Cooley LLP announced today that it advised Jawbone, a leader and innovator in health and lifestyle products and services, on its recent agreement to acquire Body Media. The acquisition will allow Jawbone to further its leadership and accelerate its innovation in wearable health technology and personal data analysis (more…)
May 1, 2013 | Recent Deals | Silicon Valley
Davis Polk advised Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated as representatives of the underwriters in connection with a $1 billion SEC-registered notes offering by NIKE, Inc., consisting of $500 million aggregate principal amount of its 2.25% notes due 2023 and $500 million aggregate principal amount of its 3.625% notes due 2043 (more…)
Apr 30, 2013 | Moves News | San Francisco
Building on its recent momentum in San Francisco, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. announced that Jonathan A. Shapiro, an experienced corporate and securities litigator formerly of Wilmer Hale, has joined as a Member and the Head of the firm’s West Coast Litigation Practice. He is the fourth new Member to join the San Francisco office in the last month (more…)
Apr 30, 2013 | Recent Deals | Silicon Valley
The Firm is representing Alibaba Group Holding Limited, China’s largest e-commerce company, in connection with its investment in Weibo Corporation and strategic alliance with SINA Corporation (NASDAQ GS: SINA). Alibaba, through a wholly owned subsidiary, has invested $586 million to purchase preferred and ordinary shares of representing approximately 18% of Weibo on a fully-diluted basis. SINA has also granted an option to Alibaba to enable Alibaba to increase its ownership in Weibo to 30% on a fully-diluted basis at a mutually agreed valuation within a certain period of time in the future (more…)
Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP welcomes Dana C. Tsubota to the Construction Group and Timothy H. Smallsreed and Fatima Brunson Evans to its Trusts and Estates Group (more…)
Apr 29, 2013 | Moves News | Los Angeles
Dykema, a leading national law firm, announces that Janet R. Nalbandyan has joined the firm’s Litigation Department as senior counsel. Nalbandyan will be resident in Dykema’s Los Angeles office (more…)
Apr 26, 2013 | Recent Deals | Silicon Valley
Davis Polk is advising GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. in connection with its approximately $107 million acquisition of Global Futures & Forex, Ltd. The transaction, which is subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions, is expected to close in the third quarter of 2013 (more…)
Apr 25, 2013 | Recent Deals | Silicon Valley
Goodwin Procter recently advised client CyOptics, Inc. on its merger agreement with entities affiliated with Avago Technologies Ltd.(Nasdaq: AVGO) in which Avago agreed to acquire CyOptics for $400 million in cash (more…)
Sidley is pleased to announce that it advised GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) on its collaboration with Avalon Ventures to fund and launch up to ten early-stage life sciences companies in San Diego (more…)
Apr 24, 2013 | Recent Deals | San Diego
Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Avalon Ventures, a San Diego-based venture capital fund, in its $495 million collaboration with global healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to fund and launch up to ten early-stage life sciences companies. While the technologies for the companies may come from anywhere in the world, the companies and their management and scientific teams will all be located in San Diego (more…)
Davis Polk advised J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Goldman, Sachs & Co. as representatives of the several underwriters in connection with an offering of 5,750,000 shares of common stock of ChemoCentryx, Inc., including 750,000 shares from the exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option. The gross proceeds from the offering were $69 million (more…)
Apr 23, 2013 | Recent Deals | Silicon Valley
The Firm is representing Silver Lake Sumeru in connection with the announced merger of Power-One, Inc. (NASDAQ: PWER) and ABB Ltd (NYSE: ABB). Investment funds affiliated with Silver Lake Sumeru own common stock and convertible preferred stock representing, on an as-converted basis, approximately 33% of the outstanding equity securities of Power-One. Under the terms of the merger agreement, ABB will acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Power-One for $6.35 per share in cash, which represents an equity value of approximately $1.028 billion. The transaction is subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the second half of 2013 (more…)
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