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Artificial Intelligence H1 2025 Global Report: Deal trends, fundraising, segment highlights, and market outlook

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Despite uncertainty in global markets, AI remains a strategic priority among business executives, investors, and government, fueling sustained investment in AI infrastructure and dealmaking with AI developers and AI-enabled...more

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The Rise of "Acquihiring" in a Post-Layoff Tech Sector

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As a practicing M&A attorney representing both strategic acquirers and venture-backed targets, I have had a front row seat to the fundamental transformation of Silicon Valley’s exit landscape. The rise of acquihiring...more

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Are Secondaries and Fund of Funds Investments on the Horizon for Venture Capital Fund Managers?

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On July 22, 2025, two new bills – the Developing and Empowering Our Aspiring Leaders Act of 2025 (DEAL Act) and the Improving Capital Allocation for Newcomers Act of 2025 (ICAN Act)1 – advanced out of the US House Financial...more

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U.S. Cybersecurity Sector Recap

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M&A activity in the cybersecurity sector is on pace to exceed 2024 volume by 10% in 2025, with continued consolidation as larger firms acquire niche players to enhance capabilities or expand product offerings. The...more

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A Union of Innovation? The EU Strategy for Startups and Scale-ups

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The European economy is currently under a considerable structural adjustment pressure. Against the backdrop of rapid technological change, diverse geopolitical tensions, an increasing shortage of skilled workers, and global...more

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Big Tech’s Decade of A.I. Shopping - updated 7.18.25

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Does anybody remember Napster? Launched in June 1999, the revolutionary peer-to-peer music sharing platform peaked at 80 million music lovers worldwide. It famously fell from greatness into bankruptcy three years later after...more

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MintzTech Connect: All Things Technology — July 2025

Coworker.ai has recently announced the launch of the world’s first AI “teammate,” an agent that can perform complex work at the level of an experienced colleague. Powered by Organizational Memory (OM1), a proprietary memory...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

RegFi Episode 66: Guiding Fintech Startups from Formation to Funding

RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Sasha Leonhardt are joined by Orrick partner Ellen Ehrenpreis, head of the firm’s US Venture and Bay Area Technology Companies practice. Ellen shares insights on best practices for fintech...more

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Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Showing Renewed Interest in the Defence Industry

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With NATO members recently agreeing to increase defence spending to levels unseen since the Second World War, this is a timely opportunity to take a closer look at a theme we have been hearing a lot about lately – the growing...more

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The PE Briefing: Q2 2025

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The clouds of uncertainty that rapidly formed in early 2025 continue to drift over the private equity landscape in Canada and globally. Tariffs and geopolitics are subduing deal making and investment opportunities,...more

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Investor Insights: An Overview of PitchBook’s H1 2025 VC Tech Survey

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Having done a deep dive into PitchBook’s H1 2025 VC Tech Survey, not to mention living and breathing the state of venture with my clients who are in market for capital, I wanted to share my thoughts about how investors appear...more

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The Financing Environment and Current Trends in Robotics

As we head into the second half of 2025, the prospects for innovation in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) seem limitless. It is difficult to find an industry that hasn’t touted the potential for robotics and AI to...more

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Weekly Blockchain Blog - June 2025 #2

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Crypto Payments Companies Achieve Licenses, Enhance Product Offerings - A U.S. digital asset payments company, MoonPay, recently announced that it has been granted a BitLicense by the New York Department of Financial...more

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Conyers Investment Funds Report | Q1 2025

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This inaugural edition of the Conyers Investment Funds Report presents a variety of updates and insights relevant to the investment funds space in the Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, and Bermuda. The report provides...more

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Data with destiny: European AI M&A heats up as the race for dominance intensifies

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With industries embracing this evolving technology, Europe is determined not to be left behind, and dealmakers are paying close attention - Europe’s artificial intelligence industry is gaining traction but has struggled to...more

Mogin Law LLP

Big Tech’s Decade of A.I. Shopping

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Does anybody remember Napster? Launched in June 1999, the revolutionary peer-to-peer music sharing platform peaked at 80 million music lovers worldwide. It famously fell from greatness into bankruptcy three years later after...more

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The Future of Corporate Venture Capital: Evolving from Strategic Tourist to Long-Term Partner

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For decades, corporate venture capital has occupied an ambiguous place in the innovation ecosystem—somewhere between strategic experimentation and financial opportunism. But as the market matures and disruption becomes the...more

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Will Labour’s policy prescription create a stronger UK life sciences sector?

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The UK government plans to turbocharge the life sciences sector using policy levers to enhance research and development, innovation hubs, and private fundraising. In this piece, Michael Bloch explores how refinements to...more

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SPAC Sponsor Liability and Insurance Solutions

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The SPAC market is finally making a comeback. As we enter a period of the long-awaited SPAC revival, some liability dangers persist. Two common questions that keep being raised by our clients are: How much liability...more

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The State of the Funding Market for AI Companies: A 2024 - 2025 Outlook

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as an influential technology, driving notable investments across various industries in recent years. In 2024, venture capital (VC) funding for AI companies reached record levels,...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

2025 Perspectives in Private Equity: AI & Technology

Technology continued to be an industry of particular focus for private equity (PE) through 2024. Blackstone’s $16 billion acquisition of data center platform Airtrunk was the largest deal of Q3 2024, according to Ernst &...more

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Navigating Financial Services M&A: Observations from Regulatory Due Diligence

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As we move into 2025, anticipation in the financial services industry continues to build for a revitalized mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market. ...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Food Venture Financing News - Weekly Issue No. 215

Food Venture Financing Trends - PepsiCo announced that it plans to acquire Sabra and Obela dip brands from Strauss Group for approximately $244 million. Oishii, an indoor vertical farming startup, raised $16 million in...more

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Treasury Issues Final Regulations Prohibiting Certain US Investment in Chinese Technology Companies

On November 15, 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury published the final rule implementing President Biden’s August 9, 2023 Executive Order on outbound investment, which addresses concerns related to China’s advancement...more

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Navigating Clean Energy Tax Credits in Climate Tech Venture Lending

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Changes to the tax code have made it easier to monetize renewable energy tax credits, attracting interest from emerging growth companies looking to bolster their balance sheets amid the slowdown in venture capital funding....more

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