Cooley LLP is pleased to announce it advised Yelp Inc. (NYSE: YELP) in its initial public offering of common stock. Yelp’s common stock began trading on the New York Stock Exchange today (more…)
SNR Denton announced today that Robert F. Kramer has joined the firm as a partner in its Intellectual Property and Technology practice. Kramer is a former Howrey LLP patent litigation partner and will be resident in SNR Denton’s Silicon Valley and San Francisco offices (more…)
Cooley LLP is pleased to announce it advised the underwriters in an initial public offering of common stock of Proto Labs, Inc. (NYSE: PRLB) (more…)
Morgan Lewis today announced that Susan Resley—a securities litigator with nearly 20 years of experience, including government service in the Pacific Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)—has joined the firm as a partner in its Litigation practice, resident in San Francisco (more…)
Veteran ERISA litigator James “Jim” Baker has joined Baker & McKenzie as a partner in the San Francisco/Palo Alto office, adding 30 years of experience in the entire spectrum of employee benefit and executive compensation matters (more…)
Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP is pleased to announce the addition of two new partners in its San Francisco office: insolvency lawyer Bennett Young, previously of Dewey & LeBoeuf and environmental lawyer Jon Welner, formerly of Paul Hastings and Downey Brand (more…)
Shearman & Sterling represented API Healthcare Corporation, a portfolio company of Francisco Partners, in its acquisition of Concerro, Inc (more…)
The global law firm Jones Day announced today that John Tang has joined the firm as a partner in the San Francisco Office. Mr. Tang is now a member of Jones Day’s Securities Litigation & SEC Enforcement Practice (more…)
In a first-of-its-kind transaction, a San Francisco and Washington, D.C., team recently advised San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) in its $285 million investment in the Rim Rock wind power project in northern Montana. This is the first time that a California regulated utility has invested in a renewable energy project in order to use the tax benefits of ownership to reduce the price it pays for energy (more…)
Orrick advised Recurrent Energy in its sale of four photovoltaic (PV) facilities serving the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) to Google and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P (KKR). This is Google’s first investment in the U.S. in utility-scale solar photovoltaic and KKR’s first renewable investment in the U.S (more…)
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that Kevin Poloncarz has joined the Environmental and Energy practice in San Francisco as partner. Mr. Poloncarz, an air quality and climate change expert, joins from Bingham McCutchen LLP, where he was co-chair of the Climate Change practice (more…)
Shearman & Sterling represented Microsemi Corporation in its acquisition of the telecom clock generation, synchronization, packet timing and synthesis business from Maxim Integrated Products, Inc (more…)
