The national law firm of Epstein Becker Green (EBG) today announced that Adam C. Abrahms, a seasoned labor management relations attorney, has joined the Labor and Employment practice as a Member of the Firm in its Los Angeles office (more…)

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Davis Polk advised the underwriters in connection with an initial public offering of 8,222,500 shares of common stock of Yelp Inc. (including 1,072,500 shares in respect of the exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares) at $15.00 per share for gross proceeds of $123.3 million (more…)

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McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP announced today that it has completed its merger with California-based Luce Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP (Luce Forward).  The combined firm will continue to be known as McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP (MLA), and building on the Luce Forward legacy, will have more than 575 attorneys and public policy advisors in 13 offices and 11 markets (more…)

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International law Firm McDermott Will & Emery LLP is pleased to announce that S. Michael Song has been named a partner in the Firm’s Intellectual Property (IP) Litigation Practice Group, based in the Silicon Valley office (more…)

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Edward V. Anderson has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s 75-attorney Intellectual Property practice group, based in the firm’s Palo Alto office (more…)

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Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Greg Robins has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the Finance Department (more…)

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O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented QLogic Corp., a leading supplier of high performance network infrastructure solutions, in its sale of specific InfiniBand products and assets to Intel Corp. for US$125 million, which closed on February 29, 2012 (more…)

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Covington & Burling LLP represented Borrego Solar Systems, Inc. in connection with its new $47 million project finance fund with partners U.S. Bank and East West Bank. The fund will finance solar energy projects that are expected to create hundreds of new jobs and generate electricity to power nearly 2,000 homes (more…)

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Peter J. Van Zandt has joined the law firm of LeClairRyan as a shareholder on the firm’s Business Litigation Practice Area team. He is joined by two associate attorneys, H. Paul Efstratis and Claudia L. Williams (more…)

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Cooley LLP is pleased to announce it advised Yelp Inc. (NYSE: YELP) in its initial public offering of common stock.  Yelp’s common stock began trading on the New York Stock Exchange today (more…)

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Veteran California construction lawyer, Roger Hughes, joins Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP as a partner and as leader of the firm’s Construction Group (more…)

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Reed Smith LLP strengthened its entertainment industry presence with the addition of Harrison J. Dossick as a partner and Chet Devaskar as an associate in the firm’s Century City office (more…)

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