Private Equity

  • October 30, 2024

    KKR, ECP To Plug $50B Into Data Centers, Power Projects

    Private equity firms KKR & Co., advised by Simpson Thacher, and Energy Capital Partners have teamed up to inject $50 billion into building data centers and energy generation projects in a bet on meeting rising demand for infrastructure to support the artificial intelligence boom.

  • October 30, 2024

    Cleary-Led UK Investor To Buy Data Security Biz For £169M

    Bridgepoint said Wednesday that its subsidiary has agreed to buy data security firm Eckoh PLC for £169.3 million ($220 million), as the British private investor seeks a slice of the growing global digital safety sector.

  • October 30, 2024

    Kirkland-Led Francisco Paying $1.1B For AdvancedMD

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP is guiding Francisco Partners on an agreement disclosed Wednesday to buy medical payments company AdvancedMD from Global Payments for $1.125 billion.

  • October 30, 2024

    Akin Gump Bolsters PE Team With Ex-Greenberg Traurig Atty

    Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP announced the addition of a private equity transactions attorney joining the firm in New York on Wednesday, saying the former Greenberg Traurig LLP shareholder will support the firm's position in the private capital market.

  • October 29, 2024

    Argent Strikes Symbria ESOP Suit Settlement Deal

    A class of Symbria Inc. workers alleging mismanagement of their employee stock ownership plan told an Illinois federal court they had reached a settlement with ESOP trustee Argent Trust Co. to end their federal benefits lawsuit.

  • October 29, 2024

    Sham Getty Stock Offer Lands Investor 10-Month Prison Term

    A former Massachusetts corporate executive will serve 10 months in prison for launching a sham takeover bid for Seattle-based Getty Images Holdings to drive up its share price and make hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit, a Boston federal judge said Tuesday.

  • October 29, 2024

    Greenberg Traurig Adds Bradley Arant Banking Ace In Dallas

    Greenberg Traurig LLP has brought on a former Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP counsel to its Dallas office to meet client demand, bolstering the firm's expertise in guiding banks on financial regulatory compliance and enforcement matters with a former senior attorney for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the firm announced Tuesday.

  • October 29, 2024

    Warren Pushes FTC Chair To Probe Oncology Acquisitions

    Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday urged the Federal Trade Commission to scrutinize McKesson Corp.'s proposed $2.49 billion acquisition of a controlling stake in Core Ventures, and Cardinal Health's proposed $1.12 billion purchase of a controlling stake in Integrated Oncology, saying the deals would further consolidate the "already highly consolidated" oncology market.

  • October 29, 2024

    Burns & Levinson Atty Duo Latest To Join Blank Rome

    Blank Rome has announced it added a pair of attorneys from Burns & Levinson to its office in Boston, a move that the firm said bolsters its litigation and corporate capabilities and serves as the latest example of lawyers moving between the two firms since Blank Rome opened the office in April with 25 Burns & Levinson corporate and finance attorneys.

  • October 29, 2024

    M&A Rebounded As Equity Issuance, IPOs Faltered In Q3

    The number of global M&A deal announcements increased for the second consecutive quarter in the third quarter, but global equity issuance and IPO activity slowed, according to a Tuesday report from S&P Global Market Intelligence.

  • October 29, 2024

    Front Office Sports Sued For Using Luxury Real Estate Photos

    Private equity-backed media outlet Front Office Sports is accused of unlawfully using luxury real estate photos online without permission, according to a lawsuit filed in New York federal court.

  • October 29, 2024

    Crescent Inks Oncology Merger With $200M In Private Funding

    Crescent Biopharma Inc. has agreed to take fellow cancer-focused biotech GlycoMimetics Inc. private in a deal that includes $200 million of investments from well over a dozen firms to help fund the combined company's operations through 2027, GlycoMimetics revealed Tuesday.

  • October 29, 2024

    PE-Owned Implant Maker Plagued By Lawsuits Hits Ch. 11

    Joint implant maker Exactech Inc. on Tuesday filed for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware bankruptcy court with an offer from its lenders to take over the company, as a wave of lawsuits tied to product recalls weighs on the private equity-owned firm.

  • October 29, 2024

    Blackstone Brings In $22B Total For Direct Lending Platform

    Private equity giant Blackstone, advised by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, on Tuesday revealed that it successfully closed its inaugural evergreen institutional U.S. direct lending fund after securing a total of $22 billion in capital commitments.

  • October 28, 2024

    Masimo Sues Founder Over Alleged 'Empty Voting' Scheme

    Masimo Corp. has sued its founder for allegedly conspiring with an investment firm and company stockholder to manipulate a shareholder vote in order to maintain his seat on the medical technology company's board of directors.

  • October 28, 2024

    Ex-Atty Charged With $9.2M Commodities Ponzi Scheme

    Federal prosecutors have charged a former New Orleans-based attorney with operating a Ponzi scheme, saying he promised dozens of individuals that he would invest their $9.2 million in low-risk commodities when he was really using the funds to gamble and to pay off personal expenses.

  • October 28, 2024

    Ex-Oracle Manager, Software Co. Face Trade Secrets Suit

    A new lawsuit by Oracle claims that a manager left the company for a competing venture-backed construction software tech outfit and "absconded with thousands of Oracle's trade secret[s]."

  • October 28, 2024

    Creditors Get Ponzi Finding In Wash. Bankruptcy Trial

    A Washington state bankruptcy judge has found that real estate investment firm iCap Enterprises Inc. had operated as a Ponzi scheme, opening up the door for creditors to bring lawsuits and deduct some part of the losses from their taxes, attorneys for the official committee of iCap's unsecured creditors said Monday.

  • October 28, 2024

    5 Firms Guide Nearly $10B Garda World Security Deal

    London-based private equity firm BC Partners is selling its majority equity interest in Garda World Security Corp. to a group led by the security service provider's CEO, in a transaction steered by at least five law firms that values GardaWorld at CA$13.5 billion ($9.7 billion).

  • October 28, 2024

    Attys Seek $48M Fees For Hooking $152M In Tuna Fixing Deals

    Lawyers for a class of consumers that sued three of the largest tuna producers accusing them of conspiring to fix tinned fish prices asked a California federal court to approve nearly $50 million in legal costs after a settlement this summer ended nearly nine years of multidistrict litigation.

  • October 28, 2024

    AbbVie Paying $1.4B For Alzheimer's-Focused Biotech

    AbbVie said Monday it will acquire Aliada Therapeutics, a biotechnology company working on therapies to treat central nervous system diseases including Alzheimer's disease, for $1.4 billion in cash. 

  • October 28, 2024

    Gibson Dunn-Led Lone Star Exiting Chemicals Co. For $2.3B

    Lone Star Funds said Monday it has agreed to sell U.S. global specialty chemicals company AOC to Japan's Nippon Paint Holdings Co. for roughly $2.3 billion.

  • October 28, 2024

    Crown Settles Customer Dispute To Close $924M Revance Buy

    Revance Therapeutics has settled a distribution-related dispute with customer Teoxane SA, potentially clearing the path for its planned $924 million acquisition by skincare company Crown Laboratories. 

  • October 25, 2024

    SEC Wants PE Firm's 'Fishing Expedition' Claims Paused

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has asked a Texas federal judge to pause a real estate-focused private equity fund's suit alleging that the regulator subjected it to an unconstitutional "fishing expedition" outside its regulatory purview.

  • October 25, 2024

    'Starting Point' Algorithm Enough To Fix Prices, DOJ Says

    The Justice Department is using the first algorithmic price-fixing case to reach an appeals court to argue that just because an algorithm only set "starting points" doesn't make its use legal, in a Ninth Circuit amicus brief backing efforts to revive a room rate lawsuit against Las Vegas casino hotels.

Expert Analysis

  • Avoiding Merger Disputes Via Careful LLC Agreement Drafting

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    The Delaware Court of Chancery recently upheld a merger in a dispute over the process of amending the target's limited liability company agreement, underscoring the importance of understanding the Delaware LLC Act default rules and careful drafting to allow for contractual modifications, says Jane Trueper at Lathrop.

  • Opinion

    FDIC's Foray Into Index Fund Rules Risks Regulatory Chaos

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    A proposed Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. rule concerning control over passive index fund investments in banks is outside the agency's remit, clashes with an existing Federal Reserve process and would inhibit competition in the index fund sector, says J.W. Verret at George Mason University.

  • Use The Right Kind Of Feedback To Help Gen Z Attorneys

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    Generation Z associates bring unique perspectives and expectations to the workplace, so it’s imperative that supervising attorneys adapt their feedback approach in order to help young lawyers learn and grow — which is good for law firms, too, says Rachael Bosch at Fringe Professional Development.

  • Opinion

    Congress Can And Must Enact A Supreme Court Ethics Code

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    As public confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court dips to historic lows following reports raising conflict of interest concerns, Congress must exercise its constitutional power to enact a mandatory and enforceable code of ethics for the high court, says Muhammad Faridi, president of the New York City Bar Association.

  • Perspectives

    Pop Culture Docket: Justice Lebovits On Gilbert And Sullivan

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    Characters in the 19th century comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan break the rules of good lawyering by shamelessly throwing responsible critical thought to the wind, providing hilarious lessons for lawyers and judges on how to avoid a surfeit of traps and tribulations, say acting New York Supreme Court Justice Gerald Lebovits and law student Tara Scown.

  • HSR Amendments Intensify Merger Filing Burdens, Data Risk

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    The antitrust agencies' long-awaited changes to premerger notification rules under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act stand to significantly increase the time and cost involved in preparing an initial HSR notification, and will require more proactive attention to data issues, says Andrew Szwez at FTI Technology.

  • State Of The States' AI Legal Ethics Landscape

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    Over the past year, several state bar associations, as well as the American Bar Association, have released guidance on the ethical use of artificial intelligence in legal practice, all of which share overarching themes and some nuanced differences, say Eric Pacifici and Kevin Henderson at SMB Law Group.

  • Making Sure Your Co. Isn't In The Next Section 13(f) Sweep

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    Enforcement actions taken against 11 institutional investment managers for alleged failures to file forms required by Section 13(f) of the Securities Exchange Act serve as a reminder that firms should carefully monitor their obligations to avoid becoming the target of the next enforcement sweep, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

  • 8 Childhood Lessons That Can Help You Be A Better Attorney

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    A new school year is underway, marking a fitting time for attorneys to reflect on some fundamental life lessons from early childhood that offer a framework for problems that no legal textbook can solve, say Chris Gismondi and Chris Campbell at DLA Piper.

  • Opinion

    This Election, We Need To Talk About Court Process

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    In recent decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has markedly transformed judicial processes — from summary judgment standards to notice pleadings — which has, in turn, affected individuals’ substantive rights, and we need to consider how the upcoming presidential election may continue this pattern, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

  • Series

    Playing Diplomacy Makes Us Better Lawyers

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    Similar to the practice of law, the rules of Diplomacy — a strategic board game set in pre-World War I Europe — are neither concise nor without ambiguity, and weekly gameplay with our colleagues has revealed the game's practical applications to our work as attorneys, say Jason Osborn and Ben Bevilacqua at Winston & Strawn.

  • Mental Health First Aid: A Brief Primer For Attorneys

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    Amid a growing body of research finding that attorneys face higher rates of mental illness than the general population, firms should consider setting up mental health first aid training programs to help lawyers assess mental health challenges in their colleagues and intervene with compassion, say psychologists Shawn Healy and Tracey Meyers.

  • 8 Issues AI Firms May Encounter As M&A Action Accelerates

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    As the AI merger climate heats up, potential complications may arise, including antitrust scrutiny, talent retention agreements, and aggressive and protective deal terms intended to compensate for lofty valuations, say Scott Schwartz and Kishan Barot at Manatt.

  • Series

    Collecting Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    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.

  • Secret Service Failures Offer Lessons For Private Sector GCs

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    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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