Monthly Archives: October, 2024

Paving the Way: Construction Partners to Acquire Lone Star Paving

As infrastructure spending surges, Construction Partners, Inc., which focuses on construction and maintenance of roadways across six southeastern states, announced plans to acquire Asphalt...

Litigation Against Elon Musk Touches on Securities, AI, Labor and More

Elon Musk has been no stranger to controversy. As far back as 1999 the then-only millionaire wanted to combine retail and investment banking under...

Rocky Road to a Smoke-Free Future

FOIAengine: Hundreds of Requests About FDA’s Tobacco Regulation With cigarette makers battling for market dominance in a “smoke-free future,” legal and marketing battles are raging...

Insurance Increases: Marsh & McLennan Acquires McGriff

Marsh & McLennan announced plans to acquire McGriff Insurance Services, a provider of insurance brokering and risk management services.  The deal is structure as...

Cell Phone Dangers Prompt FOIA Requests

FOIAengine: Questions from Siri & Glimstad Point to Possible Litigation Does radiation from cell phones and cell towers affect human health?  There has long been...

Checking In on Artificial Intelligence Litigation

Artificial Intelligence (AI), is a decades-old field in computer science. Brad Myers, director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, defines it...

Itching to Expand: Organon to Acquire Dermavant

Pharmaceutical giant Organon (NYSE: OGN) announced it will acquire Dermavant Sciences Ltd. from Roivant, in a private target merger valued at $1.2 billion.  Under the terms...

Clocking In on TikTok’s Litigation

Social media platfrom TikTok continues to be a cultural and legal lightning rod. In April of this year, President Biden signed a bill that...