Loeb & Loeb LLP represented Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) in the sale of a music publishing catalog, comprised of music from SPE’s film and television releases between 1993 and 2012, to ole Music Publishing LLC (more…)
Duane Morris LLP is pleased to announce that special counsel Jason M. Ohta, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney, has joined the firm to bolster its existing white-collar criminal defense capabilities in San Diego. He will work closely with partner and fellow former Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael L. Lipman. Ohta joins the firm from Latham & Watkins LLP (more…)
Knobbe Martens Olson and Bear LLP client, IDev Technologies, has entered into an agreement in which Abbot Labs, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, will acquire all outstanding equity of IDev Technologies for $310 million net of cash and debt (more…)
Simpson Thacher represented the underwriters, led by BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, and The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, in connection with Oracle Corporation’s first registered public offering of euro-denominated notes. Oracle Corporation offered €1.25 billion aggregate principal amount of 2.250% senior notes due 2021 and €750 million aggregate principal amount of 3.125% senior notes due 2025. The euro-denominated notes are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (more…)
McGuireWoods LLP today announced that Franklin D. Kang has joined the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation group as a partner in Los Angeles (more…)
Davis Polk advised Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Zelman Partners LLC as joint book-running managers in connection with the initial public offering of 7,750,000 shares of Class A Common Stock of UCP, Inc. The Class A Common Stock is listed on the NYSE under the symbol “UCP” (more…)
The firm is representing an affiliate of KKR Asset Management in connection with its pending acquisition of a 9.5% stake in PT Tiga Pilar Sejahtera Food Tbk (“TPSF”). This will be KKR’s first investment in Indonesia (more…)
Cooley LLP announced today that it represented AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in its public offering of approximately 4.8 million shares of common stock. AcelRx is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative therapies for the treatment of acute and breakthrough pain (more…)
Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Singapore-based YFind Technologies Private Limited in its sale to Ruckus Wireless, Inc. Yfind is a pioneer in indoor positioning and real-time location analytics and the inventor of the YFind Positioning System™ (YPS™). Ruckus intends to use the acquisition to enable new location-based services by combining its unique, Smart Wi-Fi technology with YFind’s range of location based services and analytical capabilities, transforming Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi networks into location-intelligent infrastructures (more…)
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, announced that Donna L. Wilson has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the Litigation Division. She joins from BuckleySandler LLP, where she led its West Coast litigation and privacy/data security practices (more…)
We are pleased to announce that Laurie Gustafson has joined Sedgwick’s Real Estate and Finance practice as a partner in the San Francisco office. Gustafson’s practice focuses on commercial real estate, including real property acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, financing, construction, development and management. She has experience leading complex multistate and international real estate and finance transactions, including office, retail, restaurant, shopping centers, industrial, rural, infrastructure and mixed-use projects. Most recently, she has established expertise in dissolving redevelopment agencies, and she represents the Oversight Board for the City of Oakland (more…)
Davis Polk is advising Quality Systems, Inc. in connection with its agreement with certain affiliates of Clinton Group, Inc. related to the Quality Systems 2013 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting. Under the terms of the agreement, the Quality Systems Board of Directors will consist of nine members and will include three of the Clinton Group’s nominees – James C. Malone, Peter M. Neupert and Morris Panner – who will stand for election to the Board of Directors at the 2013 Annual Meeting. The remaining six seats on the Board will consist of Quality Systems’ nominees. The Clinton Group agreed, among other things, to withdraw its proposals concerning the amendment of the Company’s bylaws and to observe certain standstill provisions (more…)
