SOLECTRON FORKS OVER $70 MILLION IN CASH DEAL
By Stefanie Knapp
Solectron Corp. has acquired Magnetic Data Technologies in a cash deal that closed June 11. The deal was worth $70 million. Mi...
FULLAUDIO CRANKS UP VOLUME WITH FUNDING
By Staff Writer
FullAudio Corp. announced its third round of funding June 19. It brought in $14 million for the company. New Enterprise Associ...
Breaking the Chains
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer A number of cities in California are clamping down on so-called "pattern" or "formula" r...
Apartment Outlook Bright
By Columnist
BY MARTIN S. STOLZOFF Most of California's apartment markets should improve in the second half of the year as a rebounding ec...
Hogan & Hartson: IP VETERAN JUMPS SHIP DESPITE MERGER MANIA
By Staff Writer
As San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen merged with Boston-based Bingham Dana , the former chairman of McCutche...
Carr & Ferrell: BROBECK PARTNER WANTS DIFFERENT TYPE OF WORK
By Staff Writer
John Montgomery , a corporate partner at San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison who billed $10 million in the past two...
Political Refugee
By John Ryan
Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw partner Philip Recht is a refugee of the Bill Clinton administration - and a proud one at that. Whi...
Developing a Distribution Base
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer Development plans for the area surrounding the San Bernardino International Airport are now...
Little Change in Central Business District Parking Rates
By Wire
CREJ WIRE REPORT Despite an economic climate in which fewer people are employed and office vacancy rates have dramatically in...
In the Shadows
By Michael Gottliebn
BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Assignment Editor Real estate lore has it that a "monster" is hiding in the neglected spaces of comm...
Trizec Optimistic; Kilroy's Media Center Filling Slowly
By Wire
BY PETER GRANT Dow Jones Newswire Trizec Properties Inc., the new U.S. spinoff of the former Canadian real-estate giant Trize...
SOFTWARE MAKER GETS $19 MILLION IN SUPPORT
By Stefanie Knapp
DiCarta Inc. closed a $19 million round of funding June 25. Menlo Ventures led the round. Needham Capital Partners, Sequoia Ca...
DRUG COMPANY BRINGS IN $28 MILLION IN FINANCING
By Stefanie Knapp
Salmedix Inc. completed its Series B financing June 19. The San Diego company brought in $28 million. CMEA Ventures Life Scien...
Rats! Designation Could Derail San Bernardino Distribution Center
By Andrea Rosas
BY ANDREA ROSAS CREJ Staff Writer The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated 33,295 acres of San Bernardino and Rivers...
CONEXANT PAYS CASH, STOCK FOR VIDEO FIRM
By Stefanie Knapp
Conexant Systems Inc. has acquired GlobespanVirata's video compression business in a deal that closed June 24. Conexant has ag...
PG&E SUBSIDIARY FINDS $100 MILLION PRIVATELY
By Stefanie Knapp
PG&E Gas Transmission, Northwest Corp. closed a private placement debt financing June 6 that brought in $100 million. As p...
Instant Community
By Julie Nakashima
BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer The already influential city of Irvine is looking to add to that influence with the addi...
Lewis Brisbois: LOS ANGELES SHOP LURES 15 SEDGWICK ATTORNEYS
By Staff Writer
Los Angeles' Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith has pared five partners and 10 associates from San Francisco-based Sedgwick D...
IN MOTION
By Liz Valsamis
Recently spun off from parent Allergan Inc. , eye-care company Advanced Medical Optics Inc. in Santa Ana has tapped Aimee Weis...
Sharing Good Quotes and Goodwill
By Michael Gottliebn
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...
Nailing Leveraged Buyout in Auction Structure
By Stefanie Knapp
Corporate partner Sean McAvoy led Francisco Partners in its takeover of General Electric Co.'s Global eXchange Services, a dea...
Do the Right Thing
By Tanya Rothman
The Closer - By Dov Seidman - A lawyer and chief executive officer who recently served as UCLA's commencement speaker offers h...
GE AND FRANCISCO MAKE $800 MILLION EXCHANGE
By Stefanie Knapp
Francisco Partners has agreed to an $800 million leveraged buyout of General Electric Co.'s Global eXchange Services. The deal...
Pillsbury Winthrop: NEW YORK AND BAY AREA OFFICES LAY OFF 10 STAFF
By Staff Writer
Pillsbury Winthrop has laid off three staff members in San Francisco and seven in New York, the firm confirmed June 25. It als...
U.S. Building Activity Climbs 4% in May
By Wire
CREJ WIRE REPORT U.S. new construction starts increased 4 percent in May to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $496.6 billi...
SUNNYVALE'S PARACOR CLOSES SECOND ROUND
By Stefanie Knapp
Paracor Surgical Inc. completed its second-round venture financing June 25. The round brought in $16 million. Pequot Ventures ...
Greenberg Glusker: GROUP'S SIZE MATTERS, REAL ESTATE GURU SAYS
By Staff Writer
Michael Berk has joined the litigation practice of Los Angeles' Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman Machtinger & Kinsella as p...
Judge Enrobes Four New Bench Officers
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Steven Van Sicklen presided at the enrobing ceremony Friday for four new judges...
Casualties of Reporting Errors
By Cheryl Romo
LOS ANGELES -On Labor Day 12 years ago, a mother and her teen-age daughter were arguing in the kitchen of their Los Angeles ho...
Blake Wants 'Special Circumstance' Tossed
By David Houston
LOS ANGELES - Robert Blake asked the Court of Appeal on Friday to force Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Lloyd Nash to ...