Jackson Lewis LLP, one of the country’s largest and fastest-growing workplace law firms, is pleased to announce Michael A. Hood has joined the firm’s Orange County office as Partner. Mr. Hood, previously a partner at Paul Hastings, brings with him extensive class action litigation and trial experience (more…)
O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an emerging pharmaceutical company developing RNA interference-based therapeutics against genetically defined targets in multiple disease areas, in a Series C preferred stock financing in which Dicerna raised US$60 million (more…)
Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, represented Hanergy Holding Group Limited, China’s largest private renewable energy company, on its US acquisition of Global Solar Energy, Inc., a leading manufacturer of copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) solar technology based in Tucson, Arizona (more…)
Davis Polk advised Barclays Capital Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated as representatives of the several underwriters in connection with an SEC-registered follow-on offering of 10,925,000 ordinary shares of Fleetmatics Group PLC, of which 1,000,000 ordinary shares were issued and sold by the Company and 9,925,000 ordinary shares were sold by the selling shareholders, for an aggregate price to the public of $313.5 million. The shares include 1,425,000 ordinary shares purchased by the underwriters pursuant to an option provided by one selling shareholder (more…)
Davis Polk advised the underwriters in connection with a $132.2 million offering of common stock of Rally Software Development Corp. at $24.75 per share, consisting of 250,000 shares of common stock offered by the company and 5,089,455 shares of common stock offered by the selling stockholders (including 729,058 shares in respect of the exercise in full of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares) (more…)

Loeb & Loeb LLP represented Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) in the sale of a music publishing catalog, comprised of music from SPE’s film and television releases between 1993 and 2012, to ole Music Publishing LLC (more…)
Duane Morris LLP is pleased to announce that special counsel Jason M. Ohta, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney, has joined the firm to bolster its existing white-collar criminal defense capabilities in San Diego. He will work closely with partner and fellow former Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael L. Lipman. Ohta joins the firm from Latham & Watkins LLP (more…)
Knobbe Martens Olson and Bear LLP client, IDev Technologies, has entered into an agreement in which Abbot Labs, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, will acquire all outstanding equity of IDev Technologies for $310 million net of cash and debt (more…)
Simpson Thacher represented the underwriters, led by BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, and The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, in connection with Oracle Corporation’s first registered public offering of euro-denominated notes. Oracle Corporation offered €1.25 billion aggregate principal amount of 2.250% senior notes due 2021 and €750 million aggregate principal amount of 3.125% senior notes due 2025. The euro-denominated notes are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (more…)

McGuireWoods LLP today announced that Franklin D. Kang has joined the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation group as a partner in Los Angeles (more…)
Davis Polk advised Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Zelman Partners LLC as joint book-running managers in connection with the initial public offering of 7,750,000 shares of Class A Common Stock of UCP, Inc. The Class A Common Stock is listed on the NYSE under the symbol “UCP” (more…)
The firm is representing an affiliate of KKR Asset Management in connection with its pending acquisition of a 9.5% stake in PT Tiga Pilar Sejahtera Food Tbk (“TPSF”). This will be KKR’s first investment in Indonesia (more…)