Winston & Strawn LLP has announced that two attorneys have joined the firm’s transactional practice from Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. Edward V. Kayukov and Laurae Rossi, both project finance attorneys, join Winston & Strawn as partners in the Los Angeles office. The firm has now welcomed approximately 20 attorneys in the last 12 months to its Los Angeles office. The recent hire comes on the heels of the firm’s opening of an office in Silicon Valley, which brings Winston & Strawn’s presence on the West Coast to three offices (more…)

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Hogan Lovells today announced the expansion of its Los Angeles Office with the addition of a prominent, long-standing corporate transactional team. Veteran Los Angeles corporate and mergers and acquisitions partner Barry Dastin, prominent media and entertainment partner Sheri Jeffrey, and corporate and M&A partner Russ Cashdan will join Hogan Lovells’ Los Angeles office. The three partners have worked together as a team for more than fifteen years (more…)

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Angeli C. Aragon has joined LeClairRyan as a partner on the firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology and Labor and Employment Practice Area teams. She will be resident in the national law firm’s Los Angeles office (more…)

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Procopio welcomes Edsell “Chip” Eady, Jr. in the role as Of Counsel to its public agencies and charter schools team. A well-established bond finance attorney from the Bay Area, Eady’s experience provides Procopio’s nonprofit and public sector clients with public financing alternatives and guidance on publicly-funded projects from start to finish (more…)

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Akin Gump today announced that Dario J. Frommer has joined the firm as a partner in its public law and policy practice in Los Angeles. Mr. Frommer is a former majority leader of the California State Assembly and has held a variety of high-level state government positions. He comes to Akin Gump from Mayer Brown and will lead the firm’s California public law and policy practice (more…)

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O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented Refresh, the dynamic technology company behind the first mobile application to deliver an instant dossier about people you meet, in a US$10 million equity financing. The company just released an upgraded version of their App in the Apple App Store (more…)

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Hanson Bridgett LLP is pleased to welcome two new litigators to its Sacramento office. Andy Stroud, who joins as a partner, is well-known in civil, commercial and federal litigation, as well as intellectual property litigation. Landon Bailey joins our firm as an associate. In addition, Erin Sedloff joins the San Francisco office as a new litigation associate (more…)

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Abbie P. Maliniak, an attorney with more than 30 years of experience representing health care providers and medical staffs, has joined the growing health care practice at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP in the firm’s Los Angeles office (more…)

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