A team of Pillsbury lawyers led by San Francisco Tax partners Jeffrey M. Vesely and Kerne H. O. Matsubara helped the Archdiocese of San Francisco prevail in a high-profile, $22 million tax dispute with the City and County of San Francisco reaffirming that internal transfers of property between affiliated corporations are exempt from documentary transfer taxes. The office of San Francisco’s Assessor-Recorder sought to collect millions in documentary transfer taxes from the Archdiocese following the Catholic Church’s internal reorganization of more than 200 parish and school properties, setting off a dispute drawing attention from city halls and other religious denominations nationwide (more…)
The San Francisco office of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP (DWT) welcomes Mark Gabel as an associate in the firm’s employment and labor group (more…)
National Intellectual Property super boutique Novak Druce + Quigg LLP has announced the addition of Partner Jason D. Lohr and Senior Associate Justas Geringson to its San Francisco office. Lohr comes to Novak Druce from Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP and Geringson joins from Fliesler Meyer LLP (more…)
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Mozilla, a company that creates the FireFox open-source web browser, in leasing a new data center in Santa Clara, California (more…)
Duane Morris is pleased to announce that Jarrett Fugh has joined the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group as a partner in its Los Angeles and San Francisco offices. Fugh’s arrival adds to Duane Morris’ growing Real Estate Practice Group on the West Coast and nationally. He joins Duane Morris from Winston & Strawn (more…)
Hogan Lovells announced today that Dr. Song Zhu has joined its Intellectual Property practice as a partner in its San Francisco office. Zhu represents multinational, automotive, and technology clients in IP litigation and other matters, particularly in U.S., European, and Chinese markets (more…)
Locke Lord today announced the addition of another new Partner to its Corporate Insurance Practice Group, welcoming experienced attorney Elizabeth A. Tosaris to its San Francisco Office. She is the third high-caliber insurance regulatory attorney added recently to a practice that counts more than 50 lawyers who devote a substantial portion of their transactional, corporate, securities, investment management, tax and regulatory practices to representing the insurance industry. Tosaris’ colleagues, Partner Paige Waters and Of Counsel Stephanie M. O’Neill Macro, joined Locke Lord’s Chicago Office late last month (more…)
Baird Fogel has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP’s San Francisco office as a partner in the firm’s project finance and renewable energy practice. Previously, Mr. Fogel was general counsel with BP Solar (more…)
Fenwick & West LLP, one of the Top 10 “Go-To” IP litigation firms in the U.S. according to Corporate Counsel, is pleased to announce that Andrew P. Bridges will join the firm as partner in its IP & Technology Litigation Group. Regularly recognized as one of the Top 100 IP litigators in California, Mr. Bridges focuses his practice on complex litigation in Internet, copyright, trademark, advertising, unfair competition, consumer protection and commercial law disputes. Mr. Bridges joins Fenwick from the San Francisco office of Winston & Strawn, and will start with Fenwick on Tuesday, November 8, 2011 (more…)
Morgan Lewis today announced that Patrick M. Ryan—a well-known San Francisco litigator who has spent more than a decade handling complex commercial litigation—has joined the firm as a partner in its Litigation practice, resident in San Francisco (more…)
Cooley LLP announced that it advised Web.com (NASDAQ: WWWW) on its $800 million acquisition financing, consisting of a $650 million First Lien Senior Secured Credit Facility and a $150 million Second Lien Senior Secured Credit Facility (more…)
Parallel teams of Cooley litigators and business lawyers delivered a favorable outcome last week on behalf of longtime client Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc, which reached a settlement of a jury trial in a dispute with its partner, the international pharmaceutical company Bayer. In a complex set of agreements announced at the mid-point of trial pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (under the caption Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Bayer Corporation, Bayer AG, Bayer Healthcare LLC, and Bayer Schering Pharma AG Case No. C09-2145 EMC (N.D. Cal.)), Onyx obtained a significant stake in a compound at the heart of the dispute as well as other important monetary and non-monetary benefits (more…)
