4 Firms Guide Blackstone's $2B CRE Loans Deal
By Isaac Monterose
Blackstone and Atlantic Union Bank's holding company have closed Blackstone's acquisition of $2 billion worth of performing commercial real estate loans from the holding company in a deal guided by Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Ropes & Gray LLP and Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP, the companies jointly announced.
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Off The Bench
Off The Bench: Tatis Says Loan 'Predatory,' Tennis Player Suit
By David Steele
In this week's Off The Bench, a Major League Baseball star wants out of a "predatory" loan from a future earnings investment company, a group of migrant workers keep alive their suit accusing companies that helped develop World Cup facilities in Qatar of exploitation and abuse, and the tennis Grand Slam tournaments may be in the crosshairs of players suing the sport's hierarchy.
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LEGAL INDUSTRY
Analysis
After Dobbs, States Become Battleground For Abortion Rights
By Marco Poggio
Three years ago, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the precedent set by Roe v. Wade, it did more than end nearly five decades of federal constitutional protection for abortion; it also fractured the legal landscape of reproductive rights, shifting the authority to regulate the procedure to individual states, and leading to legal uncertainty for courts, physicians and patients.
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Analysis
How States Are Rethinking Life Without Parole For Youth
By Marco Poggio
A wave of recent state high court rulings, including a landmark decision in Michigan in April, has curtailed the use of mandatory life without parole for defendants under 21, citing evolving standards of decency and brain science. Hundreds of incarcerated individuals in Michigan are now eligible for resentencing, but the reforms face resistance from prosecutors, victims’ rights advocates, and dissenting justices who warn of consequences for public safety and judicial overreach.
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UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
By Max Austin
This past week in London has seen the British Basketball Federation sued by members of the men's professional basketball league for alleged competition breaches, songwriter Coco Star file an intellectual property claim against Universal Music Publishing, and the Solicitors Regulation Authority file a claim against the Post Office amid ongoing investigations into law firms linked to the Horizon IT Scandal. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
By Sue Reisinger
As the second half of 2025 begins, here are five corporate enforcement trends that general counsel and their white collar lawyers should watch. And just days before The New York Times reported that the president of the University of Virginia resigned under pressure from the Justice Department, the former general counsel and now chancellor of Antioch University spoke with Law360 Pulse about his personal views on the danger of government threats to higher education. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.
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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
By Kevin Penton
Cooley LLP, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal judge determined that it was fair for Meta Platforms Inc. to train its Llama large language models with 13 bestselling authors' copyrighted material without their permission.
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