Getty Images To File Ch. 11, Go Private In Koch-Backed Deal

By John Blakeley

Getty Images said Monday it plans to file for Chapter 11 in the coming weeks after reaching a restructuring agreement that would take the company private and includes up to $533 million in new equity from Koch Equity Development and the Getty family.

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Analysis

M&A Attys See Resilience Through Q3 Amid Geopolitical Risk

By Al Barbarino

Global M&A activity remained strong through the first nine months of 2026 despite a third-quarter slowdown, as strategic buyers and private equity firms continued to pursue deals in areas ranging from technology and defense to essential services, attorneys told Law360.

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SEC Proposes Restoring Funds' Ability To Cross-Trade Bonds

By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission put forth a proposal on Friday to make it easier for mutual and other registered funds under the same manager to trade with one another, while promising to update the oversight rules for fund managers participating in such cross-trades.

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Latham-Led Consonance Clinches $1.35B Healthcare Fund

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Latham & Watkins LLP-advised healthcare private equity shop Consonance Capital Partners on Friday revealed that it closed its latest fund with $1.35 billion of investor commitments.

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Warren Presses Fed For Details Of Early SVB Report Access

By Jon Hill

The U.S. Senate Banking Committee's top Democrat is calling on Federal Reserve officials for answers after some outside experts were given an early look at a recent independent report on Silicon Valley Bank's collapse, questioning who authorized the access and how recipients were chosen.

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Don't Miss It: Sidley, Gibson Dunn Steer Latest Hot Deals

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

A lot can happen in the world of mergers and acquisitions and equity fundraising over the course of a couple of weeks, and it's difficult to keep up with all the deals.

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Hexagon Buying TA-Backed Rocscience In $535M Deal

By Al Barbarino

Hexagon AB said Friday it has agreed to purchase TA Associates-backed Rocscience, an engineering software solutions company, at an enterprise value of approximately $535 million.

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Clean Energy Data Center Developer Inks $300M SPAC Merger

By Nate Beck

Green AI Cloud, an operator of artificial intelligence data centers in Sweden, will merge with a special purpose acquisition company to go public in a deal valuing the company at $300 million in pre-money equity value, guided by Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyrå AB and Winston Taylor.

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TRex Bio Leads 2 Drugmakers Pricing IPOs Totaling $162M

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Two clinical-stage biotechnology firms, TRex Bio and Retension Pharmaceuticals, hit the public markets on Friday after raising a combined $162 million in their initial public offerings.

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Roundup

Taxation With Representation: Osler, Debevoise, Skadden

By Zak Kostro

In this week's Taxation With Representation, Emera and ATCO announce a merger to create a Canadian utility and energy infrastructure powerhouse, French technology giant Schneider Electric buys industrial software provider PTC Inc., and Wittington Investments Ltd. acquires health and beauty retailer Boots.

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Iberdrola Loses Bid To Revive Mass. Power Plant Fraud Suit

By Lauren Berg

A New York appellate court has declined to revive an Iberdrola unit's lawsuit accusing the funders of a Massachusetts power plant project of tricking the energy company into largely completing construction before interfering in the contract to avoid funding the work.

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Brief

Ropes & Gray Welcomes Tax Partner In NY From Akin

By Andrea Keckley

Ropes & Gray LLP said this week that it added a tax partner from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP to its New York office.

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Squire Patton, Holland & Knight Report Data Breaches

By Jake Maher

Squire Patton Boggs LLP and Holland & Knight LLP were hit with cyberattacks exposing sensitive information, according to disclosures filed this week.

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Up Next At High Court: Criminal Sentences & Video Privacy

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will close out its October sitting by hearing oral arguments in two cases that ask what level of deference federal district courts should give to commentary interpreting the federal sentencing guidelines, and what purchases are protected under a video consumer privacy statute.

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DOJ Aims To 'Attack Fraud From All Angles' Via New Division

By Sarah Jarvis

The U.S. Department of Justice's new fraud division has issued fresh guidance on its prosecution methodology, with the division's head directing prosecutors to seize assets before indictments and pursue upward variances in sentencing guidelines in some cases as part of a stated push to use the division's "full arsenal of criminal statutes" in combating fraud.

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Ill. Judge Lays Out Doc Demands For DOJ Misconduct Probe

By Lauraann Wood

An Illinois federal judge asked the government Friday to turn over six months of communications and certain other records as she investigates in-court inaccuracies Chicago prosecutors offered while prosecuting six anti-immigration protesters, rejecting its request to seal a filing in the process.

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Atty With False AI Citation Filings Ordered To Pay $39K

By Bonnie Eslinger

A New York federal judge who imposed case-terminating sanctions on an attorney who submitted filings with false citations generated by artificial intelligence ordered him on Friday to pay nearly $39,000 to lawyers who uncovered the problematic AI use, noting he had given them the "runaround" when they tried to collect directly.

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Grassley Attacks Dems' Claims Of Rule-Breaking Over Hearing

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, clapped back at Democrats for their accusations that Republicans broke Senate rules during a hearing last week at which former special counsel Jack Smith appeared.

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Calif. Jurists' Atty Tips: 'Emulate Lincoln,' 'Don't Be Boring'

By Bonnie Eslinger

Three current and former Northern California federal judges and one Morrison Foerster LLP partner during a Federal Bar Association panel discussion Thursday gave attorneys tips on "courtroom persuasion," including knowing the judges, keeping things interesting and, like the nation's 16th president, getting quickly to the winning point.

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Brief

Legal Services NYC Gets $2.5M To Build Novel Resource Hub

By Tracey Read

Legal Services NYC announced Friday that it has been awarded a $2.5 million grant from the New York State Interest on Lawyer Account Fund to create a first-of-its-kind statewide knowledge-sharing platform to help legal advocates spend more time seeking justice for low-income clients.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

The new federal fraud division is threatening faster action and broader targets under a new enforcement policy announced recently. And the SEC warned shareholder advocacy groups that join forces could face legal scrutiny in the future. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.​

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Alston & Bird LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Sixth Circuit overturned a pivotal decision in multidistrict opioid litigation that had dramatically expanded claims against the nation's largest pharmacy benefit managers.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen PrivatBank sue its former oligarch owner, building materials provider Kingspan face a €100 million ($112 million) claim over Grenfell Tower cladding and energy giants VaroPreem and Viaro Energy become embroiled in an intellectual property row.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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