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Latest News in Private Equity

  • November 21, 2025

    Escrow Agent Accused Of $4.6M 'Insider Payoff' In NC Sale

    Stewart Title Guaranty Co. facilitated the unauthorized sale of a financially struggling luxury apartment complex and then handed a $4.6 million "insider" payout to one of the operating owners, according to a lawsuit by a real estate investment trust that claims it was cut out of the decision process.

  • November 21, 2025

    DLA Piper Adds Fenwick Emerging Growth, VC Expert In LA

    DLA Piper is boosting its corporate team, bringing in a Fenwick & West LLP venture capital ace as a partner in its Los Angeles office.

  • November 21, 2025

    MVP: Simpson Thacher's Mark Myott

    Mark Myott, a partner in Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's mergers and acquisition practice, guided private equity clients through some of the most high-profile deals this past year, including Silver Lake's $13 billion take-private acquisition of the global sports and entertainment company Endeavor, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Private Equity MVPs.

  • November 21, 2025

    Conn. Banking Chief Says Private School Fraud Topped $5.1M

    Putnam Science Academy, a private high school in Northeastern Connecticut, owes an additional investor money in what is alleged to have been an affinity fraud scheme that topped $5.1 million, according to an amended order by the state banking commissioner.

  • November 21, 2025

    BNY Mellon Cleared By Jury Of Unjust Enrichment Claim

    A New York federal jury has cleared Bank of New York Mellon of allegations of unjust enrichment from a contractor who claimed his investment valuation model had been misappropriated.

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Private Equity

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