Davis Polk advised Texas Instruments Incorporated on its SEC-registered debt offering of $1.5 billion aggregate principal amount of notes, consisting of $750 million of 0.45% notes due 2015 and $750 million of 1.65% notes due 2019. The offering was made through an underwriting syndicate led by Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC (more…)

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DLA Piper represented MarkMonitor, a global leader in online brand protection, in its acquisition by the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals (more…)

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Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm won dismissal of all claims in an antitrust action brought in Washington state court against the firm’s client, LG Display, the world’s largest LCD panel maker. The state attorney general alleged that LG Display and several other manufacturers had conspired to fix the price of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels, causing the State and consumers to pay supracompetitive prices for LCD products (more…)

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The national law firm of Epstein Becker Green (EBG) continues to expand its presence in Southern California and Washington, D.C., through the recent addition of Kim Tyrrell-Knott, a seasoned health care IT attorney. Tyrrell-Knott joins the Health Care and Life Sciences practice as a Member of the Firm in the Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., offices (more…)

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Duane Morris is pleased to announce that Marianne F. Adriatico has joined the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group as a partner in its San Diego office. Adriatico further strengthens Duane Morris’ real estate practice, particularly its expanding capabilities in California. She joins Duane Morris from HechtSolberg LLP (more…)

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Covington & Burling represented Borrego Solar Systems, Inc. in connection with its new $64.4 million project finance fund with partners U.S. Bank and National Cooperative Bank. The fund will be used to build more than 18 megawatts of solar energy systems, including systems to be located at four municipal landfill installations and one school district (more…)

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Rutan & Tucker, LLP, Orange County’s largest full-service business law firm, recently announced that Julie Russ has rejoined the firm as senior counsel (more…)

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Moving to expand its already strong life sciences capabilities, international law firm McDermott Will & Emery LLP today announced the addition of two new partners and a team of seasoned patent practitioners in its Silicon Valley and Boston offices (more…)

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Snell & Wilmer is pleased to announce the addition of Rick McNeil as a partner in the firm’s commercial litigation group in Orange County. He joins Snell & Wilmer from the law firm of Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell. McNeil also formerly chaired the environmental practice at Irell & Manella (more…)

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Davis Polk advised Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC as representative of the several underwriters of a $46 million SEC-registered follow-on offering of 7,076,922 shares of common stock of XenoPort, Inc (more…)

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Pillsbury today announced the addition of André Brewster, an experienced securities and business transactional lawyer in San Francisco. Brewster joins Pillsbury’s Investment Funds and Investment Management team within the Corporate and Securities practice as counsel (more…)

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Brian T. Hafter has joined the law firm of LeClairRyan as a partner on the Business Litigation and Intellectual Property & Technology Litigation Practice Area Teams. He will be resident in the national law firm’s San Francisco office (more…)

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