Cooley LLP announced that it advised Insys Therapeutics on its initial public offering. Insys Therapeutics, now trading on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbol “INSY,” is an Arizona-based commercial-stage specialty pharmaceutical company. Insys develops and commercializes innovative supportive care products, with a focus on utilizing its proprietary formulation technologies to address the clinical shortcomings of existing commercial pharmaceutical products (more…)
Procopio welcomes J. Christopher Jaczko to the firm as Senior Counsel. He will be part of their Intellectual Property Litigation practice group, working out of the firm’s downtown San Diego office. Mr. Jaczko’s addition to the firm continues Procopio’s strong strategic growth in the intellectual property and intellectual property litigation areas (more…)
Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Avalon Ventures, a San Diego-based venture capital fund, in its $495 million collaboration with global healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to fund and launch up to ten early-stage life sciences companies. While the technologies for the companies may come from anywhere in the world, the companies and their management and scientific teams will all be located in San Diego (more…)
Sanjay Bhandari, an accomplished litigator known for his work in white collar criminal defense, corporate investigations, and intellectual property litigation, has joined Ballard Spahr as a partner in San Diego, firm Chair Mark Stewart announced today (more…)
Morrison & Foerster today announced that leading privacy and consumer protection lawyer Andrew B. Serwin has joined the firm as a partner, along with of counsel Peter F. McLaughlin and associate Daniel Muto. The additions enhance a group widely lauded as one of the very best in the field. Morrison & Foerster’s group is ranked in Band 1 by Chambers Global, Chambers USA and Legal 500, and it recently was named by Law360 as one of its Privacy and Consumer Protection Practice Groups of the Year (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 Frank Tobin as a shareholder in its San Diego office. Tobin joins Ogletree Deakins from Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP where he was a partner. Tobin is a litigator who has tried approximately 20 trials, including serving as the lead counsel in both jury and bench trials and arbitrations. His labor and employment litigation practice focuses on ERISA breach of fiduciary duty, contract disputes, unfair competition, wrongful termination, and trade secret matters. He also has significant experience with healthcare litigation and counseling and defending class action lawsuits. Tobin’s arrival signals growth in the firm’s San Diego office which opened in January. It also continues the firm’s strategic expansion in California where Ogletree Deakins has attracted and retained several highly regarded shareholders (more…)
Cooley LLP announced today that it advised Hot Topic in its proposed sale to Sycamore Partners. Sycamore Partners has agreed to acquire Hot Topic for $14.00 per share in cash, or a total of approximately $600 million (more…)
National law firm Wilson Elser is pleased to announce that experienced trial attorney Peter M. Hughes has joined the firm’s San Diego office as of counsel (more…)
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, is pleased to announce the opening of its San Diego office. Spencer Skeen, who joins Ogletree Deakins from Fisher & Phillips, will serve as the founding and managing shareholder. The San Diego office, which is expected to grow quickly, is the firm’s fifth in California and part of the network of offices throughout the state that includes Los Angeles, Orange County, San Francisco, and Torrance. San Diego is the fourth new office that Ogletree Deakins has opened in less than a year, and it extends the firm’s growth trend (more…)
Ron Ball, the former city attorney of Carlsbad, has joined Best Best & Krieger LLP as an of counsel attorney, the firm announced today (more…)
DLA Piper represented Eagle View Technologies, Inc. in a merger with Pictometry International that created a combined new company valued at approximately US$400 million. The merger creates an entity that offers comprehensive and robust capabilities in aerial imagery collections, geospatial analytics and 3D measurement technologies (more…)
DLA Piper represented US-based Sorteo Games Inc., a leading provider of electronic lottery systems, in an exclusive long-term strategic alliance in Mexico with leading Australian interactive lottery business Jumbo Interactive Ltd (more…)
