Shearman & Sterling represented the initial purchasers led by Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC in connection with Prospect Medical Holdings, Inc.’s offering of $100 million of its 8.375% Senior Secured Notes due 2019. The Notes are secured by mortgages on seven hospitals in California and Texas, as well as substantially all of the other assets of Prospect and its subsidiaries (more…)
Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP (JMBM) is pleased to announce the addition of Richard Whitlow, formerly of Jones Day, as Of Counsel in the Firm’s Patent Litigation Group (more…)
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented St. Joseph Heritage Healthcare (“Heritage”) in the purchase of substantially all of the assets of Mission Internal Medical Group, Inc., a California professional medical corporation (“MIMG”), which owns and operates a comprehensive, multi-specialty medical practice and conducts such practice in several office locations in southern Orange County, California (more…)
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented The TCW Group (TCW), a prominent international asset management firm with approximately $135 billion in assets under management, in a joint venture with global investment manager Scoggin Capital Management to manage distressed and event-driven alternative investment strategies (more…)
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP announced today that Jeffrey A. Finn has joined its Century City office and will head the firm’s West Coast Patent Practice. Finn represents start-up, emerging growth and large corporations in all aspects of intellectual property law, with an emphasis on patent litigation (more…)

DLA Piper today announced that Dharmesh Pandya has joined the firm’s Tax practice as a partner in the Silicon Valley office (more…)
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP announced today that James F. Brelsford will join the firm in February 2013. Mr. Brelsford will become of counsel to the firm’s Intellectual Property group in Palo Alto and will advise clients on complex IP transactions, monetization strategies and litigation, including in cross-border matters, particularly in Asia (more…)
Dykema announces that J. Alexandra Rhim has joined the Firm as a senior counsel in its Bankruptcy Practice Group. She will be based in the Firm’s Los Angeles office (more…)
Loeb & Loeb LLP achieved a significant appellate victory on behalf of clients Showtime Networks Inc. and Darlene Hunt, creator and head writer of the Showtime original television series The Big C, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court’s grant of summary judgment against a woman who alleged that the series infringed her screenplay (more…)

Davis Polk advised Ingram Micro Inc. in connection with a designation of additional commitments under its revolving senior unsecured credit facility in an aggregate principal amount of $190 million, increasing total commitments under the facility to $940 million (more…)
Davis Polk advised Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Barclays Capital Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated as joint book-running managers on a Rule 144A offering by Encore Capital Group, Inc. of $100 million aggregate principal amount of its 3% convertible senior notes due 2017 (more…)
In the largest real estate deal this year, Morrison & Foerster LLP is representing leading residential real estate investment trust Equity Residential (NYSE: EQR) in a joint agreement with AvalonBay Communities to acquire a vast portfolio of U.S. apartment properties owned by Archstone (more…)

