Mayer Brown represented Redwood Trust, Inc., (Redwood) a leader in expanding access to housing for homebuyers and renters, in a $750 million strategic capital partnership with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) through subsidiaries of CPPIB Credit Investments Inc.
The 2024 edition of World Trademark Review (WTR) 1000 recognized Mayer Brown’s global Intellectual Property practice and ranked the firm in Brazil, [Tauil & Chequer (T&C), in association with Mayer Brown], China and Special Administrative Regions (SARs): Hong Kong, Germany and United States (US): Illinois, New York and National categories.
Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced the addition of Michael Word as a Member of its Intellectual Property Department resident in the firm’s Chicago office.
Poultry producers have said the new venture backed by litigation financing giant Burford is improperly trying to take over claims from Sysco simply to protect their $140M investment in a lawsuit Sysco had already attempted to settle
Milllions of Illinoisans who have used Instagram since 2015 could be eligible for a cut of the settlement, which could amount to far less in per person payments than from previous similar class actions under Illinois' biometrics privacy law
Sysco has asked a federal judge to let new Burford-backed venture pursue its claims against chicken producers in price-fixing suit. The chicken producers say that amounts to 'invalid champerty'
Mayer Brown Tax partner Jenny Austin has been named chair of the ABA Tax Section’s Transfer Pricing Committee, which aims to establish itself as the “most important forum for global transfer pricing issues,” according to ABA.
Downstate and suburban pension funds for police officers and firefighters argued the law, backed by Gov. JB Pritzker, unduly stripped them of local control and violated the Illinois state constitution's pensions protection clause
Plaintiffs claims tuition would've been cheaper but for an agreement among some of America's top colleges and universities, including University of Chicago, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Brown, Yale, Cal Tech, MIT and Duke, among others.
Wintrust said the plaintiff failed to name any corporate policies linked to challenged mortgage data, and relies too heavily on data that federal regulators have said can't prove racial discrimination, by itself
Two different Illinois state appellate court panels rejected attempts by the owners of hotels and restaurants, who were hammered by the government response to the Covid pandemic, to force Zurich American Insurance to cover their losses
The plaintiffs, who had worked for a Northrop Grumman subsidiary, had argued they should have been entitled by federal law to more severance than they received
