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Alston & Bird advised GoldState Music, a leading music rights investment platform, on raising $500 million in strategic capital, including a structured capital facility co-led by private equity firms Northleaf Capital Partners and Ares Management. Based in Florida, GoldState Music invests in music rights, emerging music technology, and enterprises in need of growth and expansion capital. This transaction underscores the ability of the Alston & Bird’s Investment Funds Group to provide proactive, holistic, and cutting-edge investment management expertise, ensuring clients like GoldState Music are well positioned in the ever-evolving marketplace.

Global Arbitration Review has recognized Alston & Bird in this year’s “GAR 100,” an annual guide to the top international arbitration practices at law firms around the world.

Alston & Bird’s Corporate & Finance Group continues to expand its market-leading private equity and private credit practices by adding partner Bijal Vira in New York.

Alston & Bird represented T-Mobile and Ericsson against Plaintiff General Access, who sought $253M for alleged infringement of two patents directed to base station equipment in T-Mobile’s network. On April 11, an Eastern District of Texas jury issued a complete defense verdict finding no infringement of either patent and awarding no damages.

Alston & Bird has once again been named a “Top-Performing Lobbying Firm” by Bloomberg Government. Based on key revenue metrics, the tenth annual list of leading lobbyists highlights those firms that “set the standard in 2024.” 

Alston & Bird represented FB Financial Corporation, the Tennessee-headquartered parent company of FirstBank, in its $381 million acquisition of Alabama-headquartered Southern States Bancshares Inc., the parent company of Southern States Bank.

Alston & Bird has been honored among the top 40 of Fortune magazine’s annual survey of America’s “100 Best Companies to Work For,” the only law firm that has earned this national recognition for 26 consecutive years. 

Alston & Bird represented T2S Solutions, a founder-led provider of advanced technologies that support U.S. defense, intelligence, and national security missions, on its acquisition of Blue Marble Communications, a leading provider of space-qualified communications and computing technologies. Headquartered in Belcamp, Maryland, T2S Solutions is a portfolio company of Madison Dearborn Partners.

Alston & Bird is pleased to announce that Stuart Rogers and Jeremy Silverman, partners in the firm’s Corporate & Business Transactions Group, have been recognized by MergerLinks in its annual list of leading lawyers who have advised on the most valuable M&A deals in North America.

As states’ unclaimed property and escheat laws proliferate and continue to evolve, Alston & Bird has developed AlstonUP, a comprehensive legislation-tracking website application to inform users about each new state-level proposal.

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