Venable LLP announced today that Greg Sater, one the nation’s leading advertising attorneys, has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation group (more…)
Epstein Becker Green is pleased to announce its Labor and Employment and Employee Benefits Practices have added three new Members of the Firm in the Los Angeles office. They are Regina A. Musolino, a Member of the Firm in the Labor and Employment Practice, and Samuel W. Krause and David McFarlane, both Members of the Firm in the Employee Benefits Practice (more…)
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP announced today that former U.S. magistrate judge Chad Everingham has joined as a partner in its intellectual property practice in the firm’s newly established office in Longview, Texas. His arrival coincides with that of partner David M. Stein, who joined the firm’s intellectual property practice today in its Downtown Los Angeles office (more…)
National law firm Wilson Elser is pleased to announce its most recent lateral hire, Charles W. Jenkins, a partner in the firms Los Angeles office. Mr. Jenkins has joined the firm’s Toxic Tort, Environmental and Energy practice (more…)
McGuireWoods LLP announced today that Dana Palmer has joined the firm’s environmental solutions and energy and utilities groups as senior counsel in Los Angeles. He will focus his practice on renewable energy, climate change, environmental due diligence, land use, water quality, and contaminated sites (more…)
O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented Microsemi Corporation, a leading provider of semiconductor solutions for the aerospace, defense, and security; enterprise and communications; and industrial and alternative energy markets, in entering into a Support Agreement pursuant to which it will acquire all of the outstanding common shares and debentures of Zarlink semiconductor Inc., for approximately US$525 million (more…)
Venable LLP announced that Jan L. Handzlik, one of the nation’s foremost white-collar crime defense lawyers, has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in its national SEC/White-Collar Group. He was previously a litigation partner at Greenberg Traurig (more…)
Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that Charles E. Schwenck has joined the firm as a partner in the Los Angeles office, working with the Energy Practice Group and Energy Industry Team, as well as the Transactional & Securities and Finance & Financial Institutions Practices. Previously, Schwenck was a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig, LLP where he served as co-chair of the Energy and Natural Resources Practice (more…)
Bingham McCutchen LLP is expanding its renowned structured transactions practice to California with the addition of Dan Passage in the Los Angeles office (more…)
Joseph T. Lynyak, III, a prominent financial services lawyer with an extensive career advising domestic and foreign banks, savings associations, mortgage lenders and other financial services organizations, has joined Pillsbury’s Finance practice section as a partner in the firm’s Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. offices. Previously a partner at Venable LLP, Lynyak’s experience representing clients before agencies including the Federal Reserve Board, the FDIC, the OCC, the CFPB, the FTC and others will help Pillsbury clients address the rapidly evolving regulatory challenges facing the financial services industry (more…)
International law firm Nixon Peabody LLP has expanded its Government Investigations and White Collar Defense practice in Los Angeles with the arrival of new counsel Jason P. Gonzalez. Mr. Gonzalez spent eight years as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, two of which were as deputy chief of general crimes. He joins Nixon Peabody from Stroz Friedberg, an international digital risk management and investigations firm in Los Angeles, where he was managing director (more…)
Edward A. “Eddie” Woods and Susan K. Leader have joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP as partners in the firm’s commercial litigation practice in Los Angeles. Both were previously partners in a boutique Los Angeles-based litigation firm (more…)
