Morrison & Foerster announced that Bernie Pistillo has joined the firm as a partner in the Tax Department, resident in the San Francisco office. Mr. Pistillo’s practice is focused on the federal tax aspects of international M&A transactions and representation of private equity funds (more…)
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton announced today the addition of attorney Athena Johns to the firm’s expanding San Francisco office. Ms. Johns joins the firm as an associate on the Electronics and Software Team in the internationally recognized Intellectual Property Department (more…)
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the nation’s largest labor and employment law firms, continues to add depth and experience to the firm’s Employee Benefits Practice Group in welcoming Benjamin Delancy as a shareholder. Delancy will be based in the firm’s Washington and San Francisco offices (more…)
Winston & Strawn LLP announced today that nationally recognized trial attorney Robb Adkins has joined its litigation practice as a partner in the San Francisco and Los Angeles offices (more…)
Christine E. Brown has joined Schiff Hardin LLP as Counsel in the Private Clients, Trusts and Estates Group in the firm’s San Francisco office. She most recently was a solo practitioner at the Law Office of Christine Brown in San Francisco (more…)
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP attorneys and their co-counsel obtained summary judgment on August 23 in favor of our client, Abbott Laboratories, in an antitrust case relating to competition involving Abbott’s cholesterol drug TriCor. The court granted Abbott’s motion on all six pending counts and dismissed the case in its entirety on the eve of a September trial date (more…)
Davis Polk is defending LG Electronics in a coordinated MDL federal antitrust proceeding in San Francisco. The cases encompass over 30 nationwide class actions, all alleging a global price-fixing conspiracy in the market for optical disk drives (more…)
Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP announced today that it assisted the University of San Francisco (USF) in closing a commercial real estate transaction of $36.5 million to purchase the Folger Building built in 1905 at 101 Howard Street in downtown San Francisco. Contrast to the 40- to 50-day timeframe typically allotted to transactions involving historic buildings, Luce Forward’s team of attorneys was successful in expediting the process from term sheet to fully executed purchase/sale documentation in less than two weeks (more…)
The international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, LLP, led by Global Project Finance partner Allan Marks, represented the institutional lenders in the private placement of approximately $143 million of Pass-Through Certificates for the leveraged lease financing of the Hatchet Ridge Wind Farm, a 101.2 MW-rated wind-powered electricity generation facility located in Shasta County, California. The Hatchet Ridge project, which started commercial operation this month, is the only large-scale wind project to become operational in California in 2010. The Hatchet Ridge wind farm was developed by an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of San Francisco-based Pattern Energy Group. Additionally, a separate team at Milbank represented Cr
