The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s agressive enforcement of alleged fraud must be examined to ensure the agency deters wrongdoing without violating the due process rights of publicly traded companies, Republican lawmakers said Tuesday in support of their legislation to protect respondents in SEC proceedings. The proposed 2024 Due Process…

Residents Sue Hallandale Beach Over Contract Affecting Waterfront Property | Daily Business Review Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/dailybusinessreview/2024/05/07/broward-litigators-gear-for-oral-arguments-in-contract-fight-with-city/ Oliver Birman, a litigation partner at Perlman, Bajandas, Yevoli & Albright. Courtesy photo The case pits residents against Hallandale Beach, which allegedly broke a contract in a manner detrimental to land values. May…

Lebanon’s real GDP contracted by 34% between 2018 and 2022, according to the World Bank in February, wiping out more than 15 years of economic growth. In October 2019, the country’s currency, banks, and public debt collapsed and the Beirut Port explosion in 2020 merely compounded an already grave situation.…

A report by Standard & Poor’s Global Ratings looks at whether climate change litigation will impact oil and gas companies in the same way earlier rounds of lawsuits had on the tobacco, asbestos and opioids industries. Litigation over climate change has quadrupled over the past decade, rising to about 2,410 in 2023 versus…

Second Hundred law firms in 2022 did something they very rarely do: outpace the Am Law 100 in financial metrics. But 2023 was a different story, and the reality of the costs associated with building for the future and a somewhat unstable legal market caught up with many smaller firms.…

There were no megadeals over $5 billion in value reported this past week, but there were eight announced deals over $1 billion, as 2024 continues to outpace 2023 in the amount of deal value. The availability of capital may be partly fueling deal flow, according to a recent examination by…