Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP (JMBM) is pleased to welcome John J. Lucas to the Firm’s Entertainment Litigation department. Previously with Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, Lucas has significant litigation and trial experience in both state and federal court, and represents talent, studios, television networks and independent entertainment production companies involved in the media, entertainment and Internet industries (more…)
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced today that prominent trial lawyers Marshall Grossman and Stacy Weinstein Harrison have joined the firm as partners in its Los Angeles office (more…)
Litigator Reza Mirzaie has joined Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP as a partner in the Firm’s Patent Litigation practice. Previously with Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP, Mirzaie specializes in patent, trademark and trade secret litigation involving a variety of technologies, including computer hardware, software, and various types of electronics and mechanical systems. He has litigated in a variety of forums, including numerous federal district courts, the International Trade Commission, and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. (more…)
Cooley advised on Fidelity National Financial’s (NYSE: FNF) combination of its ServiceLink business with Lender Processing Services, Inc. into a new holding company — Black Knight Financial Services, Inc. Black Knight Financial Services will have two operating subsidiaries — Black Knight Financial Services, LLC and ServiceLink Holdings, LLC. Cooley also advised Fidelity National on its issuance of a 35 percent interest in each of the Black Knight operating subsidiaries to funds affiliated with Thomas H. Lee Partners LP and certain related entities. (more…)
Polsinelli welcomes highly experienced attorney Christopher R. O’Brien as a shareholder in the firm’s Corporate and Transactional Practice, where he will focus on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate finance and general outside counsel advice. O’Brien joins a national team of more than 200 corporate attorneys representing businesses throughout the U.S. and abroad and more than 695 lawyers nationally with coast to coast resources. (more…)
Snell & Wilmer is pleased to announce the addition of Brian Arnold as a partner in the intellectual property litigation group in Los Angeles. He joins Snell & Wilmer from the law firm Loeb & Loeb LLP. (more…)
Given the pace of change in today’s market environment and an increase in investment opportunities for our private equity clients, we are pleased to announce the expansion of our private equity capabilities on the West Coast with the addition of Marc Kenny, who joins us as a new partner to our private equity practice. (more…)
On Nov. 27, Asim K. Desai joined the Los Angeles office of Gordon & Rees as a partner in the firm’s Insurance, Tort & Product Liability, Class Action, and Commercial Litigation Practice Groups. Mr. Desai will also serve as co–chair of the Bad Faith/Extracontractual Practice Group. (more…)
DLA Piper represented EdgeCast Networks, a Los Angeles-based content delivery network, in its acquisition by Verizon Digital Media Services. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2014, subject to customary closing conditions (more…)
Nossaman LLP announces the addition of Steven E. Knott as a partner in the Firm’s Los Angeles office. Mr. Knott is an experienced trial lawyer specializing in commercial disputes, insurance coverage, environmental, and construction litigation. (more…)
Global specialist law firm Dechert LLP announced today that Lloyd J. MacNeil has joined the firm as a partner in the corporate practice. Most recently a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, he will be resident in the firm’s Los Angeles office. (more…)
Jenner & Block LLP is pleased to announce that veteran corporate attorney G. Thomas Stromberg has joined the firm as a partner in its Los Angeles office. Mr. Stromberg possesses deep knowledge of the California marketplace, with 25 years of transactional experience there, in addition to extensive cross-border know-how (more…)
