North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

May 1, 2026

More states join legal challenge to Nexstar, Tegna merger

WASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) – Five more U.S. states are joining an antitrust lawsuit challenging Nexstar‘s acquisition of rival broadcaster Tegna after a ‌judge temporarily blocked the deal from proceeding, […]

Sep 12, 2024

Womble Bond Dickinson plans 2025 merger

Womble Bond Dickinson and Lewis Roca will merge on New Year’s Day, creating a firm with over 1,300 lawyers and 37 offices across the U.S. and Great Britain and expanding their capabilities in high-growth markets and practice areas.

Aug 26, 2024

Courts likely to decide fate of grocers’ merger

The largest proposed grocery store merger in U.S. history is going to court. On one side are supermarket chains Kroger and Albertsons, which say their planned merger will help them […]

Feb 28, 2024

FTC sees Kroger-Albertsons merger as bad for shoppers

Kroger and Albertsons — two of the biggest grocery chains in the United States — had hoped to complete the largest supermarket merger in the country’s history this year. But […]

Jul 20, 2023

White House targets corporate mergers, landlord junk fees

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is proposing new guidelines for corporate mergers, taking steps to disclose junk fees charged by landlords and launching a crackdown on price-gouging in the food industry. Wednesday's announcements were discussed when President Joe Biden met with his White House Competition Council. The council is a group of administration officials established under a [...]

Sep 24, 2018

Smith Moore Leatherwood ties knot with Fox Rothschild

The law firm Smith Moore Leatherwood has announced that it will merge with the national law firm Fox Rothschild effective Nov. 1. Smith Moore has six offices, including four in […]

Jun 14, 2018

Nelson Mullins to merge with Florida firm, Broad and Cassel

The South Carolina-based firm of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, which also has a large presence in North Carolina, is expanding further into Florida by merging with Broad and Cassel, […]

Apr 4, 2017

Corporate – Merger – Tort/Negligence – Breach of Fiduciary Duty Claim – Civil Practice – Personal Jurisdiction

Worley v. Moore (Lawyers Weekly No. 020-026-17, 65 pp.) (Gregory McGuire, J.) 2017 NCBC 15 Holding: The plaintiff-shareholders allege that the defendant-directors concocted and carried out a scheme to merge […]

Jul 13, 2016

Corporate – Merger – Civil Practice – Statute of Limitations

Tong v. Dunn (Lawyers Weekly No. 020-046-16, 14 pp.) (James Gale, C.J.) 2016 NCBC 49 Holding: Regardless of whether plaintiffs’ breach of fiduciary duty claim arose when the board of […]

Jun 17, 2016

Womble Carlyle enters into alliance with U.K.’s Bond Dickinson

Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, the largest law firm in North Carolina, has entered into a formal alliance with a U.K.-based firm that leaders say will better serve clients on […]

Feb 13, 2014

Comcast to buy Time Warner Cable for $45 billion

Comcast Corp. will buy Time Warner Cable Inc. for about $45.2 billion in a deal that would combine the nation's top two cable TV companies and create a dominant force in creating and delivering entertainment.

Mar 21, 2012

Contract – Negotiable Instruments – Promissory Note – Banks & Banking – Merger – No Judicial Notice

TD Bank, N.A. v. Mirabella Where defendant’s promissory note promises to pay Carolina First Bank or Carolina First Bank’s order, and where the only evidence that plaintiff is entitled to collect on the note is in several merger documents which were only provided in the appendix of plaintiff’s appellate brief, there is a genuine issue of material fact as to whether plaintiff is entit[...]