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February 21, 2024
Cruise Line Hornblower Hits Ch. 11 With Over $1B Debt
Cruise line and ferry service Hornblower Group Inc. and affiliates on Wednesday filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Texas with a plan to cut $720 million from its more than $1 billion of debt through a deal that will hand majority control to private equity firm Strategic Value Partners.
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February 20, 2024
Justices Won't Hear JPMorgan Syndicated Loan Dispute
The U.S. Supreme Court decided on Tuesdsay that it will not hear a dispute accusing JPMorgan Chase and other banks of failing to warn noteholders about the risks of lending money to a soon-to-be bankrupt company, keeping the case's dismissal intact after the Second Circuit ruled that the syndicated loan at the center of the case was not subject to securities laws.
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February 20, 2024
Trivest Can Seek 6th Circ. Review Of RICO Jurisdiction Ruling
A Michigan federal judge will allow a Florida-based private equity firm to appeal a decision denying its bid to escape a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act lawsuit scrutinizing its funding of a solar company accused of scamming customers.
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February 20, 2024
Biology AI Startup Bioptimus Raises $35M Seed Round
Artificial intelligence startup Bioptimus has raised $35 million to build an AI foundational model focused on biology, the company announced Tuesday.
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February 20, 2024
UMG Snags Stake In Music Rights Co., Valuing Biz At $1.85B
Music entertainment company Universal Music Group on Tuesday announced it plans to buy private equity giant KKR's minority stake in Chord Music Partners in a deal that values the music label at $1.85 billion and was built by six firms.
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February 20, 2024
FERC Greenlights $6.7B Vistra-Energy Harbor Merger
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved a $6.7 billion proposed merger between Vistra Corp. and Ohio-based Energy Harbor LLC after taking extra time to review the tie-up amid competition concerns from both federal antitrust officials and state consumer advocates.
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February 20, 2024
AI Computing Co. Clinches $102M In VC-Led Funding
Artificial intelligence-based computing company Recogni has closed its Series C funding round after raising $102 million from investors, with the funds going toward driving system development for AI inference solutions that improve both performance and power efficiency, the company announced Tuesday.
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February 20, 2024
Fox Rothschild AI Chief Talks 'Terrifying' Deepfakes, Biased AI
Mark McCreary, the chief artificial intelligence and information security officer at Fox Rothschild, leads his firm's internal AI strategy and provides counsel to other law firms trying to bushwhack their path through the often murky AI legal landscape, rife with hallucinated case law citations and disturbingly real deepfakes.
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February 20, 2024
Kirkland & Ellis Brings On Weil Tax Pros In NY, DC
Kirkland & Ellis has recruited a pair of real estate tax partners from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLC who advised clients on a wide range of complex transactions, Kirkland announced Tuesday.
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February 20, 2024
Boomerang In Default For Silence On $7M Del. Contract Suit
A defunct steel tube plant that failed to respond to a Delaware Chancery Court lawsuit seeking $7.35 million for unpaid invoices was found in default Tuesday after failing to appear in court for more than a year and a half.
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February 20, 2024
Private Equity Group Of The Year: Paul Weiss
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP advised private equity giant Apollo in nearly $30 billion of publicly disclosed transactions, including multiple multibillion-dollar take-private acquisitions, despite a slow deals market, earning the firm a spot among Law360's 2023 Private Equity Groups of the Year.
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February 20, 2024
Truist Selling Insurance Brokerage At $15.5B Value
Truist Financial Corp. said Tuesday it has agreed to sell its remaining stake in subsidiary Truist Insurance Holdings to an investor group led by private equity firms Stone Point Capital and Clayton Dubilier & Rice, in an all-cash transaction that gives the insurance brokerage an enterprise value of $15.5 billion.
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February 16, 2024
Feds Charge Ex-Commodities Trader With $3.7M Scheme
A former commodities trader has been charged with misappropriating $3.7 million from would-be investors using misrepresentations that he later repeated to undercover agents, New Jersey federal prosecutors said Friday.
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February 16, 2024
Leon Black Accuser Agrees To Drop Assault Claims
A woman who accused former Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black of sexually assaulting her during the late Jeffrey Epstein's decadeslong sex trafficking scheme has agreed to drop her claims against the billionaire, although other claims against Epstein's trust co-executors are still pending, according to court documents filed Thursday.
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February 16, 2024
Soroc Tech Del. Suit Alleges Fraud In $115M DecisionOne Deal
Canada-based information technology services provider Soroc Technology Holdings LLC has sued private equity firm Oak Lane Partners and several of its top officers and affiliates in Delaware's Court of Chancery, alleging they were behind an elaborate, $115 million company sale fraud that snared Soroc.
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February 16, 2024
Startup Countersues Trucker Tracking Co. For Stealing Tech
A venture capital-backed startup that sells dashboard cameras to monitor truck drivers is responding to a rival's well-publicized patent infringement case by filing its own patent lawsuit in a different federal court that mirrors many of the same allegations of technological theft but pointing them in the other direction.
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February 16, 2024
Canada Liable Under NAFTA For Axed LNG Project, Co. Says
A U.S. company that invested at least $120 million in a since-thwarted liquefied natural gas project maintained that Canada is liable for $1 billion in damages for breaches of the North American Free Trade Agreement, and that the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes has jurisdiction over its claims.
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February 16, 2024
Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court
News broke last week that Delaware's Court of Chancery will say goodbye to its current longest-serving jurist, a development that quickly overshadowed a busy week of new merger and board disputes, fee rulings, settlements, and books-and-records demands.
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February 16, 2024
French Retail Co. Casino Group Files For Ch. 15 Recognition
French retail conglomerate Casino Guichard-Perrachon SA filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy in New York, seeking recognition of a French insolvency proceeding designed to slash more than €1.5 billion ($1.6 billion) from its debt sheet.
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February 16, 2024
Chromocell Hits Stock Markets Following $6.6M IPO
Clinical-stage biotechnology company Chromocell Therapeutics Corp. began trading publicly on Friday after raising $6.6 million in its initial public offering, becoming the latest in a flurry of biotech IPOs.
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February 16, 2024
Taxation With Representation: Paul Weiss, Kirkland
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Diamondback buys Endeavor, KKR & Co. acquires a stake in Cotiviti, and Gilead Sciences Inc. purchases CymaBay Therapeutics Inc.
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February 16, 2024
Gibson Dunn, DLA Piper Steer $1.45B Sale Of All3Media
RedBird IMI, advised by Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, on Friday revealed that it has agreed to buy independent television production and distribution company All3Media from its joint owners, DLA Piper-led Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. and Liberty Global Ltd., in a £1.15 billion ($1.45 billion) deal that will allow the independent production company to continue developing and producing programming.
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February 16, 2024
Paul Weiss-Led PE Firms Buying HireRight In $1.65B Deal
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP is guiding private equity firms General Atlantic and Stone Point Capital on a $1.65 billion deal to purchase all the outstanding shares of HireRight Holdings Corp. they do not already own, HireRight said in a statement Friday.
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February 16, 2024
Lawyers Advising PE On Alternative Exits Amid Market Slump
Private equity firms have turned to their lawyers to find creative solutions for realizing cash for investors as deals activity in the IPO market in London remains sluggish — such as setting up continuation funds, making partial sales or working creatively with debt.
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February 15, 2024
7th Circ. Rejects Ancestry.com's Arbitration Bid In Privacy Suit
The Seventh Circuit on Thursday upheld a lower court's decision that minors suing Ancestry.com for sharing their genetic testing information can avoid arbitration, saying there was no language in the terms their parents signed designating the children as parties to the agreement.
Expert Analysis
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Opinion
Congress Needs To Enact A Federal Anti-SLAPP Statute
Although many states have passed statutes meant to prevent individuals or entities from filing strategic lawsuits against public participation, other states have not, so it's time for Congress to enact a federal statute to ensure that free speech and petitioning rights are uniformly protected nationwide in federal court, say attorneys at Skadden.
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Unpacking Recent Changes At The NY Federal Reserve
After recent changes at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, certain money market mutual funds that previously relied on the Overnight Reverse Repo Facility will be expected to place cash with a commercial bank or invest directly in assets, which in turn supports the functioning of the real economy, say attorneys at Mayer Brown.
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Some Client Speculations On AI And The Law Firm Biz Model
Generative artificial intelligence technologies will put pressure on the business of law as it is structured currently, but clients may end up with more price certainty for legal services, and lawyers may spend more time being lawyers, says Jonathan Cole at Melody Capital.
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Private Equity Firms Shouldn't Overlook Cybersecurity Risks
Given the operational, financial and reputational costs at stake, and the growing threat of cybercrime, cybersecurity should be central to deal making, internal governance and post-acquisition management for private equity firms, say Ray Bogenrief and William Ridgway at Skadden.
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Assessing Overlapping Boards After DOJ Crackdown
The U.S. Department of Justice’s recent targeting of interlocking directorates raises questions about the scope of applicable antitrust law, including when companies will be considered competitors, whether the statute reaches potential competitors, and how companies can avoid price-fixing or market allocation charges, say attorneys at Cooley.
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NY AG's Digital Asset Proposal Shouldn't Be Taken Lightly
Given New York state's prominence both in the digital asset industry and as a proving ground for state regulatory innovation, all digital asset industry participants should take seriously New York Attorney General Letitia James' legislative proposal to tighten crypto regulation, say attorneys at WilmerHale.
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Lessons On Corporate Fiduciary Duties From Del. M&A Case
The recent decision in New Enterprise Associates v. Rich, which held that a contractual covenant by certain stockholders not to challenge specific sales of the company was enforceable, highlights that the Delaware Court of Chancery generally is likely to be receptive to waivers of fiduciary duties that are agreed by sophisticated stockholders, say attorneys at Fried Frank.
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Failed Tegna Deal Reveals Increasing Merger Review Hurdles
A deeper look at how the Tegna-Standard General deal derailed during merger review suggests some practical steps that firms should consider to close transactions when dealing with multiple federal agencies operating under a whole-of-government antitrust enforcement approach, say Jody Boudreault and Katherine Dutcher at Baker Botts.
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A Lawyer's Guide To Approaching Digital Assets In Discovery
The booming growth of cryptocurrency and non-fungible tokens has made digital assets relevant in many legal disputes but also poses several challenges for discovery, so lawyers must garner an understanding of the technology behind these assets, the way they function, and how they're held, says Brett Sager at Ehrenstein Sager.
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Opinion
High Court's Ethics Statement Places Justices Above The Law
The U.S. Supreme Court justices' disappointing statement on the court's ethics principles and practices reveals that not only are they satisfied with a status quo in which they are bound by fewer ethics rules than other federal judges, but also that they've twisted the few rules that do apply to them, says David Janovsky at the Project on Government Oversight.
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A Look At Corwin Cleansing After Chancery Edgio Ruling
The Delaware Chancery Court's denial of Corwin cleansing in an action seeking post-closing injunctive relief in the Edgio stockholders case has potentially significant implications for corporations and their boards in the negotiation of investment agreements with significant stockholders, say attorneys at Cleary.
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Opinion
Time For Law Schools To Rethink Unsung Role Of Adjuncts
As law schools prepare for the fall 2023 semester, administrators should reevaluate the role of the underappreciated, indispensable adjunct, and consider 16 concrete actions to improve the adjuncts' teaching experience, overall happiness and feeling of belonging, say T. Markus Funk at Perkins Coie, Andrew Boutros at Dechert and Eugene Volokh at UCLA.
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4 Areas Of Heightened Antitrust Risk In Private Equity
Antitrust enforcement and litigation are moving from portfolio companies to the private equity firms that invest in them, and a few areas of elevated risk stand out, say Ann O’Brien and Lindsey Collins at Sheppard Mullin.
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Tips For In-House Legal Leaders In A Challenging Economy
Amid today's economic and geopolitical uncertainty, in-house legal teams are running lean and facing increased scrutiny and unique issues, but can step up and find innovative ways to manage outcomes and capitalize on good business opportunities, says Tim Parilla at LinkSquares.
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M&A Considerations For European Cos. Acquiring US Entities
As investment banks forecast a resurgence of mergers and acquisitions later this year, European companies seeking to acquire U.S. businesses should be aware of key procedural differences and federal regulatory requirements that will affect the process, timing and terms of the transaction, say attorneys at Mintz.