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July 29, 2025
Bit Digital's AI Infrastructure Subsidiary Eyes $125M IPO
Artificial intelligence infrastructure company WhiteFiber Inc. on Tuesday unveiled plans to spin off from its parent company Bit Digital by way of an initial public offering, with plans to raise an estimated $125 million in an offering built by four law firms.
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July 29, 2025
Latham Steers PE-Backed Eco Material On $2.1B Cement Deal
Building materials supplier CRH announced Tuesday it will acquire Eco Material Technologies for $2.1 billion in cash, deepening its presence in North America's fast-growing market for lower-carbon cement alternatives.
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July 29, 2025
Some OpenAI Defenses Nixed In 'Over-Litigated' Musk Suit
A California federal judge briefly took Elon Musk and OpenAI to task on Tuesday, in an order summarily nixing some of the ChatGPT-maker's affirmative defenses against the billionaire's lawsuit challenging plans to change its corporate structure.
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July 29, 2025
Federal Cuts Shake Up Clinical Research Funding Landscape
As the Trump administration makes deep cuts to clinical research funding, healthcare attorneys worry that the delicate balance between federal grants and private investment is at risk. Crowell & Moring LLP partner Linda Malek talks to Law360 Healthcare Authority about the industry's concerns.
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July 29, 2025
Shareholders Of Just Eat Get More Time To Accept €4.1B Offer
Dutch investment group Prosus said Tuesday that it has given the shareholders of Just Eat Takeaway more time to accept its €4.1 billion ($4.7 billion) take-private deal as it waits for the European Commission to clear its antitrust concerns.
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July 29, 2025
Kirkland Guides Bridgepoint On German Broker Majority Stake
U.K. private equity firm Bridgepoint said Tuesday that it has penned a deal to acquire a majority stake in German insurance broker Hanseatic Broking Center, in a deal steered by Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Sidley Austin LLP.
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July 28, 2025
Fed Committee Meetings Will Remain Closed, Judge Rules
A D.C. federal judge shot down a President Donald Trump ally's bid to open up the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee meetings to the public Monday, questioning whether the suit was a stunt to gin up interest in his new "anti-DEI" investment fund.
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July 28, 2025
PE Firm Scores New Trial After Losing $1.1M Shareholder Suit
The Connecticut Supreme Court on Monday threw out a $1.1 million verdict and ordered a new trial in a minority member's lawsuit against three other CCP Equity Partners LLC members, holding that a trial court judge misconstrued the private equity firm's operating agreement and inaccurately instructed the jury.
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July 28, 2025
Newly Public Crypto Platform Tron Files Plans To Raise $1B
Crypto platform Tron on Monday filed plans with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to raise $1 billion over time, making preliminary plans for future capital raises following its public listing on Nasdaq through a reverse merger.
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July 28, 2025
Cooley-Led Biotech Snags $372.5M For Latest Funding Round
Clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company MapLight Therapeutics, advised by Cooley LLP, on Monday revealed that it clinched its oversubscribed Series D funding round after raising $372.5 million from investors.
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July 28, 2025
Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court
A Delaware vice chancellor last week sent several coordinated derivative suits seeking millions of dollars in damages from AT&T to trial and also chose a boutique firm to lead a potential "blockbuster" suit challenging a take-private deal of a sports and entertainment group after "heated" attacks between competing counsel.
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July 28, 2025
Space Tech Startup Firefly Launches Plans For $599M IPO
Private equity-backed space and defense technology company Firefly Aerospace on Monday announced terms for its initial public offering, with plans to raise approximately $599 million.
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July 28, 2025
KKR Plugs AU$500M Into Australian Renewable Energy Biz
Private equity giant KKR on Monday said that it has agreed to invest AU$500 million ($326.3 million) into Australian renewable energy company CleanPeak Energy to help it grow its distributed energy platform.
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July 28, 2025
Freshfields, White & Case, Sidley Guide $3B Vaccine Biz Buy
Private equity firms Nordic Capital and Permira said Monday they will buy Bavarian Nordic for 19 billion Danish kroner ($3 billion) in cash to turn the vaccine developer into a global heavyweight as a private company.
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July 25, 2025
3 Firms Guide Canadian REIT's $410M IPO
Go Residential Real Estate Investment Trust began trading Friday after the newly created Canadian REIT priced a $410 million initial public offering at $15 per trust unit.
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July 25, 2025
Texas PE Firm Claims 'Lone Star' Rival Stole Its Name, Logos
A private equity firm that manages the Lone Star Funds hit an upstart rival called Lone Star Capital with a trademark infringement lawsuit in Texas federal court Thursday, accusing the firm of intentionally ripping off its trademarks and logos amid its aggressive marketing blitz in an effort to dupe investors.
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July 25, 2025
Latham-Led Strategy Raises $2.5B To Acquire More Bitcoin
Entrepreneur Michael Saylor's Strategy Inc., advised by Latham & Watkins LLP, on Friday priced yet another preferred stock offering that raised $2.5 billion in order to acquire bitcoin, a move that comes as the company has been ramping up its capital-raising efforts to stockpile the flagship cryptocurrency.
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July 25, 2025
Feds Sell Fugitive Trader's $7M Mansion Decade After Charges
Massachusetts federal prosecutors said Friday that they have sold a $7.5 million mansion that belonged to a fugitive trader who was charged in 2015 with funneling $67 million in assets from his employer to himself.
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July 25, 2025
Latham, Sidley Advise Deal In $5B Power Infrastructure Push
Latham & Watkins LLP and Sidley Austin LLP advised ArcLight Capital Partners' acquisition of power developer and manager Advanced Power in an investment that could grow to more than $5 billion over the next five years based on AI and data center infrastructure demand.
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July 25, 2025
Fried Frank M&A Leader Sees Silver Lining Amid Uncertainties
After nearly a decade as co-head of Fried Frank's M&A and private equity practice, seasoned corporate attorney Steve Epstein has learned how to roll with the punches — and the current market has delivered plenty.
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July 25, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen the owner of a £6 million ($8 million) mansion once rented by Adele sue real estate consultants Strutt & Parker, Romanian-Australian mining investor Vasile Frank Timis bring a claim against reputation and privacy firm Schillings, and a Chinese businessman bring a legal action against his former lawyer over an alleged £12.5 million mortgage fraud.
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July 25, 2025
What To Watch As Attys Brace For 401(k) Private Equity Order
Benefits and asset management attorneys are anticipating an executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at expanding access to private equity investments in 401(k) plans, a potential move that's stoking excitement about added investment options and concerns about legal risks. Here are four things on experts' minds as they wait to see if the order materializes.
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July 25, 2025
A-Rod's $800M SPAC Merger With Lynk Global Is Scrapped
Satellite-to-phone business Lynk Global and special purpose acquisition company Slam Corp., which is backed by retired baseball slugger Alex Rodriguez, on Friday told regulators that they have mutually agreed to nix their $800 million merger that would have seen Lynk Global hit the public markets.
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July 25, 2025
Greenberg Traurig Hires Ex-Taft Public Finance Attorney
Greenberg Traurig LLP announced Thursday that it has added a former Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP attorney with a history of public service at both the state and federal levels to its public finance and infrastructure practice.
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July 25, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Weil, Freshfields, Linklaters
In this week's Taxation With Representation, CC Capital and One Investment Management acquire Insignia Financial Ltd., catering giant Compass Group PLC acquires Dutch food and hospitality company Vermaat Groep BV, drugmaker Sanofi acquires biotech company Vicebio, and The Ether Machine launches as a public company.
Expert Analysis
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Opinion
Inconsistent Injury-In-Fact Rules Hinder Federal Practice
A recent Third Circuit decision, contradicting a previous ruling about whether consumers of contaminated products have suffered an injury in fact, illustrates the deep confusion this U.S. Supreme Court standard creates among federal judges and practitioners, who deserve a simpler method of determining which cases have federal standing, says Eric Dwoskin at Dwoskin Wasdin.
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In-House Counsel Pointers For Preserving Atty-Client Privilege
Several recent rulings illustrate the challenges in-house counsel can face when attempting to preserve attorney-client privilege, but a few best practices can help safeguard communications and effectively assert the privilege in an increasingly scrutinized corporate environment, says Daniel Garrie at Law & Forensics.
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Takeaways From CFTC's Private Fund Rule Amendments
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's recently adopted amendments to Rule 4.7 of the Commodity Exchange Act ensure that investors in the complex derivatives markets receive relevant and comprehensive information, and further align suitability criteria for investors in private funds, says Rita Molesworth at Willkie.
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Series
Collecting Rare Books Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My collection of rare books includes several written or owned by prominent lawyers from early U.S. history, and immersing myself in their stories helps me feel a deeper connection to my legal practice and its purpose, says Douglas Brown at Manatt Health.
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Opinion
Judge Should Not Have Been Reprimanded For Alito Essay
Senior U.S. District Judge Michael Ponsor's New York Times essay critiquing Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for potential ethical violations absolutely cannot be construed as conduct prejudicial to the administration of the business of the courts, says Ashley London at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University.
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A Look At Collateralized Loan Obligations Post-Reform
The Financial Stability Board's recent report on global securitization reforms, analyzing resilience trends in the collateralized loan obligation market post-2008, suggests that, while risk retention rules have a limited impact on observable characteristics, other structural features play a significant role in ensuring risk alignment, says Kos Vavelidis at DLA Piper.
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Lights, Camera, Ethics? TV Lawyers Tend To Set Bad Example
Though fictional movies and television shows portraying lawyers are fun to watch, Hollywood’s inaccurate depictions of legal ethics can desensitize attorneys to ethics violations and lead real-life clients to believe that good lawyers take a scorched-earth approach, says Nancy Rapoport at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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Perspectives
Accountant-Owned Law Firms Could Blur Ethical Lines
KPMG’s recent application to open a legal practice in Arizona represents the first overture by an accounting firm to take advantage of the state’s relaxed law firm ownership rules, but enforcing and supervising the practice of law by nonattorneys could prove particularly challenging, says Seth Laver at Goldberg Segalla.
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How FTC Consumer Protection May Fare Under Reg Freeze
Attorneys at Crowell & Moring consider how President Donald Trump's executive order directing agencies to freeze all pending rulemaking activity may frustrate any Federal Trade Commission efforts to change or eliminate rules that made it across the finish line before the inauguration.
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AI Will Soon Transform The E-Discovery Industrial Complex
Todd Itami at Covington discusses how generative artificial intelligence will reshape the current e-discovery paradigm, replacing the blunt instrument of data handling with a laser scalpel of fully integrated enterprise solutions — after first making e-discovery processes technically and legally harder.
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When Innovation Overwhelms The Rule Of Law
In an era where technology is rapidly evolving and artificial intelligence is seemingly everywhere, it’s worth asking if the law — both substantive precedent and procedural rules — can keep up with the light speed of innovation, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
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Losing A Motion To Dismiss Ruling Isn't Necessarily The End
A recent Delaware Court of Chancery ruling, that the Manti Group had not demonstrated any conflicts of interest favoring private equity fund operator The Carlyle Group, serves as an important reminder that a decision on a pleading motion is not the end of the story, say attorneys at Sidley.
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Imagine The Possibilities Of Openly Autistic Lawyering
Andi Mazingo at Lumen Law, who was diagnosed with autism about midway through her career, discusses how the legal profession can create inclusive workplaces that empower openly autistic lawyers and enhance innovation, and how neurodivergent attorneys can navigate the challenges and opportunities that come with disclosing one’s diagnosis.
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Top 10 Healthcare And Life Sciences Issues To Watch In 2025
Under the new Trump administration, this coming year may benefit some healthcare and life sciences stakeholders, while creating new challenges for others amid an increasingly complex regulatory environment, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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Series
Documentary Filmmaking Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Becoming a documentary filmmaker has allowed me to merge my legal expertise with my passion for storytelling, and has helped me to hone negotiation, critical thinking and problem-solving skills that are important to both endeavors, says Robert Darwell at Sheppard Mullin.