Alexander G. Calfo, a prominent litigator, has joined Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the firm’s Litigation Department. Calfo will be joined by three associates, Kelley S. Olah, Julia E. Romano and Stacy L. Foster (more…)
Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP is pleased to announce that David (Dave) L. Anderson, an intellectual property lawyer widely considered a thought leader in the videogaming and interactive entertainment industries, has joined the firm as counsel in the Los Angeles office (more…)
Davis Polk advised E*TRADE Financial Corporation in connection with an SEC-registered block trade by Citadel Equity Fund Ltd., an affiliate of Citadel LLC, of 27,394,448 shares of E*TRADE common stock. Citadel received aggregate proceeds of approximately $309 million from the offering. Citigroup was the sole underwriter (more…)
VLP Law Group LLP is very pleased to announce that trademark attorney Scott R. Austin, Board Certified by the Florida Bar in Intellectual Property Law, has joined the firm from Gordon & Rees LLP (more…)
Continuing its investment in Silicon Valley, Bingham McCutchen LLP augmented its technology, life sciences, clean technology and emerging-markets capabilities with the addition of three lawyers to the Corporate Practice Group (more…)
Daniel H. Peters has joined Locke Lord’s Los Angeles office as a Partner in the Corporate Practice, where his domestic and international M&A focus will help bolster the Firm’s California Corporate platform as well as contribute to the corporate team firm-wide. Peters is a seasoned international transactional attorney with extensive experience counseling strategic buyers and sellers in domestic and cross-border acquisitions, including both public and private target companies (more…)
Davis Polk advised J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Goldman, Sachs & Co. as joint book-running managers on an SEC-registered debt offering by Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. of $500 million aggregate principal amount of 3.375% senior notes due 2023 (more…)
Davis Polk advised Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC as representatives of the several underwriters on the $92.86 million initial public offering of 5,462,500 shares of common stock of Silver Spring Networks, Inc., including 712,500 shares from the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares (more…)
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, today announced that Anita Sabine has joined the Los Angeles office as a partner in the Real Estate and Land Use practice. Sabine comes to the firm from O’Melveny & Myers LLP (more…)
Philip C. Schroeder joins the Buchalter Nemer Corporate Practice Group as a Shareholder. Phil focuses his practice on fulfilling the general corporate needs of early stage to middle market companies with an emphasis on financing transactions and technology transfer agreements (more…)
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, is pleased to welcome David Raizman as a shareholder in its Los Angeles office. Raizman is nationally known for his disability rights practice, specifically for his work under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act. In 2012, he was recognized by the Daily Journal as one of the top labor and employment attorneys in California and has been recognized multiple times as a Southern California Super Lawyer. He joins Ogletree Deakins from Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, where he was a partner (more…)
A team led by Holland & Knight real estate partners Susan Booth and Martin Miner is representing Overseas Union Enterprise (OUE) with their recently announced plans to acquire the U.S. Bank Tower and related properties, Maguire Gardens and a car park facility, in downtown Los Angeles for $367.5 million. OUE is a Singapore-based diversified real estate owner, developer and operator (more…)
