Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton announced today that Jordan Trent Jones is rejoining the firm’s Patent Litigation Team in the internationally-recognized Intellectual Property Department. Mr. Jones rejoins Kilpatrick Townsend as Partner in the Silicon Valley office. He was a member of Kilpatrick Townsend’s predecessor firm Townsend and Townsend and Crew from 1997 to 2010 (more…)
Davis Polk advised Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC as sole underwriter in connection with an SEC-registered offering by Corcept Therapeutics of 11,000,000 shares of its common stock for approximately $46.4 million (more…)
Davis Polk advised Comcast Corporation on its SEC-registered debt offering of $1 billion aggregate principal amount of 3.125% notes due 2022 and $1.25 billion aggregate principal amount of 4.65% notes due 2042. The offering was made through an underwriting syndicate led by BNP Paribas Securities Corp., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC (more…)
Shearman & Sterling is representing VMware, Inc. in its definitive agreement to acquire DynamicOps, Inc. Terms of the acquisition were not announced. The acquisition is scheduled to close in Q3 2012 subject to customary closing conditions (more…)
Dell and Quest Software announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for Dell to acquire Quest, an award-winning IT management software provider offering a broad selection of solutions that solve the most common and most challenging IT problems. Under terms of the agreement, approved by the boards of directors of both companies, Dell will pay $28.00 per share in cash for each share of Quest for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $2.4 billion, net of Quest’s cash and debt (more…)
Cooley LLP announced today that it advised on the creation of a $1 billion venture capital fund for long-time client Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), a Silicon Valley firm specializing in later-stage investments. The fund is the largest in IVP’s 32-year history. IVP has been a Cooley client since 1973 (more…)
Cooley LLP is pleased to announce it advised the underwriters in the initial public offering of common stock of ServiceNow Inc., which launched on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday, June 29 (more…)
Davis Polk is advising Ingram Micro Inc. on its acquisition of Brightpoint, Inc., a global leader in providing device lifecycle services to the wireless industry. Ingram Micro is the world’s largest technology distributor and supply-chain services provider (more…)
Davis Polk advised Affymetrix, Inc. (Affymetrix) in connection with its acquisition of eBioscience Holding Company, Inc. (eBioscience) for approximately $315 million in cash. Following the acquisition, eBioscience became a wholly owned subsidiary of Affymetrix (more…)
O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented NextOp Software Inc., a leading provider of assertion synthesis technology, in its acquisition by Atrenta Inc., a provider of software to increase efficiency for semiconductor and consumer electronics companies (more…)
Cooley LLP announced today that a Delaware federal judge denied a motion for preliminary injunction against Cooley client Gevo Inc., in a patent infringement suit filed by Butamax. The Opinion, delivered on June 19, stated that “the court has concluded that plaintiff does not hold a valid patent, nor would the defendant infringe if it did.” (more…)
Davis Polk is advising Bank of America Merrill Lynch as a joint bookrunner and joint lead arranger of a $3.5 billion senior unsecured bridge facility for Walgreen Co. in connection with its proposed acquisition of not less than 45% of the issued and outstanding equity interests in Alliance Boots GmbH (more…)
