In a first-of-its-kind transaction, a San Francisco and Washington, D.C., team recently advised San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) in its $285 million investment in the Rim Rock wind power project in northern Montana. This is the first time that a California regulated utility has invested in a renewable energy project in order to use the tax benefits of ownership to reduce the price it pays for energy (more…)
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton announced today the addition of attorney William Lambert to its internationally-recognized Intellectual Property Department. Dr. Lambert joins Kilpatrick Townsend’s Silicon Valley office as Counsel on the Health and Life Sciences and Electronics and Software Teams (more…)
Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Ronald K. Sittler has joined the Firm as a partner in the Corporate Litigation group (more…)
Orrick advised Recurrent Energy in its sale of four photovoltaic (PV) facilities serving the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) to Google and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P (KKR). This is Google’s first investment in the U.S. in utility-scale solar photovoltaic and KKR’s first renewable investment in the U.S (more…)
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that Kevin Poloncarz has joined the Environmental and Energy practice in San Francisco as partner. Mr. Poloncarz, an air quality and climate change expert, joins from Bingham McCutchen LLP, where he was co-chair of the Climate Change practice (more…)
Shearman & Sterling represented Microsemi Corporation in its acquisition of the telecom clock generation, synchronization, packet timing and synthesis business from Maxim Integrated Products, Inc (more…)
Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Vera M. Elson is joining the firm’s Palo Alto office as a partner in the intellectual property litigation practice. Ms. Elson focuses her practice on intellectual property litigation and counseling clients in the technology arena, including a number of Silicon Valley’s leading technology companies (more…)
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP (MLA) is pleased to welcome Stephen M. Nichols to MLA’s Litigation practice. Nichols will be located in the firm’s Los Angeles office where he will focus on complex product liability and toxic tort lawsuits (more…)
The international law firm of McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP (MLA) and the California-based law firm of Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP (Luce Forward) have set a target merger date of March 1, 2012, following a recent vote by the firms’ partners (more…)
Corporate lawyers Kyle Guse and Amar Murugan, who represent a number of innovative companies in the life sciences and technology sectors, joined Baker Botts L.L.P. today as partners in the firm’s Palo Alto office (more…)
Holland & Knight is pleased to announce that Cameron G. Stout has joined the firm’s West Coast Litigation Group as a partner (more…)
Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that it has advised North America Sekisui House, LLC (“NASH”), the wholly-owned subsidiary of Sekisui House, Ltd – Japan’s largest homebuilder and a leading diversified developer, in its acquisition of the largest operating portfolio of residential master-planned communities in the United States (more…)
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