Jackson Lewis LLP, one of the country’s largest and fastest-growing workplace law firms, is pleased to announce Michael A. Hood has joined the firm’s Orange County office as Partner. Mr. Hood, previously a partner at Paul Hastings, brings with him extensive class action litigation and trial experience (more…)
Knobbe Martens Olson and Bear LLP client, IDev Technologies, has entered into an agreement in which Abbot Labs, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, will acquire all outstanding equity of IDev Technologies for $310 million net of cash and debt (more…)
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Kayne Anderson MLP Investment Company, a closed-end investment company, in an underwritten, overnight, public offering of 6,200,000 shares of common stock in the amount of $223 million which closed on March 15, 2013 (more…)
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP (MLA) announced today the addition of Michael A. Rule as a partner in MLA’s Corporate practice. Based in Orange County, Rule has a national middle-market practice and regularly serves as lead transactions counsel and outside general counsel to both public and private companies. He is the eighth addition to MLA’s Corporate practice this year (more…)
Rutan & Tucker LLP, Orange County’s largest full-service law firm, recently announced that seasoned attorney Ellis Wasson has joined the firm as a partner in its Corporate, Securities and Tax Section (more…)
Xellia Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical group focusing on the development, manufacturing and global commercialization of anti-infective therapies, announced that Novo A/S, the holding company of the Novo Group, has entered into an agreement to purchase all shares of the group for approximately US $700 million from 3i and other current shareholders, as detailed in the company press release below. Closing of the transaction will be subject to relevant competition law approvals, and is expected to take place during the third quarter of 2013 (more…)
Attorneys at Rutan & Tucker, LLP, one of California’s oldest and largest full-service business law firms, recently scored a major victory for online retailer Buy.Com and its Rakuten.com Shopping website, in a class action complaint seeking more than $500 million in statutory damages (more…)
BakerHostetler announced today that J. David Bournazian has joined the firm’s Litigation Group as a Partner in its Costa Mesa office. He comes to BakerHostetler from Kutak Rock LLP (more…)
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, today announced that Steven R. Arnold has joined as a partner in the Financial Services and Banking Practice. Arnold comes to Manatt from Toyota Financial Services, where he served as managing counsel. He will be based in the firm’s Orange County office (more…)
Brown Rudnick LLP, an international Am Law 200 law firm, announced that it is expanding to the West Coast by combining with Rus Miliband & Smith, a complex commercial litigation boutique in Orange County, California (more…)
Pepper Hamilton LLP announced that Alan J. Kessel has joined the firm as a partner in the Commercial Litigation Practice Group, resident in the Orange County office (more…)
Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Dole Food Company, Inc., the world’s largest producer and marketer of fresh fruit and vegetables, in connection with its entry into a new credit facility, which consists of a $150 million revolving credit facility and a $500 million term facility with provisions for additional incremental loans (more…)
