Sidley-Led PE Firm To Bid £545M For UK Auto Software Biz

By Dawood Fakhir

Pinewood.AI said Wednesday that it has agreed to be acquired by U.S. private equity firm Ridgeview Partners LLC for approximately £545 million ($739 million) in a deal that will delist it from the London Stock Exchange.

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3 Firms Steer $7.5B Stripe, OpenRouter AI Gateway Deal

By Al Barbarino

Financial services company Stripe said Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire artificial intelligence routing platform OpenRouter, as three law firms take lead roles in steering the roughly $7.5 billion transaction.

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Willkie, Latham Guide Defense Tech Firm Lyntris' $298M IPO

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Private equity-backed defense technology company Lyntris Inc. hit the public markets Wednesday after raising $298 million in its initial public offering steered by Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and Latham & Watkins LLP.

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Electric Vehicle Biz ALSO Secures $150M Series D

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Goodwin Procter LLP-led small electric vehicle manufacturer ALSO, which was originally incubated within Rivian, on Wednesday announced that it raised $150 million in its latest financing round.

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Rising Star: Paul Weiss' Austin Pollet

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP partner Austin Pollet co-led the team advising General Atlantic and Chess.com on a CVC Capital Partners IX investment and co-led the team advising General Atlantic on an investment in Vuori, earning him a spot among the private equity lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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Footprint Investors Sue In Del. Over $500M Financing Deal

By Jarek Rutz

Early investors in Footprint International Holdco Inc. have sued the sustainable packaging company, its directors and several institutional investors in the Delaware Chancery Court, alleging that insiders used a $500 million financing round to seize control of the company and strip longtime Class A investors of valuable stockholder rights.

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Lenders Sue Over $1M Loan Tied To Cannabis Farm

By Jonathan Capriel

A group of California lenders is trying to claw back a $1 million loan that was supposed to launch a cannabis farm in Miranda, claiming they learned too late that the property had already lost its permits to grow and that the borrowers had misused most of the loan proceeds.

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Law School's Missed Lessons: Surviving A Long Trial

Most of law school trial advocacy is geared toward the sprint of trying a short case, but beyond managing a cross-examination or closing argument, effectively handling the marathon of a lengthy trial requires the ability to maintain composure, organization and credibility with the jury, says Mihir Elchuri at Hirschler.

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How Does In-House Pay Compare? Take The Law360 Survey

How do in-house salaries vary across industries, roles, and organizational revenue? What compensation tools are companies using to lure top talent? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Compensation Survey.

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Trump Taps DOJ Official, ND Solicitor General For Judgeships

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced Thursday he's tapping Jesus Osete, a top U.S. Department of Justice official, to serve on the Western District of Missouri and Philip Axt, solicitor general of North Dakota, for the District of North Dakota.

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McGuireWoods Hires Womble Bond Commercial Attys In DC

By Jack Rodgers

McGuireWoods LLP has hired two attorneys from Womble Bond Dickinson who focus their practice on postacquisition disputes, construction litigation and government contract matters, the firm announced Thursday.

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Eastman Among 16 Calif. Attys Disbarred In Q2 2026

By Emily Sawicki

The State Bar of California removed the licenses of 16 attorneys between April and June of this year over a broad spectrum of ethical breaches ranging from the high-profile case of John Eastman attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, to a lawyer found to be in possession of child sex abuse images.

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CREXi Drops 9th Circ. Challenge To Quinn Emanuel DQ

By Isaac Monterose

Property listing company Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc. has moved to dismiss its own Ninth Circuit mandamus petition, which challenged a lower court's disqualification of CREXi's counsel, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, from a legal battle against rival CoStar.

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Harris Beach Adds Environmental Atty From Nixon Peabody

By Isaac Monterose

Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC has hired former Nixon Peabody LLP attorney Aaron B. Goldman as a senior counsel on its commercial real estate and environmental teams in New York.

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