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October 14, 2025
GOP Bill Would Codify Trump Private Equity 401(k) Order
A Montana Republican lawmaker announced Tuesday the introduction of a bill that would codify President Donald Trump's executive order that aims to make it easier for retirement plans to invest in nontraditional 401(k) assets like private equity and cryptocurrency.
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October 14, 2025
$300M Asset Suit Tossed In NC Over Demand Futility Failure
A North Carolina business court judge has dismissed a lawsuit from shareholders alleging leaders of an investment fund allowed an exchange of more than $300 million in diversified assets for "worthless" illiquid equity, finding the complaint did not allege either a material benefit or a substantial likelihood of liability as to the adviser.
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October 14, 2025
Ōura Valuation Soars To $11B After $900M Financing Round
Fitness-tracking ring maker Ōura on Tuesday revealed it had reached a roughly $11 billion valuation after securing over $900 million in a funding round, which it says will help it develop new technologies, speed up artificial intelligence and product innovation, and expand global distribution.
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October 14, 2025
Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court
Last week at the Delaware Chancery Court, Vice Chancellor Lori W. Will ruled that Carlos Vasallo remains the CEO of Caribevision TV Network LLC, finding that majority investors' attempt to remove him under a defective 2019 agreement was invalid for lack of proper notice.
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October 14, 2025
Kirkland-Led Plexus Closes 2 Funds With Combined $1.3B
North Carolina-based private equity firm Plexus Capital LLC, led by Kirkland & Ellis LLP, on Tuesday revealed that it wrapped fundraising on its two latest private equity funds after securing a combined more than $1.3 billion in total capital.
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October 14, 2025
Covington, Sidley Guide $700M BioCryst Allergic Disease Deal
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc. will purchase Astria Therapeutics Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on therapies for allergic and immunologic diseases, in a cash and stock deal worth about $700 million, the companies announced Tuesday.
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October 14, 2025
Simpson Thacher-Led Integrum Wraps $2.5B Fund
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP-advised Integrum Holdings LP on Tuesday revealed that it clinched its latest fund above target after securing $2.5 billion of commitments, which will be used to invest in business services companies.
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October 14, 2025
Oakley Capital Invests £10M In Health Insurance Provider
Oakley Capital Investments Ltd. said Tuesday its platform is investing in Italian private healthcare insurance provider ONHC. OCI's share of Oakley Capital's investment in ONHC is anticipated to be around £10 million ($13.3 million).
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October 14, 2025
Petershill To Sell Stake In VC Firm To Goldman Sachs
Petershill Partners PLC said Tuesday that it has agreed to sell a majority of its stake in Industry Ventures to Goldman Sachs as a part of the global investment heavyweight's $965 million takeover of the venture capital investor.
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October 13, 2025
Kirkland-Led Warburg Pincus To Buy Software Co. For €700M
Private equity group Warburg Pincus LLC said Monday it has agreed to buy PSI, a German software company, for approximately €702 million ($812 million), to increase its presence in the growing global energy and industrial technology sector.
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October 10, 2025
Musk Accuses OpenAI Ex-Exec Of Subpoena 'Cat And Mouse'
A California federal magistrate judge is allowing Elon Musk to serve a deposition subpoena by Federal Express to a tech executive who briefly served as OpenAI's interim CEO after hearing that process servers and investigators had attempted personal service 11 times but were "stonewalled" by the woman and her security.
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October 10, 2025
Justices Told SEC 'Dead Wrong' On Activist Investor Suits
An activist investor has told the U.S. Supreme Court that a series of investment funds, with the backing of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, are "dead wrong" to say it has no right to sue over their decision to dilute the investor's voting shares.
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October 10, 2025
Seyfarth Eyes Middle-Market Bounce As Megadeals Dominate
While multibillion-dollar mergers look good in headlines and have fueled some broader market optimism, Seyfarth attorneys told Law360 on Friday that the middle-market door has yet to fully swing open for a true mergers and acquisitions revival.
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October 10, 2025
4 Firms Build $972.6M Concrete Biz SPAC Merger
Concrete Partners Holding LLC has unveiled plans to go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company Haymaker Acquisition Corp. 4 in a deal that was built by four law firms and values the combined company at $972.6 million.
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October 10, 2025
Nonprofit Asks 9th Circ. To Rethink Vegas Price-Fixing Case
A nonprofit that focuses on antitrust issues urged entire Ninth Circuit to rehear a price-fixing case accusing several Las Vegas casino-hotel operators of using the same algorithm to set prices for hotel rooms.
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October 10, 2025
SEC Guidance Aims To Ease IPO Process During Shutdown
As the federal government shutdown lingers, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has updated its guidance to advise companies on how they can still move forward with initial public offerings.
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October 10, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Sullivan, MoFo, Freshfields
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Fifth Third Bancorp acquires Comerica in an all-stock deal, Qualtrics buys experience analytics firm Press Ganey Forsta, and SoftBank buys ABB's robotics division.
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October 10, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen Paddington Bear's creators and Studio Canal sue the company behind Spitting Image, Blackpool Football Club's former owner Owen Oyston bring a fresh claim against the club, and Mishcon de Reya sue a Saudi investment group.
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October 10, 2025
Freshfields Guides BASF On €7.7B Sale Of Coatings Biz Stake
German chemicals producer BASF has agreed to sell a majority interest in its coatings division to investment company Carlyle and the Qatar Investment Authority, in a transaction that values the offloaded company at €7.7 billion ($8.9 billion), the companies said on Friday.
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October 10, 2025
Warburg Pincus Gets More Time For JTC Bid Decision
JTC said Friday that Warburg Pincus LLC has been given a further two weeks to say whether it plans to make an offer to acquire the professional services company.
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October 09, 2025
Reflection AI, Backed By Nvidia, Raises $2B In Series B Round
Artificial intelligence company Reflection AI on Thursday announced that it has raised $2 billion in a Series B funding round, with media reports saying the latest round has caused the company's valuation to soar to $8 billion.
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October 09, 2025
Q3 Notches Biggest Megadeal Quarter In Three Years
The value of global mergers and acquisitions worth $10 billion or more hit $289.5 billion in the third quarter, the highest since the second quarter of 2022, according to a report provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence on Thursday.
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October 09, 2025
Paramount Eyes $60B Warner Bid, And Other Rumors
Paramount Skydance is in talks with private equity firms including Apollo Global Management as it mulls a potential $60 billion bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. Another mega-deal that's further along its path to closing — Mars' $36 billion bid to acquire Kellanova — is set to win European antitrust approval. And Armani has approached potential buyers to sell a minority stake in the first phase of late designer Giorgio Armani's wishes.
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October 09, 2025
Greenberg Traurig's Singapore Office Gains 6 More Attys
Greenberg Traurig LLP announced on Wednesday that its Singapore location has added the former leader of Simmons & Simmons LLP's Asian investment funds practice, along with five other attorneys.
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October 09, 2025
Alliance Laundry Raises $826M With IPO Amid Shutdown
Commercial laundry equipment maker Alliance Laundry Holdings began trading publicly Thursday after raising $826.3 million in its upsized initial public offering, a move that comes as the ongoing government shutdown has made it difficult for companies to make their public debuts.
Expert Analysis
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Junior Attys Must Beware Of 5 Common Legal Brief Mistakes
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Junior law firm associates must be careful to avoid five common pitfalls when drafting legal briefs — from including every possible argument to not developing a theme — to build the reputation of a sought-after litigator, says James Argionis at Cozen O'Connor.
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Power To The Paralegals: How And Why Training Must Evolve
Empowering paralegals through new models of education that emphasize digital fluency, interdisciplinary collaboration and human-centered lawyering could help solve workforce challenges and the justice gap — if firms, educators and policymakers get on board, say Kristine Custodio Suero and Kelli Radnothy.
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Playing Softball Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My time on the softball field has taught me lessons that also apply to success in legal work — on effective preparation, flexibility, communication and teamwork, says Sarah Abrams at Baleen Specialty.
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IPO Suit Reinforces Strict Section 11 Tracing Requirement
A California federal court's recent dismissal of an investor class action against Allbirds in connection with the company's initial public offering cites the U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 Slack v. Pirani decision, reinforcing the firm tracing requirement for Section 11 plaintiffs — even at the pleading stage, say attorneys at Paul Weiss.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Mastering Time Management
Law students typically have weeks or months to prepare for any given deadline, but the unpredictability of practicing in the real world means that lawyers must become time-management pros, ready to adapt to scheduling conflicts and unexpected assignments at any given moment, says David Thomas at Honigman.
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Calif. Bill May Shake Up Healthcare Investment Landscape
If signed by the governor, newly passed California legislation would significantly expand the Office of Health Care Affordability's oversight of private equity and hedge fund investments in healthcare companies and management services organizations, and raise several questions about companies' data confidentiality and filing burdens, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.
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How Hyperlinks Are Changing E-Discovery Responsibilities
A recent e-discovery dispute over hyperlinked data in Hubbard v. Crow shows how courts have increasingly broadened the definition of control to account for cloud-based evidence, and why organizations must rethink preservation practices to avoid spoliation risks, says Bree Murphy at Exterro.
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State False Claims Acts Can Help Curb Opioid Fund Fraud
State versions of the federal False Claims Act can play an important role in policing the misuse of opioid settlement funds, taking a cue from the U.S. Department of Justice’s handling of federal fraud cases involving pandemic relief funds, says Kenneth Levine at Stone & Magnanini.
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Revamped Opportunity Zones Can Aid Clean Energy Projects
The Qualified Opportunity Zone program, introduced in 2017 and reshaped in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, offers investors federal tax incentives for development in low-income communities — incentives that are especially meaningful for clean energy projects, where capital-intensive infrastructure and long-term planning are essential, say attorneys at Dentons.
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Atkins-Led SEC Continues Focus On Private Funds
Since the change in administration, there has overall been a more accommodative regulatory stance toward private funds, but a recent enforcement action suggests that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is not backing off from enforcement in the space completely, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.
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Writing Musicals Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My experiences with writing musicals and practicing law have shown that the building blocks for both endeavors are one and the same, because drama is necessary for the law to exist, says Addison O’Donnell at LOIS Law.
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Adapting To Private Practice: From Va. AUSA To Mid-Law
Returning to the firm where I began my career after seven years as an assistant U.S. attorney in Virginia has been complex, nuanced and rewarding, and I’ve learned that the pursuit of justice remains the constant, even as the mindset and client change, says Kristin Johnson at Woods Rogers.
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7 Document Review Concepts New Attorneys Need To Know
For new associates joining firms this fall, stepping into the world of e-discovery can feel like learning a new language, but understanding a handful of fundamentals — from coding layouts to metadata — can help attorneys become fluent in document review, says Ann Motl at Bowman and Brooke.
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Agentic AI Puts A New Twist On Attorney Ethics Obligations
As lawyers increasingly use autonomous artificial intelligence agents, disciplinary authorities must decide whether attorney responsibility for an AI-caused legal ethics violation is personal or supervisory, and firms must enact strong policies regarding agentic AI use and supervision, says Grace Wynn at HWG.
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Sweeping US Tax And Spending Bill May Bolster PE Returns
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act stands to benefit private equity sponsors and their investors as it alters existing law, including at the portfolio company level, making it crucial to reevaluate historic tax planning and optimize for the new tax regime, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.