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Latest News in Private Equity
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December 04, 2025
Blue Owl Capital Faces Investor Suit Over Redemption Woes
Alternative investment manager Blue Owl Capital Inc. faces a proposed investor class action alleging that it concealed financial stress related to shareholder redemptions, hurting investors when it disclosed a quarterly earnings miss and announced a merger that could have halted certain private fund redemptions.
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December 04, 2025
Solmate To Acquire RockawayX, Creating 'Crypto Giant'
Solmate Infrastructure, formerly known as Irish sports ownership holding company Brera Holdings, announced Thursday it has entered into a business combination with the blockchain arm of venture capital firm Rockaway Capital, RockawayX.
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December 04, 2025
Crenshaw Blasts SEC Short-Selling Rules Deadline Extension
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's outgoing, lone Democratic commissioner has criticized the agency's decision to extend the compliance dates for a pair of Biden-era regulations aimed at bolstering transparency in the short-selling market, calling the move a "repeal by extension."
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December 04, 2025
Del. Justices Nix Challenge To $1.1B Smart & Final Sale
A three-justice Delaware Supreme Court panel has rejected with little comment a bid to revive a stockholder suit alleging disclosure failures and conflicted moves ahead of the $1.1 billion April 2019 sale of Smart & Final Stores Inc. to interests of Apollo Global Management.
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December 04, 2025
MVP: Simpson Thacher's Rony Rothken
Rony Rothken, a partner in Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's New York City office, was on the team leading British private equity shop ICG in raising its fifth general partner-led secondaries fund, securing $11 billion of capital commitments, and also advised private equity giant Blackstone on its $10.8 billion European real estate fund, earning him a spot as one of the 2025 Law360 Fund Formation MVPs.
Areas of Coverage
- TRANSACTIONS
- Private equity deals valued at $50MM or more
- Venture capital investments of $25MM or more
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Capital investments, including mezzanine and growth capital deals
- Joint ventures involving private equity firms
- Hostile takeovers and leveraged buyouts
- Distressed investment deals
- AGENCIES
- U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Federal Trade Commission
- Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
- Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
- U.S. Department of Justice
- U.S. Department of the Treasury
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- International competition and securities regulators
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Dodd-Frank Act
- Delaware corporate law
- Antitrust and consumer protection controls
- Private equity industry lobbying
- International banking legislation and regulation
- ENFORCEMENT
- Merger reviews
- Second requests
- Challenges and divestitures
- Litigation
- Antitrust suits
- Shareholder disputes
- Corporate governance fights
- Poison pill challenges
- Hostile takeover disputes
- Privacy and consumer protection suits
- Bankruptcy proceedings involving private equity stakeholders
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of private equity practices
Readership
- Private equity lawyers at top law firms
- Corporate counsel and compliance officers at Fortune 1000 companies
- Executives and attorneys in the private equity industry
- Information experts at law firms, agencies, and companies
- Policymakers at federal and state agencies
- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
- Professors, students, and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.
- Attorney and law firm marketing professionals