Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Wells Fargo Capital Finance, LLC, part of Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC), in its role as agent and a lender in a financing for the acquisition of Sage Software Healthcare, LLC, a leading global supplier of medical business management software and services, by private equity firm Vista Equity Partners, LLC (more…)
Jenner & Block has expanded its Los Angeles office and its representation of clients in the media and entertainment industries with the addition of six new partners. Highly experienced courtroom attorneys Richard L. Stone, Kenneth D. Klein, Julie A. Shepard, David R. Singer, and Amy M. Gallegos join the Firm’s Litigation Department, while noted transactional attorney Carissa C. W. Coze joins the Firm’s Corporate Department (more…)
Locke Lord today announced the addition of another new Partner to its Corporate Insurance Practice Group, welcoming experienced attorney Elizabeth A. Tosaris to its San Francisco Office. She is the third high-caliber insurance regulatory attorney added recently to a practice that counts more than 50 lawyers who devote a substantial portion of their transactional, corporate, securities, investment management, tax and regulatory practices to representing the insurance industry. Tosaris’ colleagues, Partner Paige Waters and Of Counsel Stephanie M. O’Neill Macro, joined Locke Lord’s Chicago Office late last month (more…)
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, a national law firm with offices in New York, Los Angeles and Miami, announced today that Jake Loftus has joined the Financial Services Litigation group as Of Counsel, effective immediately. Mr. Loftus will reside in the firm’s Los Angeles office (more…)
Baird Fogel has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP’s San Francisco office as a partner in the firm’s project finance and renewable energy practice. Previously, Mr. Fogel was general counsel with BP Solar (more…)

Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced the addition of Thomas M. Cleary to its Corporate Finance Practice Group as a Member in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Prior to joining Dykema, Cleary was a Partner in SNR Denton’s Corporate Practice Group (more…)
Corporate attorney Charles J. Kao has joined Kaye Scholer as Special Counsel in its Silicon Valley office (more…)
Dickstein Shapiro LLP is pleased to announce the expansion of its Employment Practice on the West Coast with the arrival of employment litigator Arthur Silbergeld in the Los Angeles office. Mr. Silbergeld, who is annually identified as one of the top employment litigators in California, will lead the firm’s Employment Practice in California. Mr. Silbergeld has defended numerous employers in federal and state bench and jury trials in class action and individual claims (more…)
Nossaman LLP announced today that Kevin Collins has joined the Firm as a partner in the Litigation Department. Mr. Collins, an experienced trial lawyer who focuses on complex litigation in commercial, construction, and public law, will be based in Nossaman’s Sacramento office (more…)

Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Children’s Hospital of Orange County (“CHOC”), one of the nation’s leading pediatric facilities, in the acquisition of assets from Pediatric Subspecialty Faculty, Inc. (“PSF”), a large medical group providing the full spectrum of pediatric subspecialty care throughout Orange County California and the surrounding areas (more…)
Fenwick & West LLP, one of the Top 10 “Go-To” IP litigation firms in the U.S. according to Corporate Counsel, is pleased to announce that Andrew P. Bridges will join the firm as partner in its IP & Technology Litigation Group. Regularly recognized as one of the Top 100 IP litigators in California, Mr. Bridges focuses his practice on complex litigation in Internet, copyright, trademark, advertising, unfair competition, consumer protection and commercial law disputes. Mr. Bridges joins Fenwick from the San Francisco office of Winston & Strawn, and will start with Fenwick on Tuesday, November 8, 2011 (more…)
DLA Piper announced today that it has brought in Beni Surpin as a partner in its San Diego office. Surpin is joining DLA Piper’s Technology, Sourcing and Commercial group, and the firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology and Corporate practices. Prior to joining DLA Piper, Surpin was a partner at Sheppard Mullin where he led the Intellectual Property, Technology and Commercial Transactions group, and the firm’s China IP team (more…)

