Goodwin Procter, a national Am Law 50 firm, announced today that Laura A. Rupenian has joined the firm’s Business Law Department in its San Francisco office as a member of Goodwin’s Leveraged Finance and Private Equity Practices. She will focus on advising private equity groups as well as public and private companies on a broad spectrum of domestic and cross-border debt financing transactions. Rupenian joins Goodwin from Kirkland & Ellis where she spent 11 years, including five years as a partner in their Debt Finance Group (more…)
Morgan Lewis today announced that Malcolm Goeschl—a well-known Bay Area immigration lawyer—has joined the firm as a partner in its Labor and Employment Practice, resident in San Francisco. Mr. Goeschl has been an immigration lawyer for his entire career and specializes in the challenges facing emerging businesses that are founded by or that employ foreign talent (more…)
Hogan Lovells announced today that commercial trial lawyers Mark Goodman and Ethan Miller have joined the firm’s Northern California offices as partners (more…)
Kaufman Dolowich Voluck & Gonzo LLP, a nationally recognized law firm, today announced the addition of Tad A. Devlin as a partner in its San Francisco office. He joins KDVG’s Insurance Coverage & Monitoring and Business Litigation practices (more…)
Shearman & Sterling represented J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC as representatives of the initial purchasers in connection with Broadcom Corporation’s offering of $500 million of its 2.500% Senior Notes due 2022. Broadcom Corporation is a California-based company that develops semiconductors for wired and wireless communications (more…)
Tesoro Corp. will spend $2.5 billion to purchase a Southern California refinery and more than 800 gas stations in California, Nevada and Arizona. In addition, Tesoro will also acquire the ARCO brand (more…)
Shearman & Sterling represented the underwriters, led by J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., in connection with eBay Inc.’s registered public offering of $3 billion aggregate principal amount of investment grade Notes, comprised of $250 million of 0.70% Notes due 2015, $1 billion of 1.35% Notes due 2017, $1 billion of 2.60% Notes due 2022 and $750 million of 4.00% Notes due 2042 (more…)
A team of Goodwin Procter attorneys is advising Taiwanese software developer SpringSoft in its planned acquisition by Synopsys, Inc (more…)
Brocade Communications Systems Inc. announced a jury verdict awarding $112 million in an intellectual property infringement and business tort suit against A10 Networks (more…)
DLA Piper represented MarkMonitor, a global leader in online brand protection, in its acquisition by the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals (more…)
Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm won dismissal of all claims in an antitrust action brought in Washington state court against the firm’s client, LG Display, the world’s largest LCD panel maker. The state attorney general alleged that LG Display and several other manufacturers had conspired to fix the price of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels, causing the State and consumers to pay supracompetitive prices for LCD products (more…)
Covington & Burling represented Borrego Solar Systems, Inc. in connection with its new $64.4 million project finance fund with partners U.S. Bank and National Cooperative Bank. The fund will be used to build more than 18 megawatts of solar energy systems, including systems to be located at four municipal landfill installations and one school district (more…)
