Cooley LLP announced today that it advised the underwriters on Five Prime Therapeutics, Inc.’s initial public offering. Five Prime is a San Francisco-based clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing novel protein therapeutics for cancers and inflammatory diseases. Five Prime now trades on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol “FPRX.” (more…)
Goodwin Procter, a national Am Law 50 firm, announced today that Jared G. Jensen has joined the firm’s San Francisco office as a partner in its Private Equity Practice. Jensen joins Goodwin from Amazon.com where he was Senior Corporate Counsel (more…)
Information technology equipment distributor Synnex Corp. has acquired IBM’s customer-care outsourcing business for $505 million. The unit will be integrated with Synnex’s Concentrix subsidiary, which provides customer care services for clients in more than 12 industries. As part of the deal, IBM will enter into a multi-year agreement with Synnex and Concentrix will become an IBM partner for business process outsourcing customer care services (more…)
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Charles J. Stevens has returned to the firm in its San Francisco office as a partner. Stevens, a former Gibson Dunn partner, U.S. Attorney and Assistant U.S. Attorney, was the founding partner of Stevens, O’Connell & Jacobs, a litigation boutique focused on government investigations (more…)
Schiff Hardin welcomes Paula Leibovitz Goodwin as a partner in the Private Clients, Trusts and Estates Group in the firm’s San Francisco office. Ms. Goodwin has more than 30 years of experience in estate planning and decedent estate administration, with an emphasis on tax planning for both large and small estates (more…)
Nixon Peabody is growing its Global Business & Transactions practice on the West Coast with the addition of counsel Richard V. Zolezzi. Nixon Peabody is familiar territory for Mr. Zolezzi, who was once a partner at predecessor firm Lillick & Charles. He served high-tech companies involved with M&A deals and securing venture capital, and did transactional work for banks and financial institutions. He left the firm in the mid-1990s to go in-house at SPL WorldGroup, a multinational company with operations in more than 15 countries. During his ten years at SPL, Mr. Zolezzi held various roles, including chief strategy and legal officer, and interim president/CEO. He was the principal proponent of the company’s expansion in Europe and led the company through several U.S. and international M&A transactions prior to overseeing the successful sale of the company to Oracle. Most recently, Mr. Zolezzi has been a partner at Catapult Advisors, a boutique investment bank focused on Internet and software companies (more…)
Marilynn Tham has joined Chapman and Cutler as a partner resident in the San Francisco office, where she focuses her practice on commercial finance and secured transactions (more…)
Shearman & Sterling is advising Western Digital Corp. in the acquisition by its subsidiary, HGST, of Virident Systems, Inc. in a transaction valued at $685 million. Closing of the acquisition, which is subject to customary conditions, is expected to occur in the fourth calendar quarter of 2013 (more…)
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, announced that Kathleen L. Brown has joined the firm as a partner. She will be based in Manatt’s Los Angeles office, spending significant time in the firm’s New York and San Francisco offices (more…)
Covington & Burling is advising Microsoft Corp. in its purchase of substantially all of Nokia’s devices & services business. Under the transaction, Microsoft will also license Nokia’s patents, and license and use Nokia’s mapping services. The total transaction price is EUR 5.44 billion in cash — or more than $7 billion (more…)
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced today that Nagendra (“Nick”) Setty has joined the firm as a partner in its Intellectual Property Group. Mr. Setty will split his time between the firm’s San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices (more…)
Shearman & Sterling represented Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. as joint lead managers in connection with Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia’s issuance of $500 million of its 5.950% notes due 2023 (more…)
