Playground Equipment Makers Abandon Deal After FTC Action

By Matthew Perlman

PlayPower has abandoned its planned purchase of fellow private equity-backed playground equipment maker BCI Burke after the Federal Trade Commission and a dozen states moved to challenge the deal.

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6 Firms Advise On Ares' $2.6B MidCap Financial Buy

By Al Barbarino

Ares Capital Corp. said Tuesday it has agreed to acquire middle-market lender MidCap Financial Investment Corp. in a stock-and-cash transaction for an enterprise value of about $2.6 billion, with six law firms advising on the transaction.

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Advent Secures $30B Across Its 2 Latest PE Funds

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Private equity shop Advent on Tuesday revealed that it raised $30 billion across its two latest private equity funds: its 11th flagship fund and a new middle-market private equity fund.

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4 Firms Steer Landmark $63B AI Financing Structure

By Nate Beck

Blackstone, Bank of America, Citi and Morgan Stanley formed a deal providing $63 billion to buy Broadcom artificial intelligence chips and network components for Anthropic in a deal guided by Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Latham & Watkins LLP, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Milbank LLP.

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Paul Weiss-Led BCE Sells Stake In New Tower Biz For $1.74B

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP-advised Canadian communications company BCE Inc. on Tuesday announced that its subsidiary Bell Canada has entered into an agreement with investment firm La Caisse to form a new wireless tower infrastructure company, with La Caisse acquiring a 49.9% stake in the new business for CA$2.45 billion ($1.74 billion).

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JPMorgan Seeks Sanctions In Ex-Banker's Bias Suit

By Katryna Perera

A former JPMorgan Chase employee's claims of racial discrimination and sexual harassment were completely false and manufactured, JPMorgan and the employee's former supervisor said in motions urging a New York federal judge to levy sanctions against Chirayu Rana for his "fraudulent litigation."

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Md. Cannabis Co. Ordered To Pay $2M Over Unpaid Fees

By Jonathan Capriel

Baltimore-based Evermore Cannabis Co. must pay a $1.98 million arbitration award levied against it after it was found to have intentionally dodged fees it promised to pay to a capital advisory firm as part of a contract that helped the marijuana cultivator secure loans, a California state court judge has ruled.

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Cleary Adds PE Veteran From Simpson Thacher In NY

By Tracey Read

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP announced Tuesday that a former Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP attorney has joined the firm as a partner in its Americas mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions groups.

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Weil To Wind Down As Top Attorneys Abandon Firm

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson, Alex Wittenberg and Aebra Coe

Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, the restructuring powerhouse that led Lehman Brothers, Enron and General Motors through bankruptcy, told Law360 Pulse Wednesday that the firm is preparing to wind down operations.

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BigLaw Tip Middleman To Admit Role In $3.5M Trading Scheme

By Chris Villani

An alleged middleman in a sweeping scheme to trade off of deal information stolen from major law firms has agreed to plead guilty and potentially faces a prison term of nearly a decade, according to a plea agreement filed Wednesday in Massachusetts federal court.

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Judge Hellerstein, Gruff Moderator Of Major Cases, Dies At 92

By Pete Brush

Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein, a former litigator and sometimes impatient Manhattan federal jurist who presided over decades of high-profile cases that often came under close appellate scrutiny, died Wednesday at the age of 92.

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LA's Top Federal Prosecutor 'Unlawfully Serving,' Judge Finds

By Christine DeRosa

A federal judge has ruled that Los Angeles' top federal prosecutor isn't legally serving in the role and that he is disqualified from participating in or supervising two criminal prosecutions.

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Proskauer, Reddit Attys Called To Testify In Data-Scraping Suit

By Bryan Koenig

A New York federal judge on Wednesday called for live testimony from two Proskauer Rose LLP attorneys and Reddit's deputy general counsel as he weighs the law firm's bid to represent Perplexity AI in a lawsuit from Reddit, the firm's former client, over alleged data scraping.

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BakerHostetler Malpractice Case To Expand With RICO Claim

By Emily Johnson

A Georgia federal judge has allowed a trustee who has accused BakerHostetler and an Atlanta-based attorney of legal malpractice to file an amended complaint after the trustee asked to add claims of Georgia RICO Act violations.

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Mich. Judge Weighs Toshiba Legal Bills Discovery Fight

By Melanie Dorsey

A Michigan federal judge on Wednesday questioned whether she needs to review specific objections to DTE Electric Co. and Consumers Energy Co.'s multimillion-dollar attorney fee request before deciding whether Toshiba Corp. must disclose its own legal bills and litigation expenses following a nearly $394.4 million jury verdict over a botched power plant overhaul.

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SC Gov.'s Counsel Still In The Running For Federal Judgeship

By Courtney Bublé

The chief legal counsel for South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is "being actively considered" for a federal judgeship, according to the White House, but it's not a done deal yet.

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Albright Left Key Issue In Billion-Dollar IP Fight Unanswered

By Dani Kass

In May 2025, then-U.S. District Judge Alan Albright watched a jury hold that VLSI Technology is controlled by Fortress Investment Group, but by the time he left the bench in August 2026, the judge had yet to decide whether that ownership would let Intel avoid billions of dollars in patent infringement verdicts.

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