Cooley LLP announced today that it is advising OPNET Technologies, Inc. in its pending acquisition by Riverbed Technology. Riverbed entered a definitive agreement to acquire OPNET for $43 per share in cash and stock, which represents an equity value of approximately $1 billion (more…)

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Judy O’Brien, a prominent corporate lawyer and one of Silicon Valley’s top dealmakers, is joining King & Spalding as a partner in its Redwood Shores office on November 1 (more…)

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Miro Holdings Inc., a portfolio company of private equity firm Solis Capital Partners and the parent company of Miro Technologies, in its sale to The Boeing Company (more…)

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Davis Polk advised Oracle Corporation on its SEC-registered debt offering of $2.5 billion aggregate principal amount of 1.2% notes due 2017 and $2.5 billion aggregate principal amount of 2.5% notes due 2022. Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, RBS Securities Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC were the lead joint book-running managers (more…)

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Cooley LLP announced today that it is advising Yelp Inc. in its approximately $50 million acquisition of Qype GmbH, Europe’s largest local reviews site. Qype was acquired to accelerate Yelp’s international expansion, bringing more than two million reviews and 15 million visitors per month across 13 countries. It is Yelp’s first acquisition since going public on March 12, 2012 (more…)

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Davis Polk advised Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. as lead joint book-running managers, and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Barclays Capital Inc., UBS Securities LLC and Raymond James & Associates, Inc. as book-running managers, in connection the $302.4 million SEC-registered offering of 4.8 million shares of common stock of Palo Alto Networks, Inc. sold by certain selling stockholders (more…)

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Davis Polk advised UBS AG, Stamford Branch, as administrative agent and UBS Securities LLC, Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. and Goldman Sachs Lending Partners LLC, as lead arrangers in connection with a refinancing of Brand Energy and Infrastructure Services, Inc.’s (Brand) existing first-lien and second-lien senior secured credit facilities (more…)

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Global law firm Proskauer has announced the further expansion of its Finance Group and global Corporate Department with the addition of Rajani K. Gupta as Senior Counsel in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Ms. Gupta joins the firm from Latham & Watkins, where she worked as a finance lawyer for more than a decade (more…)

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Gresham Savage Nolan & Tilden is pleased to announce that prominent land use attorney Ellen Berkowitz has joined the Firm as a Partner and has launched the Firm’s first Los Angeles Office (more…)

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Global law firm Proskauer served as counsel to funds managed by Ares Management LLC in their pending acquisition of Smart & Final Holdings Corp. for $975 million (more…)

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Davis Polk is advising Murphy Oil Corporation in connection with the spinoff to its stockholders of Murphy Oil USA, Inc., its U.S. downstream subsidiary, into an independent and separately traded company (more…)

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Davis Polk advised the underwriters in connection with an initial public offering of 5,060,000 shares of common stock of KYTHERA Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (including 660,000 shares in respect of the exercise in full of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares) at $16.00 per share for gross proceeds of approximately $80.1 million (more…)

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