The international law firm of McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP (MLA) and the California-based law firm of Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP (Luce Forward) have set a target merger date of March 1, 2012, following a recent vote by the firms’ partners (more…)

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Corporate lawyers Kyle Guse and Amar Murugan, who represent a number of innovative companies in the life sciences and technology sectors, joined Baker Botts L.L.P. today as partners in the firm’s Palo Alto office (more…)

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Holland & Knight is pleased to announce that Cameron G. Stout has joined the firm’s West Coast Litigation Group as a partner (more…)

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Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that it has advised North America Sekisui House, LLC (“NASH”), the wholly-owned subsidiary of Sekisui House, Ltd – Japan’s largest homebuilder and a leading diversified developer, in its acquisition of the largest operating portfolio of residential master-planned communities in the United States (more…)

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Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Kevin Ehrhart has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the Finance Department (more…)

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Fenwick & West LLP, a leading technology and life sciences law firm, is pleased to announce that Scott Joachim has joined the firm as a partner in its Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions Groups (more…)

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DLA Piper has secured a preliminary injunction on behalf of its client, Chip Connect, a leader in the design, manufacturing, assembly and testing of printed circuit boards, against defendants, Coy Christmas, Calibur11 LLC, EinsteinModz LLC and BGRMods LLC (more…)

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Marc Fernandez has joined the San Francisco office of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP (DWT) as an associate in the firm’s employment and labor group (more…)

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Shearman & Sterling represented T-System, Inc., a portfolio company of Francisco Partners, in its acquisition of Practice Management Associates, LLC. Terms of the deal were not disclosed (more…)

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented GI Partners, a leading mid-market private equity firm, in its equity investment in Waypoint Real Estate Group, the nation’s leading acquirer of distressed, single-family properties (more…)

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Global legal practice Squire Sanders is expanding its corporate law presence in Northern California with the addition of lawyers Matteo Daste and Thomas E. Gaynor (more…)

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Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. has announced a significant expansion of the firm’s San Diego office with the addition of Raj Tanden, Howard N. Wisnia, and James P. Conley (more…)

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