Environmental attorney Kimberly Bick has joined Irell & Manella LLP’s Newport Beach office as senior counsel. Bick focuses on environmental compliance issues and provides legal advice on allocation of risks in real estate and corporate transactions. In addition, she handles complex litigation matters involving environmental issues (more…)
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP attorneys and their co-counsel obtained summary judgment on August 23 in favor of our client, Abbott Laboratories, in an antitrust case relating to competition involving Abbott’s cholesterol drug TriCor. The court granted Abbott’s motion on all six pending counts and dismissed the case in its entirety on the eve of a September trial date (more…)
Davis Polk is defending LG Electronics in a coordinated MDL federal antitrust proceeding in San Francisco. The cases encompass over 30 nationwide class actions, all alleging a global price-fixing conspiracy in the market for optical disk drives (more…)
Hogan Lovells announced today that it closed approximately $1 billion in project financing on behalf of NextEra Energy Resources subsidiary Genesis Solar for the development of a 250 MW utility-scale solar thermal electric generating facility (more…)
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Confluence Solar, Inc. in its acquisition by GT Advanced Technologies Inc., a supplier of polysilicon production equipment and crystalline growth systems (more…)
O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented PineBridge Investments LLC as collateral manager and Galaxy XI CLO, Ltd. as issuer in the structuring and issuance of approximately US$400 million of notes in a collateralized loan obligation (CLO) transaction that closed on August 18, 2011 (more…)
Jessica “Jessie” L. Mackaness has joined Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP, one of California’s leading litigation law firms, as an associate in the Firm’s San Diego office. Mackaness will join Luce Forward’s Insurance Litigation practice group (more…)
Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP announced today that it assisted the University of San Francisco (USF) in closing a commercial real estate transaction of $36.5 million to purchase the Folger Building built in 1905 at 101 Howard Street in downtown San Francisco. Contrast to the 40- to 50-day timeframe typically allotted to transactions involving historic buildings, Luce Forward’s team of attorneys was successful in expediting the process from term sheet to fully executed purchase/sale documentation in less than two weeks (more…)
A team of capital markets attorneys from McGuireWoods LLP advised CounterPoint Capital Partners LLC on financing matters in connection with its acquisition of the assets of Tomich Brothers Fish Company and Standard Seafood, a deal announced last week by the Los Angeles-based private equity firm (more…)
Today, California Superior Court Judge Marie S. Weiner (San Mateo County) entered a $516.7 million judgment in favor of Asahi Kasei Pharma Corp. in the case Asahi Kasei Pharma Corp. v. Actelion Ltd., et al., bringing to a close the trial in Asahi’s state-court lawsuit against Swiss drug maker Actelion and various of its executives and subsidiaries. Asahi’s trial team was led by Morgan Lewis San Francisco partners Christopher Banks, Rollin Chippey, II, and Benjamin Smith, and associate Tera Heintz. New York partner Alan Neuwirth is responsible for the firm’s long-term relationship with Asahi Kasei (more…)
