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Three biotech outfits just brought in fresh legal chiefs as venture capital money starts flowing back into the sector after getting wrecked for two years straight. Sudo Biosciences grabbed Paul Bavier from HilleVax to be their first-ever chief legal officer, PepGen made Joseph Vittiglio the top...

Scottish outfit Brodies just scooped up Leeds-based Barton Legal to beef up their construction practice and plant a flag outside London for the first time. Bill Barton brings his entire eight-person crew with him after running the shop since 2007, and the guy has been grinding in construction...

Fastcase is going after Canadian AI startup Alexi for allegedly turning a limited-use licensing deal into a full competitor platform using their case law database. The lawsuit dropped in Washington, DC claims the Toronto outfit violated the 2021 agreement by building their legal research tool...

Latham & Watkins just poached four private equity heavyweights from Freshfields in Germany, and the group brings some serious dealmaking firepower with them. Markus Paul used to run Freshfields' continental Europe operation before jumping ship along with veteran partner Wessel Heukamp, rising...

L'Oréal just doubled down on its Galderma investment by grabbing another 10 percent from the EQT-led consortium that also had Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and Auba Investment holding stakes. Bär & Karrer repped the French beauty giant while Homburger backed EQT, and Niederer Kraft Frey jumped...

King & Wood Mallesons is breaking up after the Chinese and Australian partnerships decided to pull the plug on their 14-year marriage that started back when everybody thought merging across continents was genius. The Australian side will rebrand as Mallesons and operate independently, while the...

Limpopo held a major funeral for 31-year-old Constable Tlhonolofatso Fredens Machete after her boyfriend, Sergeant Ngoveni Matimba Gift, shot her multiple times inside Ritavi Police Station before turning the gun on himself. The whole thing went down at the Community Service Centre, where...

The SABC's New York crew just picked up a gold medal at the UN Correspondents Awards for an interview they did with the top humanitarian guy at the United Nations. Sherwin Bryce-Pease and Aaron Berbrick got recognized for their September sit-down with Tom Fletcher, where he talked about aid...

Minister Buti Manamela just dropped another deregistration notice on Damelin, City Varsity, and ICESA City Campus after the Educor-owned schools kept missing deadlines for their annual reports and financial paperwork. The three private colleges are getting threatened with shutdown barely nine...

Officials are scrambling to stop Thabos Dam from completely eating it after weeks of nonstop rainfall pushed the wall to its breaking point near Bronkhorstspruit. Emergency crews are cutting drainage channels around the embankment to relieve pressure, and they have already moved people out of...

The Madlanga Commission dropped some absolutely horrifying footage showing EMPD officers torturing Emmanuel Mbense until he died, then messing with the crime scene to hide what went down. The videos reveal cops suffocating the 51-year-old dad from Brakpan with plastic bags while he begged for...

Julius Malema booted AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo out of the EFF after the monarch took a trip to Israel and met with government officials there. The party leader went off during a press conference, saying anybody who buddies up with Israel while Gaza is getting wrecked cannot represent...

A massive truck wreck near Van Reenen Pass on the N3 westbound shut down lanes and left holiday travelers stuck for hours as recovery crews tried to clear the scene. The heavy vehicle went off the road before Key Ridge Truck Stop, and the backup stretched for kilometers with some drivers waiting...

South African prosecutors just froze over R12 million in stuff belonging to four alleged zama-zama kingpins after the Pretoria High Court signed off on the order. Chimene Mlambo got hit the hardest with 10 properties and 19 vehicles locked down, while Elias Christopher Ngobeni, Nason Ngobeni...

After years of delays, South African serial killer Hlabirwa Rassie Nkuna will finally stand trial for murdering Hillary Gardee and Nonkululeko Nkosi back in 2022. The 36-year-old already got slapped with two life sentences for killing his girlfriend and her cop sister, and he's facing a dozen...

Ekurhuleni dropped the hammer on HR chief Linda Gxasheka, putting her on immediate leave after some wild stuff came out at the Madlanga Commission hearings. Basically, she got accused of dragging her feet when it came to disciplining EMPD Deputy Chief Julius Mkhwanazi, even after an official...

South African authorities dropped a massive road safety blitz to combat drunk driving and speeding while everyone hits the highways for holiday travel. Transport Minister Barbara Creecy launched the latest phase at Maubane toll plaza on the N1, and cops are setting up checkpoints everywhere to...

A South African court convicted a farm owner and seven others for beating two men to death back in 2020 after accusing them of cattle theft near Mkhondo. Werner Potgieter and his stepson, Cornelius Greyling, got nailed along with six workers for killing Sifiso Thwala and Musa Nene, who were just...

Leaders from the Afrikaner town of Orania flew to Washington and met with Trump-adjacent Republicans to pitch autonomy and ask for investment cash instead of refugee deals. Joost Strydom and his crew talked up their volkstaat dream while trying to score funding for housing and infrastructure...

A South African judge shut down prosecutors trying to appeal the acquittal of Nigerian preacher Timothy Omotoso and two church workers after a trial that lasted years on trafficking and sexual assault charges. Judge Irma Schoeman said the state completely botched its case by failing to properly...