Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP announced today that Jeffrey A. Finn has joined its Century City office and will head the firm’s West Coast Patent Practice. Finn represents start-up, emerging growth and large corporations in all aspects of intellectual property law, with an emphasis on patent litigation (more…)
DLA Piper today announced that Dharmesh Pandya has joined the firm’s Tax practice as a partner in the Silicon Valley office (more…)
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP announced today that James F. Brelsford will join the firm in February 2013. Mr. Brelsford will become of counsel to the firm’s Intellectual Property group in Palo Alto and will advise clients on complex IP transactions, monetization strategies and litigation, including in cross-border matters, particularly in Asia (more…)
Dykema announces that J. Alexandra Rhim has joined the Firm as a senior counsel in its Bankruptcy Practice Group. She will be based in the Firm’s Los Angeles office (more…)
Loeb & Loeb LLP achieved a significant appellate victory on behalf of clients Showtime Networks Inc. and Darlene Hunt, creator and head writer of the Showtime original television series The Big C, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court’s grant of summary judgment against a woman who alleged that the series infringed her screenplay (more…)
Davis Polk advised Ingram Micro Inc. in connection with a designation of additional commitments under its revolving senior unsecured credit facility in an aggregate principal amount of $190 million, increasing total commitments under the facility to $940 million (more…)
Davis Polk advised Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Barclays Capital Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated as joint book-running managers on a Rule 144A offering by Encore Capital Group, Inc. of $100 million aggregate principal amount of its 3% convertible senior notes due 2017 (more…)
In the largest real estate deal this year, Morrison & Foerster LLP is representing leading residential real estate investment trust Equity Residential (NYSE: EQR) in a joint agreement with AvalonBay Communities to acquire a vast portfolio of U.S. apartment properties owned by Archstone (more…)
The Firm represented underwriters, led by BofA Merrill Lynch and RBS, in a public offering of $350 million principal amount of 4.875% Notes due 2022 of Avnet, Inc (more…)
Davis Polk advised Goldman, Sachs & Co., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC as joint book-running managers and representatives of the underwriters on an SEC-registered public debt offering by Airgas, Inc. of $250 million principal amount of its 2.9% notes due 2022 (more…)
Leading law firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced today the addition of Labor & Employment partner Charles Thompson and senior counsel Nicole Bolson to the firm’s San Francisco office, bolstering the bench strength of the firm’s National Trial Team and robust West Coast presence (more…)
Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP is at it again. The California Daily Journal recently ranked Procopio fourth among all California firms in terms of growth in 2012, with a 27.3% growth rate. And the firm recently earned the ranking as San Diego’s largest law firm, with over 130 attorneys.
Procopio now adds again to that number, announcing the addition of five new attorneys to their Silicon Valley office (more…)
