Loeb & Loeb LLP achieved a significant appellate victory on behalf of clients Showtime Networks Inc. and Darlene Hunt, creator and head writer of the Showtime original television series The Big C, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court’s grant of summary judgment against a woman who alleged that the series infringed her screenplay (more…)
In the largest real estate deal this year, Morrison & Foerster LLP is representing leading residential real estate investment trust Equity Residential (NYSE: EQR) in a joint agreement with AvalonBay Communities to acquire a vast portfolio of U.S. apartment properties owned by Archstone (more…)
The Firm represented underwriters, led by BofA Merrill Lynch and RBS, in a public offering of $350 million principal amount of 4.875% Notes due 2022 of Avnet, Inc (more…)
Simpson Thacher is representing Suzhou Gold Mantis Construction Decoration Co., Ltd. in connection with its US$75 million acquisition of 70% equity interest in HBA International, a world leader in interior design services for the hospitality industry (more…)
Alston & Bird LLP announced today that James R. Evans, Jr., has joined its litigation team as a partner in the firm’s Los Angeles office (more…)
Corporate Partner Andrew Katz led the MS&K team in assisting California Republic Bank, Newport Beach, California, with its first securitization transaction in which $186.56 million in notes and $13.5 million of trust certificates backed by the Bank’s auto loans were sold to qualified institutional buyers in a private offering which closed November 8, 2012 (more…)
Adam R. Mehr, former EVP, Business Affairs and General Counsel of Gold Circle Films, has joined MS&K’s Entertainment & New Media and Corporate & Business Transactions practices (more…)
McGuireWoods LLP announced today that Molly White has joined the firm’s Government, Regulatory and Criminal Investigations (GRCI) practice group as a partner in the firm’s Los Angeles office (more…)
Kirkland & Ellis LLP represented a consortium of investors led by Stephen A. Kaplan, principal, co-portfolio manager of the Global Principal Group and member of Oaktree Capital Management’s Board of Directors, as part of Robert J. Pera’s $377 million acquisition of the Memphis Grizzlies NBA franchise, a deal that was approved unanimously by the NBA Board of Governors (more…)
Bayer HealthCare LLC has signed a merger agreement to acquire Schiff Nutrition International, Inc., a leading company offering vitamins and nutritional supplements in the United States and other countries, for approximately $1.2 billion (more…)
Global law firm Proskauer has announced the further expansion of its Finance Group and global Corporate Department with the addition of Rajani K. Gupta as Senior Counsel in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Ms. Gupta joins the firm from Latham & Watkins, where she worked as a finance lawyer for more than a decade (more…)
Gresham Savage Nolan & Tilden is pleased to announce that prominent land use attorney Ellen Berkowitz has joined the Firm as a Partner and has launched the Firm’s first Los Angeles Office (more…)
