JD Supra: Mergers

JANUARY 17, 2025

Welcome to the January 2025 issue of As the (Customs and Trade) World Turns, our monthly newsletter where we compile essential updates from the customs and trade world over the past month.

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The TRADE

JULY 2, 2025

The post Delta Capita launches platform to automate OTC derivatives post-trade appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

JUNE 17, 2025

Trading Technologies International (TT) has launched a new pre-trade portfolio risk capability on its platform in a bid to bring new protections to its sell-side clients and facilitate increased trading opportunities for end-users. Trading Technologies’ platform handled more than 2.8

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JD Supra: Mergers

JUNE 23, 2025

On June 20, 2025, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) announced it is deploying the Forced Labor Allegation Portal, which allows users to submit forced labor allegations. Submissions may be made anonymously and may include Allegations may be submitted supporting documents related to their submissions. By: Husch Blackwell LLP

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JD Supra: Mergers

JULY 2, 2025

Today, it is one of the EU's sharpest enforcement tools, and one that is only gaining prominence as geopolitical tensions reshape global investment and trade. Two years ago, the FSR arrived as the new kid on the block in Brussels. By: White & Case LLP

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JD Supra: Mergers

JULY 10, 2025

Macroeconomic volatility, shifting trade policies, and regulatory change continue to shape the dealmaking landscape. Here we explore the challenges and opportunities for buyers and sellers navigating uncertain markets. The rapidly changing macro landscape through the first six months of the year has made M&A deals, challenging to execute.

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JD Supra: Mergers

MARCH 13, 2025

He warns that the SECs power of investigations expands far and wide, and just being a supplier to a publicly-traded company may lead them to focus on your business. Think again says, Kevin Muhlendorf, attorney at Wiley Rein. You may still end up in the Commissions crosshairs. By: Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics

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JD Supra: Mergers

JUNE 23, 2025

APAC private equity markets have entered a holding pattern as firms face global trade and tariff uncertainty, but sophisticated managers are uncovering opportunities for investing in high-quality assets at attractive valuations - Private equity in Asia-Pacific made a solid start to 2025, but tariff dislocation has slowed M&A activity somewhat as (..)

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The TRADE

JUNE 9, 2025

Trading Technologies (TT) has provided its clients with a connection to GFO-X, the UK’s first regulated and centrally cleared trading venue for digital asset derivatives. The post Trading Technologies enables access to GFO-X appeared first on The TRADE.

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The TRADE

JULY 9, 2025

As discourse around AI gains traction in the industry, buy-side equity traders are increasingly looking to leverage the technology, with approximately a quarter saying they intend to integrate internal AI technologies into their trade execution workflow in the next year, and 15% stating they already use it in trade execution. Additionally, automating (..)

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The TRADE

JUNE 26, 2025

Tradeweb has expanded its offering for corporate treasurers, through the launch of direct US Treasury bill (T-bill) trading on its ICD Portal. The move will allow T-bill trading to be available through a direct connection between the firm’s ICD Portal and its institutional trading platform.

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The TRADE

JUNE 13, 2025

RBC Capital Markets has appointed Ralph Boumalham as director and head of European leveraged loan trading, according to a memo seen by The TRADE. In his new role, he is set to help bolster RBC’s leveraged credit trading platform, also working closely with the leveraged finance team in global investment banking, and sales and trading.

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JD Supra: Mergers

MAY 22, 2025

As AI companies power breakthroughs in biotech, healthcare, defense, and critical infrastructure, the stakes for companies acquiring businesses handling proprietary data, biotech research, medical records, trade secrets, critical technology or government intelligence have never been higher. By: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

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CNBC: Investing

JUNE 18, 2025

Trade timing The timing for adding bearish exposure to AAPL is optimal, as the stock is trading just above its $195 support level. Fundamentals AAPL trades at a considerable premium over its industry despite lagging growth rates, making its valuation hard to justify based solely on profitability.

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The TRADE

JULY 4, 2025

Read more – Conscious usage of TCA: Making trade analytics more actionable Speaking to his own approach, Böss shared: “We’ve been teaming up with risk and compliance on data sets.   Why is it that combined is a different tool for post-trade combined checks when our TCA tools could do this? It’s

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JD Supra: Mergers

MAY 9, 2025

Illinois Attorney General (AG) Kwame Raoul and Minnesota AG Keith Ellison have joined the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in a lawsuit to block the acquisition of Surmodics Inc. by GTCR BC Holdings LLC, two major manufacturers of critical medical device coatings.

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The TRADE

JUNE 9, 2025

Liontrust Asset Management’s trading for investment funds and institutional accounts has been officially outsourced to BNY. John Ions Liontrust announced that it was exploring outsourcing parts of its trading to BNY back in January, with initial plans at the time stated to be covering non-UK activity.

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The TRADE

JUNE 26, 2025

Wedbush Securities has collaborated with technology provider Rapid Addition in a bid to enhance the firm’s trading infrastructure.

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TechCrunch: M&A

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Website builder Squarespace is no longer a publicly traded company, after private equity firm Permira procured all remaining common stock in the firm. Permira first revealed plans to acquire Squarespace back in May, offering shareholders in the NYSE-traded company $44 per share — this equated to an equity valuation of $6.6

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The TRADE

JUNE 17, 2025

The first trade in Nasdaq custom basket futures has been made by University of Cambridge Investment Management (UCIM) with a notional value of €80 million. Notably, it enables clients to use standardised contracts traded on a regulated market with central counterparty clearing, as opposed to relying on over-the-counter equity swaps.

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The TRADE

JUNE 24, 2025

Millennium declined to comment. The post Millennium selects hedge fund sales specialist for fixed income trading role appeared first on The TRADE. She confirmed her appointment in a social media announcement. She confirmed her appointment in a social media announcement.

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JD Supra: Mergers

JUNE 20, 2025

Specifically, the Act provides the first comprehensive framework for stablecoin oversight and it introduces consumer protections, transparency requirements, and trading restrictions for members of Congress. House of Representatives, would establish federal guardrails and a regulatory framework for stablecoins. By: Lowenstein Sandler LLP

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JD Supra: Mergers

MAY 23, 2025

They explore recent federal and state regulatory developments, including transaction reporting laws, antitrust scrutiny by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and notable. By: Holland & Knight LLP

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JD Supra: Mergers

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

District Court for the Southern District of Texas denied the Federal Trade Commissions request for a preliminary injunction to block Tempur Sealys (the worlds largest mattress manufacturer) proposed acquisition of Mattress Firm (the largest U.S. On January 31, 2025, the U.S. mattress retailer with over 2,300 stores).

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JD Supra: Mergers

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Earlier this week, The Trade Desk, Inc. filed preliminary proxy materials for a special meeting of stockholders. The purpose of the meeting is to approve the reincorporation of the corporation from the State of Delaware to the State of Nevada by conversion.

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The TRADE

JUNE 23, 2025

Broadridge has named Kenneth MacHarg as its new managing director, global head of futures and options trading, effective 23 June. The move will see MacHarg leading Broadridge’s futures and options (F&O) platform as part of a push to enhance the solution’s leadership.

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JD Supra: Mergers

JUNE 18, 2025

In speeches delivered only a day apart during the first week of June, Bill Rinner, the new Deputy Assistant Attorney General in charge of merger enforcement at the Department of Justice (DOJ), and Commissioner Melissa Holyoak of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) discussed aspects of their respective agency’s approach to merger enforcement.

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CNBC: Investing

JUNE 9, 2025

"We view eToro as a clear share gainer in retail trading/investing. " Needham initiates coverage of eToro as a buy, sets price target of $80 per share The investment firm called eToro "the social network trading platform," while its price target is 16% above the stock's Friday closing price.

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JD Supra: Mergers

MARCH 4, 2025

The German economy, traditionally the engine of the wider EU bloc, has faltered in recent years due to stubbornly high inflation, a worsening trade outlook, geopolitical uncertainty and declining consumer confidence. By: White & Case LLP

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CNBC: Investing

JULY 1, 2025

For this trade, I'm relying on two technical tools: MACD The Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) is a reliable indicator for spotting trend reversals. These kinds of setups are broken down in detail in my book Mean Reversion Trading , which you can check out here. This is where technical analysis becomes critical.

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CNBC: Investing

JUNE 11, 2025

How to trade a downturn in the shares Published Wed, Jun 11 2025 11:01 AM EDT Tony Zhang @OptionsPlay WATCH LIVE Walmart (WMT) is facing headwinds with looming tariffs likely to erode profit margins amid an already overstretched valuation. The breakeven point for this trade is $100.08. Forward PE Ratio: 37.4x vs. Industry Average 2.4%

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CNBC: Investing

JULY 7, 2025

Bank of America's top stock picks for the third quarter include Cisco Systems and Levi Strauss.

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

We need to take a step back and look at today’s trading desk. By dissecting a trading desk into its functions, processes, and tasks, it becomes clear that 80% or more can be successfully automated with today’s technology – and that figure is just for the front-office, potentially even higher in the middle- and back-office.

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JD Supra: Mergers

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

On January 10, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (the FTC) announced that it will (i) increase the dollar-based thresholds used to determine whether parties are required to notify federal antitrust authorities about a transaction under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act (HSR) and (ii) revise the HSR filing fee schedule.

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TechCrunch: M&A

JUNE 6, 2024

Stock-trading app Robinhood is diving deeper into the cryptocurrency realm with the acquisition of crypto exchange Bitstamp. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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The TRADE

JULY 3, 2025

When it comes to trading desk design there is no one-size-fits-all approach, but there are still real opportunities to maximise success, Eric Böss, global head of trading at Allianz Global Investors, told CMX conference attendees.

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JD Supra: Mergers

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

On January 22, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published in the Federal Register its annual adjustments for notification thresholds regarding proposed mergers and acquisitions under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR Act), which will become effective 30 days after publication, on February 21.

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