Nicholas O’Keefe, a lawyer with more than 18 years of corporate law and M&A experience, has joined Kaye Scholer as a partner in the Palo Alto office. O’Keefe was formerly Senior Counsel at Crowell & Moring and, before that, an M&A partner in the Silicon Valley office of Latham & Watkins. (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…)
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…)
