or a motion…

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has been reversing Superior Court rulings far less frequently in recent years, court data shows. According to a recently published Superior Court annual report, the Supreme Court’s reversal rate of Superior Court rulings in 2022 and 2023 was less than half of what it was in the…

Reed Smith attorneys are celebrating a victory in Miami federal court for their client against a major insurance carrier, nearly seven years after Hurricane Irma damaged a multimillion-dollar South Florida home. A jury in the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Florida awarded compensatory damages to Edith Newman and…