Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP, a preeminent California-based real estate and full service business law firm, welcomes back Mark Mengelberg as a partner in the firm’s San Francisco office. He rejoins Allen Matkins’ Real Estate Department after six years as a partner at Seyfarth Shaw, with an emphasis on real estate transactions and finance (more…)
Cooley LLP announced today that a Delaware federal judge denied a motion for preliminary injunction against Cooley client Gevo Inc., in a patent infringement suit filed by Butamax. The Opinion, delivered on June 19, stated that “the court has concluded that plaintiff does not hold a valid patent, nor would the defendant infringe if it did.” (more…)
Greenberg Glusker announced today that bankruptcy attorney Brian L. Davidoff and his practice group will join the Firm, effective July 1, 2012. Davidoff will head the Firm’s Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Group. The attorneys moving with Davidoff include C. John M. Melissinos and Claire E. Shin, who also will join Greenberg Glusker’s Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Group, and Benjamin M. Alexander, who will join Greenberg Glusker’s Corporate Group. All four have practiced at Davidoff Gold LLP since February 2012, and prior thereto practiced at Rutter Hobbs & Davidoff, where Davidoff was Managing Partner (more…)
Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Louise Adamson has joined the firm as Partner in the San Francisco office. She joins from K&L Gates (more…)
Davis Polk is advising Bank of America Merrill Lynch as a joint bookrunner and joint lead arranger of a $3.5 billion senior unsecured bridge facility for Walgreen Co. in connection with its proposed acquisition of not less than 45% of the issued and outstanding equity interests in Alliance Boots GmbH (more…)
Davis Polk is advising Vector Capital on the $2.2 billion leveraged buyout of Quest Software, Inc. Joining with CEO Vincent Smith and Insight Venture Partners, on June 19, 2012, Vector Capital entered into definitive agreements to acquire Quest for $25.75 per share in cash. The transaction is also being financed with approximately $1.2 billion of debt financing commitments from J.P. Morgan Chase Bank N.A., RBC Capital Markets and Barclays Capital (more…)
Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Joshua Hill has joined the firm as a litigation partner in the San Francisco office. For the past four years, Mr. Hill has served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of California. He is a member of the firm’s white collar, securities litigation and complex commercial litigation practice groups (more…)
A team of five Corporate/Securities and Intellectual Property attorneys has joined the AmLaw 100 law firm of Troutman Sanders LLP, boosting the firm’s presence in Southern California (more…)
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the nation’s largest labor and employment law firms, welcomes Dawn Collins and Katessa Charles Davis as shareholders to the firm’s Los Angeles office. Collins joins Ogletree Deakins from Jackson Lewis; and Davis from Steptoe & Johnson LLP. Since January, Ogletree Deakins’ Los Angeles office has grown by nearly 20 percent in response to client demand. Nationally, Ogletree Deakins has added shareholders in the firm’s offices in Atlanta, Denver, New Orleans, New York City, and Philadelphia (more…)
Shartsis Friese LLP announced today that Craig B. Etlin and Peter Aitelli have joined the firm as partners in the real estate group (more…)
Loeb & Loeb LLP partner Scott Zolke represented Octagon Entertainment Productions as producing partner in connection with actor/comedian Arsenio Hall’s anticipated syndicated late-night talk show announced today by CBS Television Distribution (CTD) (more…)
The California Department of Transportation (“Caltrans”) announced today that, in cooperation with the San Francisco County Transportation Authority, financial close has been reached on the Presidio Parkway Project public-private partnership (“P3”). A Nossaman team, led by Barney Allison, advised Caltrans on the procurement, financing and contracts for the project. The $1.1 billion deal will be the first transportation P3 in California under the recently enacted P3 statute, Streets and Highways Code section 143, and only the third highway project developed through an availability payment structure (more…)
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