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Growth Equity: The Child Prodigy of Private Equity and Venture Capital, or an Artifact of Easy Money?

Brian DeChesare

Over the past few decades, growth equity (GE) has gone from an afterthought to a major asset class for huge investment firms. Others would counter that growth equity’s rapid ascent was mostly due to the easy money that persisted between 2008 and 2021. The Top Growth Equity Firms Why Did Growth Equity Get So Popular?

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After the “Partner Run”: The Dewey & LeBoeuf Diaspora

Reynolds Holding

Reform efforts in the legal profession to open up law firms’ rigid governance structure could reduce partner run risk but could also open the profession to a host of new hazards. Of ex-Dewey partners, 80 percent became partners or senior counsel at such firms, and some of those who left Biglaw started their own boutiques.

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Have Your Cake, and Closing Too: Invoking Prevention Doctrine, Delaware Chancery Court Grants Seller’s Request for Specific Performance in COVID-Related M&A Dispute

Cooley M&A

April 30, 2021) is 125 pages long, but she helpfully digests the holding in a single sentence on page 3: “ Chalking up a victory for deal certainty , this post-trial decision resolves all issues in favor of seller and orders the buyers to close on the purchase agreement.”