International law firm McDermott Will & Emery today announced that Laurelle M. Gutierrez has joined the Firm as a partner in the Private Client Group, resident in the Silicon Valley office. Prior to joining the Firm, she was a director at a California-based law firm. (more…)
Shearman & Sterling has expanded its Bay Area corporate finance practice with the addition of partner Christopher M. Forrester. Forrester arrives from Morrison & Foerster, where he practiced in their Palo Alto, Hong Kong and San Diego offices during his tenure with the firm. His practice focuses on corporate securities, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance and compliance for public and private clients in diverse industries across North America and Asia. (more…)
WilmerHale is pleased to announce that Heather Tewksbury will be joining the firm’s Palo Alto office as a partner in the Antitrust and Competition Practice on January 21, 2014. She recently served as a trial attorney with the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division in San Francisco where she worked on the investigation and prosecution of criminal antitrust violations. (more…)
Cooley advised on Fidelity National Financial’s (NYSE: FNF) combination of its ServiceLink business with Lender Processing Services, Inc. into a new holding company — Black Knight Financial Services, Inc. Black Knight Financial Services will have two operating subsidiaries — Black Knight Financial Services, LLC and ServiceLink Holdings, LLC. Cooley also advised Fidelity National on its issuance of a 35 percent interest in each of the Black Knight operating subsidiaries to funds affiliated with Thomas H. Lee Partners LP and certain related entities. (more…)
Polsinelli welcomes highly experienced attorney Christopher R. O’Brien as a shareholder in the firm’s Corporate and Transactional Practice, where he will focus on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate finance and general outside counsel advice. O’Brien joins a national team of more than 200 corporate attorneys representing businesses throughout the U.S. and abroad and more than 695 lawyers nationally with coast to coast resources. (more…)
Carina M. Tan has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property practice group, based in the firm’s Palo Alto office. Tan joins from Reed Smith. (more…)
