Best Best & Krieger LLP recently hired three attorneys to join the eminent domain practice in offices across Southern California (more…)
Morrison & Foerster announced today that Jeffrey A. Chester, a well-known and highly-respected project finance and renewable energy lawyer, has joined the firm as a partner in Los Angeles. Mr. Chester advises on global capital-raising transactions for the renewable and alternative energy space. He has closed more than 50 wind-power and two dozen solar-power project financings, including a 1,550-megawatt power purchase agreement by Southern California Edison, the largest wind-power purchase agreement in history (more…)
O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented Lookout, a leader in security software, in a US$55 million strategic financing round. Deutsche Telekom led the investors, which included Qualcomm Incorporated, through its venture capital arm, Qualcomm Ventures, and top venture capital firms Greylock Partners and Mithril Capital Management. Current investors Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, and Khosla Ventures also participated (more…)
Davis Polk advised the underwriters in connection with a follow-on offering of 2,622,950 shares of common stock of KYTHERA Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. at $45.75 per share. The offering resulted in gross proceeds of approximately $120.0 million (more…)
The global law firm Jones Day has announced that Shireen Becker has joined the Firm’s San Diego Office as of counsel in the Corporate Criminal Investigations Practice. Ms. Becker joins from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California, where she served as Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division (more…)
Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that it is representing Samsung Electronics, a world leader in advanced semiconductor solutions, in a US$1.5 billion private share redemption transaction with Seagate Technology, a world leader in hard disk drives and storage solutions. Following the transaction, Samsung Electronics will continue to own approximately 12.5 million shares of Seagate Technology (more…)
During the 2013 California legislative session, attorneys in our San Francisco Office represented the California Association of Midwives (CAM) in an effort to remove ambiguities in the laws governing the scope of practice for licensed (direct-entry) midwives and lay the foundation for expanding care to underserved communities and individuals (more…)
Pillsbury today announced that Marcus Wu has joined the firm as a partner in the Executive Compensation & Benefits practice in San Diego. An accomplished lawyer, Wu has extensive experience in designing and implementing a broad spectrum of retirement plans and deferred-compensation plans (more…)
William M. Lofton and Jacquelynne M. Jennings have joined Schiff Hardin’s San Francisco office as partners in the Finance and Public Law Groups from Lofton & Jennings in San Francisco (more…)
Venable LLP, one of the nation’s oldest and most respected law firms, announced today that it has opened a second West Coast office in San Francisco. Currently, the firm has offices in Washington, DC; Baltimore, MD; New York, NY; Tysons Corner, VA; Wilmington, DE; and Los Angeles, CA. The San Francisco office will serve the needs of the firm’s Northern California client base and other clients’ needs throughout the Bay Area (more…)
McGlinchey Stafford is pleased to announce that the firm has opened a new office in Irvine, California. This is the first West Coast office for the growing national law firm. McGlinchey Stafford now has 180 attorneys in ten offices across the states of California, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York, Ohio and Texas (more…)
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, today announced that Steven M. Goldberg has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in its nationally recognized litigation practice. He was previously a partner at Russ August & Kabat (more…)
