Dykema Gossett PLLC announced today the addition of Jason E. Grinnell as Senior Counsel to the firm’s Real Estate practice group in Los Angeles. Prior to joining Dykema, Grinnell was with the firm of Bartko Zankel in San Francisco, California (more…)
Foley announced today that Elizabeth S. Elson has rejoined the firm’s Health Care Industry Team in the Los Angeles office. Elson returns to Foley as of counsel following a tenure as in-house counsel at Amgen, a major international biotechnology company based in California (more…)
Davis Polk advised Arcos Dorados Holdings Inc. in connection with its SEC-registered follow-on public offering of 44,475,958 Class A shares for an aggregate price to the public of approximately US$1 billion, including 4,043,268 shares that the underwriters purchased pursuant to an over-allotment option (more…)
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck is pleased to announce that Rebecca J. Winthrop has joined the Los Angeles office as a shareholder in the firm’s bankruptcy and restructuring group (more…)
Parallel teams of Cooley litigators and business lawyers delivered a favorable outcome last week on behalf of longtime client Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc, which reached a settlement of a jury trial in a dispute with its partner, the international pharmaceutical company Bayer. In a complex set of agreements announced at the mid-point of trial pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (under the caption Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Bayer Corporation, Bayer AG, Bayer Healthcare LLC, and Bayer Schering Pharma AG Case No. C09-2145 EMC (N.D. Cal.)), Onyx obtained a significant stake in a compound at the heart of the dispute as well as other important monetary and non-monetary benefits (more…)
Nixon Peabody advised Calhoun Vision, Inc., in the closing of a $7.3 million round of Series E Preferred Stock financing (more…)
Fenwick & West LLP, a leading technology and life sciences law firm, is pleased to announce that Jake Handy, a highly-regarded life sciences technology transactions attorney, has joined the firm as a partner (more…)
Farella Braun + Martel advised Napa-based The Doctors Company, the country’s largest insurer of physician and surgeon medical professional liability, in its $362 purchase of FPIC Insurance Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: FPIC), a major provider of health care liability insurance in Florida, Texas, Georgia and Arkansas (more…)
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that it has represented Maker Maxity in the signing of definitive agreements with MGM Hospitality, a wholly owned subsidiary of MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM), for the development and operation of a Bellagio hotel, an MGM Grand hotel, and a Skylofts hotel, as part of the landmark Maker Maxity mixed-use development complex in Mumbai, India (more…)
Nagendra (Nick) Setty has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as co-chair of the firm’s 70 attorney IP practice group. He will reside in the firm’s Palo Alto and San Francisco offices. Setty joins from Fish & Richardson, where he founded and was managing principal of its Atlanta office and resided part-time in its Silicon Valley office. Setty follows Stephen S. Korniczky, co-chair of Sheppard Mullin’s IP practice, who joined last year from Paul Hastings, where he was global chair of its IP practice group (more…)
Hanson Bridgett LLP is pleased to announce that Stephen K. Cassidy has joined the firm as a Partner in the Real Estate section. Steve’s practice will focus on land use and real estate law. He will be based in the firm’s San Francisco office (more…)
Today, Judge Raymond A. Jackson of the Eastern District of Virginia awarded supplemental damages, bringing the historic jury verdict obtained by Morgan Lewis on behalf of San Jose-based ActiveVideo Networks (AVN) against Verizon to nearly $140 Million (more…)
