SNR Denton announced today that Robert F. Kramer has joined the firm as a partner in its Intellectual Property and Technology practice. Kramer is a former Howrey LLP patent litigation partner and will be resident in SNR Denton’s Silicon Valley and San Francisco offices (more…)

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Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Sean M. Moran and Michael Joyce have joined the firm as partners in the Los Angeles office. Mr. Moran and Mr. Joyce focus their practices on the use of complex and innovative structures to finance projects in the renewable energy field, as well as in fossil fuel and other infrastructure assets (more…)

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Davis Polk advised Westar Energy, Inc. in connection with an SEC-registered offering of $250 million aggregate principal amount of 4.125% first-mortgage bonds due 2042. The joint book-running managers were Barclays Capital Inc., Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC (more…)

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Hunton & Williams LLP announces the continued expansion of its Los Angeles office with the addition of Ofer Lion as tax counsel. Lion, who represents nonprofits and tax-exempt organizations in tax, transactional, corporate, governance and fiduciary matters, joins the firm from Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp (more…)

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Cooley LLP is pleased to announce it advised the underwriters in an initial public offering of common stock of Proto Labs, Inc. (NYSE: PRLB) (more…)

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Simpson Thacher recently represented the underwriters, led by Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Barclays Capital Inc. and co-managed by Piper Jaffray & Co., Raymond James & Associates, Inc. and Simmons & Company International, in connection with the underwriting of the initial public offering of common stock by Ceres, Inc. (“Ceres”) (more…)

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Morgan Lewis today announced that Collie James—the lead trial lawyer defending Pepsi against a series of Erin Brokovich toxic tort suits brought in California regarding a subsidiary holding—will join the firm as a partner in its Litigation Practice, resident in Irvine (more…)

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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP announced today that prominent white collar litigator David Kettel has joined its Litigation Practice in Los Angeles (more…)

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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP announced today that Allan Abshez and Elizabeth Camacho have joined its Real Estate Practice in Los Angeles (more…)

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Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce that Steven D. Allison has joined the firm’s Orange County office as a partner, where he will be a member of the Litigation Group (more…)

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Morgan Lewis today announced that Susan Resley—a  securities litigator with nearly 20 years of experience, including government service in the Pacific Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)—has joined the firm as a partner in its Litigation practice, resident in San Francisco (more…)

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International law firm McDermott Will & Emery is pleased to announce that Dr. Bhanu K. Sadasivan has joined the Firm as an IP Litigation partner, based in its Silicon Valley office. Additionally, the Firm named Nathan Smith and Dane C. Butzer as counsel in its Intellectual Property Prosecution, Transactions & Strategy Practice Group in its Orange County office (more…)

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