Shearman & Sterling represented the Province of Ontario in connection with its public offering of US$1,750,000,000 of its 2.000% Bonds due September 27, 2018. Application will be made to the Luxembourg Stock Exchange for the bonds to be admitted to trading on the Euro MTF Market of the exchange (more…)
O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented Rizvi Traverse Management as the lead investor in a US$50 million Series C financing round for Flipboard Inc., an innovative technology company and creator of the world’s first social magazine. Goldman Sachs, Insight Venture Partners, Index Ventures, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers also participated (more…)
Global law firm Proskauer announced today that Colleen M. Hart has joined the firm as an Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits partner, to be resident in the Los Angeles office. Ms. Hart adds depth to Proskauer’s highly regarded Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation & ERISA Litigation Group and West Coast transactional capabilities (more…)
Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Adrian M. Fenty has joined the firm’s Business Development department, where he will focus on expanding the firm’s Emerging Company & Venture Capital practice and supporting various firm and client strategic initiatives. Most recently Special Counsel at Klores Perry Mitchell P.C., Fenty rose to national prominence when he served as Mayor of Washington, D.C. from 2007 – 2011 (more…)
International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges is representing Applied Materials Inc., a Santa Clara, California-based leader in semiconductor equipment manufacturing, in its merger with Japan-based Tokyo Electron Ltd., to create a new company with a combined market capitalization of approximately $29 billion (2.8 trillion yen) (more…)
Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck LLP (KDV), a leading national law firm, today announced that Timothy W. Moppin has joined the firm as a litigation partner in its San Francisco office. Moppin has 25 years of experience in labor and employment, environmental and construction law (more…)
The San Francisco office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Paul C. Lacourciere as a partner in the energy & infrastructure projects practice. Lacourciere joins K&L Gates from Greenbridge Corporate Counsel (more…)
Cooley LLP announced today that it advised the underwriters on Five Prime Therapeutics, Inc.’s initial public offering. Five Prime is a San Francisco-based clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing novel protein therapeutics for cancers and inflammatory diseases. Five Prime now trades on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol “FPRX.” (more…)
Goodwin Procter, a national Am Law 50 firm, announced today that Jared G. Jensen has joined the firm’s San Francisco office as a partner in its Private Equity Practice. Jensen joins Goodwin from Amazon.com where he was Senior Corporate Counsel (more…)
Davis Polk advised J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as representative of the several underwriters in connection with an offering of 5,175,000 shares of ordinary shares of Stratasys Ltd., including 675,000 shares from the exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option. The gross proceeds from the offering were $481 million (more…)
Information technology equipment distributor Synnex Corp. has acquired IBM’s customer-care outsourcing business for $505 million. The unit will be integrated with Synnex’s Concentrix subsidiary, which provides customer care services for clients in more than 12 industries. As part of the deal, IBM will enter into a multi-year agreement with Synnex and Concentrix will become an IBM partner for business process outsourcing customer care services (more…)
Davis Polk advised Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC as representatives of the initial purchasers in connection with an unregistered Rule 144A offering by Clean Energy Fuels Corp. of $220 million aggregate principal amount of its 5.25% convertible senior notes due 2018 (more…)
