Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP is pleased to announce that nationally renowned insurance recovery litigators Jerold Oshinsky and Linda Kornfeld are joining the firm’s insurance recovery group as partners and will launch the firm’s Los Angeles office. The move reunites them with Robin Cohen, their partner at a previous firm and the leader of Kasowitz’s award-winning insurance recovery group, and further entrenches the group’s national leadership position (more…)
Procopio continues to expand its expertise in the field of intellectual property litigation with the addition of Mindy M. Morton, who joins as Senior Counsel on the intellectual property litigation team (more…)
Jung Yeon Son has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s Corporate practice group, based in the firm’s Palo Alto office. Son joins from Technology Crossover Ventures in Palo Alto, where she served as Associate General Counsel. Before that she was VP & Associate General Counsel at Blum Capital Partners in San Francisco, as well as practicing numerous years at Simpson Thacher in New York and Palo Alto (more…)
Davis Polk advised Goldman, Sachs & Co. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as representatives of the several underwriters in connection with an SEC-registered offering of 9,000,000 shares of common stock of Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The gross proceeds from the offering were $171 million (more…)
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, today announced that Steven R. Arnold has joined as a partner in the Financial Services and Banking Practice. Arnold comes to Manatt from Toyota Financial Services, where he served as managing counsel. He will be based in the firm’s Orange County office (more…)
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP represented Kingston Technology Company, Inc. in an agreement with Powerchip Technology Corporation, a Taiwanese public company, to acquire certain assets of Powerchip in a deal valued at approximately $200 million. Kingston Technology Company, Inc. simultaneously entered into a transaction pursuant to which Powerchip will provide foundry services to Kingston Technology Company, Inc. for a two-year period in a deal valued at approximately $380 million (more…)
Duane Morris LLP has hired two senior associates to bolster its existing high-technology intellectual property team in Silicon Valley, just four months after launching the office. David Xue, Ph.D., and Phillip Mancini have joined the firm in Palo Alto from Goodwin Procter LLP and Crowell & Moring LLP, respectively (more…)
Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP is pleased to announce that prominent land use and environmental attorney David Waite has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner. Waite brings 20 years of experience to the firm’s nationally recognized real estate practice, with particular expertise in real estate development of infill sites and master-planned communities (more…)
True Religion Apparel, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with TowerBrook Capital Partners L.P., the New York and London-based investment management firm, in a transaction valued at approximately $835 million (more…)
Cooley LLP announced today that it represented DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. in the negotiations that culminated in its agreement to buy AwesomenessTV, a multi-channel YouTube subscription for teens (more…)
Cooley LLP announced that it advised Insys Therapeutics on its initial public offering. Insys Therapeutics, now trading on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbol “INSY,” is an Arizona-based commercial-stage specialty pharmaceutical company. Insys develops and commercializes innovative supportive care products, with a focus on utilizing its proprietary formulation technologies to address the clinical shortcomings of existing commercial pharmaceutical products (more…)
Procopio welcomes J. Christopher Jaczko to the firm as Senior Counsel. He will be part of their Intellectual Property Litigation practice group, working out of the firm’s downtown San Diego office. Mr. Jaczko’s addition to the firm continues Procopio’s strong strategic growth in the intellectual property and intellectual property litigation areas (more…)
