Latham Steers 42% Valencia CF Stake Sale To KKR Founders

By Dawood Fakhir

Valencia CF said Friday that a consortium of investors, including co-founders of U.S. investment giant KKR & Co. Inc., has agreed to acquire a 42% stake in the Spanish football club, valuing it at €1.25 billion ($1.4 billion).

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Q&A

Holland & Knight Legal Profession Head On MSO Dealmaking

By Al Barbarino

Holland & Knight LLP partner Trisha Rich is at the forefront of the firm's work in a fast-growing corner of the legal industry, advising law firms setting up management services organizations, or MSOs, as well as the investors looking to buy into them.

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Economy Top Of Mind As M&A Optimism Falls, Survey Shows

By Al Barbarino

A new survey from Dykema Gossett PLLC found that roughly half of dealmakers expect U.S. mergers and acquisitions activity to increase over the next 12 months, down from 74% last year, but there is notable enthusiasm about the middle market strengthening and artificial intelligence speeding up deal processes.

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Don't Miss It: Kirkland, Latham 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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'Millennial VC' Loses New Trial Bid Over Alleged Atty Failure

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge on Thursday denied convicted self-described "millennial" venture capitalist Michael Rothenberg's latest new trial bid, rejecting his argument that his prior counsel's failure to consult a forensic accountant undermined his defense nearly three years after a jury found him guilty of money laundering and fraud.

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Investor Says 'Failing' Real Estate PE Firm Hid Fund Losses

By Isaac Monterose

An investor alleged in Texas federal court that a real estate private equity firm and its leaders hid the firm's failures from investors and tricked them into supporting "an overleveraged, failing enterprise."

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Del. Forum Selection Clause Sinks IQVIA's NC Poaching Suit

By Hayley Fowler

IQVIA Holdings Inc. should have brought its poaching suit against four former employees accused of defecting to a competitor in Delaware court under a forum selection clause in their employment contracts, a North Carolina Business Court judge ruled Thursday in dismissing the case.

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Fenwick, Cooley Steer Lycia Therapeutics' Upsized $318M IPO

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Early-stage biotechnology firm Lycia Therapeutics began trading Friday after raising $318 million in its upsized initial public offering steered by Fenwick & West LLP and Cooley LLP.

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Roundup

Taxation With Representation: Milbank, De Brauw, Wachtell

By Zak Kostro

In this week's Taxation With Representation, EQT Private Equity announces a takeover offer for life sciences testing company Qiagen NV, Salesforce acquires customer engagement platform Braze and London Stock Exchange Group buys U.S. credit intelligence provider Octus.

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Are You Happy With Your In-House Role? Take Our Survey

Is your company giving you everything you need to succeed? What are some misconceptions about working in-house? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Satisfaction Survey.

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Weil Merger Talks With Willkie End, Another Partner To Leave

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP have ended merger discussions and another top Weil partner is set to depart the firm, sources with knowledge on the matters told Law360 Pulse on Friday.

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Trump Adviser Ducking Service In Exec Orders Suit, ABA Says

By Jack Karp

Trump attorney Boris Epshteyn has evaded service of subpoenas, so the American Bar Association should be allowed to pursue alternative means of serving him in its lawsuit over President Donald Trump's efforts to intimidate BigLaw firms, the organization is telling a Washington, D.C., federal judge.

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Mass. Judge Jailed Atty For 'Attitude,' Ethics Complaint Says

By Julie Manganis

A former Massachusetts state court judge placed a public defender into custody for hours over his "attitude" during a March 2025 hearing, the state's judicial conduct commission has said in a disciplinary complaint.

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SEC Fights LSU Claim That Case Citations Were 'Hallucinated'

By Alex Lawson

The Southeastern Conference is disputing claims that it submitted "hallucinated" case citations in its lawsuit challenging Louisiana State University's efforts to add former professional players to its sports teams, urging an Alabama federal judge to strike the allegations.

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Insurer Says NY Firm Staged Accidents For Suits

By Danielle Ferguson

A reinsurance company has filed another complaint accusing a New York personal injury law firm of recruiting workers to stage injuries in support of meritless claims, a few months after the Second Circuit dismissed similar claims because the insurer didn't have any direct injuries to bring a racketeering suit. 

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Ex-DOJ Officials And Judicial Nominees Vie For Office

By Courtney Bublé

Hundreds of candidates are on the ballot in the midterm elections, happening in less than two weeks, and among them are former U.S. Department of Justice officials and unsuccessful judicial nominees.

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9th Circ. Judge Hints Trump US Atty Firing OK Despite 'Chaos'

By Rachel Riley

A Ninth Circuit judge remarked on Friday that President Donald Trump's ouster of court-appointed Seattle U.S. Attorney Roger Rogoff has sown "chaos," but pushed back against Rogoff's contention that the move amounted to executive overreach, noting that the president already controls the office via the attorney general.

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NY Commercial Attys Must Justify Discovery Cost Bids Early

By Andrea Keckley

New York Courts Chief Administrative Judge Joseph A. Zayas said in an administrative order earlier this month that commercial litigators who want opposing counsel to fund some or all of the discovery process must state their basis for the request and provide a "good faith" estimate of the costs.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

McGinn Montoya Love Curry & Sievers PA and DiCello Levitt lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a New Mexico federal judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion over the lies that the social media giant offered the public regarding its data privacy practices.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Meta's legal chief says the company will appeal a $25 billion verdict involving data privacy practices including the Cambridge Analytica scandal. And a new study shows that while in-house starting salaries are staying stable, adding special skills like AI expertise can lift them higher.

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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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