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Judy Almasoud, LL.M. Candidate, 2026 e.l.f. Beauty recently announced its $1 billion acquisition of Rhode—one of the largest beauty deals of the decade and the company’s  biggest acquisition to date. Founded in 2022 by Hailey Bieber, Rhode quickly became profitable and generated $212 million in net sales with a substantial margins in the twelve-month period ending…

Navasz Hansotia, J.D. Candidate, 2028 The venture capital (VC) landscape is a high-pressure, high-risk environment where founders must navigate fierce competition, complex negotiations, and intense scrutiny to secure funding. For many women founders, these challenges are often amplified by systemic barriers that influence who receives funding and how deals are structured. Women-founded startups account for only…

James Courser, J.D. Candidate, 2027 Coal has recently become a focal point of controversy. It is woven into our history, yet as environmental pressures rise and demand falls, coal’s economics no longer add up. Can it still fit AI-era, energy-hungry future? The data suggest not, even as recent executive actions answer with an emphatic yes. The administration’s push for coal is…

Braden Hammond, J.D. Candidate, 2026 American antitrust law has recently been at the forefront of the news cycle.  Recent headlines highlight antitrust concerns regarding Google’s digital advertising, Amazon’s alleged tactics to induce Prime subscriptions, and Nvidia’s $100 billion investment in OpenAI. Further, the transition from Former President Biden’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan to President Trump’s…

Andrea Arcia, J.D. Candidate, 2028 When Disney suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live! on September 17, 2025, following the host’s monologue about the assassination of political commentator Charlie Kirk, media outlets framed the decision as a free-speech crisis. That framing, though emotionally charged, misses the real story. Disney’s actions were governed not by the First Amendment—which constrains only government actors—but…

Jarrod Mock, J.D. Candidate, 2028 In May 2025, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposed a major overhaul of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)— a comprehensive set of rules that governs the acquisition process for goods and services for all executive agencies of the U.S. federal government. FAR covers everything from the initial planning…

Armita Fazel, J.D. Candidate, 2028 Earlier this year, The Ferrero Group (“Ferrero”) announced its decision to acquire WK Kellogg Co (“Kellogg”), drawing widespread attention from candy lovers and cereal connoisseurs alike. After a series of successful acquisitions, this deal marks the next step in Ferrero’s expansion into the United States. Founded more than eighty years ago as an…

Jinzhu Jiao, L.LM Candidate. 2026 Over the past decade, the role of green bonds has shifted from the edge of the financial market to the center of the global capital market. Green bonds, which were previously regarded as an experimental tool of financial product, have become one of the most significant tools leading private capital…

Lakhvir Singh, J.D. Candidate, 2028 In March 2022, the Department of Justice sentenced JHL Biotech co-founders Racho Jordanov and Rose Lin for conspiracy to steal Genentech trade secrets and commit wire fraud exceeding $101 million. The defendants had funneled proprietary biopharmaceutical data to their Taiwan-based competitor by recruiting former Genentech employees, enabling biosimilar development that prosecutors said…