The global law firm Jones Day has announced that Taylor L. Stevens has joined the Firm as a partner in the San Diego Office, where he is now a member of Jones Day’s M&A Practice. Mr. Stevens moved to Jones Day from the San Diego Office of Morrison & Foerster, where he was a partner in the Corporate Practice. (more…)
Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, the world leader in 3D design software, 3D Digital Mock Up and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, and Accelrys, Inc., a leading provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management software for chemistry, biology and materials, announced the signing of a definitive merger agreement for Dassault Systèmes to acquire San Diego‑based Accelrys, Inc. Cravath represented Dassault Systèmes in connection with this transaction. (more…)
Duane Morris LLP is pleased to announce that Grant Puleo has joined the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group and Dawn Hall Cunneen has joined the Wealth Planning Practice Group, both in the firm’s San Diego office. Puleo’s addition further enhances the firm’s Real Estate capabilities in both San Diego and nationally, and Cunneen’s addition expands the firm’s national Wealth Planning Practice to the West Coast. Both Puleo and Cunneen join Duane Morris from Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP. (more…)
DLA Piper represented EdgeCast Networks, a Los Angeles-based content delivery network, in its acquisition by Verizon Digital Media Services. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2014, subject to customary closing conditions (more…)
Bowman and Brooke LLP, a nationally recognized trial firm known for defending household-name corporations in high-exposure product liability cases, today announced the opening of its new office in San Diego, California.
Joining Bowman and Brooke and leading the team in San Diego are newly named partners Michael Hurvitz and Gregory Jackson. They are two highly experienced product liability lawyers with significant track records defending medical device and biotech companies. They have represented clients in product liability, mass tort, consumer fraud and warranty litigation, as well as multiple individual product cases (more…)
DLA Piper represented ACTIVE Network, a San Diego-based software company, in its $1.05 billion acquisition by Vista Equity Partners, the largest Internet leveraged buyout in 2013 (more…)
Procopio welcomes Edsell “Chip” Eady, Jr. in the role as Of Counsel to its public agencies and charter schools team. A well-established bond finance attorney from the Bay Area, Eady’s experience provides Procopio’s nonprofit and public sector clients with public financing alternatives and guidance on publicly-funded projects from start to finish (more…)
Troutman Sanders LLP is pleased to announce that Chad Fuller and Victoria Holstein-Childress have joined the firm as partners in the Financial Services Litigation practice. Fuller practices in the firm’s San Diego office, and Holstein-Childress practices in the firm’s Washington, DC office (more…)
Best Best & Krieger LLP recently hired three attorneys to join the eminent domain practice in offices across Southern California (more…)
The global law firm Jones Day has announced that Shireen Becker has joined the Firm’s San Diego Office as of counsel in the Corporate Criminal Investigations Practice. Ms. Becker joins from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California, where she served as Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division (more…)
Pillsbury today announced that Marcus Wu has joined the firm as a partner in the Executive Compensation & Benefits practice in San Diego. An accomplished lawyer, Wu has extensive experience in designing and implementing a broad spectrum of retirement plans and deferred-compensation plans (more…)
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney announced today that Kimberly Arouh joined the firm’s Litigation Section as counsel (more…)
