Sidley Austin LLP announced today that Vernon M. Winters will join its San Francisco office as a partner in the intellectual property litigation practice, effective January 1, 2012 (more…)
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Boot Barn, Inc., a leading western and work wear retailer with 85 stores in eight states, in its sale to Freeman Spogli & Co., a private equity investment firm (more…)
SNR Denton announced today that it represented Nefsis Corporation in the sale of the company to the Brother Group, a leading manufacturer and distributor of high-quality printing devices for home office and commercial environments (more…)
Nossaman’s Corporate Practice Group successfully represented Irvine-based Monarch HealthCare in its acquisition by OptumHealth, a unit of UnitedHealth Group Incorporated (more…)
David Boyer has joined Nossaman as a partner in the Water Practice Group, the Firm announced today. Mr. Boyer represents public agencies and private parties on water, environmental and natural resources, public policy, eminent domain and inverse condemnation, insurance coverage, and employment matters. He is based in Nossaman’s Orange County office (more…)

Arnold & Porter LLP and Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin PC today announced the combination of their two firms, which is expected to be completed by January 1, 2012. The combination substantially expands Arnold & Porter’s West Coast presence and provides Howard Rice’s clients with national and international capabilities and a broader range of services (more…)
Joshua Cohen joins Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP as a partner. Most recently, he was a principal and chaired the Litigation Group at Morgan Miller Blair, where he practiced in the Business and Technology Group (more…)
Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Littler), the nation’s largest employment and labor law firm representing management, has added Rebecca M. Aragon as a shareholder in its Los Angeles office. Ms. Aragon, formerly chair of the Labor and Employment Practice Group at Venable LLP in Los Angeles, brings more than 20 years of legal experience and will divide her time between the firm’s downtown and Century City offices (more…)
O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented Celsion Corporation, a leading oncology company dedicated to the development and commercialization of innovative cancer drugs, in the closing of a US$15 million private placement that includes commitments by leading life science institutional investors (more…)

Fenwick & West represented SuccessFactors, Inc. (NYSE: SFSF) in its acquisition by SAP America, Inc. (NYSE: SAP). The transaction is valued at approximately $3.4 billion (more…)
Shearman & Sterling represented BofA Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Barclays Capital and Deutsche Bank as joint book-running managers and representatives of the several managers in connection with Amgen’s offering of €550,000,000 4.375% Senior Notes due 2018 and £475,000,000 5.50% Senior Notes due 2026. The offering was conducted in accordance with Regulation S (more…)
Hughes Hubbard & Reed announced today that David Stern, a litigation partner with considerable first chair trial experience, has joined the firm in its Los Angeles office. He was previously a partner at Winston & Strawn in L.A. (more…)

