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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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."
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.
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.
The U.S. Department of Justice late Tuesday acknowledged that it confused key statutory terms related to jury instructions at famed appellate advocate Tom Goldstein's criminal trial, while also insisting "the government's mistake here was understandable" and shouldn't upend a jury's guilty verdict.
The widow of a Miami real estate investor is suing a former president of the Florida Bar for malpractice, claiming his botched representation left her without a claim to her late husband's $350 million estate.
A high-stakes case that will determine whether the U.S. government should face patent infringement claims over Moderna's COVID-19 vaccines and Labcorp's appeal of a nine-figure patent verdict against it are among the arguments the Federal Circuit will hear in November.
The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a district court determination striking down as unconstitutional West Virginia's law restricting the publication of the home addresses and phone numbers of law enforcement and judicial officials, saying the district court applied "well-established" First Amendment principles.
