Greenberg Glusker today announced that litigation attorney Glen A. Rothstein has joined the firm as a Partner, practicing in the areas of Entertainment Law, Entertainment Litigation and General Commercial Litigation (more…)
Diane A. Thompson, who has more than 20 years of experience advising clients on employee benefits and executive compensation issues, has joined Ballard Spahr as a partner in Los Angeles, firm Chair Mark Stewart announced today (more…)
A team of lawyers at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy has represented the Maloof family, owners of the NBA’s Sacramento Kings and their home court Sleep Train Arena, in the sale of a 65% controlling interest in the team to a Sacramento-based investor group. The transaction valued the Kings at $534 million, a record price for an NBA franchise (more…)
Reed Smith today announced the addition of L. Julius M. Turman as a partner in its Labor & Employment practice in the firm’s San Francisco office (more…)
Davis Polk advised J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Barclays Capital Inc. as representatives of the initial purchasers in connection with a Rule 144A offering by NetSuite Inc. of $310 million aggregate principal amount of 0.25% convertible senior notes due 2018 (more…)

Davis Polk advised Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as representatives of the initial purchasers in connection with a Rule 144A offering by Concur Technologies, Inc. of an aggregate principal amount of $488.75 million of its 0.5% convertible senior notes due 2018, which included $63.75 million aggregate principal amount of notes from the full exercise of the initial purchasers’ over-allotment option. In addition, Davis Polk advised Deutsche Bank AG, UBS AG, Credit Suisse International and JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association as counterparties to convertible note hedge and warrant transactions in connection with the offering (more…)
Faegre Baker Daniels LLP is expanding its operations to Silicon Valley effective July 1, 2013. The office, which will be located at 1950 University Circle in Palo Alto, Calif., is being opened by intellectual property partners Calvin L. Litsey and David J.F. Gross, both of whom are relocating from the firm’s Minneapolis office (more…)
Global specialist law firm Dechert LLP announced today that Kerin Cantwell has joined the firm as a partner in the corporate practice. Known for her experience in the energy sector, Cantwell was most recently a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. She will be resident in the firm’s Los Angeles office (more…)
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP (MLA) announces the addition of Michael Durkee to the firm’s Real Estate Land Use practice in California. Based in San Francisco, Durkee is experienced in in the creation and implementation of complex entitlement strategies, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), planning and zoning laws, the Subdivision Map Act, negotiation of development agreements and government relations, all of which will complement the highly acclaimed MLA team of land use attorneys, who were among the first in California to focus on and develop the area of land use law (more…)

O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented Celsion Corporation in its registered direct offering of approximately US$9.83 million of the Company’s common stock to institutional investors led by a health care fund. The offering is subject to customary closing conditions (more…)
Dunlap Codding is pleased to announce that Scott E. McPherson has joined the firm, Of Counsel. McPherson will serve clients from his San Diego, California, office, practicing in all areas of intellectual property, with an emphasis on managing IP portfolios, negotiating complex intellectual property transactions and agreements, and drafting and prosecuting patent applications. Prior to attending law school, Scott gained significant field experience as a patent specialist and contract administrator at Nanogen, Inc., and as a scientist at the Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Sciences (TPIMS) and at Trega Biosociences (more…)
The international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has added shareholder Bradley R. Marsh to its Tax Practice Group in San Francisco. Marsh’s practice is concentrated in the areas of federal, state and local tax controversy matters, including payroll, property, business license, employment, franchise, parcel, district, sales, documentary transfer, transient occupancy, utility user, income, parking, gift and estate taxes (more…)