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February 04, 2025
Real Estate PE Firm Closes $125M Sunbelt-Focused Fund
Tioga Capital LLC collected $125 million worth of capital commitments for a fund that aims to invest in real estate in the Sun Belt, the Atlanta-based real estate investment firm announced Tuesday.
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February 04, 2025
PE-Backed Identity Software Firm SailPoint Primes $1B IPO
Cybersecurity firm SailPoint on Tuesday unveiled plans for an estimated $1 billion initial public offering that would mark its return to public markets three years after a private-equity buyout, represented by Kirkland & Ellis LLP and the underwriters' counsel, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.
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February 04, 2025
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Skadden
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has been handling private equity deals since before they were called private equity and continues to be a leader in the field, in the past year helping Visma hit a $21 billion valuation, assisting in BlackRock's $12.9 billion acquisition of Global Infrastructure Partners and advising Permira on its investment in PharmaCord, earning it recognition among the 2024 Law360 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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February 04, 2025
Greenberg Traurig Biz Pro Joins Holland & Knight In Texas
Holland & Knight LLP announced Tuesday that it has fortified its corporate mergers and acquisitions and private equity practice with an Austin, Texas-based partner who came aboard from Greenberg Traurig LLP.
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February 04, 2025
'Is This A Joke?' Judge Denies Atty Fees For Grocery Patrons
A California federal judge had so little tolerance for shoppers claiming victory and seeking attorney fees from the abandoned Kroger-Albertsons merger that in tossing their motion and underlying lawsuit he noted with incredulity, "Plaintiffs are actually making these arguments."
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February 04, 2025
KKR Raises Fuji Soft Offer In Blazing Battle With Bain
A contentious bidding battle between KKR and Bain Capital intensified Tuesday as the buyout firms continued their fight to take control of Japan's Fuji Soft, with KKR disclosing it has once again raised its tender offer price.
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February 04, 2025
Judge Rejects Blink Fitness Ch. 11 Plan Exculpations
A Delaware bankruptcy judge Tuesday rejected Blink Fitness' request to shield the administrator of its Chapter 11 wind-down plan from legal liability, saying she can't release claims for future acts.
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February 04, 2025
Pearl Energy Closes $999.9M Fund, Tioga Raises $125M
Kirkland & Ellis LLP-advised Pearl Energy Investments on Tuesday revealed that it clinched its fourth flagship fund after securing $999.9 million in investor commitments, while Atlanta-based multi-strategy real estate investment firm Tioga Capital closed its fourth fund after raising $125 million in capital commitments.
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February 04, 2025
Trump Taps GOP Senate Staffer For Treasury Bank Policy Role
President Donald Trump on Monday nominated Luke Pettit, a senior adviser to Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn., and former Federal Reserve policy analyst, to become the U.S. Department of the Treasury's top bank policy official.
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February 04, 2025
Mintz Adds Dentons West Coast Corporate Head In San Diego
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC continues growing its corporate team, announcing Monday it is bringing in a Dentons emerging companies and venture capital specialist as a member of its San Diego office.
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February 04, 2025
Advertising Biz StackAdapt Secures $235M Investment
Canadian advertising platform StackAdapt, advised by Dentons Canada LLP and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, on Tuesday revealed that it closed a growth capital raise after securing $235 million of investor commitments, which will be used to help the company expand its footprint.
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February 03, 2025
Texas' Bid To Launch Stock Exchange Moves Forward
As the owner of the new Texas Stock Exchange LLC gears up to begin trading by next year, capital markets attorneys are closely watching how the company plans to penetrate a market long dominated by two New York-based juggernauts.
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February 03, 2025
OpenAI, Microsoft Aim To Ax Musk's For-Profit Change Suit
OpenAI and Microsoft have urged a California federal court in separate motions to dismiss Elon Musk's antitrust and breach of contract lawsuit claiming OpenAI lied by telling investors it would always be a nonprofit artificial intelligence research organization, calling the allegations "conclusory" and lacking factual backing.
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February 03, 2025
Del. Justices Uphold $10.4B Anaplan Inc.'s Thoma Bravo Sale
Agreeing that a fully informed "Corwin cleansing" vote washed away stockholder objections to a post-signing $400 million trimming of a $10.7 billion deal, Delaware's Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a challenge to Thoma Bravo's acquisition of software-as-a-service company Anaplan Inc. in June 2022.
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February 03, 2025
Utah Court Urged To Preserve $8.3M In Messner Reeves Funds
Several companies from Florida, New York and Utah have urged a Utah federal court to order Messner Reeves LLP to preserve $8.3 million purportedly locked away in an escrow fund, saying the law firm appears to be breaking a business loan agreement by dissipating the funds to unknown entities.
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February 03, 2025
Steel Workers Seek Class Cert. In $60M Inflated Stock Suit
A Michigan federal judge has been asked to certify a class of steel company employees in a suit claiming the trustee of the company's employee stock ownership plan allowed the plan to buy $60 million in company stock at an inflated price.
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February 03, 2025
CFIUS Head Under Biden To Join Latham
The former head of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States under former President Joe Biden will join Latham & Watkins LLP next month, the firm said in an announcement on Monday.
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February 03, 2025
Sidley Adds Paul Hastings Energy, Finance Pro In Houston
Sidley Austin LLP added a former Paul Hastings LLP partner specializing in energy industry transactions to its energy, transportation and finance team in Houston, the firm announced Monday.
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February 03, 2025
Cystic Fibrosis Drug Developer Sionna Targets $150M IPO
Cystic fibrosis-focused drug developer Sionna Therapeutics Inc. on Monday launched plans for an estimated $150 million initial public offering, joining a growing number of biotechnology companies entering the IPO pipeline, represented by Goodwin Procter LLP and underwriters counsel Ropes & Gray LLP.
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February 03, 2025
3 Firms Advise On $3B Triumph Group Go-Private Agreement
Pennsylvania-based Triumph Group said Monday it has agreed to be taken private by affiliates of Berkshire Partners and Warburg Pincus, exciting investors as the aircraft component maker's stock jumped more than 34% in morning trading.
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February 03, 2025
Weil Adds Ex-A&O Shearman Financing Pro As Partner In NY
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP has added a banking and finance attorney previously with Allen Overy Shearman Sterling as a partner in its New York office, the firm announced Monday.
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January 31, 2025
January's IPO Market Was Active Despite Tepid Debuts
Capital markets lawyers kept busy in January thanks to a sizable increase in initial public offerings, but the largest IPOs performed weaker than expected, likely sobering market participants' expectations going forward.
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January 31, 2025
Bank Wants Investment Co.'s $60M RICO Suit Tossed
Western Alliance Bank is seeking the dismissal of a $60 million suit filed by an investment management firm alleging the bank played a role in a mortgage loan sale scheme to steam the firm's property rights in the loans and their proceeds, saying the complaint "attempts to recast a series of secured lending transactions as a vast racketeering conspiracy."
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January 31, 2025
Red States Back Trump Against 'Distracting' Truth Social Suit
Fifteen Republican-led states have joined President Donald Trump's fight against a lawsuit filed by early investors in his social media platform, with the states on Friday urging a Delaware state court to dismiss the case so as not to "distract" Trump from his presidential duties.
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January 31, 2025
Latham Guides $50M Bitcoin Mining Data Center Investment
Cipher Mining Inc., a data center company that focuses on bitcoin mining, announced a $50 million investment from SoftBank Corp. for the development of high-performance computing data centers in a deal guided by Latham & Watkins LLP.
Expert Analysis
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Series
Collecting Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The therapeutic aspects of appreciating and collecting art improve my legal practice by enhancing my observation skills, empathy, creativity and cultural awareness, says attorney Michael McCready.
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Secret Service Failures Offer Lessons For Private Sector GCs
The Secret Service’s problematic response to two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump this summer provides a crash course for general counsel on how not to handle crisis communications, says Keith Nahigian at Nahigian Strategies.
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Building US-Japan Relationships In The M&A Market
The prospect of U.S.-Japanese mergers and acquisitions presents stronger competition to U.S. investors in the global M&A markets, while also opening up an additional exit route for sellers looking to offload strategic assets, says Nick Wall at A&O Shearman.
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Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession
About 30,000 people who took the bar exam in July will learn they passed this fall, marking a fitting time for all attorneys to remember that they are members in a specialty club of learned professionals — and the more they can keep this in mind, the more benefits they will see, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.
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Opinion
AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys
The thing that’s so powerful about artificial intelligence is also what’s most scary about it — its ability to detect patterns may curtail young attorneys’ chance to practice the lower-level work of managing cases, preventing them from ever honing the pattern recognition skills that undergird creative lawyering, says Sarah Murray at Trialcraft.
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Series
Round-Canopy Parachuting Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Similar to the practice of law, jumping from an in-flight airplane with nothing but training and a few yards of parachute silk is a demanding and stressful endeavor, and the experience has bolstered my legal practice by enhancing my focus, teamwork skills and sense of perspective, says Thomas Salerno at Stinson.
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SEC Settlement Holds Important Pay-To-Play Lessons
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s recent fine of an investment adviser, whose new hire made a campaign contribution within a crucial lookback period, is a seasonable reminder for public fund managers to ensure their processes thoroughly screen all associates for even minor violations of the SEC’s strict pay-to-play rule, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.
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Boeing Ruling Is A Cautionary Tale For Trade Secret Litigants
A Washington federal court’s recent ruling canceling a $72 million jury award against Boeing because Zunum Aero had failed to properly identify its trade secrets highlights the value of an early statement of alleged secrets, amended through discovery and used as a framework at trial, says Matthew D'Amore at Cornell.
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What To Expect From Calif. Bill Regulating PE In Healthcare
A California bill currently awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom's approval, intended to increase oversight over private equity and hedge fund investments in healthcare, is emblematic of recent increased scrutiny of investments in the space, and may affect transactions and operations in California in a number of ways, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.
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Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners
Partner and associate mobility data from the second quarter of this year suggest that there's never been a better time in recent years for law firms to hire lateral candidates, particularly experienced partners — though this necessitates an understanding of potential red flags, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.
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Considering Possible PR Risks Of Certain Legal Tactics
Disney and American Airlines recently abandoned certain litigation tactics in two lawsuits after fierce public backlash, illustrating why corporate counsel should consider the reputational implications of any legal strategy and partner with their communications teams to preempt public relations concerns, says Chris Gidez at G7 Reputation Advisory.
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It's No Longer Enough For Firms To Be Trusted Advisers
Amid fierce competition for business, the transactional “trusted adviser” paradigm from which most firms operate is no longer sufficient — they should instead aim to become trusted partners with their most valuable clients, says Stuart Maister at Strategic Narrative.
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7 Takeaways For Investment Advisers From FinCEN AML Rule
With a new FinCEN rule that will require covered investment advisers to implement anti-money laundering programs and comply with extra recordkeeping requirements by 2026, companies should begin planning necessary updates to their policies and procedures by focusing on seven of the rule’s key requirements, identified by attorneys at Simpson Thacher.
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Mitigating Risk In Net Asset Value Facility Bankruptcies
In times of economic turbulence, parties to bankruptcy proceedings that involve net asset value facilities can mitigate risk by understanding the purpose of the automatic stay, complications it can create for NAV facility lenders and options for relief, say attorneys at Mayer Brown.
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What VC Fund Settlement Means For DEI Grant Programs
An unexpected settlement in American Alliance for Equal Rights v. Fearless Fund, based on specific details of an Atlanta venture capital fund's challenged minority grant program, leaves the legal landscape wide open for organizations with similar programs supporting diversity, equity and inclusion to chart a path forward, say attorneys at Moore & Van Allen.