On June 16, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”), including its National Security Division (“NSD”) and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas, announced that they would not prosecute White Deer Management LLC (“White Deer”), a Texas‑based private equity firm, in connection with sanctions and export control violations committed by Unicat Catalyst Technologies LLC (“Unicat”), a portfolio company it had acquired in 2020. This declination marks the first application of the DOJ’s M&A Safe Harbor policy, which encourages acquiring companies to voluntarily self‑disclose misconduct identified post‑acquisition. READ MORE