Private equity firm KKR & Co., represented by Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, announced Tuesday a $4.2 billion agreement to acquire the North America renewable power business operated by EDF Group, advised by White & Case LLP.
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Gibson Dunn, White & Case Lead KKR's $4.2B EDF Biz Deal

By Lauren Berg

Private equity firm KKR & Co., represented by Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, announced Tuesday a $4.2 billion agreement to acquire the North America renewable power business operated by EDF Group, advised by White & Case LLP.

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Digital Realty Pays $3.5B For Blackstone Data Center Shares

By Nate Beck

Digital Realty will pay $3.5 billion to acquire a stake in three Blackstone data centers fully leased to hyperscalers in northern Virginia, according to an announcement from the companies.

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Flexpoint Ford Raises $460M For SageSure Continuation Fund

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Financial services-focused private investment firm Flexpoint Ford, led by Kirkland & Ellis LLP, on Tuesday announced that it has raised over $460 million in a new single-asset continuation vehicle to extend its ownership of managing general underwriter SageSure LLC.

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Plumbing Co. ESOP Trial Averted By Settlement Deal

By Kellie Mejdrich

A California federal judge stayed deadlines Tuesday in a federal benefits class action against a plumbing company and the caretakers of its defunct employee stock ownership plan that was set for trial in September, after the parties said they'd settled their dispute Monday following mediation.

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Florida Car Wash Operator Secures $200M PE Investment

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Florida-based car wash operator Bubble Down Holdings LLC on Tuesday unveiled a strategic partnership with BTG Pactual Global Alternatives' Strategic Capital that includes a $200 million growth investment.

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PEOPLE

2 Ex-Clifford Chance Attys Say Firm Wants To Claw Back $6M

By Jake Maher

Two former practice group leaders at Clifford Chance LLP have sued in New York federal court alleging the firm is trying to claw back nearly $6 million in total from the pair after they moved to Sidley Austin LLP early this year.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Power To The Paralegals: Burnout As A Structural Problem

Law firm leadership can best retain their paralegals not by encouraging self-care, but by seeking top-down structural solutions for the quiet proliferation of responsibilities and the vicarious exposure to client trauma that particularly drive burnout in this vital role, says Erika Sneeringer at Brockstedt Mandalas.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Trump Nominates Just Confirmed La. Judge For 5th Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

Judge Anna St. John has been on the federal bench for less than four months, and now she's being put forth for a higher court.

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McCarter Atty Says He Didn't Know NY Law Before $20M Deals

By Brian Steele

A onetime McCarter & English LLP partner in Hartford testified Tuesday that he did not research New York's municipal contracting laws before helping two insurers enter into doomed $20 million loan repayment agreements with a Long Island town, but contended that he was under no obligation to do so.

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NJ Assembly Passes Litigation Funding Disclosure Bill

By Jake Maher

The New Jersey Assembly passed a bill requiring the disclosure of third-party litigation funding arrangements on Tuesday by an overwhelming margin after similar pending legislation in the state Senate received pushback from trial lawyers and litigation finance representatives.

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Apple Gets High Court Review Of Epic Case Sanctions

By Bryan Koenig

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to take up Apple's challenge to a California federal court contempt order against it for violating a ban, won by Epic Games, on company policies that barred app developers from steering users to outside payment options.

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Analysis

Justices' Birthright Ruling Leaves Little Room For Congress

By Britain Eakin

The U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 holding Tuesday that President Donald Trump's executive order limiting birthright citizenship is unconstitutional did more than invalidate the policy, it effectively foreclosed Congress from trying to implement the executive order through legislation, experts told Law360.

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High Court Scraps Caps On Coordinated Campaign Spending

By Katie Buehler and Jeff Overley

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down federal limits on political party spending in coordination with individual candidates, agreeing with a Republican-led challenge that the caps violate the First Amendment.

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Uber, FedEx Slam Pa. Law Firm Counterclaims In RICO Suit

By James Boyle

Philadelphia-based personal injury firm Simon & Simon PC and its founder have failed to support a counterclaim in Pennsylvania federal court saying Uber Technologies Inc. and FedEx Corp. filed a sham litigation and abused the legal process with their ongoing RICO complaint against the firm, the companies argued Monday.

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NY State Bar Wants New Bar Exam Rules For Emergencies

By Kevin Penton

Following two recent incidents that drew scrutiny over their handling, the New York State Bar Association is calling for new standardized protocols to be followed should emergencies occur during the administration of the bar exam.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

American Immigration Lawyers Association

Apple Inc.

BTG Pactual

Bauer Inc.

Cato Institute

Competitive Enterprise Institute

Crowe LLP

Democratic National Committee

Epic Games Inc.

FedEx Corp.

Fordham University

Google LLC

Hamilton Lincoln

International Legal Finance Association

KKR & Co. Inc.

Lexington Partners LP

LinkedIn Corp.

New Jersey Association for Justice

New Jersey State Bar Association

New York State Bar Association

Uber Technologies Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Balch & Bingham

Blank Rome

Brockstedt Mandalas

Clifford Chance

Cohen Milstein

Cravath Swaine

Duane Morris

Elias Law Group LLP

Faegre Drinker

Gibson Dunn

Groom Law Group

Harris Beach Murtha

Jones Day

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

McCarter & English

McDermott Will & Schulte

Perkins Coie

Reeves Immigration Law Group

Sidley Austin

Silver Golub

Simon & Simon PC

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

White & Case

Wiggin & Dana

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Federal Election Commission

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

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

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

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

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

U.S. Senate

U.S. Sentencing Commission

U.S. Supreme Court