Wake Up Call: Big Firms Seek Top Floor Perches in D.C. Buildings

• A recent market report says Morrison & Foerster is negotiating to lease the top four floors of 2100 L St. NW in Washington, D.C., a building set to open in 2019 at the earliest. Such a move by MoFo would continue a trend of law firms leasing the top floors of “trophy” office buildings still under development in Washington, and leaving lower floors empty. ( Biznow )

• Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. is scrapping its takeover of rival Rite Aid Corp. and instead will buy a smaller piece of the drugstore chain, after the original deal was doomed by U.S. antitrust problems. ( Bloomberg ) Some dealmakers ...