Private Equity

  • March 06, 2025

    FTC Challenges PE Firm's Medical Device Coatings Deal

    The Federal Trade Commission moved Thursday to block private equity firm GTCR BC Holdings LLC's planned $627 million acquisition of Surmodics Inc. over concerns about competition for medical device coatings.

  • March 06, 2025

    Fintech Startup Klarna Ready For $1B IPO, Plus More Rumors

    Fintech startup Klarna is readying a $1 billion initial public offering, Apollo Global Management is keen to lead a $35 billion funding package to help Meta build new data centers, and Italian fashion house Prada is near to closing a $1.6 billion deal to acquire luxury clothier Versace from Capri Holdings Ltd.

  • March 06, 2025

    As FDIC Walks Back Biden-Era Policies, Bank Groups Applaud

    The financial services industry has welcomed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s recent moves withdrawing various rule proposals from the Biden administration, delaying the compliance deadline for another measure and proposing to rescind a policy statement on bank mergers. 

  • March 06, 2025

    Walgreens Boots Inks $24B Go-Private Deal With Sycamore

    Walgreens Boots Alliance said Thursday it has agreed to be purchased by private equity firm Sycamore Partners in a transaction with a total value of up to $23.7 billion, as the storied retailer looks to reverse years of financial declines by going private. 

  • March 06, 2025

    UK Authorities Clear Amex GBT's $570M CWT Buy

    United Kingdom antitrust authorities gave the formal all-clear Thursday to American Express Global Business Travel Inc.'s planned $570 million purchase of CWT Holdings LLC, leaving a Justice Department lawsuit the only hurdle remaining for the corporate travel management services merger.

  • March 06, 2025

    NY Court Rejects Leon Black's Malicious Prosecution Suit

    A New York appeals court on Thursday rejected a malicious prosecution suit brought by former Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black against Wigdor LLP, which represented a woman in a failed lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault.

  • March 06, 2025

    Everton Football Club Lands £350M In Stadium Financing

    Business conglomerate The Friedkin Group completed a £350 million ($451 million) deal that will refinance what was borrowed to complete its 52,888-seat stadium for its Everton Football Club in Liverpool, United Kingdom, the team announced Thursday.

  • March 06, 2025

    7-Eleven Eyes US IPO Next Year After Failed Takeover Deal

    Japan's Seven & i Holdings Co. on Thursday unveiled plans to pursue a U.S. initial public offering of its North American 7-Eleven convenience stores by the second half of next year, among other business changes, a move that comes after the company reported that a $58 billion takeover offer fell through due to a financing snafu.

  • March 06, 2025

    Akin Lands White & Case Energy Pro In Houston

    A former senior counsel for Oasis Petroleum Inc. and partner at White & Case LLP moved his energy and infrastructure transactions practice to Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in Texas, the firm announced Thursday.

  • March 06, 2025

    Senate Panel Backs McKernan For CFPB, 3 Other Trump Picks

    A U.S. Senate panel on Thursday advanced President Donald Trump's nomination of Jonathan McKernan to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, setting him up for likely confirmation to the beleaguered agency.

  • March 06, 2025

    Fried Frank Hires White & Case Partner For NY Office

    Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP announced it appointed a longtime White & Case LLP partner to serve as senior counsel in the firm's mergers and acquisitions and private equity practices. 

  • March 06, 2025

    Kirkland-Led Medical Device Firm Prices Upsized $202M IPO

    Shares of Kestra Medical Technologies Ltd. soared in debut trading Thursday after the maker of wearable defibrillators priced an upsized $202 million initial public offering above its range, represented by Kirkland & Ellis LLP and underwriters' counsel Allen Overy Shearman Sterling LLP.

  • March 06, 2025

    McDermott Hires 2 More Schulte Roth PE Partners In NY

    McDermott Will & Emery LLP has hired two former partners from Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP for its transactions practice in New York, the firm said Thursday.

  • March 05, 2025

    Rival Cos. Called 'Empower' Agree To End TM Fight, For Now

    Empower Annuity Insurance Co. of America and Empower Finance Inc. agreed to end, for now, their trademark infringement dispute over the "Empower" mark, over a year after a Colorado federal judge found customer confusion was "unlikely" in the financial services sector and refused to order Empower Finance to change its name.

  • March 05, 2025

    Defense Biz Epirus Clinches $250M Funding Round

    National security-focused technology company Epirus announced Wednesday it closed an oversubscribed Series D fundraising round after securing $250 million from investors, bringing the startup's total venture funding to more than $550 million.

  • March 05, 2025

    Cleanova, Micronics Combine To Create $1.3B Business

    Private equity-owned clean technology maker Cleanova on Wednesday announced plans to buy fellow private equity-owned clean technology manufacturer Micronics Engineered Filtration Group to create a company with an enterprise value of $1.3 billion, in a deal built by three law firms.

  • March 05, 2025

    KKR, Walmart Selling Japanese Supermarket Chain For $2.5B

    KKR and Walmart have agreed to sell their 85% and 15% respective stakes in Tokyo-based supermarket chain Seiyu to Japan's Trial Holdings Inc. for a total of 380 billion yen ($2.55 billion), the companies said Wednesday. 

  • March 05, 2025

    FCA Says Private Markets Must Identify Conflicts Better

    The Financial Conduct Authority said Wednesday that private asset markets like venture capital need to identify conflicts of interest better in asset valuations, in a multifirm review covering £3 trillion ($3.86 trillion) of global private assets under management.

  • March 04, 2025

    Avalara Investor Asks 9th Circ. To Revive $8B PE Buyout Suit

    An Avalara shareholder urged the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to revive a proposed securities class action alleging the tax software company duped investors into approving a "deficient" $8.4 billion private equity buyout, arguing the trial court erred in finding Avalara's statements tied to "numerically specific metrics" weren't false or misleading.

  • March 04, 2025

    Musk Fails To Block OpenAI From Turning Into For-Profit Entity

    A California federal judge on Tuesday denied Elon Musk's bid to preliminarily bar OpenAI Inc. from converting into a for-profit entity, saying that a threshold question of whether Musk's over $44 million in donations created a charitable trust was a "toss-up."

  • March 04, 2025

    Agencies Have 'Ultimate' Authority Over Firings, OPM Says

    The Office of Personnel Management on Tuesday issued a revised version of its January memo directing agency heads to identify all probationary employees, adding a disclaimer that OPM "is not directing agencies to take any specific performance-based actions" and that agencies "have ultimate decision-making authority."

  • March 04, 2025

    CVC Wraps Strategic Opportunities Fund With €4.6B In Tow

    Private equity shop CVC Capital Partners, led by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, on Tuesday said that it closed its third strategic opportunities fund after securing €4.61 billion ($4.9 billion) of investor commitments.

  • March 04, 2025

    Day Pitney Hires Founder Of Legal Intelligence Company

    Day Pitney LLP has hired the founder of a legal intelligence company and former co-head of the New York corporate and transactions group at McDermott Will & Emery LLP, the firm announced this week.

  • March 04, 2025

    3 Firms Build Instinct Brothers' $242M SPAC Merger

    Japanese regenerative medicine and stem cell technology company Instinct Brothers Co. Ltd. on Tuesday unveiled plans to go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company Relativity Acquisition Corp. in a $242 million deal built by three law firms.

  • March 04, 2025

    Honeywell Paying $2.2B For Sundyne Amid $25B Deployment

    Honeywell said Tuesday it has agreed to acquire pump and gas compressor maker Sundyne from private equity firm Warburg Pincus for $2.16 billion, part of a restructuring plan that calls for the industrial conglomerate to deploy at least $25 billion by the end of 2025. 

Expert Analysis

  • Opinion

    Judge Should Not Have Been Reprimanded For Alito Essay

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    Senior U.S. District Judge Michael Ponsor's New York Times essay critiquing Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for potential ethical violations absolutely cannot be construed as conduct prejudicial to the administration of the business of the courts, says Ashley London at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University.

  • A Look At Collateralized Loan Obligations Post-Reform

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    The Financial Stability Board's recent report on global securitization reforms, analyzing resilience trends in the collateralized loan obligation market post-2008, suggests that, while risk retention rules have a limited impact on observable characteristics, other structural features play a significant role in ensuring risk alignment, says Kos Vavelidis at DLA Piper.

  • Lights, Camera, Ethics? TV Lawyers Tend To Set Bad Example

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    Though fictional movies and television shows portraying lawyers are fun to watch, Hollywood’s inaccurate depictions of legal ethics can desensitize attorneys to ethics violations and lead real-life clients to believe that good lawyers take a scorched-earth approach, says Nancy Rapoport at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

  • Perspectives

    Accountant-Owned Law Firms Could Blur Ethical Lines

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    KPMG’s recent application to open a legal practice in Arizona represents the first overture by an accounting firm to take advantage of the state’s relaxed law firm ownership rules, but enforcing and supervising the practice of law by nonattorneys could prove particularly challenging, says Seth Laver at Goldberg Segalla.

  • How FTC Consumer Protection May Fare Under Reg Freeze

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    Attorneys at Crowell & Moring consider how President Donald Trump's executive order directing agencies to freeze all pending rulemaking activity may frustrate any Federal Trade Commission efforts to change or eliminate rules that made it across the finish line before the inauguration.

  • AI Will Soon Transform The E-Discovery Industrial Complex

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    Todd Itami at Covington discusses how generative artificial intelligence will reshape the current e-discovery paradigm, replacing the blunt instrument of data handling with a laser scalpel of fully integrated enterprise solutions — after first making e-discovery processes technically and legally harder.

  • When Innovation Overwhelms The Rule Of Law

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    In an era where technology is rapidly evolving and artificial intelligence is seemingly everywhere, it’s worth asking if the law — both substantive precedent and procedural rules — can keep up with the light speed of innovation, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

  • Losing A Motion To Dismiss Ruling Isn't Necessarily The End

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    A recent Delaware Court of Chancery ruling, that the Manti Group had not demonstrated any conflicts of interest favoring private equity fund operator The Carlyle Group, serves as an important reminder that a decision on a pleading motion is not the end of the story, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • Imagine The Possibilities Of Openly Autistic Lawyering

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    Andi Mazingo at Lumen Law, who was diagnosed with autism about midway through her career, discusses how the legal profession can create inclusive workplaces that empower openly autistic lawyers and enhance innovation, and how neurodivergent attorneys can navigate the challenges and opportunities that come with disclosing one’s diagnosis.

  • Top 10 Healthcare And Life Sciences Issues To Watch In 2025

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    Under the new Trump administration, this coming year may benefit some healthcare and life sciences stakeholders, while creating new challenges for others amid an increasingly complex regulatory environment, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • Series

    Documentary Filmmaking Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Becoming a documentary filmmaker has allowed me to merge my legal expertise with my passion for storytelling, and has helped me to hone negotiation, critical thinking and problem-solving skills that are important to both endeavors, says Robert Darwell at Sheppard Mullin.

  • Litigation Funding Disclosure Debate: Strategy Considerations

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    In the ongoing debate over whether courts should require disclosure of litigation funding, funders and plaintiffs tend to argue against such mandates, but voluntarily disclosing limited details about a funding arrangement can actually confer certain benefits to plaintiffs in some scenarios, say Andrew Stulce and Marc Cavan at Longford Capital.

  • Top Considerations For Insurance Companies In 2025

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    As insurance industry participants look to plan for the year, regulatory changes, climate-related challenges, the ongoing effects of social inflation and the potential for significant mergers and acquisitions will be among the key items for insurer boards and management to have on their radar, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • Scope And Nature Of Judicial Relief Will Affect Loper's Impact

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    The practical result of post-Loper Bright rulings against regulatory actions will depend on the relief courts grant — and there has been controversy in these types of cases over whether the ruling is applied just to the parties or nationwide, and whether the action can be left in place while it's corrected, says Steven Gordon at Holland & Knight.

  • Series

    Adventure Photography Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Photographing nature everywhere from Siberia to Cuba and Iceland to Rwanda provides me with a constant reminder to refresh, refocus and rethink the legal issues that my clients face, says Richard Birmingham at Davis Wright.

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