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Private Equity

  • April 04, 2025

    Taxation With Representation: Ropes & Gray, Paul Hastings

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, Siemens AG acquires Dotmatics from Insight Partners, LPL Financial acquires Commonwealth Financial Network, Brookfield Asset Management takes a majority stake in Angel Oak Cos., and TowneBank acquires Old Point Financial Corp.

  • April 04, 2025

    Pension Annuity Rulings Leave Attorneys Looking For Clarity

    Benefits attorneys say they'll be watching the circuits, and perhaps the nation's highest court, for clarity after recent divergent decisions in cases accusing defense and aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin and aluminum giant Alcoa of violating federal benefits law by converting pension benefits into annuity insurance contracts.

  • April 04, 2025

    Kirkland-Led Brookfield Buying Colonial Pipeline In $9B Deal

    Brookfield Infrastructure Partners said it will acquire the Colonial Pipeline, the nation's largest refined oil products pipeline system, in a deal valued at approximately $9 billion, under the legal counsel of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

  • April 03, 2025

    AI Dominated Venture Funding In Q1 As Broader Market Lags

    Artificial intelligence investment again dominated venture capital activity in the first quarter, mostly driven by a few mammoth deals, according to data released Thursday, while experts say the broader outlook for non-AI firms remains subdued amid market skittishness.

  • April 03, 2025

    Colo. Orthodontist Says Dentist Group Owes $400K In Wages

    A dentist group owes a Colorado orthodontist more than $400,000 in wages and fired him for participating in a Texas arbitration involving the company, according to a lawsuit filed in Colorado state court.

  • April 03, 2025

    Skadden Steers $1.5B Deal For SunnyD, Juicy Juice Maker

    Skadden-led Castillo Hermanos said Thursday it has agreed to purchase Brynwood Partners portfolio company Harvest Hill Beverage Co., whose brands include SunnyD, Juicy Juice and Little HUG, in a reported roughly $1.5 billion deal.

  • April 03, 2025

    IFC Plugs $100M Into Sub-Saharan Data Center Platform

    Sub-Saharan African data center platform Raxio Group on Thursday announced that it has received a $100 million investment from the International Finance Corporation to fund the growth of facilities powering technologies like artificial intelligence, cloud computing and digital financial services.

  • April 03, 2025

    Kirkland Investment Funds Expert Jumps To Paul Weiss In LA

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP is expanding its corporate team, bringing in a Kirkland & Ellis LLP investment funds expert as a partner in its Los Angeles office.

  • April 03, 2025

    'No Serious Question' Federal Firings Broke Law, Justices Told

    Federal employee unions and advocacy groups urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to reject the Trump administration's bid to pause a California court order reinstating tens of thousands of probationary workers fired from six agencies, arguing the government can't escape self-inflicted harms brought on by its allegedly unlawful actions.

  • April 03, 2025

    Amazon Bids For TikTok As US Ban Nears, And More Rumors

    Amazon has emerged as a last-minute bidder for TikTok, which faces a looming ban in the United States if the popular video app is not separated from its own Chinese owner, while two of China's biggest automakers are pursuing a merger and Brookfield Asset Management is finalizing a deal to acquire Colonial Pipeline Inc. for more than $9 billion.

  • April 03, 2025

    Senate Advances Noms Of Trump's SEC, OCC Picks

    The U.S. Senate Banking Committee voted along party lines Thursday to advance the nominations of President Donald Trump's chosen leaders for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, sending both to the full Senate for a final confirmation vote.

  • April 03, 2025

    Partners Group To Invest Over €120M In Spanish Waste Biz

    Swiss-based global private equity firm Partners Group said Thursday that it has agreed to acquire a minority stake in Spanish waste treatment company Gestcompost for €120 million ($133 million) in a transaction guided by Clifford Chance LLP.

  • April 02, 2025

    Trump Media Refiles President's Shares For Potential Sale

    Trump Media and Technology Group Corp. on Wednesday filed papers to reregister for sale some 114 million shares held by President Donald Trump worth more than $2 billion, though the company says there are no imminent plans to sell the shares.

  • April 02, 2025

    Serial Acquisitions Are Still On The FTC's Radar

    The previous administration's focus on private equity firms making serial acquisitions in the same industry may continue under the Federal Trade Commission's new leadership, an agency official said Wednesday.

  • April 02, 2025

    PE Firm TPG Wants Endo Trust's Transfer Suit Tossed

    Private equity firm TPG Capital is seeking the dismissal of a lawsuit that aims to claw back billions of dollars reaped in an allegedly unfair deal with Endo International PLC before the drugmaker went bankrupt.

  • April 02, 2025

    Siemens Buying Scientific Software Co. Dotmatics For $5.1B

    Siemens AG said Wednesday it has agreed to acquire scientific software company Dotmatics from global software investor Insight Partners in a deal valued at $5.1 billion, with Latham & Watkins LLP advising Siemens and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP advising Dotmatics.

  • April 02, 2025

    Spanish Co. Says No Federal Jurisdiction In Finder's Fee Spat

    Spanish company Delclaux Partners SA on Wednesday urged the Eleventh Circuit to vacate its loss in a dispute with Texas-based satellite technology company AST & Science LLC, arguing the federal district court never had jurisdiction over the simple breach of contract dispute.

  • April 02, 2025

    SEC Wins $12.5M Judgment On Assets Tied To Fugitive Trader

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission can recoup a $12.5 million supplemental enrichment judgment from frozen assets tied to a fugitive trader accused of funneling $67 million from his employer Oak Management Corp. to himself, his companies and his relatives, a Connecticut federal judge has ruled.

  • April 02, 2025

    NBA's Timberwolves To Be Sold, Ending Ownership Dispute

    Minnesota Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor will end his fight to retain control of the NBA franchise and complete the sale to a pair of limited partners agreed-upon in 2021, according to numerous published reports.

  • April 02, 2025

    As Global Markets Struggled, Private Equity Pounced In Q1

    Stock markets slumped, mergers and acquisitions stumbled, and equity issuance took a breather in the first quarter of this year. But it was a different story for private equity, as global deal values shot up nearly 40% compared to the prior-year period, according to PitchBook data published Wednesday.

  • April 02, 2025

    Freshfields Guides Leggett & Platt On $285M Aerospace Sale

    Freshfields US LLP is guiding Leggett & Platt on the sale of its Aerospace Products Group to Tinicum Inc. for $285 million, as the company seeks to better align its portfolio with its long-term vision, according to a Wednesday announcement from Leggett & Platt. 

  • April 02, 2025

    Davis Wright Welcomes Longtime Jones Day Finance Atty

    Davis Wright Tremaine LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired a longtime Jones Day attorney focused on advising investment management industry participants, praising his decades of experience helping clients navigate U.S. federal securities laws.

  • April 02, 2025

    Haynes Boone Taps Seward & Kissel Atty To Lead Derivatives

    Haynes Boone has hired another former Seward & Kissel LLP partner to co-chair the firm's derivatives practice group.

  • April 01, 2025

    Saudi Co. Wants 11th Circ. To Revive Oil Suit Against Siemens

    A Saudi Arabian company on Tuesday urged the Eleventh Circuit to reverse the dismissal of its business interference complaint against Siemens Energy Inc., arguing a lower Florida federal court should allow the lawsuit to proceed and resolve the alleged factual claims.

  • April 01, 2025

    Pork Price-Fixing Fight Over Sales Data Swap Heads To Trial

    A Minnesota federal court mostly denied Monday a slew of summary judgment motions from Tyson and other pork producers seeking wins in an antitrust suit alleging they conspired with data firm Agri Stats to fix pork prices and reduce supply, teeing up the high-stakes multidistrict litigation for a June trial.

Expert Analysis

  • 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.

  • Building US-Japan Relationships In The M&A Market

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    The prospect of U.S.-Japanese mergers and acquisitions presents stronger competition to U.S. investors in the global M&A markets, while also opening up an additional exit route for sellers looking to offload strategic assets, says Nick Wall at A&O Shearman.

  • Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession

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    About 30,000 people who took the bar exam in July will learn they passed this fall, marking a fitting time for all attorneys to remember that they are members in a specialty club of learned professionals — and the more they can keep this in mind, the more benefits they will see, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

  • Opinion

    AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys

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    The thing that’s so powerful about artificial intelligence is also what’s most scary about it — its ability to detect patterns may curtail young attorneys’ chance to practice the lower-level work of managing cases, preventing them from ever honing the pattern recognition skills that undergird creative lawyering, says Sarah Murray at Trialcraft.

  • Series

    Round-Canopy Parachuting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Similar to the practice of law, jumping from an in-flight airplane with nothing but training and a few yards of parachute silk is a demanding and stressful endeavor, and the experience has bolstered my legal practice by enhancing my focus, teamwork skills and sense of perspective, says Thomas Salerno at Stinson.

  • SEC Settlement Holds Important Pay-To-Play Lessons

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s recent fine of an investment adviser, whose new hire made a campaign contribution within a crucial lookback period, is a seasonable reminder for public fund managers to ensure their processes thoroughly screen all associates for even minor violations of the SEC’s strict pay-to-play rule, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.

  • Boeing Ruling Is A Cautionary Tale For Trade Secret Litigants

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    A Washington federal court’s recent ruling canceling a $72 million jury award against Boeing because Zunum Aero had failed to properly identify its trade secrets highlights the value of an early statement of alleged secrets, amended through discovery and used as a framework at trial, says Matthew D'Amore at Cornell.

  • What To Expect From Calif. Bill Regulating PE In Healthcare

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    A California bill currently awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom's approval, intended to increase oversight over private equity and hedge fund investments in healthcare, is emblematic of recent increased scrutiny of investments in the space, and may affect transactions and operations in California in a number of ways, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

  • Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners

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    Partner and associate mobility data from the second quarter of this year suggest that there's never been a better time in recent years for law firms to hire lateral candidates, particularly experienced partners — though this necessitates an understanding of potential red flags, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.

  • Considering Possible PR Risks Of Certain Legal Tactics

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    Disney and American Airlines recently abandoned certain litigation tactics in two lawsuits after fierce public backlash, illustrating why corporate counsel should consider the reputational implications of any legal strategy and partner with their communications teams to preempt public relations concerns, says Chris Gidez at G7 Reputation Advisory.

  • It's No Longer Enough For Firms To Be Trusted Advisers

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    Amid fierce competition for business, the transactional “trusted adviser” paradigm from which most firms operate is no longer sufficient — they should instead aim to become trusted partners with their most valuable clients, says Stuart Maister at Strategic Narrative.

  • 7 Takeaways For Investment Advisers From FinCEN AML Rule

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    With a new FinCEN rule that will require covered investment advisers to implement anti-money laundering programs and comply with extra recordkeeping requirements by 2026, companies should begin planning necessary updates to their policies and procedures by focusing on seven of the rule’s key requirements, identified by attorneys at Simpson Thacher.

  • Mitigating Risk In Net Asset Value Facility Bankruptcies

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    In times of economic turbulence, parties to bankruptcy proceedings that involve net asset value facilities can mitigate risk by understanding the purpose of the automatic stay, complications it can create for NAV facility lenders and options for relief, say attorneys at Mayer Brown.

  • What VC Fund Settlement Means For DEI Grant Programs

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    An unexpected settlement in American Alliance for Equal Rights v. Fearless Fund, based on specific details of an Atlanta venture capital fund's challenged minority grant program, leaves the legal landscape wide open for organizations with similar programs supporting diversity, equity and inclusion to chart a path forward, say attorneys at Moore & Van Allen.

  • Navigating A Potpourri Of Possible Transparency Act Pitfalls

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    Despite the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's continued release of guidance for complying with the Corporate Transparency Act, its interpretation remains in flux, making it important for companies to understand potentially problematic areas of ambiguity in the practical application of the law, say attorneys at Sidley.

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