The Haynes and Boone, LLP Silicon Valley office has grown with the addition of Mr. Yan Zhang as its first corporate partner (more…)
Bayer HealthCare LLC has signed a merger agreement to acquire Schiff Nutrition International, Inc., a leading company offering vitamins and nutritional supplements in the United States and other countries, for approximately $1.2 billion (more…)
The Walt Disney Company has agreed to acquire Lucasfilm Ltd. in a stock and cash transaction valued at $4.05 billion. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions (more…)
Cooley LLP announced today that it is advising OPNET Technologies, Inc. in its pending acquisition by Riverbed Technology. Riverbed entered a definitive agreement to acquire OPNET for $43 per share in cash and stock, which represents an equity value of approximately $1 billion (more…)
Judy O’Brien, a prominent corporate lawyer and one of Silicon Valley’s top dealmakers, is joining King & Spalding as a partner in its Redwood Shores office on November 1 (more…)
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Miro Holdings Inc., a portfolio company of private equity firm Solis Capital Partners and the parent company of Miro Technologies, in its sale to The Boeing Company (more…)
Davis Polk advised Oracle Corporation on its SEC-registered debt offering of $2.5 billion aggregate principal amount of 1.2% notes due 2017 and $2.5 billion aggregate principal amount of 2.5% notes due 2022. Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, RBS Securities Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC were the lead joint book-running managers (more…)
Cooley LLP announced today that it is advising Yelp Inc. in its approximately $50 million acquisition of Qype GmbH, Europe’s largest local reviews site. Qype was acquired to accelerate Yelp’s international expansion, bringing more than two million reviews and 15 million visitors per month across 13 countries. It is Yelp’s first acquisition since going public on March 12, 2012 (more…)
Davis Polk advised Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. as lead joint book-running managers, and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Barclays Capital Inc., UBS Securities LLC and Raymond James & Associates, Inc. as book-running managers, in connection the $302.4 million SEC-registered offering of 4.8 million shares of common stock of Palo Alto Networks, Inc. sold by certain selling stockholders (more…)
Davis Polk advised UBS AG, Stamford Branch, as administrative agent and UBS Securities LLC, Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. and Goldman Sachs Lending Partners LLC, as lead arrangers in connection with a refinancing of Brand Energy and Infrastructure Services, Inc.’s (Brand) existing first-lien and second-lien senior secured credit facilities (more…)
Global law firm Proskauer has announced the further expansion of its Finance Group and global Corporate Department with the addition of Rajani K. Gupta as Senior Counsel in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Ms. Gupta joins the firm from Latham & Watkins, where she worked as a finance lawyer for more than a decade (more…)
Gresham Savage Nolan & Tilden is pleased to announce that prominent land use attorney Ellen Berkowitz has joined the Firm as a Partner and has launched the Firm’s first Los Angeles Office (more…)
