Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton announced today the addition of Rajit Kapur to the firm’s growing Silicon Valley office. Mr. Kapur joins the firm as an associate on the Electronics and Software Team in the internationally recognized Intellectual Property Department (more…)
O’Melveny & Myers LLP represented Microsemi Corporation, a leading provider of semiconductor solutions for the aerospace, defense, and security; enterprise and communications; and industrial and alternative energy markets, in entering into a Support Agreement pursuant to which it will acquire all of the outstanding common shares and debentures of Zarlink semiconductor Inc., for approximately US$525 million (more…)
Davis Polk advised Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated as joint book-running managers in connection with a $5 billion SEC-registered debt offering by Intel Corporation, consisting of $1.5 billion of its 1.95% notes due 2016, $2 billion of its 3.3% notes due 2021 and $1.5 billion of its 4.8% notes due 2041 (more…)
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP today announced that it has opened a Silicon Valley office, adding more depth and reach to its world-class intellectual property practice. The firm welcomes prominent IP partners Paul J. Andre and Lisa Kobialka, who both specialize in high-technology and life sciences litigation, to its new Silicon Valley office (more…)
Perkins Coie announced today that James F. (Jim) Jensen has joined the Firm in Palo Alto as a Partner in the Emerging Companies practice group. He joins the Firm from VantagePoint Capital Partners where he recently served as General Counsel, Emerging Markets & Assistant General Counsel (more…)
Sheppard Mullin represented New Wave Media Inc., the owner of the AdoTube™ online video advertising network and provider of proprietary in-stream video ad solutions, including Polite Pre-Roll®, In-Stream Skins and Takeovers and Branded and Interactive Overlays, in its completed merger with Exponential Interactive, Inc., the owner of global online advertising provider Tribal Fusion and engagement video solution Firefly Video (more…)
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton announced today the addition of Corporate Partner Carole Bellis to its nationally-recognized Mergers & Acquisitions and Securities Team. The addition of Ms. Bellis is part of the firm’s strategy to grow its transactional practices in the Bay Area. She will be based in Kilpatrick Townsend’s expanding Silicon Valley office (more…)
David R. Lee has joined the Palo Alto office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s Corporate practice group. Since 1996, Lee practiced as a partner at White & Lee in Redwood City. Prior to co-founding that firm, he practiced as a partner at Cooley Godward in Menlo Park (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…)
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Confluence Solar, Inc. in its acquisition by GT Advanced Technologies Inc., a supplier of polysilicon production equipment and crystalline growth systems (more…)
Global law firm K&L Gates LLP recently advised independent power producer Clean Power Group on the securing of more than $50 million from a strategic investor for the development of a California solar power project. Led by Palo Alto partner Dirk Michels, the transaction includes financing and credit support for the development of an up to 500 megawatt solar development project in Kern County, Calif.
Rapidly growing its Intellectual Property Practice on the West Coast, Dickstein Shapiro LLP is pleased to announce its expansion into Silicon Valley with the arrival of powerhouse IP litigation partners Deborah Fishman, Jeffrey Miller, and Krista Carter, as well as associates Katie Scott, Assad Rajani, and Jessica Hubley. The team represents companies ranging in size from Fortune 500 to start-ups in high-stakes patent litigation involving a wide range of technologies, as well as in patent portfolio management and patent and trademark infringement matters.
