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.

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.

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Cboe Global Markets Inc., the first mainstream exchange to let people buy and sell <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbDocId":"P0NWC96JTSE8","_id":"0000018f-15a8-d583-afbf-d7fc91c00001","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Bitcoin futures, is closing down its spot digital asset trading platform and folding its crypto operations into existing derivatives and clearing business lines.

Mark Zuckerberg is asking investors for patience again. Instead, they’re alarmed.

For Worldcoin, the project that scans people’s irises in order to give them a digital identity and crypto tokens, the race to gather as many users as possible has been marked by increasing regulatory scrutiny and data privacy concerns. These setbacks, which included investigators raiding the startup’s offices in Hong Kong, don’t appear to have curtailed its ambitions. The group is now aiming to team up with some of the biggest names in tech — including OpenAI.

Bullish Bitcoin traders appear to have scaled back their bets on the world’s largest cryptocurrency as its two major tailwinds subside.

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Thai mutual funds will be permitted to invest directly in cryptocurrencies for the first time, according to the local securities regulator.

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.

Banks in the UK may be facing significant losses in the coming years as the value of their assets is eroded by <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://news/topics/BIODIVERSE","_id":"0000018f-15a7-d583-afbf-d7ff554d0000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">nature-related shocks such as water scarcity and pollution.

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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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.