On Nov. 27, Asim K. Desai joined the Los Angeles office of Gordon & Rees as a partner in the firm’s Insurance, Tort & Product Liability, Class Action, and Commercial Litigation Practice Groups. Mr. Desai will also serve as co–chair of the Bad Faith/Extracontractual Practice Group. (more…)
Reed Smith today welcomes a further addition to its expanding Silicon Valley office: longtime Palo Alto insider George A. Willman, who joins the firm as a partner in its Corporate & Securities Group. (more…)
DLA Piper represented EdgeCast Networks, a Los Angeles-based content delivery network, in its acquisition by Verizon Digital Media Services. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2014, subject to customary closing conditions (more…)
DLA Piper has advised NASDAQ listed HomeAway Inc on its purchase of Stayz Pty Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fairfax Media Limited [ASX:FXJ], for A$220 million, making it one of the most significant M&A deals in the technology, media & telecommunications sector in Australia in 2013 (more…)
Cooley LLP announced today that it advised Xencor, Inc. on its initial public offering. Xencor, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing engineered monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of autoimmune diseases, asthma and allergic diseases and cancer, now trades on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol “XNCR.” (more…)

Nossaman LLP announces the addition of Steven E. Knott as a partner in the Firm’s Los Angeles office. Mr. Knott is an experienced trial lawyer specializing in commercial disputes, insurance coverage, environmental, and construction litigation. (more…)
Global specialist law firm Dechert LLP announced today that Lloyd J. MacNeil has joined the firm as a partner in the corporate practice. Most recently a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, he will be resident in the firm’s Los Angeles office. (more…)
Vedder Price is pleased to announce that Scott H. Olson has joined the firm’s Bankruptcy & Creditors’ Rights practice group today as a Shareholder in the firm’s San Francisco office. (more…)
Thompson Coburn is pleased to announce that Helen B. Kim has joined the firm as a partner. Kim will join the Business Litigation group and is the first addition to the firm’s new office in Los Angeles. She previously served as an attorney at Theodora Oringher PC, and Katten Muchin Rosenman. (more…)

Davis Polk advised Goldman, Sachs & Co. as initial purchaser in connection with a Rule 144A offering by NVIDIA Corporation of an aggregate principal amount of $1.5 billion of its 1% convertible senior notes due 2018, which included $200 million aggregate principal amount of notes from the full exercise of the initial purchaser’s over-allotment option. In addition, Davis Polk advised Goldman, Sachs & Co. as counterparty to convertible note hedge and warrant transactions in connection with the convertible notes offering (more…)
Simpson Thacher represented Goldman, Sachs & Co., as the sole initial purchaser, in connection with a private offering by SanDisk Corporation of $1.5 billion of 0.50% Convertible Senior Notes due 2020 (more…)
The Firm represented the underwriters, led by Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, in connection with the underwriting of the initial public offering of common stock by Vince Holding Corp. (the “Company”), formerly known as Apparel Holding Corp (more…)