Philip C. Schroeder joins the Buchalter Nemer Corporate Practice Group as a Shareholder. Phil focuses his practice on fulfilling the general corporate needs of early stage to middle market companies with an emphasis on financing transactions and technology transfer agreements (more…)

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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 4,543,995 shares of common stock in the amount of $146 million which closed on March 12, 2013 (more…)

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Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Lodging Enterprises, LLC, in the sale of its business to American Hotel Income Properties REIT LP, a Canadian REIT formed to indirectly own and acquire hotel properties in the United States through its indirect subsidiary Lodging Properties LLC (more…)

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Buchalter Nemer Buchalter Nemer continues to expand its growing Orange County office. Michael V. Lee joined Buchalter Nemer’s Corporate and Intellectual Property Practice Groups as a Shareholder. Mr. Lee represents a diverse group of publicly and privately held businesses, among them e-commerce, software, high-tech and traditional companies, for whom he provides counsel in corporate transactional matters. His expertise includes mergers and acquisitions, private equity financings, venture capital financings, debt financings, securities offerings, real estate acquisitions and dispositions, real estate equity fund formations, joint ventures, and strategic alliances. Mr. Lee also has extensive experience in intellectual property licensing and transactions involving patents, trademarks, software, know-how, trade secrets and data rights (more…)

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Renee Gabbard has joined the international law firm Bryan Cave LLP as a partner in the firm’s Irvine office. She will practice with the firm’s Private Client Service Group (more…)

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Avery Dennison Corporation has announced a definitive agreement to sell its Office and Consumer Products business and Designed and Engineered Solutions business to CCL Industries Inc. for $500 million in cash. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals (more…)

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The global law firm Jones Day has announced that Marcus Quintanillae has joined the Firm as of counsel in the Irvine Office, where he is now a member of the Global Disputes Practice. Mr. Quintanilla arrives from the Newport Beach office of O’Melveny & Myers, where he was counsel in the firm’s International Dispute Resolution Practice (more…)

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Morgan Lewis announced today that a group of lawyers led by partners Ellen S. Bancroft and Bryan S. Gadol have joined the firm in its Business and Finance Practice, resident in the firm’s Irvine office. Their arrival extends the firm’s corporate capabilities to Orange County, and continues the firm’s growth there, following the arrivals of Collie James in 2012 and Robert Gooding and Scott Garner in 2011. Ms. Bancroft and Mr. Gadol most recently served as partners at another AmLaw 100 firm, with Ms. Bancroft leading that firm’s California Corporate Group. Joining them is of counsel Joo Ryung Kang, a seasoned corporate lawyer who has been practicing with Ms. Bancroft and Mr. Gadol for years (more…)

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented middle market private equity firm GI Partners acquire a San Diego data center and office building leased to American Internet Services and San Diego Gas & Electric Co (more…)

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Megan N. Gess has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s Corporate practice group, based in the firm’s Orange County office.  Gess joins from O’Melveny & Myers in Newport Beach (more…)

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, represented Plum Healthcare Group, LLC and private equity firm GI Partners in the sale of Plum Healthcare Group to Bay Bridge Capital Partners (more…)

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented GI Partners (“GI”), a leading mid-market private equity firm, in the sale of its 75% ownership stake in FlatIron Crossing, a 1.7 million square foot class-A regional mall located in Broomfield, CO, to its joint venture partner, Macerich (NYSE: MAC), a public real estate investment trust (more…)

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