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Latest News in Private Equity

  • July 24, 2024

    Rising Star: Kirkland's Mark Boyagi

    Mark Boyagi is a partner in Kirkland & Ellis LLP's investment funds practice group and leads the firm's equity solutions team, where he has advised on several transactions in global secondaries market volume, including advising Alpine Investors last year on a $3.4 billion single-asset continuation fund transaction, earning him a spot among the fund formation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

  • July 24, 2024

    Fried Frank Hires 5th Ex-Goodwin Partner, This Time In NY

    Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP has hired another Goodwin Procter LLP attorney, who joins the firm in New York to continue her work with asset management and other financial industry clients, the firm announced Tuesday.

  • July 24, 2024

    Wilson Sonsini Leads PE-Backed OneStream's $490M IPO

    Private-equity backed financial software provider OneStream Inc. began trading Wednesday after pricing a $490 million initial public offering above its range, represented by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC and underwriters counsel Latham & Watkins LLP, kicking off a potentially busy week for IPOs.

  • July 24, 2024

    T-Mobile Plugs $4.9B Into JV With KKR To Buy Metronet

    T-Mobile announced Wednesday that it has partnered up with private equity giant KKR to acquire pure-play fiber company Metronet in a joint venture that sees T-Mobile investing roughly $4.9 billion at deal close, in a transaction built by eight law firms.

  • July 24, 2024

    US, British PE Firms Make €2.2B Offer For Cybersecurity Biz

    Cybersecurity firm Exclusive Networks said Wednesday that it has been handed a takeover offer of approximately €2.2 billion ($2.4 billion) from a consortium made up of U.S. private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice and its biggest shareholder, Permira.

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Private Equity

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  • TRANSACTIONS
  • Private equity deals valued at $50MM or more
  • Venture capital investments of $25MM or more
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  • Joint ventures involving private equity firms
  • Hostile takeovers and leveraged buyouts
  • Distressed investment deals
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  • Federal Trade Commission
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  • Litigation
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