European mid-market private equity shop Apheon Management SA announced Monday that it closed its sixth middle-market buyout fund with €1.3 billion ($1.52 billion) in tow.
European mid-market private equity shop Apheon Management SA announced Monday that it closed its sixth middle-market buyout fund with €1.3 billion ($1.52 billion) in tow.
Two former BigLaw attorneys, one of whom served as counsel to President Donald Trump during his first term in office, have joined the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as deputy directors of enforcement, the agency announced Monday.
San Diego-based clinical-stage precision medicine company Mirador Therapeutics Inc. announced Monday that it closed its Series B funding round with $250 million of investor commitments, bringing the company's total capital raised since its March 2024 launch to more than $650 million.
European venture capital firm EQT Life Sciences said Monday that it has sold its stake in Irish biotechnology company Vivasure Medical to Haemonetics Corp., which has acquired the whole business for up to €185 million ($216.3 million).
The Delaware Chancery Court closed out the week with developments ranging from leadership changes in a $13 billion take-private case and posttrial sparring over a major earnout to fresh governance fights, revived fraud claims and sanctions tied to advancement rights.
A group of retail-focused real estate investment trusts urged a New Jersey federal court to toss an amended shareholder class action that accuses them of misleading shareholders into approving charter amendments that stopped the planned liquidation of the REITs, arguing that the amended suit repeats claims that were previously tossed.
Energy Transfer says Blackstone used a series of self-dealing arrangements to undercut the amount of natural gas liquids a subsidiary delivered to an Energy Transfer pipeline in Texas, telling a state court on Friday that Blackstone wrongly diverted "massive sums" to itself.
Driven by greed, ex-Google engineer Linwei Ding stole thousands of confidential documents from the tech giant, launched his own startup and then offered Google's artificial intelligence trade secrets to China, a federal prosecutor told a California jury Monday at the start of Ding's high-profile economic espionage trial.
An advising firm has sued Plymouth Industrial REIT Inc. in Massachusetts state court, claiming the real estate investment trust is dodging its obligation to pay the adviser for helping the firm land a $2.1 billion acquisition offer.
Clifford Chance LLP announced Monday that it is continuing to grow in the U.S. with the hiring of a private equity attorney from Freshfields LLP, touting her experience in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, investments, divestitures, joint ventures, equity financings and restructurings.
Arizona Court of Appeals Judge Samuel A. Thumma writes that generative artificial intelligence tools offer a profound opportunity to enhance access to justice and engender public confidence in courts’ use of technology, and judges can seize this opportunity in five key ways.
Day two of jury selection in Tom Goldstein's tax and mortgage fraud case wrapped without a jury being seated Tuesday, but did reveal that the government could call celebrities Tobey Maguire and Kevin Hart to the stand.
A former tax partner at Duane Morris LLP's Chicago office has been charged with killing his wife a little more than a year ago, according to an announcement made Tuesday by Illinois prosecutors.
Johnson & Johnson's talc unit told a New Jersey appeals panel on Tuesday that a lower court's ruling permitting Beasley Allen Law Firm attorneys to represent plaintiffs in multicounty litigation over its talc-based baby powder "sends a very bad signal" to the state bar.
A disbarred attorney was hit with new charges claiming that he induced a witness to commit perjury and obstructed justice in the federal investigation of an insurance scam involving staged car crashes in the New Orleans area.
Lindsey Halligan said Tuesday that she is still the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia despite a recent ruling to the contrary, dismissing a federal judge's questions about why she's still using the title as an "inquisition" and a "gross abuse of power."
A Delaware bankruptcy judge Tuesday rejected a bid by two bankrupt entities tied to the former Hudson Hotel to retain DLA Piper LLP as special counsel in their Chapter 11 case, saying the law firm's work for the entities' lender presented a conflict of interest.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., ranking member of the courts panel on the Senate Judiciary Committee, is calling for Attorney General Pam Bondi to release the results of the disciplinary complaint she filed against Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of the District of Columbia when the investigation wraps up.
Former special counsel Jack Smith is slated to testify publicly before the House Judiciary Committee on Jan. 22 after, according to his attorney, having been "ready and willing" to do so for a while.
The Fourth Circuit has granted the Trump administration's request to combine its previously separate appeals of the dismissals of prosecutions against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
