Cooley LLP is pleased to announce it advised the underwriters in an initial public offering of common stock of Proto Labs, Inc. (NYSE: PRLB) (more…)
Foley announced today that Nancy L. Stagg has joined the firm as a partner in the San Diego office working with the Business Litigation & Dispute Resolution and Privacy, Security & Information Management Practices. Previously, Stagg was a principal at Fish & Richardson PC (more…)
Pillsbury today announced that intellectual property (IP) litigators Callie Bjurstrom and Peter Hahn have joined its Intellectual Property practice section as partners in San Diego. Formerly partners at Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP, the lawyers add considerable IP litigation and related business experience to Pillsbury (more…)
DLA Piper today announced that S. Andrew Pharies has joined the firm as a partner in the Trusts and Estates group of the San Diego office. Pharies is joined by associate Michelle C. Glasser. Pharies and Glasser both move to DLA Piper from Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP, where Pharies was the head of the firm’s Private Client Group (more…)
The global law firm Jones Day today has announced that Pat Swan has joined the firm as a partner in the Trial Practice, resident in the firm’s San Diego Office. Mr. Swan comes to Jones Day from Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps, where he was the partner-in-charge of the San Diego office and head of the firm’s white collar criminal defense practice group (more…)
The international law firm of McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP (MLA) and the California-based law firm of Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP (Luce Forward) have set a target merger date of March 1, 2012, following a recent vote by the firms’ partners (more…)
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. has announced a significant expansion of the firm’s San Diego office with the addition of Raj Tanden, Howard N. Wisnia, and James P. Conley (more…)
Estate planning, trust and probate administration attorney Laura M. Lamb will join Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek as Of Counsel effective January 1, 2012 (more…)
The global law firm Jones Day has announced that Maria Sendra has joined the Firm as a partner in the Private Equity Practice, resident in the Firm’s San Diego Office. Ms. Sendra comes to Jones Day from the San Diego office of Baker & McKenzie, where she was a partner and co-chair of the firm’s North America Life Sciences M&A subcommittee (more…)
Pfizer Inc. and Excaliard Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Pfizer will acquire Excaliard, a privately owned biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel drugs for the treatment of skin fibrosis, more commonly referred to as skin scarring. The acquisition is expected to close before the end of the year (more…)
Cooley LLP announced today that it advised client MLIM, LLC (owned and controlled by Papa Doug Manchester) in the purchase of San Diego’s daily newspaper, the San Diego Union-Tribune (more…)
Duane Morris is pleased to announce that David A. Charapp has joined the firm’s Corporate Practice Group as a partner in its San Diego office. Charapp’s arrival adds to Duane Morris’ growing corporate practice group on the West Coast and nationally, particularly in the areas of life sciences and technology. He joins Duane Morris from Foley & Lardner LLP, where he was chair of the firm’s Life Sciences Collaborations & Licensing Practice (more…)
