The Chumash Indian Tribe closed a $150 million note offering July 3. Banc of America Securities served as the sole manager. Th...

BAE Systems Controls signed a long-term lease for 150,000 square feet of class A office space at Wateridge Two in a transacti...

BY PETER GRANT Dow Jones Newswire Office vacancies continued to grow in the second quarter and rents kept falling, but at the...

Expanding its appellate practice, Dallas-based Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld hired constitutional and civil rights lawyer...

Brobeck Phleger & Harrison's controversial ouster of Tower Snow Jr. in May for allegedly orchestrating the defection of 17...

Solectron Corp. has acquired Magnetic Data Technologies in a cash deal that closed June 11. The deal was worth $70 million. Mi...

FullAudio Corp. announced its third round of funding June 19. It brought in $14 million for the company. New Enterprise Associ...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer A number of cities in California are clamping down on so-called "pattern" or "formula" r...

BY MARTIN S. STOLZOFF Most of California's apartment markets should improve in the second half of the year as a rebounding ec...

As San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen merged with Boston-based Bingham Dana , the former chairman of McCutche...

John Montgomery , a corporate partner at San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison who billed $10 million in the past two...

Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw partner Philip Recht is a refugee of the Bill Clinton administration - and a proud one at that. Whi...

BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer Development plans for the area surrounding the San Bernardino International Airport are now...

CREJ WIRE REPORT Despite an economic climate in which fewer people are employed and office vacancy rates have dramatically in...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor Real estate lore has it that a "monster" is hiding in the neglected spaces of comm...

BY PETER GRANT Dow Jones Newswire Trizec Properties Inc., the new U.S. spinoff of the former Canadian real-estate giant Trize...

DiCarta Inc. closed a $19 million round of funding June 25. Menlo Ventures led the round. Needham Capital Partners, Sequoia Ca...

Salmedix Inc. completed its Series B financing June 19. The San Diego company brought in $28 million. CMEA Ventures Life Scien...

BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated 33,295 acres of San Bernardino and Rivers...

Conexant Systems Inc. has acquired GlobespanVirata's video compression business in a deal that closed June 24. Conexant has ag...

PG&E Gas Transmission, Northwest Corp. closed a private placement debt financing June 6 that brought in $100 million. As p...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer The already influential city of Irvine is looking to add to that influence with the addi...

Los Angeles' Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith has pared five partners and 10 associates from San Francisco-based Sedgwick D...

Recently spun off from parent Allergan Inc. , eye-care company Advanced Medical Optics Inc. in Santa Ana has tapped Aimee Weis...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor "The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of rece...

Corporate partner Sean McAvoy led Francisco Partners in its takeover of General Electric Co.'s Global eXchange Services, a dea...

The Closer - By Dov Seidman - A lawyer and chief executive officer who recently served as UCLA's commencement speaker offers h...

Francisco Partners has agreed to an $800 million leveraged buyout of General Electric Co.'s Global eXchange Services. The deal...

Pillsbury Winthrop has laid off three staff members in San Francisco and seven in New York, the firm confirmed June 25. It als...

CREJ WIRE REPORT U.S. new construction starts increased 4 percent in May to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $496.6 billi...