<-rte-company state="{"_id":"0000018f-152a-d583-afbf-d7fea34a0000","_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.

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Welcome to Bloomberg Law’s Wake Up Call, a daily rundown of the top news for lawyers, law firms, and in-house counsel.

Howard Lutnick is lining up some of Wall Street’s biggest power players for a fresh challenge to the behemoth of futures trading and interest-rate derivatives, CME Group Inc.

<-rte-company state="{"_id":"0000018f-14cf-d583-afbf-d6df42b50000","_type":"00000160-4b23-d8bd-adfd-4b3348fd0000"}">Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook should be blocked from exploiting public information on a users’ sexual orientation for targeted advertising under the European Union’s data protection rulebook, an adviser to the bloc’s top court warned.

Quinn Emanuel, a law firm with a reputation for driving hard-nosed litigation, is squaring off against former partners on behalf of Jane Street Group, which claims a theft of its trading strategy.

Political leaders said this year’s COP29 talks will center on a challenge they’ve failed for years to overcome: massively increasing funds to help poorer countries fight global warming.

While the top job in a corporate legal department looks different at every company, the one thing their all dealing with is employees. In this special report, in-house counsel talk about how AI and state policy add to mounting regulatory headaches.

Loren Brown is the rare law firm leader I’ve spoken with who can articulate a business plan around generative artificial intelligence.

What was once the world’s biggest climate alliance for insurers is now being discontinued, after <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbDocId":"RV82X7DWRGG0","_id":"0000018f-1446-d583-afbf-d6ded92f0000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">a wave of attacks by the Republican-led anti-ESG movement.

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s government notified Apple Inc. of concerns that the company’s supply chain may be tainted by conflict minerals sourced from the central African nation.

The US Justice Department could decide by the first week of June whether to tear up its controversial deferred-prosecution agreement with Boeing Co., according to lawyers for the families of people killed in two crashes of 737 Max jets.

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.

Students in the Arab Student Union at Washington D.C.'s largest high school filed a lawsuit against the school principal Wednesday, saying he infringed their First Amendment rights by barring them from holding pro-Palestine events and distributing related materials.

Welcome to Bloomberg Law’s Wake Up Call, a daily rundown of the top news for lawyers, law firms, and in-house counsel.

Quinn Emanuel, a law firm with a reputation for driving hard-nosed litigation, is squaring off against former partners on behalf of Jane Street Group, which claims a theft of its trading strategy.

Loren Brown is the rare law firm leader I’ve spoken with who can articulate a business plan around generative artificial intelligence.

A recent decision about New York’s tax treatment of foreign royalties will give the US Supreme Court a chance to take up another state tax case about the scope of the dormant commerce clause.

Balch & Bingham’s Adam Israel and Tripp DeMoss analyze FTC’s ban on noncompetes and say employers should monitor legal challenges underway before complying.

A Loeb & Loeb attorney and two wealth management executives say strategy panels with M&A experts can help university boards, as federal mandates have made college mergers more complex.