Hogan Lovells announced today that Dean Hansell has joined its Los Angeles office as a partner in the Litigation, Arbitration and Employment practice, further building the practice on the West Coast (more…)
Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, announced today that former California Attorney General John Van de Kamp, a long-time luminary in the state’s legal and political arenas, has joined the Los Angeles office as counsel in the Government & Global Trade practice. Previously, he was of counsel with Dewey & LeBoeuf in Los Angeles (more…)
The Firm advised USJ Co., Ltd. on its negotiation of a long term license to construct and operate the “Wizarding World of Harry Potter” theme park within Universal Studios Japan from Warner Bros. Consumer Products Inc (more…)
Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Casey Fleck has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the Corporate Department (more…)
Winston & Strawn LLP announced today it is being joined by 22 litigation partners from Dewey & LeBoeuf, one energy partner, and a number of associates and of counsel. The well-respected group will complement Winston’s rapidly expanding global litigation and transactional footprint (more…)
Following the recent addition of former Seyfarth Shaw California Labor and Employment Practice Chair Ken Sulzer, Proskauer announced that Laura Reathaford has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as Special Counsel in the Labor & Employment Law Department and a member of its national Class/Collective Action and California Labor & Employment Law Groups (more…)
White collar criminal defense lawyer Anthony Pacheco has joined Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP (JMBM) as a partner in its Los Angeles office (more…)
Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. (NYSE: ETP) and Sunoco, Inc. (NYSE: SUN) have announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement whereby ETP will acquire Sunoco in a unit and cash transaction valued at US$50.13 per share, or a total consideration of approximately US$5.3 billion, based on ETP’s closing price on April 27, 2012 (more…)
Suburban Propane Partners, L.P. (NYSE: SPH), has announced a definitive agreement with Inergy, L.P., Inergy GP, LLC and Inergy Sales & Service, Inc. to acquire the sole membership interest in and to Inergy Propane, LLC, now owned by Inergy, including certain wholly owned subsidiaries of Inergy Propane, LLC, and the assets of Inergy Sales (more…)
Morgan Lewis today announced the addition of a team of lawyers, led by Marshall Stoddard—formerly the head of the bank and institutional finance practice at another AmLaw 100 firm—to its Business and Finance Practice, resident in the firm’s New York and Los Angeles offices (more…)
Loeb & Loeb LLP announced today that Paul Rohrer has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the Land Use Practice. Rohrer was most recently a partner in the Los Angeles office of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP (more…)
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has added two highly respected lawyers to its Intellectual Property Group. Formerly of DLA Piper, Robert Benson and Chris Broderick join as partners in the firm’s Los Angeles and Orange County offices, respectively (more…)
