Dewey & LeBoeuf is representing Dell Inc., one of the world’s best-known computer manufacturers, in its pending acquisition of SonicWALL Inc., an international IT network security and data protection business (more…)
Hogan Lovells announced today that it represented biopharmaceutical company VIVUS, Inc. (Nasdaq: VVUS) on its US$200 million follow-on public stock offering, which closed on 6 March (more…)
Davis Polk advised the underwriters in connection with an initial public offering of 8,222,500 shares of common stock of Yelp Inc. (including 1,072,500 shares in respect of the exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares) at $15.00 per share for gross proceeds of $123.3 million (more…)
International law Firm McDermott Will & Emery LLP is pleased to announce that S. Michael Song has been named a partner in the Firm’s Intellectual Property (IP) Litigation Practice Group, based in the Silicon Valley office (more…)
Edward V. Anderson has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s 75-attorney Intellectual Property practice group, based in the firm’s Palo Alto office (more…)
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…)
Davis Polk advised Westar Energy, Inc. in connection with an SEC-registered offering of $250 million aggregate principal amount of 4.125% first-mortgage bonds due 2042. The joint book-running managers were Barclays Capital Inc., Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC (more…)
Simpson Thacher recently represented the underwriters, led by Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Barclays Capital Inc. and co-managed by Piper Jaffray & Co., Raymond James & Associates, Inc. and Simmons & Company International, in connection with the underwriting of the initial public offering of common stock by Ceres, Inc. (“Ceres”) (more…)
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery is pleased to announce that Dr. Bhanu K. Sadasivan has joined the Firm as an IP Litigation partner, based in its Silicon Valley office. Additionally, the Firm named Nathan Smith and Dane C. Butzer as counsel in its Intellectual Property Prosecution, Transactions & Strategy Practice Group in its Orange County office (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…)
Dewey & LeBoeuf’s global technology M&A practice has fielded a team of lawyers in Silicon Valley, New York and London to advise leading web browser developer Opera Software ASA on its simultaneous acquisitions of Mobile Theory and 4th Screen (more…)
