Tony Toranto has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s Real Estate, Land Use and Environmental practice group, based in the firm’s San Diego office (more…)

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Dewey & LeBoeuf is representing the Los Angeles Dodgers, one of baseball’s best known teams, on its pending US$2 billion acquisition by a consortium comprising basketball star Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson, baseball executive Stan Kasten, movie executive Peter Guber and financial services firm Guggenheim Partners (more…)

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International law firm McDermott Will & Emery LLP today announced the appointment of one of the most highly-regarded Intellectual Property litigators, Fabio Marino, as a partner in its fast-expanding Silicon Valley office (more…)

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The Firm recently represented Allyes Group (“Allyes”), majority owned by Silver Lake Partners, in connection with an agreement for a strategic investment by Vision Knight Capital (more…)

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Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce that John S. Gibson has joined the firm’s Antitrust Group as a partner. Gibson is a skilled antitrust practitioner with extensive experience in all aspects of litigation, including trial and appellate work, as well as merger review and other high-stakes dealings with the federal and state antitrust enforcement agencies (more…)

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Lathrop & Gage has announced that Beth Schroeder, Allison Meshekow Holtzman, Lauren Katunich and Anthony Nguyen have joined the firm as partner, of counsel, of counsel and associate, respectively. All will concentrate their practices in labor and employment and will be located in the firm’s Los Angeles office (more…)

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Covington & Burling LLP is pleased to announce that Clara Shin has joined the firm’s litigation practice as a partner. She will be resident in the firm’s San Francisco office (more…)

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Global law firm Clyde & Co is delighted to announce the arrival of partners Kim West and Bill Lutz, senior counsel Alec Boyd, and associates Preeti Singh and Thomas Cheswick. The team joins Clyde & Co from Tucker Ellis & West LLP (more…)

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Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Wendy M. Lazerson is joining the firm’s Labor, Employment and Immigration practice as a partner in the Palo Alto office (more…)

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Leading law firm Venable LLP announced today that three Real Estate partners – Mitch Evall and Andrew Schmerzler from Weissmann Wolff Bergman Coleman Grodin & Evall LLP (WWBCGE) and Valentin Aguilar II from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP (Manatt) – have joined the firm to spearhead the growth of Venable’s newly established West Coast Real Estate Practice (more…)

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Shearman & Sterling is advising SIGMA3 Integrated Reservoir Solutions Corporation (SIGMA3), a Symphony Technology Group company, on its strategic acquisitions of APEX Petroleum Engineering Inc. (APEXPE),APEXHiPoint LLC., (APEXHP) and HiPoint Reservoir Imaging LLC. (HiPoint). Terms of the deals were not disclosed (more…)

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Shearman & Sterling represented the initial purchasers led by Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC in URS Corporation’s offering of $400 million of its 3.850% Senior Notes due 2017 and $600 million of its 5.000% Senior Notes due 2022 (more…)

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