Davis Polk advised J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as sole book-running manager of a $70 million SEC-registered offering of 17,500,000 shares of common stock of Dynavax Technologies Corporation (more…)

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O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented Alliance Health Networks, a leading social networking company serving consumers and the healthcare industry, in its acquisition of Medify, a provider of data-driven treatment information (more…)

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Kelley Drye & Warren LLP is pleased to announce that Loryn Dunn Arkow, a real estate transactional attorney, has joined the firm as a partner, resident in the Los Angeles office.  She was formerly a partner at Cox, Castle & Nicholson in Los Angeles (more…)

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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has enhanced its technology practice with the addition of two leading lawyers principally serving the technology and consumer electronics industries. Paul C. Lin and Kevin G. McBride are joining the Los Angeles office of the firm as partners in the corporate and IP litigation practices, respectively (more…)

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The Firm represented Vista Equity Partners in raising $3.5 billion for Vista Equity Partners Fund IV, L.P. Vista was able to significantly expand its investor base and exceeded the amount it was targeting by $1 billion (more…)

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The global law firm Jones Day has announced that four attorneys have joined its Business Restructuring & Reorganization (BRR) practice. in California. The group were all formerly practicing at Dewey & LeBoeuf (more…)

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The law firm of Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP is pleased to announce that Ted Cominos, a private equity lawyer who focuses on emerging markets, is joining the firm as a partner (more…)

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Alston & Bird today announced that it is continuing the expansion of its corporate practice in California with the addition of Ted Hollifield as a partner in the firm’s Silicon Valley office. Mr. Hollifield has practiced for 15 years in Silicon Valley, and he was recently recognized as one of the leading attorneys in the emerging growth arena (more…)

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Hogan Lovells announced today that it has further expanded its presence in Silicon Valley with the addition of insurance litigator Vanessa Wells as a partner in the Litigation, Arbitration and Employment practice (more…)

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Hogan Lovells announced today that Dean Hansell has joined its Los Angeles office as a partner in the Litigation, Arbitration and Employment practice, further building the practice on the West Coast (more…)

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Michael J. Lotito, a nationally-recognized labor and employment attorney and former Jackson Lewis partner, has joined Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Littler), the nation’s largest employment and labor law firm representing management, as a shareholder in its San Francisco office (more…)

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Shearman & Sterling is advising Symphony Technology Group in its acquisition of Source Healthcare Analytics from Wolters Kluwer N.V. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed (more…)

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