Global specialist law firm Dechert LLP announced today that Lloyd J. MacNeil has joined the firm as a partner in the corporate practice. Most recently a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, he will be resident in the firm’s Los Angeles office. (more…)

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Vedder Price is pleased to announce that Scott H. Olson has joined the firm’s Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights practice group today as a Shareholder in the firm’s San Francisco office. (more…)

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Thompson Coburn is pleased to announce that Helen B. Kim has joined the firm as a partner. Kim will join the Business Litigation group and is the first addition to the firm’s new office in Los Angeles. She previously served as an attorney at Theodora Oringher PC, and Katten Muchin Rosenman. (more…)

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Davis Polk advised Goldman, Sachs & Co. as initial purchaser in connection with a Rule 144A offering by NVIDIA Corporation of an aggregate principal amount of $1.5 billion of its 1% convertible senior notes due 2018, which included $200 million aggregate principal amount of notes from the full exercise of the initial purchaser’s over-allotment option. In addition, Davis Polk advised Goldman, Sachs & Co. as counterparty to convertible note hedge and warrant transactions in connection with the convertible notes offering (more…)

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Simpson Thacher represented Goldman, Sachs & Co., as the sole initial purchaser, in connection with a private offering by SanDisk Corporation of $1.5 billion of 0.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2020 (more…)

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The Firm represented the underwriters, led by Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, in connection with the underwriting of the initial public offering of common stock by Vince Holding Corp. (the “Company”), formerly known as Apparel Holding Corp (more…)

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Jenner & Block LLP is pleased to announce that veteran corporate attorney G. Thomas Stromberg has joined the firm as a partner in its Los Angeles office.  Mr. Stromberg possesses deep knowledge of the California marketplace, with 25 years of transactional experience there, in addition to extensive cross-border know-how (more…)

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Bowman and Brooke LLP, a nationally recognized trial firm known for defending household-name corporations in high-exposure product liability cases, today announced the opening of its new office in San Diego, California.

Joining Bowman and Brooke and leading the team in San Diego are newly named partners Michael Hurvitz and Gregory Jackson. They are two highly experienced product liability lawyers with significant track records defending medical device and biotech companies. They have represented clients in product liability, mass tort, consumer fraud and warranty litigation, as well as multiple individual product cases (more…)

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented John Muir Health and John Muir Physician Network (the “Network”) in the formation of the Network’s new specialty division in Northern California. The launch of the new specialty division was comprised of three transactions with three separate cardiology practices, including Cor Cardiovascular Specialists, Inc., Arrhythmia Specialists, Inc., and Walter T. Savage, M.D., Inc. (collectively, the “Cardiology Groups”) (more…)

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Renown Health, a large nonprofit health system headquartered in Reno, Nevada (“Renown”), in the reorganization of its cardiology service line.  The reorganization was effectuated by the redesign of the employment arrangements between Renown and its employed cardiologists, including the implementation of a new incentive compensation program. The negotiations resulted in the cardiologists entering into new employment agreements with Renown, pursuant to which the cardiologists would continue to provide cardiology services on behalf of Renown. Healthcare partner Jim Owens and associate Josh Hill led the Paul Hastings team.

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