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August 06, 2025
FTC Challenges $945M Heart Valve Deal
The Federal Trade Commission filed suit Wednesday against Edwards Lifesciences Corp. over the company's proposed $945 million purchase of JenaValve Technology Inc., arguing the deal would give Edwards control over both of the only firms with ongoing U.S. clinical trials developing an important heart valve replacement device.
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August 06, 2025
Blackstone Inks $6B Enverus Deal, Beating Out NYSE Parent
Blackstone said Wednesday it has agreed to acquire Enverus from private equity firms Hellman & Friedman and Genstar Capital, in a deal that values the energy analytics and data firm at more than $6 billion.
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August 06, 2025
Akin, Latham Advise Apollo's Data Center Builder Stake
Apollo Global Management on Wednesday announced it will acquire a majority stake in Dallas-based builder Stream Data Centers in a deal advised by Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and Latham & Watkins LLP that the asset manager said would enable possibly billions in digital infrastructure spending.
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August 06, 2025
Honey Dew Says M&A Adviser Missed Fake $25M Letter
Massachusetts-based regional coffee and donut chain Honey Dew says the investment banking firm it hired to find a buyer in 2018 would have learned that a $25 million "proof of funds" letter purporting to be from UBS was a forgery had it performed the expected due diligence.
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August 05, 2025
SEC Deems 'Liquid Staking' Outside Its Crypto Purview
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission staff said Tuesday that certain so-called liquid staking arrangements and the assets they create are beyond its jurisdiction, marking the agency's first piece of guidance since announcing a push to craft rules and establish exemptions for the digital asset industry in line with recent White House recommendations.
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August 05, 2025
Chancery Sends Steel Co.'s Fraudulent Transfer Suit To Trial
A steel product company's claims that a bankrupt former customer, for which it was also serving as a creditor, fraudulently transferred away millions that could have covered its debts must go to trial, a Delaware vice chancellor ruled on Tuesday.
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August 05, 2025
Simpson Thacher Adds Tax, Funds Pro From Dechert
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP announced Monday that it has continued its growth in the tax and registered funds spaces, welcoming a partner from Dechert LLP to its New York office.
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August 05, 2025
Rising Star: Weil's Sarah Borden
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP's Sarah Borden has helped a Genstar Capital fund secure $12.6 billion and guided Crow Holdings with one of the biggest real estate private equity funds in recent years, landing her a spot among the fund formation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 05, 2025
Brookfield Nabs $6B Minority Stake In Duke Energy Florida
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP-advised Duke Energy on Tuesday unveiled plans for infrastructure investor Brookfield, advised by Kirkland & Ellis LLP, to take an indirect minority equity stake in its electric company Duke Energy Florida in a $6 billion all-cash deal.
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August 05, 2025
Housing Builder Boxabl Goes Public Via $3.5B SPAC Deal
Housing solutions company Boxabl Inc., advised by Winston & Strawn LLP, announced plans on Tuesday to go public via a merger with Loeb & Loeb LLP-led special purpose acquisition company FG Merger II Corp. in a deal that values the business at $3.5 billion.
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August 05, 2025
Kirkland, Gibson Dunn Assist On $1.3B Zebra-Elo Merger
Workflow technology company Zebra Technologies Corp. said Tuesday it will acquire Crestview Partners-backed Elo Touch Solutions Inc. for $1.3 billion in cash, in a deal guided by Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
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August 05, 2025
KKR Takes Lead Again In £4.2B Bidding War For Spectris
Spectris backed an improved £4.2 billion ($5.6 billion) offer on Tuesday from KKR, a change of heart only days after the high-tech instruments maker chose a rival bid of the same value from private equity firm Advent.
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August 04, 2025
Trump's Sons Back 'New America' SPAC's $300M IPO Filing
Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are backing a new special-purpose acquisition company that, with guidance from Paul Hastings LLP and Holland & Knight LLP, plans to raise $300 million and will target the technology, healthcare and logistics sectors, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Monday.
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August 04, 2025
4 Firms Build $558M Crypto Treasury With Telegram Token
Guided by Perkins Coie LLP and Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, Verb Technology Co. Inc. announced Monday a $558 million private placement deal to stockpile the Telegram-afflilated TONcoin token.
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August 04, 2025
Consumers Want Fees Of $49M From $203M In Chicken Deals
Broiler chicken consumers asked an Illinois federal judge on Monday for about $49 million in attorney fees from two rounds of price-fixing deals they've struck with major producers, matching the settlement percentage to which a Seventh Circuit panel last month found class counsel was entitled.
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August 04, 2025
Chamber Wants FTC's Merger Notice Overhaul Nixed
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has urged a Texas federal judge to upend a dramatic overhaul of merger filing requirements that it argued exceeded Federal Trade Commission authority, was made without a proper cost-benefit analysis and amounts to a solution in search of a problem.
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August 04, 2025
Chancery Spreading Workload, Automating Case Assignments
Citing in part efforts to balance jurist workloads, Delaware's ever-slammed Court of Chancery reported plans on Monday to field a new, automated case assignment regime in September that will pull more factors into the mix when distributing new cases.
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August 04, 2025
GTCR Says Buyer In Place For Potential FTC Divestiture Deal
Private equity firm GTCR BC Holdings told an Illinois federal court it has a signed agreement with a buyer for a deal that should fix the concerns raised by the Federal Trade Commission over its planned $627 million purchase of a medical device coatings company.
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August 04, 2025
Crypto Exchange Bullish Launches Plans For $599M IPO
Venture-backed crypto exchange Bullish plans to raise roughly $599 million in an upcoming initial public offering, according to a Monday statement indicating that it intends to offer 20.3 million shares priced between $28 and $31 per share.
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August 04, 2025
Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court
Last week at the Delaware Court of Chancery, insurance brokerage and risk management giant Marsh & McLennan Cos. sought injunctive relief in a new suit accusing U.S. affiliates of London-based Howden Holdings Ltd. of a poaching scheme that involved over 100 M&M employees resigning on July 21.Â
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August 04, 2025
McGuireWoods Adds Private Equity Pro From Paul Weiss
McGuireWoods LLP announced Monday the firm has grown its private equity offerings in New York with the addition of an attorney from Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP.
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August 04, 2025
Simpson Thacher-Led Carlyle Snags $9B For Real Estate Fund
Carlyle, advised by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, raised $9 billion for its 10th fund targeting opportunistic real estate investments, surpassing its previous fund for the same strategy, despite a general slowdown in fundraising across the commercial property sector, according to a Monday announcement.
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August 04, 2025
Rising Star: Simpson Thacher's Jordan Cross
Jordan Cross, a partner in Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's funds formation practice group, has quickly made a name for himself by advising on significant transactions for some of the biggest players in the private equity world, including advising Blackstone and Silver Lake on their recent fund raises, earning him a spot among the fund formation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 04, 2025
Tax AI Co. Blue J Raises $122M Series D To Expand
Blue J, a generative artificial intelligence-powered research platform for tax and legal practitioners, announced Monday the raising of $122 million in a Series D funding round to expand its team, product development and marketing efforts.
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August 04, 2025
Healthcare Investor Clinches $1.86B For 5th Credit Fund
Healthcare investment firm OrbiMed, advised by Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP, on Monday announced that it wrapped its latest fund after securing $1.86 billion of investment commitments, which will be used to partner with healthcare companies across various sectors.
Expert Analysis
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SEC, FINRA Obligations In Changing AI Regulatory Landscape
Despite the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent withdrawal of its proposed artificial intelligence conflict rules, financial regulators remain focused on firms developing the correct AI compliance framework, as well as continuously testing and supervising them to ensure they're fit for purpose, say attorneys at Cahill Gordon.
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Series
Playing Baseball Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Playing baseball in college, and now Wiffle ball in a local league, has taught me that teamwork, mental endurance and emotional intelligence are not only important to success in the sport, but also to success as a trial attorney, says Kevan Dorsey at Swift Currie.
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A Deep Dive Into 14 Nixed Gensler-Era SEC Rule Proposals
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last month formally withdrew 14 notices of proposed rulemaking, including several significant and widely criticized proposals that had been issued under former Chair Gary Gensler's leadership, signaling a clear and definitive shift away from the previous administration, say attorneys at Dechert.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Skillful Persuasion
In many ways, law school teaches us how to argue, but when the ultimate goal is to get your client what they want, being persuasive through preparation and humility is the more likely key to success, says Michael Friedland at Friedland Cianfrani.
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A Look At Trump 2.0 Antitrust Enforcement So Far
The first six months of President Donald Trump's second administration were marked by aggressive antitrust enforcement tempered by traditional structural remedies for mergers, but other unprecedented actions, like the firing of Federal Trade Commission Democrats, will likely stoke heated discussion ahead, says Richard Dagen at Axinn.
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How Real Estate Funds Can Leverage Del. Statutory Trusts
Over the last two years, traditional real estate fund sponsors have begun to more frequently adopt Delaware Statutory Trust programs, which can help diversify capital-raising strategies and access to new sources of capital, among other benefits, say attorneys at Polsinelli.
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Litigation Inspiration: How To Respond After A Loss
Every litigator loses a case now and then, and the sting of that loss can become a medicine that strengthens or a poison that corrodes, depending on how the attorney responds, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.
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Tips For Cos. From California Climate Reporting FAQ
New guidance from the California Air Resources Board on how businesses must implement the state's sweeping climate reporting requirements should help companies assess their exposure, understand their disclosure obligations and begin documenting good-faith compliance efforts, says Thierry Montoya at Frost Brown.
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Weighing PE Transaction Risks As EU AI Act Rolls Out
As the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act becomes effective in stages, legal practitioners involved in private equity deals should consider the transactional risks resulting from this measure, including penalties, extraterritorial reach and target-firm applicability, say lawyers at Covington.
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Why SEC Abandoned Microcap Convertible Debt Crackdown
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has recently dismissed several cases targeting microcap convertible debt lenders, a significant disavowal of what was a controversial enforcement initiative under the Biden administration and a message that the new administration will focus on clear fraud, say attorneys at O'Melveny.
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The Metamorphosis Of The Major Questions Doctrine
The so-called major questions doctrine arose as a counterweight to Chevron deference over the past few decades, but invocations of the doctrine have persisted in the year since Chevron was overturned, suggesting it still has a role to play in reining in agency overreach, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.
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Biotech Collaborations Can Ease Uncertainty Amid FDA Shift
As concerns persist that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's reduced headcount will impede developments at already-strapped biotech companies, licensing and partnership transactions can provide the necessary funding and pathways to advance innovative products, say attorneys at Troutman.
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Playing Mah-Jongg Makes Me A Better Mediator
Mah-jongg rewards patience, pattern recognition, adaptability and keen observation, all skills that are invaluable to my role as a mediator, and to all mediating parties, says Marina Corodemus.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Navigating Client Trauma
Law schools don't train students to handle repeated exposure to clients' traumatic experiences, but for litigators practicing in areas like civil rights and personal injury, success depends on the ability to view cases clinically and to recognize when you may need to seek help, says Katie Bennett at Robins Kaplan.
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Opinion
4 Former Justices Would Likely Frown On Litigation Funding
As courts increasingly confront cases involving hidden litigation finance contracts, the jurisprudence of four former U.S. Supreme Court justices establishes a constitutional framework that risks erosion by undisclosed financial interests, says Roland Eisenhuth at the American Property Casualty Insurance Association.