Davis Polk advised JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as administrative agent, issuing lender and swing line lender in connection with the second amendment and restatement of its existing $150 million asset-based revolving credit facility for Tower Automotive Holdings USA, LLC. The facility will be used for general corporate purposes (more…)
O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented Progenics Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: PGNX) in its proposed public offering. The company, which develops medicines related to cancer treatment, plans to use the proceeds for research and development and general corporate purposes (more…)
Dykema, a leading national law firm, is pleased to announce that Luke Sosnicki, an accomplished financial services litigator, has joined the firm as senior counsel in Los Angeles (more…)
A Weil team advised Morgan Stanley on a senior unsecured 364-day high grade bridge facility in connection with the $2.65 billion acquisition of Longview Timber LLC, a US-based forestry company, by Weyerhaeuser Co., a US real estate trust that is one of the largest producer of wood and cellulose fibers, from Brookfield Asset Management Inc. The bridge facility and the acquisition were announced on June 17, 2013, and the acquisition is expected to close in July (more…)
Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that it led its client Lotte Chemical Corporation (“Lotte”), a member company of the Lotte Group and previously known as Honam Petrochemical to a complete dismissal with prejudice of a complex international Intellectual Property dispute in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama Northern Division (more…)
Cooley LLP announced today that it advised the underwriters on Epizyme, Inc.’s recent IPO. Epizyme, now trading on the NASDAQ Global Stock Market under the symbol “EPZM,” is a Massachusetts-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and plans to commercialize innovative personalized therapeutics for patients with genetically defined cancers (more…)
Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Littler), the world’s largest employment and labor law firm representing management, has added JoAnna Brooks as a shareholder in the San Francisco office. Brooks, previously a partner and head of the Class Action Practice in Jackson Lewis LLP’s San Francisco office, brings extensive class action litigation experience to the firm. Her arrival reflects Littler’s continued attraction of high-profile lateral shareholders. In the past year, the firm has added a number of prominent attorneys to its shareholder ranks, across multiple practice areas and geographic regions to further expand the firm’s national and global platform (more…)
VLP Law Group LLP is very pleased to announce that Patrick Lawler and Jacob Dy-Johnson have joined the firm’s Commercial Lending practice. Mr. Lawler joins VLP as a partner from the Corporate Finance group of the Los Angeles office of O’Melveny and Myers. Mr. Dy-Johnson joins VLP as counsel (he was previously in the Palo Alto office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati) (more…)
Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced today the addition of Real Estate partner James O’Brien to the firm’s San Francisco office, continuing the national Real Estate department’s steady growth as the fourth largest Real Estate practice in the United States. O’Brien joins Seyfarth from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, following the recent arrival of a group of six real estate attorneys in Seyfarth’s New York office (more…)
O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented Xradia Inc. in its agreement to be acquired by ZEISS. Xradia makes innovative 3-D X-ray microscopes for industrial use and academic research (more…)
Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Dan Burnham has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the Corporate Department. He has extensive experience representing emerging companies and venture capital investors in Los Angeles and across the country in financings, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters. He joins from Strategic Law Partners in Los Angeles (more…)
The Los Angeles office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added Charles E. Schwenck as a partner in the energy, infrastructure and resources practice. Schwenck arrives from Foley & Lardner LLP (more…)
