Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP is pleased to announce that leading intellectual property litigator Steven C. Carlson has joined the firm as Managing Partner of its Silicon Valley office. Mr. Carlson litigates patent and trade secret cases through trial in fields across the technology spectrum, representing high-tech, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies before district courts, appellate courts and the International Trade Commission. His clients have included tech company SRI, molecular diagnostics company Cepheid and pharmaceutical firm Allergan Inc (more…)
Cooley LLP announced today that it represented Solera Networks in its acquisition by Blue Coat Systems, Inc. Blue Coat is the market leader in business assurance technology, and Solera is the industry’s leading provider of big data security intelligence and analytics for advanced threat protection (more…)
Cooley LLP announced today that it advised Portola Pharmaceuticals on its $140 million initial public offering. Portola is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of novel therapeutics in the areas of thrombosis, other hematologic disorders and inflammation for patients who currently have limited or no approved treatment options (more…)
Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, LLP has partnered with Frances O’Meara to form Thompson Coe & O’Meara, LLP to practice law in California (more…)
Attorney Joseph P. Byrne, a California water leader who chairs the California Water Commission, recently joined Best Best & Krieger LLP where his practice is focusing on public law and business law (more…)
Louis Dienes has joined Locke Lord’s Los Angeles office as a Partner in the Corporate Practice Group. Dienes brings a wealth of experience working with clients in mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, equity and debt financings, and business operations (more…)
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that Chris Kennerly, has joined the firm as a partner with the Intellectual Property practice in Palo Alto. Mr. Kennerly joins from Baker Botts LLP, where he was chair of the Palo Alto IP department. His technology-based practice and experience with mobile telecom companies complements the firms growing footprint in the mobile technology market (more…)
Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm is representing Shuanghui International Holdings Limited, the owner of China’s largest publicly-traded meat processing enterprise, in a US$7.1 billion agreement to acquire Smithfield Foods, Inc. (NYSE: SFD), the largest U.S. publicly-traded pork processor and hog producer. The combination will create one of the largest global pork production, processing and packaged meat companies in the world (more…)
Davis Polk is advising Bank of America Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as financial advisers to Fidelity National Financial, Inc. in connection with its $2.9 billion acquisition of Lender Processing Services, Inc. The transaction, which is subject to approval by LPS and FNF stockholders and other customary closing conditions, is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2013 (more…)
Nancy Kierstyn Schreiner has joined Anderson Kill California, LLP, the west coast office of Anderson Kill & Olick, P.C., as a shareholder and will chair the firm’s new Government Affairs Group (more…)
Xellia Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical group focusing on the development, manufacturing and global commercialization of anti-infective therapies, announced that Novo A/S, the holding company of the Novo Group, has entered into an agreement to purchase all shares of the group for approximately US $700 million from 3i and other current shareholders, as detailed in the company press release below. Closing of the transaction will be subject to relevant competition law approvals, and is expected to take place during the third quarter of 2013 (more…)
Attorneys at Rutan & Tucker, LLP, one of California’s oldest and largest full-service business law firms, recently scored a major victory for online retailer Buy.Com and its Rakuten.com Shopping website, in a class action complaint seeking more than $500 million in statutory damages (more…)
