Alston & Bird LLP today announced the expansion of its corporate practice in California with the addition of Lior Nuchi as a partner in the firm’s Silicon Valley office (more…)

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International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP today announced that Eric J. Schwartzman has joined the firm as a partner in its Silicon Valley office. Mr. Schwartzman joins Weil’s Private Equity/Mergers & Acquisitions practice from Latham & Watkins LLP where he was a partner and former co-chair of its corporate department in New York (more…)

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that Thomas Brown will join the Antitrust and Global Competition and the Global Banking and Payments Systems practices in San Francisco as partner in 2012. Mr. Brown, an antitrust lawyer with nationally recognized payment systems expertise, will join from O’Melveny & Myers LLP, where he is a partner (more…)

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Barnes & Thornburg LLP announced today that Howard D. Fabrick has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the Labor and Employment Law Department and Entertainment and Music Practice Group. Fabrick was previously a partner in the Los Angeles office of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP (more…)

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McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP (MLA) is pleased to announce that Raymond O. Aghaian has joined the law firm as a partner in its Los Angeles office.  Aghaian will focus on white collar crime, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act compliance, internal investigations, civil litigation and cyber security crimes (more…)

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Jill M. Pietrini has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s 70 attorney Intellectual Property practice group, based in the firm’s Los Angeles/Century City office (more…)

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Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the nation’s largest labor and employment law firms, welcomes Alexandra Bodnar as a shareholder to the firm’s Los Angeles office. Bodnar joins Ogletree Deakins from the Los Angeles office of Squire Sanders where she was a partner and head of the office’s labor and employment group (more…)

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Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, a world leader in digital consumer electronics and information technology, in the sale of its hard disk drive (HDD) operations to Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX), the world leader in hard disk drives and storage solutions (more…)

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Morrison & Foerster LLP represented long-time client Novellus Systems, Inc. in a $3.3 billion merger agreement that will result in the sale of the company to Lam Research Corp (more…)

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Rockwood Capital, LLC, a private real estate investment firm, and Vestar, a commercial development and management company, in a joint venture to acquire Real Property known as The District at Green Valley Ranch, a retail shopping center within a mixed development community in Henderson, Nevada (more…)

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Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that Elizabeth B. Kim has joined the Firm as an Associate in the Commercial Litigation group.  She will be based in the Firm’s Los Angeles office (more…)

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Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton announced today the addition of Uyen Nguyen to the firm’s Silicon Valley office. Mr. Nguyen joins the firm as an associate on the nationally-recognized Mergers & Acquisitions and Securities Team (more…)

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