Michael John Miguel has joined the firm as a partner in the firm’s Insurance Recovery Group in the Los Angeles office. Recognized as a Top 100 Lawyer in California by the Los Angeles Daily Journal, Mr. Miguel is an active trial attorney with a diverse background in commercial litigation. He has a particular focus on insurance coverage matters, along with extensive experience in environmental, antitrust, intellectual property and toxic tort defense litigation. He has obtained insurance recoveries in excess of $1 billion for domestic and international clients. Mr. Miguel has litigated and won cases across the country, including in state and federal trial and appellate courts in 18 states, and has tried cases to verdict or judgment in 5 states (more…)
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, is pleased to welcome Robert Roginson as a shareholder in its Los Angeles office. Roginson’s experience deepens the firm’s Litigation, Class Action, Wage and Hour, and Traditional Labor Relations practice groups. His arrival at Ogletree Deakins also demonstrates the firm’s commitment to growth in California. Since the start of 2013, the firm has added five shareholders throughout the state and opened an office in San Diego. Firm-wide, Roginson’s arrival makes him the 17th shareholder to join Ogletree Deakins in 2013 (more…)
Greenberg Glusker today announced that litigation attorney Glen A. Rothstein has joined the firm as a Partner, practicing in the areas of Entertainment Law, Entertainment Litigation and General Commercial Litigation (more…)
Diane A. Thompson, who has more than 20 years of experience advising clients on employee benefits and executive compensation issues, has joined Ballard Spahr as a partner in Los Angeles, firm Chair Mark Stewart announced today (more…)
A team of lawyers at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy has represented the Maloof family, owners of the NBA’s Sacramento Kings and their home court Sleep Train Arena, in the sale of a 65% controlling interest in the team to a Sacramento-based investor group. The transaction valued the Kings at $534 million, a record price for an NBA franchise (more…)
Reed Smith today announced the addition of L. Julius M. Turman as a partner in its Labor & Employment practice in the firm’s San Francisco office (more…)
Davis Polk advised J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Barclays Capital Inc. as representatives of the initial purchasers in connection with a Rule 144A offering by NetSuite Inc. of $310 million aggregate principal amount of 0.25% convertible senior notes due 2018 (more…)
Davis Polk advised Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as representatives of the initial purchasers in connection with a Rule 144A offering by Concur Technologies, Inc. of an aggregate principal amount of $488.75 million of its 0.5% convertible senior notes due 2018, which included $63.75 million aggregate principal amount of notes from the full exercise of the initial purchasers’ over-allotment option. In addition, Davis Polk advised Deutsche Bank AG, UBS AG, Credit Suisse International and JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association as counterparties to convertible note hedge and warrant transactions in connection with the offering (more…)
Faegre Baker Daniels LLP is expanding its operations to Silicon Valley effective July 1, 2013. The office, which will be located at 1950 University Circle in Palo Alto, Calif., is being opened by intellectual property partners Calvin L. Litsey and David J.F. Gross, both of whom are relocating from the firm’s Minneapolis office (more…)
Global specialist law firm Dechert LLP announced today that Kerin Cantwell has joined the firm as a partner in the corporate practice. Known for her experience in the energy sector, Cantwell was most recently a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. She will be resident in the firm’s Los Angeles office (more…)
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP (MLA) announces the addition of Michael Durkee to the firm’s Real Estate Land Use practice in California. Based in San Francisco, Durkee is experienced in in the creation and implementation of complex entitlement strategies, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), planning and zoning laws, the Subdivision Map Act, negotiation of development agreements and government relations, all of which will complement the highly acclaimed MLA team of land use attorneys, who were among the first in California to focus on and develop the area of land use law (more…)
O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented Celsion Corporation in its registered direct offering of approximately US$9.83 million of the Company’s common stock to institutional investors led by a health care fund. The offering is subject to customary closing conditions (more…)
