The international law firm of Vinson & Elkins is opening a new office in San Francisco, expanding its footprint in Northern California slightly more than two years after entering the market with an office in Palo Alto (more…)

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Pillsbury today announced that Sarah Good, a well-known securities and consumer class action litigator in San Francisco, has joined the firm’s Litigation practice (more…)

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Todd L. Padnos has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s Business Trial and Finance and Bankruptcy practice groups, based in the firm’s 90-attorney San Francisco office. Padnos joins from Dewey & LeBoeuf in Silicon Valley (more…)

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Shearman & Sterling represented the initial purchasers led by Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC in connection with Prospect Medical Holdings, Inc.’s offering of $325 million of its 8.375% Senior Secured Notes due 2019 (more…)

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm is representing private equity firm Rockwood Capital and Four Corners Properties, a Silicon Valley office and R&D developer, in a $90 million acquisition of a vacant office campus consisting of over 500,000 square feet on the border of Mountain View and Palo Alto from William Lyon Homes (more…)

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm is representing Kayne Anderson MLP Investment Company, a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company, in a private placement of $175 million of senior unsecured notes by institutional investors (more…)

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Covington & Burling LLP advised the University of California, Santa Cruz on the creation of a national, federally-financed bioinformatics database (more…)

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Cooley LLP announced today that leading corporate and capital markets lawyer Andrew S. “Drew” Williamson has joined the firm as a partner (more…)

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O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. as the financial advisor to PLX Technology, Inc. in its acquisition by Integrated Device Technology, Inc (more…)

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Cooley LLP announced today that it is advising Jazz Pharmaceuticals in its pending acquisition of EUSA Pharma. The Cooley team was led by Mergers & Acquisitions partner Jennifer Fonner DiNucci, based in Palo Alto (more…)

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Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Gary P. Kaplan and William J. Needle are joining the firm’s Tax practice in the San Francisco office. Mr. Kaplan is joining as a partner and Mr. Needle is joining as counsel (more…)

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