Hollywood has made some expensive blockbusters, but few have assembled a legal cast quite like Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. The deal closed on 6 October after approvals in nearly 70 jurisdictions and one very public fight in federal court.
The combined company now trades as Skydance. It may take Burbank a while to start calling it that.
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By LawFuel Editorial Legal AI’s two heavyweights Legora and Harvey have long been accused of copying each other’s homework but this week it got embarrassing for both as Legora announced Intake, an “agentic front door” for in-house legal teams and Harvey launched Intake, its own “front door” for in-house legal teams. They had the same
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Power Points BigLaw has hit a snag in its AI revolution. Lawyers who are expected to bill all day have no time left to reinvent how they work but the fix is to let associates take the time to learn the technology rather than squeezing the learning time into late night sessions when the billing
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A Bay of Plenty financial services business managing billions in assets is targeting America’s sporting and entertainment elite, with US lawyers providing the introductions. But protecting celebrity fortunes from litigation is a legal business with some serious complications. From the Bay of Plenty to Beverly Hills is not the usual career trajectory for a New
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Haynes Boone is following the money, science and innovation into San Diego, opening its 21st global office and fourth in California. The Am Law 100 firm, with more than 750 lawyers, is targeting the city’s lucrative life sciences and technology markets, led by biotechnology specialist Jeffrey Morton. Following its recent Boston launch, the move underlines
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David A. Simon William E. Ridgway Nicola Kerr-Shaw Joshua Silverstein Kyle G. Kysela Michael Tian __________ Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the cybersecurity landscape at an extraordinary pace. Threat actors are using AI to accelerate vulnerability discovery, automate credential theft, and craft sophisticated phishing campaigns. In recent months, we have also seen AI agents coordinate multistage attacks with limited human
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Weil, Gotshal & Manges has hired Freshfields private equity partner Rebecca Ward in London, a welcome arrival at a firm that has lately been better known for partners leaving than joining. Ward joined Freshfields in 2022 after 17 years at sponsor specialist Dickson Minto, nine of them as partner. Her client list includes CVC, TPG
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Monash expert: Calls to block US execution live stream in AustraliaMonash University The Albanese government has urged digital platforms to apply strong editorial control to the Trump administration’s proposed live stream of a public execution, while the Greens have called for the broadcast to be blocked. Following World Day Against the Death Penalty, a Monash University
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The people who programme New Zealand radio stations The Rock and More FM now answer to a Melbourne sports radio company and the law firm handling the deal is one that many big law Australian law firms spent years underestimating.
HWLE Lawyers, still better known as HWL Ebsworth, advised CBA on the senior debt facility supporting SEG’s acquisition of MediaWorks, a deal completed on 1 October.
