DLA Piper announced today that Franklin D. Kang has joined the Intellectual Property and Technology and Korea practices as a partner in the Los Angeles office (more…)

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O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented Palo Alto Investors and Sofinnova Ventures in their co-investment with New Enterprise Associates in the US$40 million Series A Convertible Preferred Stock financing of Alimera Sciences. The closing of the financing is subject to customary closing conditions (more…)

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The global law firm Jones Day has announced that Neal Stephens and Greg Chin have joined the firm as partners in the Silicon Valley Office (more…)

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Orange County partner, Esther Holm, together with an attorney from another firm, obtained a favorable verdict for our client, a construction company, and its employee (more…)

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Arent Fox announced today that Michael Zweiback, a former federal prosecutor who was chief of the Los Angeles US Attorney’s Cyber & Intellectual Property Crimes Section and deputy chief of the Los Angeles US Attorney’s office Organized Crime and Terrorism Section, has joined the firm in Los Angeles as a partner in the litigation practice (more…)

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King & Spalding has recruited veteran patent litigator William F. Abrams to add first-chair intellectual property litigation experience and boost expansion efforts in its Silicon Valley office, the firm announced today (more…)

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Castle & Cooke Cold Storage, a cold and dry storage and warehousing logistics company that operates 24 facilities totaling 112 million cubic feet located across California, Illinois, Missouri, Georgia and Texas, in its sale to Lineage Logistics, a warehousing and logistics company sponsored by Bay Grove Capital LLC, a principal investment firm (more…)

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Gevo, Inc., a leading renewable chemicals and next-generation biofuels company, in two public offerings with gross proceeds of over $100 million (more…)

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Loeb & Loeb LLP announced today that Allen Z. Sussman has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the Capital Markets and Corporate Practice Groups. He was previously a partner in the Corporate and Securities Practice at Reed Smith LLP in Los Angeles (more…)

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O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented Erick Thohir and Jason Levien in reaching a finalized agreement, announced today, to join Major League Soccer’s (MLS) DC United owner Will Chang as co-owners of the operating rights of the soccer club. Thohir and Levien will serve as managing partners, with Levien additionally serving as the MLS Governor (more…)

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Womble Carlyle announced today that Behrooz Shariati has joined the firm’s Silicon Valley office as a partner in the Intellectual Property Group. Shariati’s patent and copyright litigation practice focuses on software, computer hardware, networking technologies and industry standards (more…)

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Davis Polk advised Ultra Clean Holdings, Inc. in connection with its acquisition of American Integration Technologies LLC for approximately $74 million in cash (excluding working capital adjustments) and the issuance of 4.5 million shares of Ultra Clean’s common stock. Upon the closing of the acquisition on July 3, 2012, American Integration became a subsidiary of Ultra Clean (more…)

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