Arent Fox LLP, a leading national law firm, announced that its new San Francisco office will be located in the KPMG Building at 55 2nd Street in the city’s Financial District. The office is scheduled to open this June (more…)
Cooley LLP announced today that it advised Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc (NASDAQ: JAZZ) in a recent $314.4 million public offering of its ordinary shares by certain of Jazz Pharmaceutical’s existing shareholders, including entities affiliated with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Longitude Capital Partners and Beecken Petty O’Keefe & Company. Jazz Pharmaceuticals, a long-time Cooley client, is a specialty biopharmaceutical company focused on improving patients’ lives by identifying, developing and commercializing innovative products that address unmet medical needs. The company, which is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with multiple offices in the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries in Europe, has a diverse portfolio of products in the areas of narcolepsy, oncology, pain and psychiatry (more…)
Cooley LLP announced today that it advised Hot Topic in its proposed sale to Sycamore Partners. Sycamore Partners has agreed to acquire Hot Topic for $14.00 per share in cash, or a total of approximately $600 million (more…)
Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that James W. McTarnaghan has joined the firm’s San Francisco office as a Partner in the Environment, Energy & Resources Practice Group. His clients include companies in the traditional energy, renewable energy and communications industries, as well as California-based municipalities and public agencies. McTarnaghan was most recently a partner at Duane Morris LLP (more…)
Shearman & Sterling advised BMO Capital Markets and CIBC, as co-lead underwriters, in connection with the initial public offering of Milestone Apartments Real Estate Investment Trust. The IPO raised gross proceeds of $200 million (more…)
Davis Polk advised Equinix, Inc. on its SEC-registered offering of $500 million aggregate principal amount of its 4.875% senior notes due 2020 and $1 billion aggregate principal amount of its 5.375% senior notes due 2023. J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Barclays Capital Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. acted as joint book-running managers for the offering (more…)
Davis Polk advised Goldman Sachs & Co., Barclays Capital Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated as dealer managers in connection with a Rule 144A/Regulation S exchange offer by Education Management LLC and Education Management Finance Corp (more…)
Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Karen Cottle, former General Counsel of Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ: ADBE), has joined its Palo Alto office as Senior Counsel. Ms. Cottle will bring her years of on the ground experience to the legal issues that are of most concern to management and in-house lawyers at global technology and other growth companies (more…)
Cooley LLP announced today that Kevin Rooney and Louis Lehot have joined the firm’s Business department as partners based in its Palo Alto office. They both join from Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, where Rooney chaired the firm’s Emerging Growth/Venture Capital and Technology M&A practices, and Lehot led its Capital Markets and Public Company M&A practices (more…)
The global law firm Jones Day has announced today that Kari Erickson Levine has joined the Firm as a partner in the San Francisco Office, where she will be a member of Jones Day’s Labor & Employment Practice. Ms. Levine arrives from the San Francisco office of Seyfarth Shaw, where she practiced for 18 years and was a partner in the firm’s Labor & Employment Practice (more…)
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. continues to expand its San Francisco office with the addition of Robert E. Burwell, who joins the firm’s Corporate & Securities Section as a Member (more…)
SNR Denton announced that John J. Harris has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the Oil and Gas practice and the firm’s Energy, Transport and Infrastructure sector team (more…)
