Kirkland & Ellis LLP-advised private equity shop Clearlake Capital Group LP on Tuesday revealed it had closed its eighth flagship fund with $14.8 billion in tow, targeting investments in the artificial intelligence, software modernization, digital transformation and operational efficiency sectors.
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Kirkland-Led Clearlake Wraps $14.8B Flagship Fund

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Kirkland & Ellis LLP-advised private equity shop Clearlake Capital Group LP on Tuesday revealed it had closed its eighth flagship fund with $14.8 billion in tow, targeting investments in the artificial intelligence, software modernization, digital transformation and operational efficiency sectors.

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SpaceX Inks $60B Cursor Deal As Gibson Dunn, Kirkland Lead

By Al Barbarino

Elon Musk's SpaceX disclosed Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire Anysphere Inc., the developer of artificial intelligence coding assistant Cursor, in an all-stock transaction valuing the company at about $60 billion.

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4 Firms Advise On Yum Deal To Sell Pizza Hut For $2.7B

By Al Barbarino

Yum Brands said Tuesday it has agreed to sell Pizza Hut in two transactions valued at about $2.7 billion in total, with private equity firm LongRange Capital acquiring the business outside mainland China and Yum China Holdings buying the China operations.

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Align Capital Secures $1.1B Across 2 New Funds

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Align Capital Partners, advised by Kirkland & Ellis LLP, on Tuesday revealed that it closed its two latest funds after securing a combined $1.1 billion of investor commitments.

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LITIGATION

Florida Judge Blocks Lutnick Deposition In Trump Media Suit

By David Minsky

A Florida judge has denied a second bid to depose U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick in the lawsuit over the delayed public offering of President Donald Trump's social media website, ruling that the court has no jurisdiction over the Cabinet official because he's not a party to the action.

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PEOPLE

Skadden Adds Investment Management Trio In DC, Abu Dhabi

By Jack Rodgers

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has hired three former lawyers from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP who will work with investment management clients in Abu Dhabi and Washington, D.C., according to a Tuesday announcement.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

The Paradoxical Duty To Adopt AI When You Can't Bill For It

Both billing for hours saved using artificial intelligence and preserving billable time by not adopting AI may violate rules of professional conduct, but until bar associations' ethics rules catch up to this emerging economic dilemma, firms must decide how to adjust fee structures themselves, says Ines Lassalle at Peyrot & Associates.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

These Firms Secured The Most Damages In The Last 3 Years

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Government lawyers had a strong success rate in federal courts over the last three years, but intellectual property litigation saw certain firms secure damage awards worth hundreds of millions of dollars for clients, according to Lex Machina's Law Firms Activity Report 2026 released on Tuesday.

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Ex-Girardi Atty Hid Firm's Diversion Of Funds, State Bar Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

A State Bar of California prosecutor argued Tuesday at a disciplinary trial that ex-Girardi Keese attorney Robert Finnerty hid the firm's misappropriation of millions of dollars from a family's $53 million settlement, while Finnerty's counsel countered he's being blamed for the actions of his former boss, convicted and disbarred attorney Tom Girardi.

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SCOTUSblog Founder Goldstein Denied Acquittal Or Retrial

By Alison Knezevich

A Maryland federal judge on Tuesday denied SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein's bid for an acquittal or new trial, rejecting his claims that issues with jury instructions and excluded evidence warranted a do-over in his tax evasion and mortgage fraud case.

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Ex-Judge Loses Bid To Undo ICE Obstruction Conviction

By Britain Eakin

Former Wisconsin state judge Hannah Dugan has failed in her attempt to use a Fourth Circuit decision to vacate her conviction for helping a defendant in her courtroom evade immigration agents, with a federal judge ruling Tuesday the decision involves fact patterns that differ from her case.

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Senate Rejects Bid To Block Fast-Track Immigration Appeals

By Courtney Bublé

A Democratic-led Senate resolution that would have blocked a U.S. Department of Justice rule directing its Board of Immigration Appeals to quickly dismiss cases that don't raise "novel" issues failed to pass Tuesday.

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Blanche To Go Before Senate Panel July 15

By Courtney Bublé

Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche's nomination hearing is a month away, and the fate of his confirmation is likely in the hands of Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and John Cornyn, R-Texas.

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Oral Arguments In Comey, James Appeal Set For September

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The Fourth Circuit has scheduled in-person oral arguments for the Trump administration's appeal of the dismissals of indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James for Sept. 15-18.

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Brazil Says Justice Is Immune From Trump Media's Suit

By Carolina Bolado

Brazil asked Monday to intervene and dismiss a suit by President Donald Trump's media company and online video-sharing platform Rumble Inc. against a Brazilian Supreme Federal Court justice's gag orders, saying the suit cannot overcome immunity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Akin's

Align Capital Partners

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union

Apple Inc.

Clearlake Capital

Clearlake Capital Group LLC

Dun & Bradstreet Corp.

Ford Motor Co.

Lex Machina Inc.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

Lockheed Martin Corp.

Meta Platforms Inc.

New York State Bar Association

OceanSound Partners

PG&E Corp.

Pizza Hut Inc.

Qualus LLC

RELX PLC

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

State Bar of California

The Florida Bar

Twitter Inc.

Yum Brands Inc.

Yum China Holdings Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Abir Cohen

Akin Gump

Baughman Kroup

Berger Montague

Boies Schiller

Bondurant Mixson

Brannock Berman

Brito PLLC

Butler Prather

Carmichael Ellis

Clement & Murphy

Cooley LLP

DLA Piper

Foley Hoag

Gibson Dunn

Gillam Smith

Gimbel Reilly

Girardi & Keese

Gordon Rees

Gupta Wessler

Haun Mena

Holland & Knight

Irell & Manella

Jackson Walker LLP

Jones Day

Kellogg Hansen

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Lawson Huck

Levine Lee

Lowell & Associates

M.D. Gibson & Bolen

Mayer Brown

Munger Tolles

Ogletree Deakins

Page Scrantom

Paul Weiss

Peyrot & Associates

Quinn Emanuel

Reed Smith

Rosing Pott

Sidley Austin

Skadden Arps

Squire Patton

Strang Bradley

Troutman

Weil Gotshal

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

European Union

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Internal Revenue Service

New York Attorney General's Office

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

U.S. Air Force

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

United Nations

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin