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April 30, 2025
TWG Global, Mubadala Capital Ink Multibillion-Dollar Alliance
Holding company TWG Global and sovereign-backed asset manager Mubadala Capital, advised by Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, on Wednesday said that they have entered into a multibillion-dollar investment partnership that will allow both parties to better their investments across various sectors and asset classes.
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April 30, 2025
Goodwin Hires Private Equity Partner From Kirkland In NY
Goodwin Procter LLP has hired a former Kirkland & Ellis LLP attorney as a partner in its private equity practice in New York.
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April 30, 2025
Aerospace Biz True Anomaly Clinches $260M Funding Round
Aerospace and defense company True Anomaly Inc. on Wednesday revealed that it closed its Series C funding round after securing $260 million from private equity and venture capital investors.
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April 29, 2025
Deal Terms An Issue In $60M Mortgage Loan Sale Con Case
A Washington federal judge suggested on Tuesday that she might hold off on interpreting the terms of a multimillion-dollar mortgage loan sale agreement at issue in a racketeering suit, since a contractual dispute involving the same deal is slated for a bench trial before her in October.
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April 29, 2025
GOP Plan To Shutter Audit Watchdog Could Strain SEC
Congressional Republicans are renewing the push to get rid of a financial regulator that conservatives have complained is costly and lacks proper oversight, but some former staffers at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board wonder whether the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has the manpower or expertise to take over the board's duties.
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April 29, 2025
Adviser Renews Bid To Toss SEC Suit Over Liquidity Rule
Pinnacle Advisors LLC has again urged a New York federal judge to toss a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission suit accusing the wealth management firm of exceeding its allowed allotment of illiquid investments, standing by its arguments that the so-called liquidity rule was wrongly promulgated.
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April 29, 2025
Pork Producers Want Ruling Tossed Over Clerk's Conduct
Pork producers and Agri Stats Inc., which are defending themselves against a major price-fixing suit, are calling on the Minnesota federal judge overseeing the case to recuse himself and vacate his recent rulings, accusing one of his clerks of having inappropriate relationships with plaintiffs' attorneys in a new filing this week.
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April 29, 2025
Perkins Coie Leads 2 SPAC Listings Raising $300M Combined
Two special-purpose acquisition companies, under similar leadership teams and represented by Perkins Coie LLP, began trading Tuesday after pricing initial public offerings that raised a combined $300 million.
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April 29, 2025
2 Insurance Firms Join Frozen IPO Pipeline Seeking $440M
Two insurance companies joined the roster of candidates for initial public offerings on Tuesday by launching plans to raise about $440 million combined under guidance from six law firms, potentially unlocking a stalled pipeline.
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April 29, 2025
Morgan Lewis' Dallas Office Head Moves To Haynes Boone
Haynes Boone has landed the former office managing partner of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP's Dallas office for its mergers and acquisitions practice group, the firm said in a Tuesday announcement.
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April 29, 2025
Kirkland Guides Allied Industrial On $300M Fund Close
Houston-based Allied Industrial Partners has closed its inaugural fund at its $300 million hard cap, achieving the objective under the legal guidance of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
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April 29, 2025
Schulte Roth Adds Finance Pro From Linklaters In NY
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP announced Monday that it had brought a finance partner from Linklaters to its New York office, calling the hire "a significant step forward in the firm's ongoing strategy to expand its capabilities on both the arranger and manager sides" of the collateralized loan obligations market.
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April 29, 2025
Stonepeak Buying Stake In Spain's Repsol For $340M
Vinson & Elkins LLP-advised Stonepeak has agreed to purchase a 46.3% stake in Latham & Watkins LLP-advised Repsol's 777-megawatt solar and storage portfolio in the U.S. for $340 million, according to a Tuesday announcement.
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April 28, 2025
Wash. Judge Tosses Investor's $42M Real Estate Con Suit
A federal judge in Seattle threw out a Las Vegas investment company's lawsuit accusing four businessmen of a $42 million fraud scheme, saying on Monday that the firm hasn't shown a "substantial part" of the allegations occurred in western Washington.
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April 28, 2025
Tax Services Provider Andersen Files Confidential IPO Plans
Tax and legal services provider Andersen Group Inc. said Monday it confidentially filed for an initial public offering, marking a first step toward going public amid market volatility that has largely frozen IPOs in recent weeks.
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April 28, 2025
Nasdaq Presses SEC To Enact Clearer Digital Asset Rules
Nasdaq is urging the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and its sister agency that regulates derivatives to adopt clearer rules governing digital assets, calling for a system that classifies such products into four categories.
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April 28, 2025
Defense-Focused SPAC Kochav Files $220M IPO
Defense- and aerospace-focused special purpose acquisition company Kochav Defense Acquisition has revealed plans to raise up to $220 million in an initial public offering, looking to list on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol KCHVU.
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April 28, 2025
Commanders Agree To NFL Stadium Deal, Return To DC
The Washington Commanders will move from their current home in Maryland to a $3 billion stadium at the site of their previous stadium in D.C., team and city officials announced Monday, less than two years after the Commanders were bought by new ownership and less than four months after the federal government transferred control of the site to the city.
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April 28, 2025
Jazz Musician Turned Atty Joins Pillsbury In DC From Kirkland
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP's new private capital and investment funds practice partner David Holland, never imagined himself as a lawyer. In fact, he started working at law firms as a way to finance travel for music school grad program auditions, he told Law360 Pulse in an interview Monday.
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April 28, 2025
PE Giant TPG Snags Sabre's Hospitality Biz For $1.1B
Travel industry-focused technology provider Sabre Corp., advised by Haynes Boone, on Monday announced plans to sell its Hospitality Solutions business to Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP-led private equity shop TPG in a $1.1 billion cash deal.
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April 28, 2025
Latham-Led StepStone Real Estate Clinches $3.77B 5th Fund
Latham & Watkins LLP-advised StepStone Real Estate on Monday revealed that it clinched its fifth flagship fund with $3.77 billion in tow.
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April 25, 2025
Judge Urges Creativity For Nonparties In Sprint Merger Row
T-Mobile, a group of Verizon and AT&T subscribers and a host of nonparty mobile carriers and network operators must try again to hash out a creative yet reasonable way to shield confidential information from the nonparties' anticipated discovery in litigation challenging T-Mobile's merger with Sprint, an Illinois magistrate judge has said.
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April 25, 2025
SPAC Deals Are Buzzing Again Despite Tariff Turmoil
Amid heavy volatility that has largely frozen traditional initial public offerings, deal teams are launching more special purpose acquisition companies, an alternative market to typical IPOs that so far has shown few ill effects from tariff-related uncertainty.
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April 25, 2025
Ex-Google Engineer Claims Coercion In AI Trade Secrets Case
A former Google software engineer accused of stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets for Chinese startups has asked a California federal court to suppress statements he made to government investigators, alleging they used forceful tactics during an interrogation and did not read him his Miranda rights.
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April 25, 2025
SPAC Raises $220M As It Eyes Partners In 'Disruptive' Sectors
Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. III began trading on the Nasdaq on Friday as it pursues a merger with a company operating in "disruptive growth industries" in North America or Europe, which it said could include "innovative, technology-enabled" businesses.
Expert Analysis
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How Judiciary Can Minimize AI Risks In Secondary Sources
Because courts’ standing orders on generative artificial intelligence and other safeguards do not address the risk of hallucinations in secondary source materials, the judiciary should consider enlisting legal publishers and database hosts to protect against AI-generated inaccuracies, say attorneys at Lankler Siffert & Wohl.
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How Attorneys Can Break Free From Career Enmeshment
Ambitious attorneys can sometimes experience career enmeshment — when your sense of self-worth becomes unhealthily tangled up in your legal vocation — but taking the time to discover and realign with your core personal values can help you recover your identity, says Janna Koretz at Azimuth Psychological.
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Short-Seller Implications Of 10th Circ.'s Overstock Decision
The Tenth Circuit's Oct. 15 decision in Overstock Securities Litigation provides clarity on the pleading standard for a market manipulation claim under the Exchange Act, and suggests that short sellers might not be able to rely on the fraud-on-the-market presumption typically invoked by securities plaintiffs, say attorneys at Paul Weiss.
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Lawyers With Disabilities Are Seeking Equity, Not Pity
Attorneys living with disabilities face extra challenges — including the need for special accommodations, the fear of stigmatization and the risk of being tokenized — but if given equitable opportunities, they can still rise to the top of their field, says Kate Reder Sheikh, a former attorney and legal recruiter at Major Lindsey & Africa.
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Fostering Healthcare Industry Success With Joint Ventures
As the healthcare industry continues to evolve, joint ventures remain a key strategy to unite health systems, private equity firms and physician practices in leveraging their collective strengths to foster innovation and improve patient care, say Carole Becker and Travis Jackson at McDermott.
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Opinion
Judicial Committee Best Venue For Litigation Funding Rules
The Advisory Committee on Civil Rules' recent decision to consider developing a rule for litigation funding disclosure is a welcome development, ensuring that the result will be the product of a thorough, inclusive and deliberative process that appropriately balances all interests, says Stewart Ackerly at Statera Capital.
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The Strategic Advantages Of Appointing A Law Firm CEO
The impact on law firms of the recent CrowdStrike outage underscores that the business of law is no longer merely about providing supplemental support for legal practice — and helps explain why some law firms are appointing dedicated, full-time CEOs to navigate the challenges of the modern legal landscape, says Jennifer Johnson at Calibrate Strategies.
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Series
Beekeeping Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The practice of patent law and beekeeping are not typically associated, but taking care of honeybees has enriched my legal practice by highlighting the importance of hands-on experience, continuous learning, mentorship and more, says David Longo at Oblon McClelland.
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Budding Lessons From Landmark Plant Seed Patent Battle
The Corteva v. Inari case involving intellectual property rights in genetically modified plants is now proceeding through discovery and potentially to trial, and will raise critical questions that could have a major impact on the agriculture technology industry, say Tate Tischner and Andrew Zappia at Troutman Pepper.
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Anticipating Jarkesy's Effect On Bank Agency Enforcement
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy, federal courts may eventually issue decisions on banking law principles and processes that could fundamentally alter the agencies' enforcement action framework, and the relationship between banks and examiners, says Brendan Clegg at Luse Gorman.
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Opinion
Legal Institutions Must Warn Against Phony Election Suits
With two weeks until the election, bar associations and courts have an urgent responsibility to warn lawyers about the consequences of filing unsubstantiated lawsuits claiming election fraud, says Elise Bean at the Carl Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy.
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How Cos. Can Build A Strong In-House Pro Bono Program
During this year’s pro bono celebration week, companies should consider some key pointers to grow and maintain a vibrant in-house program for attorneys to provide free legal services for the public good, says Mary Benton at Alston & Bird.
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Series
Home Canning Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Making my own pickles and jams requires seeing a process through from start to finish, as does representing clients from the start of a dispute at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board through any appeals to the Federal Circuit, says attorney Kevin McNish.
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Avoiding Merger Disputes Via Careful LLC Agreement Drafting
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.
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Opinion
FDIC's Foray Into Index Fund Rules Risks Regulatory Chaos
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.