Winston & Strawn LLP today announced that Susan Alker has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the corporate practice. Ms. Alker practiced for 10 years at O’Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles and after that at Reed Smith. Her practice focuses on representing major banks, financial institutions, private equity and hedge funds in corporate transactions. The move reunites her with several former O’Melveny & Myers attorneys who have joined Winston & Strawn to form a corporate practice in Los Angeles (more…)
Venable LLP announced today that Ronn Davids and Jennifer Cappelletty have joined Venable’s Los Angeles office as members of the firm’s Corporate Group. Mr. Davids and Ms. Cappelletty, previously members at Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP, have developed vibrant national practices working with middle-market and emerging growth companies in distressed and non-distressed situations, with a special focus on representing private equity firms. Mr. Davids joins as Partner and Ms. Cappelletty joins as Of Counsel (more…)
Philip Albert, an IP attorney with two decades of experience, has joined the expanding IP practice at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. Albert joins the firm as a partner in the firm’s San Francisco office (more…)
O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented Thornridge Holdings Limited, a significant stockholder of Assisted Living Concepts, Inc. (ALC), in connection with ALC’s US$280 million proposed sale to TPG, a global private investment firm (more…)
National law firm Wilson Elser is pleased to announce that experienced trial attorney Peter M. Hughes has joined the firm’s San Diego office as of counsel (more…)
David A. Randall has joined the Los Angeles office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property practice group, joining from Dickstein Shapiro (more…)
Robert J. Guite has joined the San Francisco office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s Business Trial practice group. Guite joins from Squire Sanders, where he was hiring partner for that firm’s Northern California offices (more…)
Buchalter Nemer Buchalter Nemer continues to expand its growing Orange County office. Michael V. Lee joined Buchalter Nemer’s Corporate and Intellectual Property Practice Groups as a Shareholder. Mr. Lee represents a diverse group of publicly and privately held businesses, among them e-commerce, software, high-tech and traditional companies, for whom he provides counsel in corporate transactional matters. His expertise includes mergers and acquisitions, private equity financings, venture capital financings, debt financings, securities offerings, real estate acquisitions and dispositions, real estate equity fund formations, joint ventures, and strategic alliances. Mr. Lee also has extensive experience in intellectual property licensing and transactions involving patents, trademarks, software, know-how, trade secrets and data rights (more…)
Renee Gabbard has joined the international law firm Bryan Cave LLP as a partner in the firm’s Irvine office. She will practice with the firm’s Private Client Service Group (more…)
King & Spalding has recruited veteran intellectual property lawyer Kenneth Steinthal as a partner in its San Francisco office. Steinthal joins King & Spalding from Greenberg Traurig, where he served as head of its San Francisco office, and prior to that, as co-head of Weil, Gotshal & Manges’ IP/media practice. Also joining King & Spalding’s San Francisco IP practice, as counsel, is Joseph R. Wetzel, who practiced with Steinthal at Steinthal’s previous two firms (more…)
Greenberg Glusker today announced the addition of three new attorneys to the Firm. Real estate attorney Lydia W. Wu joins the Real Estate Group as Of Counsel and brings a wealth of experience in representing individual and institutional investors in real estate financings, acquisitions/dispositions, development and leases. Associate Courtney E. Pozmantier, whose practice focuses on bankruptcy, restructuring and commercial law, joins the Bankruptcy/Insolvency Group. Associate Harrison J. Reynolds joins the Entertainment Group where his practice emphasis includes entertainment transactions in film and television (more…)
Holland & Knight is pleased to announce that David W. Deal has joined the firm’s San Francisco office as senior counsel. Mr. Deal, formerly the General Counsel of Fairfield-based GeoVera Insurance Group, will be a key member of the firm’s Insurance Industry Team (more…)
