McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP (MLA) announces the addition of Jimmy Chen as Counsel in the firm’s Corporate practice in California. Based in Orange County, Chen’s experience includes mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, technology transfers and licensing, and various other transactional matters. He is the ninth addition to MLA’s Corporate practice this year (more…)
Paul Hastings represented Fox Factory Holdings Inc., a designer, manufacturer and marketer of high performance suspension products, backed by Compass Group Diversified Holdings (NYSE:CODI) in connection with its initial public offering of common stock and listing on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (more…)
Pillsbury today welcomed Steven Moore, an accomplished patent litigator with a client base of leading companies in the electronics and wireless communications space. He joins the firm from Goodwin Proctor as a partner in the San Diego Intellectual Property practice and anticipates bringing a seasoned team of three IP litigation attorneys (more…)
Polsinelli welcomes experienced health care attorney Robert Layton to the firm’s Los Angeles office as a shareholder, joining a national Health Care Practice ranked by both the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) and Modern Healthcare as the nation’s fourth largest. Layton has practiced as a health care attorney for more than three decades, representing virtually every segment of the industry (more…)
National law firm Wilson Elser has tapped Dean Rocco, formerly a partner with Jackson Lewis, to bolster its already strong national Employment & Labor practice. Mr. Rocco is based in the firm’s Los Angeles office (more…)
Procopio, San Diego’s largest law firm, announced the addition of two new partners and one associate to their Silicon Valley office. The Southern California-headquarted firm continues its significant push in Silicon Valley, adding Jon Gonzales and Bob Sloss as partners in their Menlo Park office. Associate Aiko Yamakawa also joined the office, relocating from San Diego (more…)
The Firm represented the underwriters, led by Robert W. Baird & Co., William Blair & Company, L.L.C. and Piper Jaffray & Co., in connection with the underwriting of the initial public offering of common stock by Fox Factory Holding Corp. (“Fox”). The offering of 9,857,143 shares, which includes the shares that were sold pursuant to the option exercised by the underwriters, raised approximately $148 million in aggregate gross proceeds for Fox and the selling stockholders. The shares are now listed on the Nasdaq Global Select under the ticker symbol “FOXF.” (more…)
Peter H. Carson, Lorna L. Tanner and Stephanie L. Zeppa have joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as partners. Carson joins the firm’s San Francisco office, as a member of the Finance and Bankruptcy practice group. Tanner and Zeppa join the firm’s Palo Alto office, as members of the Intellectual Property practice group and Corporate practice group, respectively. Carson joins from Bingham McCutchen, where he was a member of the Transactional Finance practice and co-chaired the Healthcare Industry Group. Tanner joins from Foley & Lardner and Zeppa joins from Dentons (more…)
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP announced today that class action and products liability trial attorney Lisa Gilford has joined the firm’s Mass Torts, Insurance and Consumer Litigation Group in Los Angeles. Ms. Gilford most recently served as co-chair of the products liability group in the Los Angeles office of another highly regarded law firm, where she represented companies in the automotive, telecommunications, life science, chemical manufacturing and pharmaceutical industries on every level of significant mass tort litigation in federal and state courts across the nation (more…)
Bruce McNamara has joined Haynes and Boone, LLP Silicon Valley as a partner in the firm’s Capital Markets and Securities Practice Group (more…)
Leech Tishman recently welcomed Donald M. Clary to its Los Angeles office (LA). Don has joined the firm’s Energy and Environmental, Safety & Toxic Torts Practice Groups. The addition of Don to Leech Tishman’s LA lawyer team further expands the local service offerings in Leech Tishman’s first West Coast office. The firm’s LA office opened earlier in 2013 with two well-known intellectual property lawyers, Alan M. Kindred and Ivan Posey. The LA office is under the oversight of Leech Tishman partner William F. Bresee, a veteran transactional and energy attorney (more…)
Arent Fox LLP is pleased to announce the expansion of both its nationally recognized Real Estate practice and its new San Francisco office with the addition of real estate transactions partner M.J. Pritchett. Mr. Pritchett joins Arent Fox less than a month after the addition of three Intellectual Property and Health Care attorneys to its Northern California office. He will focus his practice on real estate transactions involving acquisition, disposition, development, and leasing; secured lending and troubled debt resolution; and public finance and securitization (more…)
