Angeli C. Aragon has joined LeClairRyan as a partner on the firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology and Labor and Employment Practice Area teams. She will be resident in the national law firm’s Los Angeles office (more…)
Procopio welcomes Edsell “Chip” Eady, Jr. in the role as Of Counsel to its public agencies and charter schools team. A well-established bond finance attorney from the Bay Area, Eady’s experience provides Procopio’s nonprofit and public sector clients with public financing alternatives and guidance on publicly-funded projects from start to finish (more…)
Davis Polk advised Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as joint book-running managers and representatives of the initial purchasers in connection with a Rule 144A offering by ServiceNow, Inc. of $575 million aggregate principal amount of 0% convertible senior notes due 2018, which included $75 million aggregate principal amount of notes from the full exercise of the initial purchasers’ over-allotment option. In addition, Davis Polk advised Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc, JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association and RBC Capital Markets, LLC as counterparties to convertible note hedge and warrant transactions in connection with the convertible notes offering (more…)
Barnes & Thornburg LLP announced today that firm client Media Temple, Inc., a premium domain hosting and website services company, was acquired by GoDaddy.com LLC (more…)
Akin Gump today announced that Dario J. Frommer has joined the firm as a partner in its public law and policy practice in Los Angeles. Mr. Frommer is a former majority leader of the California State Assembly and has held a variety of high-level state government positions. He comes to Akin Gump from Mayer Brown and will lead the firm’s California public law and policy practice (more…)
O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented Refresh, the dynamic technology company behind the first mobile application to deliver an instant dossier about people you meet, in a US$10 million equity financing. The company just released an upgraded version of their App in the Apple App Store (more…)
Hanson Bridgett LLP is pleased to welcome two new litigators to its Sacramento office. Andy Stroud, who joins as a partner, is well-known in civil, commercial and federal litigation, as well as intellectual property litigation. Landon Bailey joins our firm as an associate. In addition, Erin Sedloff joins the San Francisco office as a new litigation associate (more…)
Abbie P. Maliniak, an attorney with more than 30 years of experience representing health care providers and medical staffs, has joined the growing health care practice at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP in the firm’s Los Angeles office (more…)
Marking the beginning of its expansion into Northern California—the center of the nation’s high-technology industry and home to seven of the top 10 patent-producing cities—AmLaw100 firm Pepper Hamilton LLP today opened the doors of its new Silicon Valley office. The office will complement Pepper’s two existing California offices and give its top-notch Intellectual Property Department deeper roots on the West Coast (more…)
WilmerHale is pleased to announce that Jason Kipnis has joined the firm’s Palo Alto office as a partner in the Intellectual Property Department. Kipnis is an experienced intellectual property lawyer with a diverse practice whose arrival advances the firm’s growth in the Silicon Valley market and the depth of experience the practice offers (more…)
Brown Rudnick LLP is pleased to announce that Robert C. Funsten has joined the firm’s Orange County office as a partner and co-chair of the Global Life Sciences Group. Prior to joining Brown Rudnick, Mr. Funsten was a partner and co-chair of Bingham’s Life Sciences Practice (more…)
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Ultima Hospitality, a Chicago-based real estate investment and hospitality management group, on the $125 million acquisition of the Westin San Francisco Airport and the Aloft San Francisco Airport. The adjoining hotels are located next to the San Francisco International Airport – one of the world’s busiest travel hubs – and 20 minutes from downtown San Francisco. The firm also handled the related $100 million financing from Blackstone (more…)
