Don Buder, a highly experienced transaction lawyer in the food, beverage, and restaurant industries, has joined the San Francisco office of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP as a partner (more…)
Cooley LLP announced today that it represented Epocrates, Inc. in its $293 million sale to athenahealth, Inc., a provider of electronic health records systems. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of 2013 (more…)
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP served as legal advisor to SunPower Corp. in the sale of its 579-megawatt Antelope Valley Solar Projects (AVSP), two co-located solar power plants in California’s Kern and Los Angeles counties, to MidAmerican Solar (more…)
Last week, Judge Susan Illston, the Northern District of California federal judge handling the multi-district litigation (“MDL”), In re TFT-LCD Litigation, issued three orders on defendants’ motions for summary judgment that significantly reduced the damages that numerous direct and indirect purchaser plaintiffs can seek in their individual antitrust opt out actions against liquid crystal display (LCD) manufacturers for their role in an alleged flat panel price-fixing cartel operating from 1998 to 2006 (more…)
The global law firm Jones Day has announced that Steve Smith has joined the Firm as a partner in the San Francisco Office where he will be part of Jones Day’s Global Disputes Practice. Mr. Smith arrives from the San Francisco office of O’Melveny & Myers, where he was a partner and chair of the firm’s International Arbitration Practice (more…)
Winston & Strawn LLP today announced Michael Tomasulo has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the intellectual property practice. Mr. Tomasulo’s practice focuses on high stakes intellectual property litigation and counseling for a wide array of technology clients. Mr. Tomasulo practiced with the same group for 17 years, most recently with Jones Day and then Dickstein Shapiro in Los Angeles (more…)
Duane H. Mathiowetz has joined the Schiff Hardin LLP San Francisco office as a partner in the Intellectual Property Group from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in San Francisco (more…)
Erica Wilson, an experienced litigator with a track record of success representing clients in complex patent and other technology-related matters, has joined the expanding IP litigation practice at Davis Wright Tremaine LLC. Wilson joins the firm as a partner in the San Francisco office (more…)
Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, represented salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company, in leasing an approximately 230,000-square-foot office space at One Rincon in San Francisco. This deal immediately follows salesforce.com’s announcement that they will lease the entirety of a 450,000-square-foot highrise planned for 350 Mission Street and expand their presence in 50 Fremont by another 100,000 square feet (more…)
Duane Morris LLP announced today that it has opened an office in Palo Alto, California, with the addition of prominent IP litigatorKarineh Khachatourian, who will serve as managing partner of the new office. Khachatourian joins the firm from K&L Gates LLP. The move allows Duane Morris to provide more efficient and direct service to clients throughout Silicon Valley and enhances its capabilities in California and nationally (more…)
