Simpson Thacher acted for Lafayette Square USA, Inc., a business development company, in its private placement of $65 million aggregate principal amount of 7.00% Senior Notes due August 19, 2030.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Wiley Rein LLP, and Morrison Foerster are acting as legal counsel to Nexstar Media Group, Inc. in regard to its agreement to acquire all outstanding shares of TEGNA for $22.00 per share in a cash transaction valued at $6.2 billion, inclusive of TEGNA’s net debt and estimated transaction fees and expenses.

Law schools including the University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, and Yale law schools are augmenting curricula to include training for their students to understand the AI tools’ limitations and to check their work.

Husch Blackwell partner and former chair Catherine Hanaway has been appointed to serve as the next attorney general of Missouri.

Sullivan & Cromwell represented FirstEnergy Corp. in winning an appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit which vacated the certification of a class of a multiyear class of FirstEnergy Corp. investors seeking extensive damages after FirstEnergy’s stock price fell in the aftermath of reports of alleged public corruption in Ohio state…

Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz appoints two shareholders to new leadership positions.

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP served as legal counsel to Digi International Inc. in the acquisition of Jolt Software, Inc. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati LLP provided legal counsel to Jolt.

Gibson Dunn represented affiliated lenders and noteholders of a special situations fund in the comprehensive recapitalization of Mavenir Systems, Inc., a cloud-native network infrastructure provider.

Dentons represented DRI, the EU renewables arm of DTEK, in a €60 million loan from UniCredit and Garanti BBVA for the construction and operation of a 126MWp solar park in Vacaresti, Romania.

The New York Times reports that Kirkland and Paul Weiss are representing the Commerce Department for free, presumably as part of their pro bono payola deals.