Goodwin Procter, a national Am Law 50 firm, announced today that David W. Van Horne, Jr. has joined the firm’s Business Law Department in its San Francisco office as a member of Goodwin’s Technology Companies Group. He will focus on representing emerging growth companies throughout their life cycle as well as advising venture capital funds and structuring investments from seed through growth stage. Van Horne joins Goodwin from Gunderson Dettmer, where he was a partner in its Silicon Valley office (more…)
A San Francisco-based Orrick Real Estate Team recently closed a complex transaction on behalf of Copeland Properties LLC that involved the contribution of a major portion of Copeland’s California retail property portfolio to an Atlanta-based private Real Estate Investment Trust (“REIT”) sponsored by Jamestown Properties (more…)
Davis Polk advised the underwriters in connection with an initial public offering of 6,900,000 shares of common stock of Rally Software Development Corp. (including 900,000 shares in respect of the exercise in full of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares) at $14.00 per share for gross proceeds of $96.6 million (more…)
Sidley advised Flextronics International in the acquisition of Motorola Mobility’s manufacturing operations in Tianjin, China, and assumption of the management and operation of its Jaguariuna, Brazil facility (more…)
Sanjay Bhandari, an accomplished litigator known for his work in white collar criminal defense, corporate investigations, and intellectual property litigation, has joined Ballard Spahr as a partner in San Diego, firm Chair Mark Stewart announced today (more…)
Brown Rudnick LLP, an international Am Law 200 law firm, announced that it is expanding to the West Coast by combining with Rus Miliband & Smith, a complex commercial litigation boutique in Orange County, California (more…)
Continuing the expansion of the firm’s West Coast presence and nationally-recognized product liability and life sciences capabilities, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. has added a product liability group to its San Francisco office with the addition of Daniel J. Herling and Michelle Gillette, who join as Members. The group builds on the thriving litigation, corporate, intellectual property and real estate practice the firm has established in the Bay Area (more…)
Pepper Hamilton LLP announced that Alan J. Kessel has joined the firm as a partner in the Commercial Litigation Practice Group, resident in the Orange County office (more…)
Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm advised Post Advisory Group LLC in the sale of a minority stake in Post Advisory Group, LLC to Nippon Life Insurance Company (more…)
Vedder Price is pleased to announce its entry into the California market with an office in San Francisco (more…)
The Palo Alto office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Linda Zhou as a partner in the emerging growth and venture capital practice. Zhou joins K&L Gates from Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP (more…)
