Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Marc Fagel will join the San Francisco office as a partner. Most recently the Director of the San Francisco Regional Office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Fagel will join the firm’s Securities Enforcement practice (more…)
Dickstein Shapiro LLP is pleased to announce that Atulya R. Agarwal has joined the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice as partner, effective April 1, in its Palo Alto, California office. He joins the firm from Elan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. where he was a senior vice president and served as Elan’s chief intellectual property officer. Dr. Agarwal has more than two decades of life-sciences experience, including 10-plus years as in-house IP counsel to biopharmaceutical companies. His arrival strengthens the firm’s biotechnology patent prosecution, strategy, and licensing practices in Palo Alto, and his practice will leverage his extensive industry and in-house experience to assist companies in developing IP strategies to maximize the value of their portfolios by protecting assets and products though patent counseling, prosecution, due diligence, transactions, and litigation (more…)
DLA Piper announced today that Cedric Chao has joined the firm’s Litigation practice as a partner in the San Francisco office (more…)
Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Dole Food Company, Inc., the world’s largest producer and marketer of fresh fruit and vegetables, in connection with its entry into a new credit facility, which consists of a $150 million revolving credit facility and a $500 million term facility with provisions for additional incremental loans (more…)
Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Los Angeles-based private equity firm Vance Street Capital LLC in the acquisition of a majority interest in Micronics Inc., a global provider of aftermarket filtration products and OEM custom filter presses. Headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Micronics provides filtration products to varied industries worldwide including mining, chemical, wastewater, metals, and food and beverage. The company also has locations in the United Kingdom (more…)
Today, Pillsbury welcomed Thomas A. Zimmer to the firm’s San Francisco office as a partner in the firm’s Finance group. Zimmer, formerly a partner with Holland & Knight, will serve as co-leader of Pillsbury’s transportation finance team along with partner Mark Lessard in New York. He was previously Chair of Holland & Knight’s Finance group and was the Deputy Section Leader of its Business Law Section (more…)
Morrison & Foerster today announced that leading privacy and consumer protection lawyer Andrew B. Serwin has joined the firm as a partner, along with of counsel Peter F. McLaughlin and associate Daniel Muto. The additions enhance a group widely lauded as one of the very best in the field. Morrison & Foerster’s group is ranked in Band 1 by Chambers Global, Chambers USA and Legal 500, and it recently was named by Law360 as one of its Privacy and Consumer Protection Practice Groups of the Year (more…)
Global law firm Proskauer has further expanded its Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions groups with the addition of David K. Cohen as Senior Counsel in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Mr. Cohen joins the firm from Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP (more…)
Cooley LLP announced today that it advised Otsuka in its $825 million collaboration agreement with Lundbeck to further the development and commercialization of a developmental drug, Lu AE58054, for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (more…)
Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Lowell Ness has joined the firm’s Palo Alto office as a Partner in the firm’s Emerging Companies practice. Ness was most recently a Partner in the Silicon Valley office of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (more…)
Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Edgar (“Ned”) B. Washburn has joined the firm’s San Francisco office as a Senior Counsel in the Environment, Energy & Resources practice. Washburn was most recently Senior Counsel at Morrison Foerster LLP (more…)
