Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, represented the City of Rialto in securing two settlements worth $4.7 million in cash payments (plus obtaining withdrawal of challenges to an existing additional settlement for $4 million) as well as a binding commitment to clean up contamination from the B.F. Goodrich Superfund Site in San Bernardino County (more…)

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O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented Zenprise, a leading innovator in mobile device management, in its definitive agreement to be acquired by Citrix. Subject to closing conditions including regulatory approval, the transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2013 (more…)

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Davis Polk is advising BBAM Limited Partnership in connection with Onex Corporation’s acquisition of a 50% stake in BBAM for $165 million. Onex and BBAM have also committed to invest $25 million in the aggregate in newly issued shares of FLY Leasing Limited, a leading global lessor of commercial jet aircraft managed by BBAM (more…)

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International law firm Dorsey & Whitney announced today that Scott Smith, M.D., J.D. has joined the Patent and Life Sciences practice groups in the Firm’s Palo Alto office as a Partner. Mr. Smith brings twelve years of experience as a patent attorney focused on the medical device industry (more…)

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O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented Alta Partners, a leading venture capital firm in life sciences, as lead investor in Zafgen, Inc.’s US$21 million Series D equity financing. Zafgen, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to addressing the needs of severely obese patients (more…)

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Shearman & Sterling represented the initial purchasers led by Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC in connection with Prospect Medical Holdings, Inc.’s offering of $100 million of its 8.375% Senior Secured Notes due 2019. The Notes are secured by mortgages on seven hospitals in California and Texas, as well as substantially all of the other assets of Prospect and its subsidiaries (more…)

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Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP (JMBM) is pleased to announce the addition of Richard Whitlow, formerly of Jones Day, as Of Counsel in the Firm’s Patent Litigation Group (more…)

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented St. Joseph Heritage Healthcare (“Heritage”) in the purchase of substantially all of the assets of Mission Internal Medical Group, Inc., a California professional medical corporation (“MIMG”), which owns and operates a comprehensive, multi-specialty medical practice and conducts such practice in several office locations in southern Orange County, California (more…)

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented The TCW Group (TCW), a prominent international asset management firm with approximately $135 billion in assets under management, in a joint venture with global investment manager Scoggin Capital Management to manage distressed and event-driven alternative investment strategies (more…)

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