Lisa M. Martens has joined the Del Mar office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property practice group. Martens joins from Fish & Richardson. (more…)
Procopio is pleased to announce the addition of partner Susan L. Daly to the firm’s Real Estate team.
Susan focuses her practice on representing developers of residential and commercial real estate. She has extensive experience in numerous types of subdivided land projects in California, Hawaii, Arizona and Oregon, including condominiums, planned developments, standard subdivisions, mixed-use projects, mixed-use high-rise projects, commercial condominium projects, residential master-planned communities, resort master-planned communities, golf course communities and custom home developments. Susan works regularly with builders and developers to obtain subdivision public reports from the California Bureau of Real Estate and approval of subdivision documents from local city and county planning departments. She also works with developers and lenders on broken common interest development projects. (more…)
Troutman Sanders LLP announced today that David L. Devernoe has joined the firm’s Intellectual Property practice as a partner in San Diego, California. He is joined by associate Christopher Franich. Both lawyers previously practiced together at Gordon & Rees. (more…)
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck is pleased to announce the addition of Ryan Waterman as a shareholder in its San Diego office. Waterman’s practice focuses on land use, CEQA/NEPA environmental review, and water and natural resource issues. Well known for his expertise in permitting a wide range of complex projects, including renewable solar and wind energy, mixed use, and commercial projects, Waterman also counsels clients on compliance with Clean Water Act permitting, including California’s new Industrial Storm Water permit. (more…)
Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, has increased its attorney ranks in San Diego with the arrival of shareholder Amy Todd-Gher from the Oakland, CA-based firm Valdez Todd & Doyle LLP. Todd-Gher brings with her an extensive employment litigation practice and is the latest lateral addition to the firm following recent attorney hires in Atlanta, Indianapolis, Miami and the firm’s new office in Portland, Maine. (more…)
Continuing the expansion of its Intellectual Property Practice and life sciences capabilities, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C. announced that Kenneth E. Jenkins has joined the firm as a Member in San Diego. He comes to Mintz Levin from Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, where he served as Managing Partner of the San Diego office. (more…)
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, is pleased to welcome Patricia (Patti) Perez as a shareholder in the firm’s San Diego office. Perez is the seventh shareholder and 13th attorney to join Ogletree Deakins’ San Diego office since it opened in January 2013. Ogletree Deakins has also experienced swift growth across its network of five California offices, which now include more than 100 attorneys. (more…)
Cooley advised Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on its Rule 144A offering of $500 million aggregate principal amount of convertible senior notes due 2021. The initial purchasers have purchased $15 million aggregate principal amount of convertible notes. (more…)
Duane Morris LLP is pleased to announce that Tony Guida, has joined the firm’s Education Law Group as a partner in its San Diego office. Guida’s addition expands the firm’s capabilities in representing higher education clients, including in the for-profit education center.
Guida focuses his practice on issues relating to higher education mergers, acquisitions and other substantive changes; federal and state regulatory matters; accreditation; government affairs and government response; and crisis management. (more…)
The global law firm Jones Day has announced that four former prosecutors – including three Assistant U.S. Attorneys and a former Deputy District Attorney – have joined the Firm’s Business and Tort Litigation Practice in three different California offices. In San Diego, Truc Do and Peter Mazza have joined as partner and of counsel, respectively. In addition, Rasha Gerges Shields has joined Jones Day as a partner in Los Angeles and Cheryl O’Connor will join the firm on November 17 as a partner in Irvine. (more…)
Cooley is advising Ambit Biosciences on its agreement to be acquired by Daiichi Sankyo Company, Ltd. for approximately $315 million on a fully diluted basis. In addition to the upfront cash payment, each Ambit Biosciences stockholder will receive one Contingent Value Right (CVR), entitling the holder to receive an additional cash payment of up to $4.50 for each share they own if certain commercialization related milestones are achieved. The total transaction is valued at up to $410 million on a fully diluted basis. (more…)
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, continues to deepen its ranks and strengthen its presence in California with the addition of Guillermo Escobedo and Jennifer Santa Maria, two new shareholders in the firm’s San Diego office. Escobedo and Santa Maria join Ogletree Deakins from Jackson Lewis, where they helped establish and grow that firm’s San Diego office. Escobedo transitioned his practice to Ogletree Deakins this week. Santa Maria will officially start work for the firm in October. Since opening its doors in January 2013, Ogletree Deakins’ San Diego office has grown quickly to 12 attorneys who serve clients throughout Southern California and the United States. In July, Ogletree Deakins welcomed Christopher Olmsted who joined the San Diego office as a shareholder, boosting the firm’s employment law, litigation, and wage and hour practice groups and increasing the firm’s depth in California. (more…)
