Estate planning, trust and probate administration attorney Laura M. Lamb will join Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek as Of Counsel effective January 1, 2012 (more…)
Davis Polk advised Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as joint book-running managers for the $200 million public offering by Netflix, Inc. of its common stock (more…)
O’Melveny & Myers LLP announced today that Mark Peterson will rejoin the Firm as a partner in the Mergers and Acquisitions Practice within the Transactions Department. He will be based in O’Melveny’s Newport Beach office (more…)
Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Gregory M. Bordo has joined the Firm as a partner in the Commercial Litigation group. Mr. Bordo is an experienced trial lawyer who has built his practice over the past 20 years in the areas of business, real estate and trust & estates litigation, and education law. He is based in the Firm’s Los Angeles office (more…)
The global law firm Jones Day has announced that Maria Sendra has joined the Firm as a partner in the Private Equity Practice, resident in the Firm’s San Diego Office. Ms. Sendra comes to Jones Day from the San Diego office of Baker & McKenzie, where she was a partner and co-chair of the firm’s North America Life Sciences M&A subcommittee (more…)
This afternoon, Judge Raymond A. Jackson, US District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, issued an injunction against Verizon Communications ordering the company to “cease and desist” from the continued, unlawful use of intellectual property belonging to San Jose-based ActiveVideo Networks (AVN). The injunction follows $139.1 million in damages awarded to AVN earlier this year, when a jury found Verizon infringed on four patents for technology relating to interactive television services, such as video on demand used by FiOS TV (more…)
Pfizer Inc. and Excaliard Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Pfizer will acquire Excaliard, a privately owned biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel drugs for the treatment of skin fibrosis, more commonly referred to as skin scarring. The acquisition is expected to close before the end of the year (more…)
A team of Pillsbury lawyers led by San Francisco Tax partners Jeffrey M. Vesely and Kerne H. O. Matsubara helped the Archdiocese of San Francisco prevail in a high-profile, $22 million tax dispute with the City and County of San Francisco reaffirming that internal transfers of property between affiliated corporations are exempt from documentary transfer taxes. The office of San Francisco’s Assessor-Recorder sought to collect millions in documentary transfer taxes from the Archdiocese following the Catholic Church’s internal reorganization of more than 200 parish and school properties, setting off a dispute drawing attention from city halls and other religious denominations nationwide (more…)
The San Francisco office of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP (DWT) welcomes Mark Gabel as an associate in the firm’s employment and labor group (more…)
Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Christine A. Williams has joined the firm as Of Counsel in the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation practice. She joins the firm in Los Angeles from Northrop Grumman Corporation, where she previously served as Senior Counsel (more…)
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm is representing Fitness International, LLC, an affiliate of LA Fitness International, LLC, an owner of fitness clubs, in the proposed acquisition of assets relating to 171 Bally Total Fitness clubs. The transaction remains subject to various closing conditions (more…)
Cooley LLP announced today that it advised client MLIM, LLC (owned and controlled by Papa Doug Manchester) in the purchase of San Diego’s daily newspaper, the San Diego Union-Tribune (more…)
