May 17, 2013 | Moves News | 
Corporate Partner Jung Son Joins Sheppard Mullin Palo Alto From Technology Crossover Ventures

Jung Yeon Son has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s Corporate practice group, based in the firm’s Palo Alto office. Son joins from Technology Crossover Ventures in Palo Alto, where she served as Associate General Counsel. Before that she was VP & Associate General Counsel at Blum Capital Partners in San Francisco, as well as practicing numerous years at Simpson Thacher in New York and Palo Alto (more…)

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May 16, 2013 | Recent Deals | 
Davis Polk – Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Common Stock Offering

Davis Polk advised Goldman, Sachs & Co. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as representatives of the several underwriters in connection with an SEC-registered offering of 9,000,000 shares of common stock of Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The gross proceeds from the offering were $171 million (more…)

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May 15, 2013 | Moves News | 
Manatt Expands National Financial Services and Banking Group

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, today announced that Steven R. Arnold has joined as a partner in the Financial Services and Banking Practice. Arnold comes to Manatt from Toyota Financial Services, where he served as managing counsel. He will be based in the firm’s Orange County office (more…)

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May 15, 2013 | Recent Deals | 
Akin Gump Advises Kingston Technology Company in Agreement with Powerchip Technology Corporation

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP represented Kingston Technology Company, Inc. in an agreement with Powerchip Technology Corporation, a Taiwanese public company, to acquire certain assets of Powerchip in a deal valued at approximately $200 million. Kingston Technology Company, Inc. simultaneously entered into a transaction pursuant to which Powerchip will provide foundry services to Kingston Technology Company, Inc. for a two-year period in a deal valued at approximately $380 million (more…)

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May 15, 2013 | Moves News | 
Duane Morris’ Silicon Valley Office Expands IP Team with the Addition of Two Senior Associates

Duane Morris LLP has hired two senior associates to bolster its existing high-technology intellectual property team in Silicon Valley, just four months after launching the office. David Xue, Ph.D., and Phillip Mancini have joined the firm in Palo Alto from Goodwin Procter LLP and Crowell & Moring LLP, respectively (more…)

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May 14, 2013 | Moves News | 
Veteran Land Use and Environmental Attorney Joins Cox Castle & Nicholson

Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP is pleased to announce that prominent land use and environmental attorney David Waite has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner. Waite brings 20 years of experience to the firm’s nationally recognized real estate practice, with particular expertise in real estate development of infill sites and master-planned communities (more…)

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May 13, 2013 | Recent Deals | 
Akin Gump Represents True Religion in Merger Agreement with TowerBrook Partners

True Religion Apparel, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with TowerBrook Capital Partners L.P., the New York and London-based investment management firm, in a transaction valued at approximately $835 million (more…)

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May 10, 2013 | Recent Deals | 
Cooley Represents DreamWorks Animation in Acquisition of AwesomenessTV

Cooley LLP announced today that it represented DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. in the negotiations that culminated in its agreement to buy AwesomenessTV, a multi-channel YouTube subscription for teens (more…)

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May 10, 2013 | Recent Deals | 
Cooley Advises Insys Therapeutics on Its IPO

Cooley LLP announced that it advised Insys Therapeutics on its initial public offering. Insys Therapeutics, now trading on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbol “INSY,” is an Arizona-based commercial-stage specialty pharmaceutical company. Insys develops and commercializes innovative supportive care products, with a focus on utilizing its proprietary formulation technologies to address the clinical shortcomings of existing commercial pharmaceutical products (more…)

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May 10, 2013 | Moves News | 
New Senior Counsel Adds Significant Expertise to Procopio Intellectual Property Litigation Team

Procopio welcomes J. Christopher Jaczko to the firm as Senior Counsel. He will be part of their Intellectual Property Litigation practice group, working out of the firm’s downtown San Diego office. Mr. Jaczko’s addition to the firm continues Procopio’s strong strategic growth in the intellectual property and intellectual property litigation areas (more…)

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May 9, 2013 | Moves News | 
Allen Matkins Continues to Expand its Land Use Practice with Addition of Partner Fernando Villa in Los Angeles

Allen Matkins, a California-based full service real estate and business law firm, announced today the hiring of land use partner Fernando Villa in its Los Angeles office, where the firm also welcomes new tax associate Scott M. Dommes. The two new hires follow the recent addition of land use associate Michelle L. Moore in Allen Matkins’ San Francisco office (more…)

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May 8, 2013 | Recent Deals | 
Davis Polk – BMC Software Goes Private

Davis Polk is advising BofA Merrill Lynch as financial adviser to BMC Software, Inc. in connection with its approximately $6.9 billion acquisition by a private investor group led by Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital together with GIC Special Investments Pte. Ltd. and Insight Venture Partners. The transaction, which is expected to close later this year, is subject to approval from BMC shareholders, regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions (more…)

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