Cooley LLP announced today that it represented AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in its public offering of approximately 4.8 million shares of common stock. AcelRx is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative therapies for the treatment of acute and breakthrough pain (more…)
Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Singapore-based YFind Technologies Private Limited in its sale to Ruckus Wireless, Inc. Yfind is a pioneer in indoor positioning and real-time location analytics and the inventor of the YFind Positioning System™ (YPS™). Ruckus intends to use the acquisition to enable new location-based services by combining its unique, Smart Wi-Fi technology with YFind’s range of location based services and analytical capabilities, transforming Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi networks into location-intelligent infrastructures (more…)
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, announced that Donna L. Wilson has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the Litigation Division. She joins from BuckleySandler LLP, where she led its West Coast litigation and privacy/data security practices (more…)
We are pleased to announce that Laurie Gustafson has joined Sedgwick’s Real Estate and Finance practice as a partner in the San Francisco office. Gustafson’s practice focuses on commercial real estate, including real property acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, financing, construction, development and management. She has experience leading complex multistate and international real estate and finance transactions, including office, retail, restaurant, shopping centers, industrial, rural, infrastructure and mixed-use projects. Most recently, she has established expertise in dissolving redevelopment agencies, and she represents the Oversight Board for the City of Oakland (more…)
Davis Polk is advising Quality Systems, Inc. in connection with its agreement with certain affiliates of Clinton Group, Inc. related to the Quality Systems 2013 Annual Shareholders’ Meeting. Under the terms of the agreement, the Quality Systems Board of Directors will consist of nine members and will include three of the Clinton Group’s nominees – James C. Malone, Peter M. Neupert and Morris Panner – who will stand for election to the Board of Directors at the 2013 Annual Meeting. The remaining six seats on the Board will consist of Quality Systems’ nominees. The Clinton Group agreed, among other things, to withdraw its proposals concerning the amendment of the Company’s bylaws and to observe certain standstill provisions (more…)
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Kayne Anderson MLP Investment Company, a closed-end investment company, in an underwritten, overnight, public offering of 6,200,000 shares of common stock in the amount of $223 million which closed on March 15, 2013 (more…)
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP (MLA) announced today the addition of Michael A. Rule as a partner in MLA’s Corporate practice. Based in Orange County, Rule has a national middle-market practice and regularly serves as lead transactions counsel and outside general counsel to both public and private companies. He is the eighth addition to MLA’s Corporate practice this year (more…)
Morgan Lewis announced today that Daniel Grunfeld—an accomplished commercial litigator with deep public sector experience—has joined the firm as a partner in its Litigation Practice, resident in Los Angeles. Mr. Grunfeld will serve as leader of Morgan Lewis’s West Coast Litigation Practice. He most recently served as co-managing partner of the Los Angeles and Palo Alto offices and as co-chair of the Los Angeles office litigation department of Kaye Scholer (more…)
Davis Polk advised Oracle Corporation on its SEC-registered debt offering of $500 million aggregate principal amount of floating-rate notes due 2019, $1.5 billion aggregate principal amount of 2.375% notes due 2019 and $1 billion aggregate principal amount of 3.625% notes due 2023. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. were the lead joint book-running managers (more…)
Davis Polk advised Barclays Capital Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as joint book-running managers in connection with a public offering by Best Buy Co., Inc. of $500 million principal amount of 5% notes due 2018 (more…)
Experienced prosecutor and intellectual property attorney Priya Sopori has joined Locke Lord’s Los Angeles Office as a Partner in the IP Litigation Practice. She is the fourth new attorney hired in Los Angeles in recent months and one of many new California additions as the international law firm continues to bolster its litigation and transactional capabilities on the West Coast (more…)
Rutan & Tucker LLP, Orange County’s largest full-service law firm, recently announced that seasoned attorney Ellis Wasson has joined the firm as a partner in its Corporate, Securities and Tax Section (more…)
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