Menlo Park, California-based venture capital firm Menlo Ventures, led by Cooley LLP, on Tuesday revealed that it has raised $3 billion in new capital to invest in artificial intelligence companies at every stage of the life cycle.
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Menlo Ventures Raises $3B To Back AI Companies

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Menlo Park, California-based venture capital firm Menlo Ventures, led by Cooley LLP, on Tuesday revealed that it has raised $3 billion in new capital to invest in artificial intelligence companies at every stage of the life cycle.

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Energy Fuels, VAC Ink $1.9B Magnet Deal Steered By 4 Firms

By Al Barbarino

Energy Fuels Inc. said Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire Vacuumschmelze GmbH & Co. KG and Ara VAC TopCo US LLC, collectively known as VAC, from Ara Partners for about $1.9 billion in cash and stock. 

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Hedge Fund To Pay Avis $650M In Short-Swing Profit Fight

By Dorothy Atkins

Pentwater Capital Management has agreed to pay Avis Budget $650 million to resolve allegations that the Naples, Florida-based hedge fund violated the Securities Exchange Act's short-swing profits rule by quickly loading up on shares and cash swaps and then dumping shares at the height of a short squeeze.

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Vimeo Owner Bending Spoons Launches Plans For $1.6B IPO

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Italian mobile app developer Bending Spoons has unveiled terms for an estimated $1.6 billion initial public offering steered by Latham & Watkins LLP and Milbank LLP.

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KKR Unit Unveils Univ. Of Tennessee Mixed-Use Project

By Isaac Monterose

Private equity firm Arctos Partners LP, a KKR unit, and its partners are working with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville on a mixed-use development that will include a private club, homes, a 24-story hotel and an entertainment area spanning 100,000 square feet, the companies announced Tuesday.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Landmark Housing Bill Heads To Trump After House Vote

By Lauren Berg

The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed an amended version of landmark housing legislation focused on expanding housing supply and lowering housing costs with a 358-32 vote, putting it on the track to President Donald Trump's desk.

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Feds' Capital Revamp Has A Dodd-Frank Problem, Critics Say

By Jon Hill

Big banks are broadly pleased with a draft capital-rule overhaul that federal regulators project would deliver the biggest capital relief in a generation, but critics say it rests on shaky legal ground that the banking agencies have "astoundingly" ignored.

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LITIGATION

Stock Bought Too Late For Breakup Fee Suit, Judge Says

By Katryna Perera

A New York federal judge has dismissed an investor suit claiming that the top brass of the sponsor of a blank check company unfairly claimed a $29 million settlement despite missing a deadline to merge with another company, finding that the investor purchased shares after the breakup fee of the failed merger was disclosed.

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FDIC Is Sole Owner Of SVB's $73M Fraud Coverage Claim

By Hope Patti

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., as receiver for Silicon Valley Bank after its collapse in 2023, is the sole owner of the bank's claim for coverage of a $73 million fraudulent scheme and is entitled to recover proceeds for losses the bank suffered, a North Carolina federal court ruled.

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PEOPLE

Clifford Chance Adds Ex-V&E Debt Finance Atty In Houston

By Matt Perez

Clifford Chance LLP announced on Monday the hiring of a former Vinson & Elkins LLP attorney as a finance and derivatives partner in its Houston office.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Drawing A Line Between Settlement Pressure And Extortion

U.S. v. Luo, pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, may force courts to address anew when settlement negotiations become criminal extortion, particularly in the age of easily fabricated digital evidence, says attorney Denis Kiely.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

How 3 Courts Are Approaching AI Adoption

By Emily Sawicki

The rules surrounding artificial intelligence experimentation in courts run the gamut from court systems offering proprietary tools and training to unwritten policies that essentially amount to don't ask, don't tell.

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Analysis

With Data And AI, Whistleblowers Set Off An FCA Tidal Wave

By Phillip Bantz

Whistleblowers are increasingly using artificial intelligence to comb through public data in search of potential False Claims Act cases, unleashing a flood of new complaints that are shaking up white collar defense and government enforcement efforts while subjecting more companies to potentially false allegations, experts say.

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Conn. Justices Threaten Sanctions For AI Errors

By Andrea Keckley

The Connecticut Supreme Court has threatened to sanction GLG Law LLC and one of its attorneys for submitting documents in two cases "that misrepresented the law through the use of generative artificial intelligence," according to a Tuesday order that summoned them to appear in court next month.

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Atty DQ Over Inadvertent Doc Disclosure Overturned

By Y. Peter Kang

A California state appeals court has upended the disqualification of defense counsel in a sexual battery suit, saying documents undermining the case that were accidentally produced via a Dropbox link were not privileged.

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DOJ Nominee Questioned About Deleted Social Media Posts

By Courtney Bublé

A nominee for a top U.S. Department of Justice position, who is a real estate attorney turned tech entrepreneur, came under fire on Wednesday for past social media posts that he's now deleted.

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Booker, Cassidy Press DOJ On Trump Immunity Deal

By Courtney Bublé

Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., wrote to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Wednesday expressing "serious concerns" about the alleged immunity for President Donald Trump, his family and businesses in the controversial settlement he reached with the IRS.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AOL

American Bankers Association

Anthropic PBC

Ara Partners

Avis Budget Group Inc.

Baillie Gifford & Co.

Bank Policy Institute

Bank of America Corp.

Brightcove Inc.

Chicago Bar Association

Citigroup Inc.

Conference of State Bank Supervisors

Connecticut Legal Services

Durable Capital Partners LP

Eventbrite Inc.

Financial Services Forum

Fordham University

Fortress Investment Group LLC

Gawker Media LLC

Gerson Lehrman Group Inc.

Google LLC

Independent Community Bankers of America

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Magellan Development Group LLC

Menlo Ventures

Milwaukee Bucks

Morgan Stanley

Nabors Industries Ltd.

Nasdaq Inc.

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

New Jersey State Bar Association

Nike Inc.

Pennzoil

Pentwater Capital Management LP

SRS Investment Management LLC

SVB Financial Group

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

The New York Times Co.

Vimeo Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Callahan & Blaine

Clark Hill

Clifford Chance

Cohen Ziffer

Cooley LLP

Crowell & Moring

Dentons

Dorsey & Whitney

Ellis & Winters

Gordon Rees

HSF Kramer

Hogan Lovells

Jones Day

K&L Law Group

Latham & Watkins

Maynard Nexsen

McAngus Goudelock

Milbank LLP

Morgan Lewis

Morris Kandinov

Nossaman LLP

O'Melveny & Myers

Paul Weiss

Reed Smith

Vinson & Elkins

White & Case

Winston Taylor

Womble Bond

Woods Rogers

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Federal Reserve System

Internal Revenue Service

Office of Justice Programs

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

United States District Court for the District of Colorado

United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio