The Firm represented Oaktree Capital Group, LLC (“Oaktree”) in its initial public offering of 8.8 million units representing limited liability company interests. Oaktree is a Los Angeles-based investment management firm with approximately $75 billion of assets under management (more…)

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Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, P.C. announced today that David Smith has joined the firm as a Shareholder, in its Santa Monica office. Mr. Smith will continue to focus his practice on corporate transactions, private equity, mergers and acquisitions and venture capital (more…)

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DLA Piper today announced that corporate and finance lawyer Masood Sohaili has joined the firm’s Los Angeles (Century City) office as a partner (more…)

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Proskauer announced today that Kenneth D. Sulzer has joined the firm in Los Angeles as a Partner in its Labor & Employment Law Department and co-head of its California Labor & Employment Law Group and its national Class/Collective Action Group (more…)

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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that employment partner Catherine Conway has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office (more…)

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Brette Simon has joined our firm as a partner in the Los Angeles offices (more…)

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Today, Tom Van Wyngarden, a veteran litigator who has 25 years experience handling a wide array of environmental, toxic tort, hazardous materials, commercial and real estate disputes, has joined Pillsbury’s cross-disciplinary team of Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources lawyers (more…)

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Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, announced that Jordan Lichtman has joined the firm in its Los Angeles office as a partner in the Entertainment & Media practice. Lichtman comes to Manatt from O’Melveny & Myers LLP (more…)

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Dewey & LeBoeuf is representing the Los Angeles Dodgers, one of baseball’s best known teams, on its pending US$2 billion acquisition by a consortium comprising basketball star Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson, baseball executive Stan Kasten, movie executive Peter Guber and financial services firm Guggenheim Partners (more…)

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Lathrop & Gage has announced that Beth Schroeder, Allison Meshekow Holtzman, Lauren Katunich and Anthony Nguyen have joined the firm as partner, of counsel, of counsel and associate, respectively. All will concentrate their practices in labor and employment and will be located in the firm’s Los Angeles office (more…)

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Leading law firm Venable LLP announced today that three Real Estate partners – Mitch Evall and Andrew Schmerzler from Weissmann Wolff Bergman Coleman Grodin & Evall LLP (WWBCGE) and Valentin Aguilar II from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP (Manatt) – have joined the firm to spearhead the growth of Venable’s newly established West Coast Real Estate Practice (more…)

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Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Michael O’Hara Duff has joined the firm as a partner in the Los Angeles office. Mr. Duff is a tax lawyer with extensive experience structuring complex partnerships and limited liability companies used to acquire a variety of renewable and clean energy assets (more…)

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