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Latest News in Private Equity

  • August 21, 2025

    Nikola SPAC, Related Settlements Reach $33.75M In Del.

    A multi-court string of settlements has produced a $33.75 million proposed payout for stockholders who alleged in direct and derivative state and federal actions that they were misled in deals that took electric vehicle maker Nikola Corp. public.

  • August 21, 2025

    GTCR Deal A 'Smokescreen' For Coatings Merger, FTC Says

    GTCR BC Holdings LLC's $627 million bid to buy the nation's largest medical device coatings company is a blatant attempt to overwhelmingly dominate an already highly concentrated market, and the "smokescreen" of a partial divestiture shouldn't convince anyone otherwise, the Federal Trade Commission told an Illinois federal judge Thursday.

  • August 21, 2025

    5 Firms Advise On $1.5B International Paper Fiber Biz Sale

    International Paper Co. has agreed to sell its global cellulose fiber business to private equity firm American Industrial Partners for $1.5 billion, part of a broader effort to focus on sustainable packaging solutions, in a deal steered by five law firms, the companies said on Thursday.

  • August 21, 2025

    V&E, Kirkland Steer Blackstone's $1.6B Shermco Buy

    Private equity giant Blackstone, advised by Vinson & Elkins LLP, on Thursday unveiled plans to buy electrical equipment services company Shermco from middle-market private equity shop Gryphon Investors, both advised by Kirkland & Ellis LLP, in a $1.6 billion deal.

  • August 21, 2025

    Rising Star: Clifford Chance's Neil Barlow

    Clifford Chance LLP partner Neil Barlow has helped lead the growth of the firm's U.S. private equity practice while advising on high-profile cross-border deals, including KKR and Carlyle's $10.1 billion acquisition of a student loan portfolio and the sale of global fund administrator Alter Domus, earning him a spot among the private equity law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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