Blackstone Inc. agreed to sell a student-housing portfolio to <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/9990531D%20US%20Equity","_id":"0000018f-159d-d583-afbf-d7dd12790000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">KKR & Co. for $1.64 billion.

Zach Hong has joined Perkins Coie as a partner in the intellectual property practice and patent prosecution subgroup in the New York office, the firm said Thursday.

Blow-out growth in the $1.7 trillion private credit market has come at a cost, namely investors’ inability to exit their holdings in a crunch. Now a market where investors can unload their stakes is taking shape.

A Houston personal injury lawyer and his former office manager have been charged in connection with a $2.4 million scheme to defraud clients of settlement proceeds, the US Justice Department said on Thursday.

Ian Keefe and George Weavil will join Goodwin’s private equity practice as partners in the London office, the firm said Thursday.

<-rte-company state="{"_id":"0000018f-153c-d583-afbf-d7fcf19a0000","_type":"00000160-4b23-d8bd-adfd-4b3348fd0000"}">BHP Group Ltd. proposed a takeover of Anglo American Plc that valued the smaller miner at £31.1 billion ($38.9 billion), in a deal that would create the world’s top copper producer while sparking the industry’s biggest shakeup in over a decade.

A global standard-setter decided Thursday to let companies decide on their own when they should report the cost of their commitments to achieve net zero carbon emissions, rather than introducing specific requirements.

Barclays Plc says more money needs to go toward climate transition projects that are too advanced to interest venture capitalists, and too nascent to attract infrastructure investors.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the union representing most of its workers reached a tentative agreement on compensation.

Pfizer investors dismissed a proposal that would have required the drugmaker to disclose how its political donations square with its publicly stated values, at the company’s annual meeting Thursday.

<-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/WHR%20US%20Equity/FA%20Q","_id":"0000018f-1587-d583-afbf-d7df2fcf0000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Whirlpool Corp., the owner of the Maytag and Amana appliance brands, is cutting about 1,000 salaried positions worldwide to reduce costs as slow US home sales limit demand.

US fund managers suffered their worst-ever quarter for ESG-focused products as the pace of client redemptions intensified.

The Biden administration issued new minimum energy standards for homes built with federal dollars, a move that the government says will result in millions in annual cost savings for renters and homeowners.

US births declined in 2023 to their lowest level in more than 40 years, continuing a two-decade trend of Americans having fewer children.

A former lieutenant at a Texas county jail has reached a settlement with the county to resolve allegations that her right to free speech was violated after she was terminated for her pre-approved attendance at the Jan. 6 rally for then-President Donald Trump.

D’Youville University and a former employee, who alleges the school wrongfully terminated her part-time role as its archivist because she is a nun, have reached a settlement in principle of her religious discrimination suit, according to a joint status report.

A former Ascension Providence Hospital front desk clerk can pursue federal disability, pregnancy, and sex discrimination claims against the health care provider, but she failed to sufficiently allege violations of state civil rights laws, a federal judge said.

MLB was sued Wednesday by a former minor league umpire who says he was fired because he complained about a female umpire’s harassment based on his gender and sexual orientation.

New York’s highest court overturned <-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000018f-158f-d583-afbf-d7df57780000","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault conviction on Thursday, saying the former Hollywood movie mogul’s trial judge had improperly allowed witnesses to describe being attacked by him.

A Houston personal injury lawyer and his former office manager have been charged in connection with a $2.4 million scheme to defraud clients of settlement proceeds, the US Justice Department said on Thursday.

A federal appeals court corrected an earlier decision to indicate that it partially granted the National Labor Relations Board’s petition to enforce a ruling on a concrete maker’s illegal conduct.

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