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August 18, 2026
The litigation trust created after Franchise Group Inc.'s bankruptcy on Tuesday sued the company's former CEO, advisers and others in the Delaware Chancery Court, accusing them of carrying out a fraudulent take-private deal that caused more than $700 million in damages.
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August 18, 2026
A Florida federal judge on Tuesday declined to grant the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's request to unseal court-appointed monitor reports of a private equity firm accused of fraud in a $1 billion fund, but said some information wasn't privileged and allowed the government to list what should be public.
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August 18, 2026
Private equity music publisher Round Hill Music has sued Anthropic, Suno and web-scraping provider Bright Data in separate federal lawsuits in California, accusing the companies of "rampant commercial copying" of thousands of its copyrighted songs and lyrics without permission to build and train artificial intelligence systems.
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August 18, 2026
Patient engagement platform and payment services company Weave Communications Inc., led by Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, on Tuesday revealed it will become a private company after it was acquired by Kirkland & Ellis LLP-advised private equity shop Francisco Partners in a $650 million deal.
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August 18, 2026
The same facts in litigation against B. Riley Financial produced three different outcomes in three courthouses, but the Court of Chancery's decision in Marchner v. B. Riley is the cleanest demonstration in years of why boards facing a government investigation often prepare for the wrong lawsuit, says Ashwin Ram at Buchalter.
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