Allen Matkins, a California-based full service business and real estate law firm, served as legal counsel for Content Partners in the entertainment finance investment fund’s March 2013 acquisition of a 50 percent interest in the three series comprising the hit television franchise “CSI” (“CSI: Las Vegas,” “CSI: New York” and “CSI: Miami”). Content Partners acquires interests and participations in completed entertainment properties, including motion pictures and television series (more…)

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Holland & Knight partner Elizabeth Lake has negotiated the first Advanced Mitigation Program (AMP) agreement for a renewable energy project in California. The AMP program was authorized under California Senate Bill (SB) 34 in 2010, and it provides the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) with the authority to design and implement advanced mitigation actions, including the purchase of land and conservation easements to protect, restore and enhance the habitat for endangered, threatened and other special-status species in California. Land purchased as part of the advance mitigation program essentially provides a conservation bank designed to service eligible projects (more…)

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​A San Francisco-based Orrick Real Estate Team recently closed a complex transaction on behalf of Copeland Properties LLC that involved the contribution of a major portion of Copeland’s California retail property portfolio to an Atlanta-based private Real Estate Investment Trust (“REIT”) sponsored by Jamestown Properties (more…)

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Davis Polk advised the underwriters in connection with an initial public offering of 6,900,000 shares of common stock of Rally Software Development Corp. (including 900,000 shares in respect of the exercise in full of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares) at $14.00 per share for gross proceeds of $96.6 million (more…)

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Sidley advised Flextronics International in the acquisition of Motorola Mobility’s manufacturing operations in Tianjin, China, and assumption of the management and operation of its Jaguariuna, Brazil facility (more…)

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Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm advised Post Advisory Group LLC in the sale of a minority stake in Post Advisory Group, LLC to Nippon Life Insurance Company (more…)

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