DLA Piper today announced that S. Andrew Pharies has joined the firm as a partner in the Trusts and Estates group of the San Diego office. Pharies is joined by associate Michelle C. Glasser. Pharies and Glasser both move to DLA Piper from Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP, where Pharies was the head of the firm’s Private Client Group (more…)
The international law firm of Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP is pleased to announce that Barry Leigh Weissman has joined the firm as a partner in its Insurance and Reinsurance Department. Weissman will base his practice in the firm’s office in Los Angeles (more…)
Winston & Strawn LLP announced today that it has expanded its global intellectual property litigation group and regional capabilities in two major metropolitan markets with the addition of Michael J. Scheer as a partner in its New York and Los Angeles offices. He joins the firm from Dickstein Shapiro LLP (more…)
The global law firm Jones Day today has announced that Pat Swan has joined the firm as a partner in the Trial Practice, resident in the firm’s San Diego Office. Mr. Swan comes to Jones Day from Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps, where he was the partner-in-charge of the San Diego office and head of the firm’s white collar criminal defense practice group (more…)
In a first-of-its-kind transaction, a San Francisco and Washington, D.C., team recently advised San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) in its $285 million investment in the Rim Rock wind power project in northern Montana. This is the first time that a California regulated utility has invested in a renewable energy project in order to use the tax benefits of ownership to reduce the price it pays for energy (more…)
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton announced today the addition of attorney William Lambert to its internationally-recognized Intellectual Property Department. Dr. Lambert joins Kilpatrick Townsend’s Silicon Valley office as Counsel on the Health and Life Sciences and Electronics and Software Teams (more…)
Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Ronald K. Sittler has joined the Firm as a partner in the Corporate Litigation group (more…)
Orrick advised Recurrent Energy in its sale of four photovoltaic (PV) facilities serving the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) to Google and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P (KKR). This is Google’s first investment in the U.S. in utility-scale solar photovoltaic and KKR’s first renewable investment in the U.S (more…)
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that Kevin Poloncarz has joined the Environmental and Energy practice in San Francisco as partner. Mr. Poloncarz, an air quality and climate change expert, joins from Bingham McCutchen LLP, where he was co-chair of the Climate Change practice (more…)
Shearman & Sterling represented Microsemi Corporation in its acquisition of the telecom clock generation, synchronization, packet timing and synthesis business from Maxim Integrated Products, Inc (more…)
Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Vera M. Elson is joining the firm’s Palo Alto office as a partner in the intellectual property litigation practice. Ms. Elson focuses her practice on intellectual property litigation and counseling clients in the technology arena, including a number of Silicon Valley’s leading technology companies (more…)
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP (MLA) is pleased to welcome Stephen M. Nichols to MLA’s Litigation practice. Nichols will be located in the firm’s Los Angeles office where he will focus on complex product liability and toxic tort lawsuits (more…)
