Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology, life sciences, and growth enterprises worldwide, announced today that James F. Jensen has joined the firm’s fund services and emerging companies practices as a partner in the Palo Alto office. (more…)

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Davis Polk advised the underwriters in connection with an initial public offering of 18,000,000 shares of common stock of Bloom Energy Corporation at $15.00 per share, for total gross proceeds of $270 million. Bloom has granted the underwriters an option to purchase up to an additional 2,700,000 shares. The common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “BE.” (more…)

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Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced today the arrival of partner John Yslas to the Labor & Employment department in Los Angeles. Yslas joins from Norton Rose Fulbright, where he was a partner in Los Angeles. (more…)

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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP announced today that it has expanded its Commercial Finance practice with the addition of Shana E. Ramirez as a partner in the firm’s Los Angeles – Century City office. Ramirez previously was a senior associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. (more…)

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Sheppard Mullin is pleased to announce that partner Jordan E. Hamburger has joined the firm’s Corporate practice group in Century City. Hamburger was most recently a partner at Manatt Phelps & Phillips, LLP, where he was national co-head of the Mergers and Acquisitions Practice. Since January 2018, Sheppard Mullin has added 21 lateral partners, including 6 members to the Corporate practice group. (more…)

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Noted Entertainment and Intellectual Property (IP) attorney, Mark S. Lee, joins Rimon as a Partner in their Los Angeles office. Mr. Lee joins Rimon from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, where he was a Partner. (more…)

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Numan Siddiqi, an attorney with more than two decades of experience handling complex transactions involving both public and private companies, has joined BakerHostetler as a partner in its Business Group, based in Costa Mesa. Siddiqi was previously a partner at Brown Rudnick LLP. (more…)

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Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, continued its rapid growth of the Los Angeles office with the hiring of partner Marissa Alguire in the Labor and Employment Practice Group. Alguire is the sixth management-side employment lawyer to join Akerman’s Los Angeles team since January, expanding the office’s bench strengths in all aspects of California employment law. Nationwide, headcount for Akerman’s Labor and Employment Practice Group has more than doubled in size from 21 to 50 lawyers since 2016. (more…)

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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP announced today that Cynthia D. Brittain has joined the firm as a partner in its Trusts and Estates practice in the Los Angeles–Century City office. (more…)

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Am Law 100 firm Polsinelli continues its strategic growth in California with the addition of transactional real estate attorney Herman Enayati. (more…)

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Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, is continuing its strategic client commitment in Los Angeles with the addition of experienced transactional partner Irán Hopkins, as well as real estate associates Daphna Davidovits and Claudia Fu, with office headcount tripling to 37 lawyers and business professionals since 2015. Formerly at Ervin Cohen & Jessup, Hopkins, Davidovits and Fu join Akerman’s Real Estate Practice Group and Cannabis Practice, the first legal team created by a national law firm to serve the legal cannabis sector. (more…)

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Leading intellectual property litigators Chris Kao and David Tsai have joined Pillsbury as partners. They come to the firm from Vinson & Elkins and will be primarily based in the San Francisco office. (more…)

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