Pepper Hamilton LLP announced that Gary Apfel has joined the firm as a partner in the Financial Services Practice Group. Prior to joining Pepper, Mr. Apfel was co-chair of the Consumer Financial Services Group at Dewey & LeBoeuf in Los Angeles (more…)

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O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. as the financial advisor to PLX Technology, Inc. in its acquisition by Integrated Device Technology, Inc (more…)

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Miller Starr Regalia, a leading California real estate law firm, announced today the hiring of Vice President & General Counsel of J.F. Shea Co., Inc., Paul Mosley, the hiring of Blake Wettengel of McConnell, Dunning & Barwick LLP, and the opening of its new office in Southern California (more…)

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Suburban Propane Partners, L.P. (NYSE: SPH), has announced a definitive agreement with Inergy, L.P., Inergy GP, LLC and Inergy Sales & Service, Inc. to acquire the sole membership interest in and to Inergy Propane, LLC, now owned by Inergy, including certain wholly owned subsidiaries of Inergy Propane, LLC, and the assets of Inergy Sales (more…)

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Morgan Lewis today announced the addition of a team of lawyers, led by Marshall Stoddard—formerly the head of the bank and institutional finance practice at another AmLaw 100 firm—to its Business and Finance Practice, resident in the firm’s New York and Los Angeles offices (more…)

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Shearman & Sterling has expanded its intellectual property transactions capabilities with the arrival of IP lawyer Richard Hsu, who will join the firm as a partner in Palo Alto (more…)

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Cooley LLP announced today that it is advising Jazz Pharmaceuticals in its pending acquisition of EUSA Pharma. The Cooley team was led by Mergers & Acquisitions partner Jennifer Fonner DiNucci, based in Palo Alto (more…)

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Loeb & Loeb LLP announced today that Paul Rohrer has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the Land Use Practice. Rohrer was most recently a partner in the Los Angeles office of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP (more…)

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Davis Polk advised Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated as joint book-running managers in connection with the $264 million initial public offering of 15,525,000 shares of common stock of Splunk, Inc., including 2,025,000 shares from the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares (more…)

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Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Actavis Group have jointly announced that Watson has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Actavis for an upfront payment of EUR4.25 billion (more…)

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Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP has further reinforced its Construction Group with the addition of Eric Phillips as a partner (more…)

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The Firm is representing AlixPartners, LLP and its largest equityholder, Hellman & Friedman, in connection with its announced recapitalization pursuant to which, funds affiliated with CVC Capital Partners will acquire a majority ownership of AlixPartners (more…)

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