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Private Equity

  • June 23, 2025

    Spectris Backs £3.8B Advent Offer, KKR Mulls Rival Bid

    British high-tech instruments manufacturer Spectris said Monday that it has backed a £3.8 billion ($5.1 billion) takeover offer from U.S. private equity company Advent as rival shop KKR mulls throwing its hat into the ring.

  • June 23, 2025

    Eni To Sell 20% Stake In Energy Unit To Ares For €2B

    Eni SpA said Monday that it has agreed to sell 20% of its Italian retail and renewable energy business Plenitude to affiliates of U.S. alternative investment manager Ares Management Corp. for about €2 billion ($2.3 billion).

  • June 20, 2025

    Many Foreign Firms Could Face Stricter Access To US Markets

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's reevaluation of the definition of a foreign private issuer could have far-reaching consequences, potentially tightening access to U.S. markets for companies based in China and beyond, lawyers say.

  • June 20, 2025

    SEC Axes 3 More Dealer Suits In Continued Policy Shift

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has voluntarily dismissed three lawsuits accusing a hedge fund and two penny stock traders of operating as unregistered securities dealers, continuing the new Republican leadership's shift away from pursuing cases that defendants argued unlawfully expanded agency oversight.

  • June 20, 2025

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

    This past week in London has seen Pogust Goodhead face legal action from mining giant BHP Group, Trainline bring a procurement claim against the Department for Transport, Sworders auction house sue Conservative peer Patricia Rawlings, and Nokia hit with a patents claim by Hisense. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

  • June 20, 2025

    Off The Bench: Lakers Sale, NASCAR Antitrust, NIL Appeals

    In this week's Off The Bench, the Lakers fetch a $10 billion valuation as a new owner takes control of the franchise, a federal judge urges litigants in the NASCAR antitrust brawl to settle, and appeals pile up against the NCAA's landmark $2.78 billion athlete compensation settlement.

  • June 20, 2025

    PE Firm Demands FDA Docs For Defense In Deal Challenge

    Private equity firm GTCR BC Holdings LLC is seeking a court order for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to produce over a decade's worth of medical device approval applications, arguing the documents are necessary in its defense against a merger challenge by the federal government.

  • June 20, 2025

    2 Firms Guide $455M BMO-Burgundy Asset Management Deal

    BMO, advised by Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, has unveiled plans to purchase Torys LLP-led Burgundy, a Canadian independent asset management firm, for CA$625 million (about $455 million) and fold it into the bank's wealth management business.

  • June 20, 2025

    Tech-Focused PE Firm Takes Couchbase Private In $1.5B Deal

    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC-advised software company Couchbase on Friday announced plans to go private through an acquisition by technology-focused investment firm Haveli Investments, advised by Latham & Watkins LLP, in a $1.5 billion all-cash deal.

  • June 26, 2025

    Greenberg Traurig Adds Spheres GC To London PE Team

    Greenberg Traurig has recruited a senior lawyer from European private investment firm Spheres, the third new shareholder in its private equity team in London in recent months.

  • June 19, 2025

    Henderson, Fidelity European To Merge To Create £2.1B Trust

    Henderson European Trust, advised by Stephenson Harwood LLP, and Fidelity European Trust said Thursday that they plan to merge in order to create a combined London-listed entity with £2.1 billion ($2.8 billion) of net assets.

  • June 19, 2025

    EU Clears £1.7B KKR, Stonepeak Bid For Property Biz Assura

    The European Commission has approved the planned £1.7 billion ($2.3 billion) acquisition of healthcare property business Assura PLC, co-bidder KKR said on Thursday.

  • June 18, 2025

    Dealmakers Eye More Crypto-Targeted SPAC Mergers

    More special purpose acquisition companies plan to seize upon the revival of cryptocurrencies under a second Trump administration and take cryptocurrency-related ventures public in the coming months, an attorney told a gathering of dealmakers on Wednesday.

  • June 18, 2025

    Google's $32B Wiz Bid Gets DOJ Scrutiny, And Other Rumors

    The U.S. Department of Justice is reviewing Google’s $32 billion Wiz deal, Mitsubishi could pay $8 billion for Aethon Energy's assets, and hedge fund Millennium could fetch a $14 billion valuation with a minority stake sale. Here’s a breakdown of the notable deal rumors from the past week.

  • June 18, 2025

    Judge Skeptical That Assa Abloy Needn't Extend Supply Deal

    A D.C. federal judge suggested Tuesday that Assa Abloy faces an uphill fight resisting efforts by its divestiture buyer to extend a supply agreement inked as part of an asset sale deal resolving a U.S. Department of Justice merger lawsuit.

  • June 18, 2025

    Former Holland & Knight Partner Joins Husch Blackwell

    Husch Blackwell has announced that former Holland & Knight LLP partner Bruce Toppin has joined the Kansas City, Missouri-headquartered law firm as a partner in its financial services and capital markets industry group.

  • June 18, 2025

    Simpson Thacher Steers $1.3B Buyout Of Mortgage Co. Guild

    Growth-oriented mortgage company Guild Holdings Company, advised by Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, on Wednesday said that it has agreed to be bought by a fund managed by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP-led investment firm Bayview Asset Management LLC for $1.3 billion.

  • June 18, 2025

    Squire Patton Adds Polsinelli Trio To New Private Credit Group

    Squire Patton Boggs has added a three-lawyer team from Polsinelli PC to its private credit and direct lending practice group.

  • June 18, 2025

    Covington Advises Draig Therapeutics On $140M Financing

    Welsh biotechnology company Draig Therapeutics Ltd. said Wednesday that it has raised $140 million in its first financing round to help develop drug candidates for severe depression.

  • June 18, 2025

    PE Firm's £570M Buy Of Tech Biz Clears US Antitrust Check

    U.S. private equity firm TA Associates said Wednesday that the U.S. antitrust authorities have not objected to its approximately £570 million ($756 million) cash acquisition of British tech businesses FD Technologies PLC.

  • June 17, 2025

    Protego Takes $200M Crypto Bank Suit To Wash. Court

    Protego Holdings Corp. has re-launched a lawsuit in Washington state court blaming a Texas investment firm for failing to carry out a $200 million investment pledge in its launch of a cryptocurrency bank, which never materialized because rare conditional approval from the U.S. government lapsed over financing concerns.

  • June 17, 2025

    Cancer Diagnostics Firm, Insurer Price 2 IPOs Totaling $902M

    Cancer-diagnostics test provider Caris Life Sciences Inc. and coastal-focused residential insurer Slide Insurance Holdings Inc. will begin trading Wednesday after pricing two initial public offerings that raised a combined $902 million, guided by five law firms.

  • June 17, 2025

    Bunge Gets Last-Needed Approvals For $18B Viterra Deal

    Grain and seed supplier Bunge Ltd. announced that it has cleared the last antitrust regulatory hurdle to close its $18 billion acquisition of global grain trader Viterra Ltd.

  • June 17, 2025

    Burford Blasts Interference Claim In Chicken Price-Fix Case

    The Illinois federal judge handling consolidated price-fixing litigation against the nation's largest chicken producers should throw out the settlement interference counterclaim Tyson lodged alongside its answer in the case because it is no more than a speculation-based "fishing expedition," litigation funder Burford Capital argued.

  • June 17, 2025

    Akin Adds Pair Of M&A, Real Estate Funds Attys In Chicago

    Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP announced Tuesday it has brought on two more Mayer Brown LLP attorneys who are based in Chicago.

Expert Analysis

  • Opinion

    Proposals Against Phillips 66 Threaten Corporate Law

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    Activist investor Elliott Investment Management's latest attempted tactic — initiating a high-stakes proxy contest against Phillips 66 — goes too far and would cause the company to both violate Delaware law and avoid the legal exception to the shareholder proposal process, says J.W. Verret at George Mason University.

  • Parsing The SEC's New Increased Co-Investment Flexibility

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's new co-investment exemptive orders simplify processes and reduce barriers for regulated funds — and rulemaking may evolve further to allow investors access to additional investment opportunities and increase available capital for issuers seeking to raise money from fund complexes, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.

  • Series

    Playing Guitar Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Being a lawyer not only requires logic and hard work, but also belief, emotion, situational awareness and lots of natural energy — playing guitar enhances all of these qualities, increasing my capacity to do my best work, says Kosta Stojilkovic at Wilkinson Stekloff.

  • Crisis Management Lessons From The Parenting Playbook

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    The parenting skills we use to help our kids through challenges — like rehearsing for stressful situations, modeling confidence and taking time to reset our emotions — can also teach us the fundamentals of leading clients through a corporate crisis, say Deborah Solmor at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and Cara Peterman at Alston & Bird.

  • Series

    Adapting To Private Practice: From NY Fed To BigLaw

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    While the move to private practice brings a learning curve, it also brings chances to learn new skills and grow your network, requiring a clear understanding of how your skills can complement and contribute to a firm's existing practice, and where you can add new value, says Meghann Donahue at Covington.

  • Top 3 Litigation Finance Deal-Killers, And How To Avoid Them

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    Like all transactions, litigation finance deals can sometimes collapse, but understanding the most common reasons for failure, including a lack of trust or a misunderstanding of deal terms, can help both parties avoid problems, say Rebecca Berrebi at Avenue 33 and Boris Ziser at Schulte Roth.

  • How Attys Can Use A Therapy Model To Help Triggered Clients

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    Attorneys can lean on key principles from a psychotherapeutic paradigm known as the "Internal Family Systems" model to help manage triggered clients and get settlement negotiations back on track, says Jennifer Gibbs at Zelle.

  • A Tale Of Two Admins: Parsing 1st Half Of SEC's FY 2025

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    The first half of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's fiscal year 2025, which ended March 31, was unusually eventful, marked by a flurry of enforcement actions in the last three months of former Chair Gary Gensler's tenure and a prompt pivot after Inauguration Day, say attorneys at Jones Day.

  • What Bank Regulator Consolidation Would Mean For Industry

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    Speculation over the Trump administration’s potential plans to consolidate financial service regulators is intensifying uncertainty, but no matter the outcome for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the industry should expect continued policy changes, say attorneys at Foley & Lardner.

  • 3 Steps For In-House Counsel To Assess Litigation Claims

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    Before a potential economic downturn, in-house attorneys should investigate whether their company is sitting on hidden litigation claims that could unlock large recoveries to help the business withstand tough times, says Will Burgess at Hilgers Graben.

  • Series

    Teaching College Students Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Serving as an adjunct college professor has taught me the importance of building rapport, communicating effectively, and persuading individuals to critically analyze the difference between what they think and what they know — principles that have helped to improve my practice of law, says Sheria Clarke at Nelson Mullins.

  • Series

    Adapting To Private Practice: From DOJ Enviro To Mid-Law

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    Practitioners leaving a longtime government role for private practice — as when I departed the U.S. Department of Justice’s environmental enforcement division — should prioritize finding a firm that shares their principles, values their experience and will invest in their transition, says John Cruden at Beveridge & Diamond.

  • SEC Update May Ease Accredited Investor Status Verification

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently opened a new avenue to verifying accredited investor status, which could encourage more private fund sponsors and other issuers to engage in a general solicitation with less fear that they will lose the offering's exemption from registration under the Securities Act, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.

  • Legal Ethics Considerations For Law Firm Pro Bono Deals

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    If a law firm enters into a pro bono deal with the Trump administration in exchange for avoiding or removing an executive order, it has an ethical obligation to create a written settlement agreement with specific terms, which would mitigate some potential conflict of interest problems, says Andrew Altschul at Buchanan Angeli.

  • Series

    Playing Football Made Me A Better Lawyer

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    While my football career ended over 15 years ago, the lessons the sport taught me about grit, accountability and resilience have stayed with me and will continue to help me succeed as an attorney, says Bert McBride at Trenam.

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