The move represented the Indianapolis-based firm’s largest one-time acquisition of a team of lawyers.
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While Faegre Drinker partner Brittney Yocum had a rather traditional trajectory from law school to her career, she was in for an unexpected twist when she was found herself working in a corporate group at her first firm, igniting her passion for mergers and acquisition work.
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At a time of rising costs and uncertain federal funding, more and more nonprofit organizations have either merged or are considering a merger to expand their services and strengthen the efficiency of their operations.
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The merger is now being reviewed for a second time by the state’s health department, but it will be the last merger considered under the certificate of public advantage process.
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A Carmel couple who formerly worked for Cummins pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud in connection with the company’s 2022 acquisition of Meritor.
Albertsons wants Kroger to pay more than $9.3 billion. That includes a $600 million termination fee and more than $8 billion for what Albertsons says was a lost premium stockholders would have reaped from the deal.
Lawyers for Albertsons made the demand Monday in court, where a two-week trial is slated later this month in a legal fight over who is to blame for the failure of the $24.6 billion deal.
Paramount agreed to terms including a five-year movie production plan and to invest $1.5 billion in domestic movies.
The Justice Department cleared the deal. But a federal judge paused it after an antitrust lawsuit was brought by 12 Democratic state attorneys general.
Twelve states, led by California, sued to block Paramount’s pending buyout of Warner last week.
Counsel Greg Gentry joined the firm last month after seven years as in-house counsel at Elevance Health, a Fortune 20 health insurance company.
The new office is located in Manhattan, and the firm expects to hire more than 100 lawyers there over the next five years.
As part of the merger, Nexstar is expected to divest six TV stations, including one in Indianapolis.
Hicks was a member of the Forty Under 40 class of 2000 when he was executive vice president of CIT Group, where he oversaw more than $25 billion in Wall Street asset-backed securitizations, debt financings and acquisitions.
The federal regulatory agency said that Circle City Broadcasting’s ownership of three stations would not harm competition and could, in fact, bolster it.
TechPoint’s annual Tech Venture Report detailed the state of venture investing in Indiana’s technology sector and named finalists for the Mira Awards 2025 Deal of the Year recognition, including five M&A deals.
Taft said the combination creates an Am Law 100 firm with 25 offices nationwide and projected revenues exceeding $1 billion.
Warner’s board is urging shareholders to back the deal it struck with Netflix to sell its studio and streaming business for $72 billion. Meanwhile, Skydance-owned Paramount is moving forward with its hostile $77.9 billion bid for a full takeover of the company
Some attorneys and other market observers expect 2026 will shape up to be a strong year for mergers and acquisitions, based on recent upward trends driven by private equity activity and lower interest rates.
As 2025 winds down, Kaiser said he’s expecting more movement in the merger & acquisition market as more money flows to make deals possible.
The Warner board said in a letter to shareholders on Wednesday that Paramount’s “inferior” offer carried “significant risks and costs,” in large part because it relies heavily on borrowed money.
In the Hoosier state, Goodwill of Central & Southern Indiana has been one of the nonprofits with the most M&A activity in recent years, including two major deals announced in 2025.
The Indiana Department of Health is giving the green light for the merger of Terre Haute-based Union Health and Terre Haute Regional Hospital with its approval of a Certificate of Public Advantage, or COPA, application.
J.P. Morgan reported in May that the first quarter of 2025 and fourth quarter of 2024 showed the highest acquisition activity in medtech since the first quarter of 2022.