Private Equity

  • August 15, 2025

    Advent Eyes U-Blox Takeover At Potential $1.2B Valuation

    Swiss semiconductor company U-blox Holding confirmed Friday that it is in negotiations with private equity firm Advent International for a potential takeover, after earlier reports revealed that the potential deal could value the company at around $1.2 billion. 

  • August 15, 2025

    9th Circ. Affirms Dismissal Of Vegas Casino Room Rate Case

    The Ninth Circuit rejected an appeal on Friday from guests seeking to revive their antitrust case accusing Las Vegas casino-hotel operators of using a vendor's software to inflate room rates, finding that the pricing service helps the hotels compete.

  • August 15, 2025

    Chancery Says Failed FTX Claim Buy Is Outside Its Jurisdiction

    A Delaware Chancery Court judge on Friday ruled that a lawsuit over a failed deal to buy a claim in the Chapter 11 case of cryptocurrency platform FTX does not belong in his court, saying the fact the bankruptcy is being heard in Delaware does not constitute a sufficient connection to the state.

  • August 15, 2025

    Kirkland Guides Latest Purchase For PE-Backed Pet Food Co.

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP is advising Inspired Pet Nutrition on another pet food acquisition as the U.K.-based company enters exclusive negotiations to purchase Ultra Premium Direct, a French online pet food retailer, from private equity firm Eurazeo.

  • August 15, 2025

    Rising Star: Weil's Timothy Burns

    Timothy Burns of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP led the team representing Glencore, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and British Columbia Investment Management Corp. on their exit from Viterra through its $18 billion sale to Bunge, earning him a spot among the private equity practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • August 15, 2025

    Taxation With Representation: Wachtell, Cooley, Sullivan

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, the NBA signs off on the sale of the Boston Celtics, Gildan Activewear acquires HanesBrands, private equity shop Advent International buys insurance software firm Sapiens, and financial software provider MeridianLink goes private via its acquisition by Centerbridge Partners.

  • August 15, 2025

    UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

    This past week in London has seen Transport for London hit with a procurement claim by the operator of Oyster card, while Mastercard and Visa face claims from the Rocco Forte Hotel Group, and Liverpool Football Club lobbed a claim against a security company.

  • August 15, 2025

    PE Biz Says £184M Bid For Energy Adviser On Track

    U.S. private equity shop HGGC said Friday that its £183.6 million ($249 million) bid to buy Inspired PLC is now legally and contractually clear to continue, after enough shareholders of the energy and sustainability consultant accepted the offer.

  • August 14, 2025

    Cadwalader Corporate Head Exits To McDermott After 40 Years

    Ira Schacter, a senior partner at Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP, is leaving the firm after 40 years to lead a new section of newly merged McDermott Will & Schulte's transactions practice that will counsel clients where private equity, insurance and financial services matters meet, McDermott confirmed Thursday.

  • August 14, 2025

    Healthcare Co. Exec, GC Revealed Trade Secrets, Court Told

    A preponderance of emails shows that former CEOs involved with a trio of healthcare and real estate companies shared financial documents and other intellectual property that were undoubtedly trade secrets, the companies' attorney told the North Carolina Business Court on Thursday.

  • August 14, 2025

    NBA Signs Off On $6B Sale Of Celtics

    The National Basketball Association board of governors approved the sale of the controlling interests in the Boston Celtics to an investor group led by private equity firm co-founder Bill Chisholm, with the valuation of the club estimated at $6.1 billion.

  • August 14, 2025

    Del. Challenge To Squarespace Doc Suit Toss Moves Forward

    A Delaware vice chancellor on Thursday ordered an October hearing over stockholder exceptions to a posttrial dismissal of a lawsuit for records on Squarespace Inc.'s $7.2 billion take-private deal, following objections that the ruling "would require the court to possess impossible prescience."

  • August 14, 2025

    Bob's Discount Furniture Could Go Public, And Other Rumors

    Bob's Discount Furniture may boast about its "Oh My Bob" low prices in TV ads, but the retailer's quirky marketing and expanding e-commerce have helped boost sales to roughly $2 billion last year — a performance that a Wall Street Journal report said could support a $1 billion IPO.

  • August 14, 2025

    Aerospace Tech Biz Valued At $800M Following SPAC Merger

    Merlin, an autonomous flight technology company for the defense industry, on Thursday announced plans to go public via a merger with special purpose acquisition company Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. I in a deal that was built by three law firms and would value the aerospace company at $800 million.

  • August 14, 2025

    Eli Lilly To Put $1.3B Into Obesity-Focused Medicine Biz

    Venture and private equity-backed drug discovery company Superluminal Medicines announced a partnership Thursday with pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly & Co., which will see Superluminal receiving up to $1.3 billion to help advance cardiometabolic and obesity-related medicines.

  • August 14, 2025

    Latham, Slaughter And May Help Steer £1.5B UK LNG Buy

    Energy heavyweight Centrica said Thursday that it has jointly acquired Europe's largest liquefied natural gas terminal from National Grid PLC together with a U.S. infrastructure investor for an enterprise value of £1.5 billion ($2 billion).

  • August 13, 2025

    Andreessen Horowitz Urges SEC To Craft DeFi Safe Harbor

    Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and crypto lobby the DeFi Education Fund penned a joint letter Wednesday, urging the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to shield certain decentralized crypto projects from broker-dealer requirements.

  • August 13, 2025

    9th Circ. Greenlights Expansive Use Of Discovery Statute

    The Ninth Circuit ruled for the first time that documents produced under a foreign discovery statute may be used in proceedings other than those identified in a petition, affirming an Oregon federal court decision in an acrimonious dispute over control of a Luxembourg-based investment fund.

  • August 13, 2025

    OpenAI, Microsoft Beat Musk's RICO Claims In For-Profit Fight

    OpenAI and Microsoft again beat Elon Musk's racketeering claims in his lawsuit challenging OpenAI's now-abandoned pivot to a for-profit enterprise, after a California federal judge said Tuesday the amended allegations do not provide details on how the companies ran the enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity.

  • August 13, 2025

    Sapiens Inks $2.5B PE Buyout Deal, With 4 Firms Advising

    Sapiens International, a New Jersey-based software provider for the insurance industry, has agreed to be acquired by private equity firm Advent International in a $2.5 billion all-cash deal, the technology company announced Wednesday.

  • August 13, 2025

    SPAC Behind EV Maker Nikola, Shareholders Strike Settlement

    Stockholders and board members for the blank-check company that took electric-vehicle maker Nikola public said they reached a $6.3 million deal to end a Delaware Chancery Court lawsuit that accused the SPAC of misleading investors about Nikola's prospects.

  • August 13, 2025

    Crypto Co. Bullish Makes Public Debut After Upsized $1B IPO

    Venture-backed crypto exchange Bullish made its public debut Wednesday after raising $1.1 billion in its upsized initial public offering, marking the latest in a string of crypto-related companies to dabble in the public markets.

  • August 13, 2025

    Property Owner Beats KKR To Deal For Rival With £1.8B Bid

    Healthcare real estate owner Primary Health Properties can go ahead with its takeover of Assura PLC for approximately £1.8 billion ($2.4 billion) after most of the rival landlord's shareholders rejected a competitive bid from private equity firm KKR.

  • August 13, 2025

    Private Equity Biz's £184M Bid For Energy Adviser To Proceed

    U.S. private equity firm HGGC LLC's £183.6 million ($249 million) bid to acquire the commercial energy and sustainability adviser Inspired PLC can proceed after a rival offer by Regent International Holdings Ltd. failed to secure sufficient support from shareholders.

  • August 12, 2025

    Solar Aircraft Co.'s Top Brass Hit With Investor Fraud Suit

    A majority shareholder of solar aircraft company Skydweller Aero Inc. has filed suit against the top brass of the U.S.-Spanish aerospace venture, claiming the CEO and others misled the shareholder about the company's "dire" financial condition and denied it access to critical financial information, obstructing its ability to evaluate its investment or exit its equity position.

Expert Analysis

  • Antitrust Considerations Amid Cricket's US Expansion

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    As cricket continues to grow in popularity in the U.S., leagues, teams and enterprises operating in adjacent spaces should consider the potential antitrust risks associated with their business decisions, particularly around league operations and regulations, broadcasting, licensing, and player labor and mobility, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • E-Discovery Quarterly: Rulings On Relevance Redactions

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    In recent cases addressing redactions that parties sought to apply based on the relevance of information — as opposed to considerations of privilege — courts have generally limited a party’s ability to withhold nonresponsive or irrelevant material, providing a few lessons for discovery strategy, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • Opinion

    Section 1983 Has Promise After End Of Nationwide Injunctions

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    After the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down the practice of nationwide injunctions in Trump v. Casa, Section 1983 civil rights suits can provide a better pathway to hold the government accountable — but this will require reforms to qualified immunity, says Marc Levin at the Council on Criminal Justice.

  • Impending Quality Control Standards Pose Risks For Auditors

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    Public accounting firms will need to comply with new standards aimed at strengthening their quality control systems by the end of this year, a significant challenge sure to increase costs, individual liability and regulatory scrutiny, say Kelly Bossard at FTI Consulting and Mike Plotnick at King & Spalding.

  • Series

    Playing Soccer Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Soccer has become a key contributor to how I approach my work, and the lessons I’ve learned on the pitch about leadership, adaptability, resilience and communication make me better at what I do every day in my legal career, says Whitney O’Byrne at MoFo.

  • Opinion

    The SEC Should Embrace Tokenized Equity, Not Strangle It

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission should grant no-action relief to firms ready to pilot tokenized equity trading, not delay innovation by heeding protectionist industry arguments, says J.W. Verret at George Mason University.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Learning From Failure

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    While law school often focuses on the importance of precision, correctness and perfection, mistakes are inevitable in real-world practice — but failure is not the opposite of progress, and real talent comes from the ability to recover, rethink and reshape, says Brooke Pauley at Tucker Ellis.

  • Series

    Adapting To Private Practice: From ATF Director To BigLaw

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    As a two-time boomerang partner, returning to BigLaw after stints as a U.S. attorney and the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, people ask me how I know when to move on, but there’s no single answer — just clearly set your priorities, says Steven Dettelbach at BakerHostetler.

  • What To Know As SEC Looks To Expand Private Fund Access

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    As the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission considers expanding retail access to private markets, understanding how these funds operate — and the role of financial intermediaries in guiding investors — is increasingly important, say attorneys at K&L Gates.

  • Balancing The Promises And Perils Of Tokenizing Securities

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    Tokenizing listed securities offers the promise of greater efficiency, accessibility and innovation, but a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission statement makes clear that the federal securities laws continue to apply to tokenized securities, so financial institutions and technology developers must work together to create clear rules, say attorneys at Orrick.

  • SEC, FINRA Obligations In Changing AI Regulatory Landscape

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    Despite the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent withdrawal of its proposed artificial intelligence conflict rules, financial regulators remain focused on firms developing the correct AI compliance framework, as well as continuously testing and supervising them to ensure they're fit for purpose, say attorneys at Cahill Gordon.

  • Series

    Playing Baseball Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Playing baseball in college, and now Wiffle ball in a local league, has taught me that teamwork, mental endurance and emotional intelligence are not only important to success in the sport, but also to success as a trial attorney, says Kevan Dorsey at Swift Currie.

  • A Deep Dive Into 14 Nixed Gensler-Era SEC Rule Proposals

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last month formally withdrew 14 notices of proposed rulemaking, including several significant and widely criticized proposals that had been issued under former Chair Gary Gensler's leadership, signaling a clear and definitive shift away from the previous administration, say attorneys at Dechert.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Skillful Persuasion

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    In many ways, law school teaches us how to argue, but when the ultimate goal is to get your client what they want, being persuasive through preparation and humility is the more likely key to success, says Michael Friedland at Friedland Cianfrani.

  • A Look At Trump 2.0 Antitrust Enforcement So Far

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    The first six months of President Donald Trump's second administration were marked by aggressive antitrust enforcement tempered by traditional structural remedies for mergers, but other unprecedented actions, like the firing of Federal Trade Commission Democrats, will likely stoke heated discussion ahead, says Richard Dagen at Axinn.

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