Emma Maconick, an expert in complex intellectual property licensing and technology transactions, has joined King & Spalding’s Silicon Valley office as a partner in the firm’s corporate group (more…)
Fox Rothschild LLP is pleased to announce that Lena N. Bacani has joined the firm as counsel in the Los Angeles office (more…)
Pillsbury advised Evolution Robotics in its $74 million acquisition by iRobot Corp. The Pasadena-based Evolution Robotics makes the Mint automatic floor cleaner (more…)
Alston & Bird LLP today announced the addition of veteran environmental litigator, Mark Johnson, to its Los Angeles office, joining the firm’s already highly regarded Environmental & Land Development Practice Group. Johnson brings with him over 30 years of experience focusing on environmental matters, including CERCLA, petroleum and hazardous waste contamination, toxic torts, air quality, public water supplies, Proposition 65, CEQA and the California Coastal Act (more…)
Simpson Thacher represented the underwriters, led by Barclays Capital Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, in connection with the registered public offering of $400 million principal amount of 3.200% Senior Notes due 2022 of Agilent Technologies, Inc (more…)
Jason A. Weiss has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s Labor and Employment practice group, based in the firm’s Orange County office. Weiss joins from Allen Matkins in Orange County (more…)
Jackson Lewis LLP, one of the country’s largest and fastest-growing workplace law firms, is pleased to announce Cepideh Roufougar has joined the firm’s San Francisco office as Partner. Prior to her arrival at Jackson Lewis, Ms. Roufougar served as an Assistant City Attorney for the City of Hayward in Hayward, California (more…)
O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented China-based BGI-Shenzhen, a leading international genomics company, in entering into a definitive merger agreement with Complete Genomics, Inc. The transaction is valued at approximately US$117.6 million (more…)
Hogan Lovells announced today that Edward Kwok, Jennifer Lantz, Steve Levitan, Christian Mammen, and Clark Stone have joined as partners in the Intellectual Property (IP) practice. Kwok, Lantz, Levitan, and Stone arrive from Haynes and Boone LLP, and will be based in the Silicon Valley office, while Mammen joins from a private practice and will be based in San Francisco (more…)
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery LLP today announced the appointment of Mashhood Rassam as partner in its Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group, based in the Firm’s Silicon Valley office. Mr. Rassam will add to a growing list of talented, senior litigators in McDermott’s Silicon Valley office at a time when competitor-on-competitor litigation in the tech industry reaches an all-time high (more…)
O’Melveny & Myers LLP announced today that Jorge deNeve is rejoining the Firm from Aletheia Research & Management, Inc., where he served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel. DeNeve will reside in O’Melveny’s Los Angeles office as counsel and will be a member of the White Collar Defense and Corporate Investigations Practice (more…)
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton announced today the addition of Counsel Arriènne Lezak (Angel) to its internationally-recognized Intellectual Property Department on the Electronics and Software Team. She is joining Kilpatrick Townsend’s Silicon Valley office (more…)
