Middle-market private equity firm Bridgepoint Group, led by Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, on Tuesday revealed plans to take a majority stake in British digital asset assurance and technology solutions provider ht.digital, led by Dentons.
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Bridgepoint Buys Majority Stake In Crypto Audit Firm

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Middle-market private equity firm Bridgepoint Group, led by Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, on Tuesday revealed plans to take a majority stake in British digital asset assurance and technology solutions provider ht.digital, led by Dentons.

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Del. Supreme Court Backs FloSports In Records Fight

By Jarek Rutz

A fight among siblings over access to corporate records ended with the Delaware Supreme Court affirming that three stockholders of sports streaming platform FloSports Inc. failed to follow the procedural steps required under the Delaware General Corporation Law.

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Sustainability-Focused SPAC Invest Green Raises $150M

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Special purpose acquisition company Invest Green Acquisition began trading publicly on Tuesday after raising $150 million in its initial public offering built by Greenberg Traurig LLP, Mourant Ozannes (Cayman) LLP and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.

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LITIGATION

New Complaint Says Ex-Execs Turned Steward Into 'Zombie'

By Rick Archer

Bankrupt hospital operator Steward Health has filed hundreds of millions in new claims in Texas bankruptcy court against its former CEO and other executives, including allegations that they orchestrated a sale-leaseback deal that rendered the business an insolvent "zombie."

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Healthcare Software Founders Sue In Del. For Sale Details

By Jeff Montgomery

A couple who sold their healthcare software business to an interest of Elevate RCM Holdings LLC before the buyer allegedly resold it for a reported $1 billion sued for company records in Delaware's Court of Chancery late Monday, seeking documents needed to confirm the deal's fairness.

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Cannabis Co. Says $1.5M Default In Contract Dispute Is Void

By Mike Curley

A cannabis company is urging a Los Angeles state court to set aside a $1.5 million default judgment against it in a contract dispute, saying the judgment goes far beyond what's allowable under state law.

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Texas Court OKs $46M Deal In GPB Capital Fraud Case

By Sydney Price

A Texas federal court granted final approval of a deal requiring several auditors of GPB Capital to pay $46 million to end claims about their alleged role in a $1.8 billion fraud scheme at the private equity fund.

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PEOPLE

Katten Adds Private Credit Pro From Winston & Strawn

By Rose Krebs

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP has added a former Winston & Strawn LLP attorney to bolster its private credit practice and capacity to advise clients about various types of financing.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Considerations When Invoking The Common-Interest Privilege

To successfully leverage the common-interest doctrine in a multiparty transaction or complex litigation, practitioners should be able to demonstrate that the parties intended for it to apply, that an underlying privilege like attorney-client has attached, and guard against disclosures that could waive privilege and defeat its purpose, say attorneys at DLA Piper.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Bonus Spotlight

Weil Matches Year-End And Special Bonuses For Associates

By Anna Sanders

Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP on Tuesday joined a cadre of other firms in matching the BigLaw standard for this year's associate bonuses.  

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Judges Decline Invites To Senate Hearing On Impeachment

By Courtney Bublé

Two federal judges, both of whom Republicans are looking to impeach, declined to testify before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing next week on the impeachment of "rogue" judges, a source familiar with the situation told Law360 on Tuesday.

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DOJ Official Sues Over Firing For Epstein Talk On Hinge 'Date'

By Alison Knezevich

A longtime official at the U.S. Department of Justice who was fired after he was secretly recorded discussing the Epstein files has sued the agency and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi in D.C. federal court.

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Democrats Seek Documents On Emil Bove's DOJ Tenure

By Courtney Bublé

Senate Democrats are turning to public records requests to learn more about the controversial tenure of U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove while he served at the U.S. Department of Justice, claiming that they're being "stonewalled" by the department.

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$255K In Fees To Google For 'Frivolous' Ramey Case Upheld

By Ryan Davis

The Federal Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a California judge's decision that a client of embattled intellectual property firm Ramey LLP must pay nearly $255,000 in fees and sanctions for bringing a "frivolous" patent suit against Google, finding the award to be "entirely proper."

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Fla. Law Student Expelled For Antisemitic Post To Be Reenrolled

By David Minsky

A Florida federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of a law school student who was expelled after he was investigated over antisemitic posts on social media, saying the university didn't prove his speech "constituted a true threat." 

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Texas Law Firm, Atty Reach Tentative Deal In Age Bias Suit

By Rose Krebs

An attorney who sued a Houston-based law firm alleging she was fired in retaliation for having complained about age discrimination has reached "a tentative agreement" to resolve the matter, according to a filing in Illinois federal court.

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Husch Blackwell Blasts Ex-Firm Atty's ERISA Suit

By James Boyle

A former Husch Blackwell LLP partner's claim that the firm violated federal law by withholding monthly retirement account contributions misidentified the funds in question as participant contributions, when they were, in fact, contributions from the firm's year-end profit-sharing program.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Ascendant Capital LLC

Audax Private Equity

Bridgepoint Advisers Ltd.

Caterpillar Inc.

Cerberus Capital Management LP

CohnReznick LLP

Corning Inc.

Crowe LLP

Dow Inc.

Edgewater Funds

Elevate Patient Financial Solutions Inc.

FloSports Inc.

Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc.

Google LLC

Harvard University

HealthCare Partners LLC

Margolin Winer & Evens LLP

Medical Properties Trust Inc.

Nasdaq Inc.

Netflix Inc.

Nidec Corp.

RSM US LLP

Steward Health Care System LLC

Withum Smith & Brown PC

YouTube Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Akerman LLP

Chipman Brown

Cleary Gottlieb

Cohen & Gresser

Cravath Swaine

DLA Piper

Davis Polk

Dentons

Dilworth Paxson

Disparti Law Group

Esbrook PC

Grant & Eisenhofer

Greenberg Traurig

Hogan Lovells

Holwell Shuster

Husch Blackwell

Jackson Lewis PC

Katten Muchin

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Mark S. Zaid PC

Milbank LLP

Nutter McClennen

Perkins Coie

Pillsbury Winthrop

Quinn Emanuel

Raines Feldman

Ramey LLP

Reid Collins

Ropes & Gray

SBSB Eastham

Sabatini Law Firm PA

Sanford Heisler

Schaerr Jaffe

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Stoll Berne

Troutman

Vinson & Elkins

Weil Gotshal

Williams & Connolly

Wilson Elser

Winston & Strawn

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Delaware Court of Chancery

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

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

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

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

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

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

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

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

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate