Brown Rudnick LLP is pleased to announce that Numan J. Siddiqi has joined the firm’s Orange County office as a partner in the Corporate group. Prior to joining Brown Rudnick, Mr. Siddiqi was a shareholder at Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, P.C (more…)
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP (MLA) announces the addition of Elizabeth Bawden to the firm’s Corporate practice in California. Based in Los Angeles, Bawden’s experience includes implementing complex estate plans for high net worth clients, counseling clients with respect to intra-family wealth transfers, advising and assisting trustees and estate executors concerning all phases of probate and trust administration, and establishing and representing private foundations, public charities and other types of tax-exempt organizations. Joining the Private Client Services team as a partner, she is the tenth addition to MLA’s Corporate practice this year (more…)
Squire Sanders is pleased to announce the addition of leading labor and employment partner Gary M. Gansle to the firm’s Palo Alto office from Dorsey & Whitney. Mr. Gansle will lead the firm’s Northern California Labor & Employment Practice Group, and is joined by of counsel Karen E. Wentzel and associate Nisha Patel (more…)
In its latest large project financing in the US renewable energy sector, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP has represented the lender group in funding the construction of a major new wind farm under development on 18,000 acres in Carson County, located some 30 miles from Amarillo, Texas (more…)
The Firm represented Platinum Equity in raising its target of $3.75 billion for Platinum Equity Capital Partners Fund III, L.P. and its related entities. Platinum Equity specializes in the merger, acquisition and operation of companies involved in information technology, telecommunications, logistics, metals services, manufacturing and distribution. The Firm also represented Platinum Equity in connection with its two prior funds (more…)
Cooley LLP announced today that it advised Viki, Inc. on its acquisition by Rakuten, Inc. Viki, which is a play on the words “video” and “wiki,” is a global TV site powered by a community of avid fans. Launched in December 2010, Viki now has over 22 million viewers every month who watch and share TV shows, movies, music videos and other premium content from around the world, translated into more than 160 languages (more…)
Edison, McDowell & Hetherington LLP (“EMH”), a nationally recognized litigation boutique, announced today that it has opened a California office (more…)
Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP is pleased to announce that Jinshu “John” Zhang has joined the firm’s office in Los Angeles as a partner. Zhang’s practice encompasses mergers, acquisitions, private placements, public offerings of securities, and other sophisticated business transactions, with a particular emphasis on Chinese outbound investments (more…)
Covington & Burling is advising Microsoft Corp. in its purchase of substantially all of Nokia’s devices & services business. Under the transaction, Microsoft will also license Nokia’s patents, and license and use Nokia’s mapping services. The total transaction price is EUR 5.44 billion in cash — or more than $7 billion (more…)
