Davis Polk advised Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC as joint book-running managers on an SEC-registered offering by Torchmark Corporation of $300 million aggregate principal amount of 3.8% senior notes due 2022 (more…)

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Goodwin Procter represented a group of underwriters in a $117.3 million initial public offering of common stock for Trulia Inc., which closed on Sept. 25 (more…)

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Pepper Hamilton LLP announced that Mary L. Dickson has joined the firm as a partner in the Financial Services Practice Group, resident in the Los Angeles office (more…)

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Global law firm White & Case LLP has further expanded its mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and capital markets capabilities with the addition of Eric Hwang, formerly of Oracle Corp., and Christopher Rose, formerly of CODA Automotive, as partners in its Silicon Valley office (more…)

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David A. Barksdale has returned to Ballard Spahr as a real estate partner in the firm’s Los Angeles office, firm Chair Mark S. Stewart announced today (more…)

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Nossaman LLP adds intellectual property attorney Thomas Dover to the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner. Dover will serve as co-chair of Nossaman’s newly formalized Intellectual Property & Media Practice Group, along with Partner Stephen P. Wiman (more…)

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DLA Piper represented Galaxy Biotech, LLC, in its licensing to Roche of exclusive worldwide development and commercialization rights of its antibodies targeting fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2) for the treatment of cancer (more…)

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The law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP is pleased to announce the opening of its newest office in Los Angeles, California. The Firm has landed noted litigator Bruce J. Zabarauskas, who joins Thompson & Knight Partner, Shelly A. Youree, to launch operations (more…)

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented the shareholders of Paragon Biomedical, Inc., a full-service clinical research organization, in the successful sale of their shares to Clinipace, Inc., a digital contract research organization for emerging and mid-tier biopharmaceutical and medical device firms (more…)

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Simpson Thacher represented Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC as the sole underwriter in connection with a registered secondary offering of 4 million shares of the common stock of RealPage, Inc (more…)

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Emma Maconick, an expert in complex intellectual property licensing and technology transactions, has joined King & Spalding’s Silicon Valley office as a partner in the firm’s corporate group (more…)

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Fox Rothschild LLP is pleased to announce that Lena N. Bacani has joined the firm as counsel in the Los Angeles office (more…)

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