CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 4 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on March 3, 2025: * * * Breakfast of champions: MIT hosts top young scientists At an MIT-led event at AJAS/AAAS, researchers connect with MIT faculty, Nobel laureates, and industry leaders to share their work, gain mentorship, and explore future careers in science. By Jessica Chomik-Morales, School of Science On Feb. 14, some of the nation's most talented high school researchers convened  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 4 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Ropes and Gray, a law firm, issued the following news: * * * Dan Stanco Discusses Back Leverage Financing for Real Estate Transactions in Real Estate Capital Europe Back leverage has historically been a common financing feature in U.S. commercial real estate transactions, but in recent years it has become a more prevalent solution in the European landscape. In an article from Real Estate Capital Europe, real estate partner Dan Stanco   more

BURLINGTON, Massachusetts, March 4 [Category: BizConsulting] -- DNV, a provider of classification, technical assurance, software and independent expert advisory services, posted the following news: * * * DNV rules 2025 - Hearing period now open DNV has submitted its class rules and standards for industry hearing, which are open for comments from 1 March to 12 April. This year, 78 documents are included, with publication planned for 1 July 2025. This news summarizes the main proposals and expl  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 4 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Ropes and Gray, a law firm, issued the following news: * * * Former U.S. Attorney Joshua Levy Rejoins Ropes & Gray, Enhancing Its Renowned Litigation & Enforcement Practice Ropes & Gray announced today that former United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Joshua Levy will rejoin the firm on March 31 as a partner, expanding the capabilities of the firm's award-winning litigation & enforcement practice with his impressive  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 4 [Category: BizEnergy] -- G.E. Vernova, an energy company, posted the following news release: * * * GE Vernova and AWS expand collaboration to address accelerating global energy demand through strategic framework agreement CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (March 4, 2025) - GE Vernova Inc. (NYSE: GEV) and Amazon Web Services, Inc (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the signing of a strategic framework agreement (SFA) aimed at supporting AWS's dat  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 4 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Goodwin, a law firm, issued the following news release: * * * Goodwin advises Orange Capital Partners ("OCP") in connection with the acquisition of 89.9% of the corporate structure holding a German real estate portfolio valued at EUR422,500,000 Goodwin's Real Estate Industry group has advised OCP in connection with the acquisition of 89.9% of the corporate structure holding German based Adler Group's "Cosmopolitan" real estate portfol  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 4 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Goodwin, a law firm, issued the following news release: * * * Goodwin Advises TA Associates on Joint Investment with Novo Holdings in Biocomposites The Private Equity team advised TA Associates ("TA") on its joint investment with Novo Holdings in Biocomposites, an international medical devices company that engineers, manufactures and markets leading products for use in infection management in bone and soft tissue. As part of the trans  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 4 -- Gov. Maura Healey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * Healey-Driscoll Administration Awards Nearly $1 Million to 135 Schools to Support Career and College Planning for Massachusetts Students Boston -- The Healey-Driscoll Administration announced today that it is awarding $914,385 in state funding to 135 schools in 49 districts across Massachusetts to help them adopt the My Career and Academic Plan (MyCAP), in addition to technical assis  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 4 -- Liberty Mutual Insurance Group issued the following news release: * * * Liberty Mutual Insurance Agrees to Sell Thailand and Vietnam Operations to Chubb Deal reflects Liberty Mutual's conviction to its focused Asia Pacific strategy BOSTON (March 2, 2025) - Liberty Mutual Insurance has agreed to sell its operations in Thailand and Vietnam to Chubb Limited. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Thailand is expected to close by the second quarter of 2025 a  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 5 -- Liberty Mutual Insurance Group issued the following news release: * * * Liberty Mutual Insurance to Adopt Single-Brand Sales and Marketing Strategy for All Personal Lines Products in 2026 Company to Sunset Safeco Insurance Brand; No Impact on Agents or Customers BOSTON (March 4, 2025) - Liberty Mutual Insurance, the sixth-largest personal insurance provider in the US, will market and sell all of its personal lines products solely under the Liberty Mutual bra  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 4 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Markus Buehler receives 2025 Washington Award Materials scientist is honored for his academic leadership and innovative research that bridge engineering and nature. By Stephanie Martinovich, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering MIT Professor Markus J. Buehler has been named the recipient of the 2025 Washington Award, one of the nation's oldest and most esteemed engine  more

SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts, March 5 -- Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. issued the following news release on March 4, 2025: * * * MassMutual reports strong 2024 financial results SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - MassMutual today reported strong financial results/1 for 2024, maintaining its position as a leading provider of protection, accumulation, and lifetime income solutions, significantly growing its wealth management business, and making meaningful progress on its long-term strategy. Financi  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 5 -- Mintz, a law firm, issued the following news release: * * * Mintz Attorneys Shortlisted for 2025 Managing Intellectual Property Americas Awards Michael Renaud, Chair of Mintz's Intellectual Property Division, and Member Terri Shieh-Newton have been named finalists in Managing IP's Americas Awards 2025. The program is the most comprehensive and widely respected IP law firm awards event in the legal industry and covers several IP practice areas and more than 50  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 5 (TNSres) -- Mintz, a law firm, issued the following news release: * * * Mintz Ranked Among Most Active and Best Performing ITC Firms by Patexia Mintz has once again been recognized as one of the most active and high-performing International Trade Commission (ITC) law firms in the Patexia 2025 ITC Intelligence Report. The report, which provides a comprehensive overview of the best performing and most active ITC Section 337 attorneys and law firms, also named se  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 4 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Designing better ways to deliver drugs Graduate student and MathWorks fellow Louis DeRidder is developing a device to make chemotherapy dosing more accurate for individual patients. By Michaela Jarvis, School of Engineering When Louis DeRidder was 12 years old, he had a medical emergency that nearly cost him his life. The terrifying experience gave him a close-up look at medical c  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 4 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on March 3, 2025: * * * Seeing more in expansion microscopy New methods light up lipid membranes and let researchers see sets of proteins inside cells with high resolution. By Jennifer Michalowski, McGovern Institute for Brain Research In biology, seeing can lead to understanding, and researchers in Professor Edward Boyden's lab at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research are committed   more

BEDFORD, Massachusetts, March 3 [Category: BizConsulting] -- MITRE, a company that advances national security and serve the public interest as an independent adviser, issued the following news release: * * * MITRE Names April Castaneda Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) McLean, Va., and Bedford, Mass., March 3, 2025-- MITRE named April Castaneda Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO). A career veteran of leading people and culture at nationa  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 4 -- Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell issued the following news release: * * * National Consumer Protection Week: AG's Office Issues Consumer Advocacy Report Highlighting Tips And Trends From 2024 BOSTON -- In recognition of National Consumer Protection Week, Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell today released her office's annual Consumer Advocacy Report, highlighting various efforts to protect consumers, reminding consumers of resources availabl  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 4 -- Pegasystems, a software company empowering digital transformation, issued the following news release: * * * Pega Announces Repayment of Convertible Senior Notes at Maturity Strategic Debt Fully Repaid as Pega Achieves Rule of 40 Status (1) Waltham, Mass. - March 3, 2025 - Pegasystems Inc. ("Pega" or "the Company") (NASDAQ: PEGA), The Enterprise Transformation Company, today announced it has repaid in full the outstanding 0.75% Convertible Senior Notes (th  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 4 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on March 3, 2025: * * * Personalized heart implant wins MIT Sloan health care prize Spheric Bio's implants are designed to grow in a channel of the heart to better fit the patient's anatomy and prevent strokes. By Zach Winn, MIT News An MIT startup's personalized heart implants, designed to help prevent strokes, won this year's MIT Sloan Healthcare Innovation Prize (SHIP) on Thursday. S  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 4 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Ropes and Gray, a law firm, issued the following news: * * * Ropes & Gray Advises Ad Hoc Group of Bondholders of Exela Technologies in $1.3 Billion Restructuring Ropes & Gray is representing the ad hoc group of bondholders of Exela Technologies, a global business process automation company, in connection with its chapter 11 cases, captioned In re DocuData Solutions, Inc. pending in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern D  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 4 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Ropes and Gray, a law firm, issued the following news: * * * Ropes & Gray Advises LPL Holdings in $1.25 Billion Registered Debt Offering Ropes & Gray represented LPL Holdings, Inc. in its $1.25 billion registered debt offering. The transaction closed on Feb. 26. LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S. LPL supports nearly 29,000 financial advisors and the wealth mana  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 4 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Ropes and Gray, a law firm, issued the following news: * * * Ropes & Gray Represents Selling Stockholders in $700 Million Block Trade for Life Time Fitness Ropes & Gray advised the selling stockholders, including TPG, Leonard Green & Partners and Partners Group, in a $700 million underwritten block trade for Life Time Group Holdings, Inc. The transaction was announced in a Feb. 28 press release and closed March 3. Life Time (NYSE: L  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 4 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Times Higher Education ranks MIT No. 1 in arts and humanities, business and economics, and social sciences Worldwide honors for 2025 span disciplines across three schools. By Benjamin Daniel, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences The 2025 Times Higher Education World University Ranking has ranked MIT first in three subject categories: Arts and Humanities, Business and Ec  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 5 -- Foley Hoag, a law firm, issued the following news: * * * Two Foley Hoag Attorneys Selected for JD Supra 2025 Readers' Choice Awards Two Foley Hoag attorneys have been recognized in the JD Supra 2025 Readers' Choice Awards, honoring authors who achieved top visibility for their thought leadership in key topics over the past year on the JD Supra platform. * Anthony Mirenda - White-Collar Defense category, for the firm's White Collar Crime & Investigations blo  more