Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
Brett J. Rodda
joined Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in Los Angeles.
corporate transactions and securities
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Prior to going in-house in 2016, Rodda spent nearly 17 years at the firm, where he handled a variety of corporate transactions and securities matters, with a focus on representing investment funds, strategic buyers and boards of directors. His work included representing clients in their investments in Silicon Valley and technology startups, as well as advising Beats Music in its sale to Apple. As general counsel for Silver Point, an investment adviser with more than $10.5 billion in capital focused on global credit, distressed and special situations investments, Rodda oversaw all legal matters for the firm and its funds. He is based in Los Angeles.
Address
350 South Grand Avenue 50th Floor , Los Angeles 90071
Winston & Strawn LLP
Robb Adkins C. Adkins
joined Winston & Strawn LLP as partner.
Adkins has experience in complex white-collar matters across federal and state enforcement agencies. He is co-chair of its white-collar, regulatory defense and investigations practice. He focuses on internal investigations, corporate compliance, complex civil litigation, trials, government enforcement databases and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act issues.
Address
101 California St , San Francisco 94111
T:
(415) 591-1000
F:
(415) 591-1400
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart P.C
Catherine Hazany
joined Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart P.C as of counsel in Los Angeles.
Employment litigation
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She concentrates her practice on employment litigation, including Americans with Disability Act disputes, sexual harassment and wrongful termination claims. She represents companies in a variety of industries including hospitality, education, aerospace, nonprofits, service and entertainment. She also advises clients about leaves of absences, the good faith interactive process, reasonable accommodations, harassment, and responding to charges filed with agencies such as the Department of Fair Employment and Housing and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She is based in Los Angeles.
Winston & Strawn LLP
Eva Davis
joined Winston & Strawn LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Davis added that the firm recently expanded its private equity practice in Los Angeles with the hiring of new partners Steve Antion and Dan Peters. She is closely coordinating with them to improve service and expand work with their private equity fund, independent sponsor and family office clients in the region.
T:
(213) 615-1700
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart P.C.
Lyne Richardson
joined Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart P.C. as equity shareholder in Los Angeles.
Employmeny law, litigation and client counseling
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In her prior role, Richardson was an equity partner and practiced for almost 20 years. She served as managing partner of that Ford & Harrison's Los Angeles office for many years and as co-leader of their national employment practices liability insurance practice group. She focuses her practice on employment law, litigation and client counseling. Richardson has litigated all forms of employment law cases in both state and federal courts in California, as well as before the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, the Division of Labor Standards Enforcementand the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She is based in Los Angeles.
Mayer Brown LLP
Michelle Gross
joined Mayer Brown LLP as partner in San Francisco.
intellectual property
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Gross advises companies on a range of intellectual property-related matters, including strategic alliances, joint ventures and licensing, as well as IP strategy and commercialization, copyright, patent and trademark matters and integration of business units and product lines in connection with mergers and acquisitions. In addition, she represents clients on large-scale, complex business process and information technology outsourcing transactions across a range of functions. Her practice also includes advising on data privacy and security matters, including cybersecurity, technology and data initiatives, the development of privacy and data security policies and product development. Gross joins partners Jennifer Carlson, Nina Flax and Rohith George, who have collectively expanded Mayer Brown's growing corporate and tech transactions capabilities. She is based in San Francisco.
Address
101 2nd St #375 , San Francisco 94105
T:
(650) 331-2066
F:
(650) 331-2060
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Kieran Kieckhefer
joined Shearman & Sterling LLP as partner in Menlo Park.
Intellectual property
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An intellectual property litigator and trial lawyer in the Bay Area with a track record handling complex patent cases and - in particular - trials involving antitrust, copyright, trademark and other commercial disputes, for technology-focused clients.
Tucker Ellis LLP
Marc Richard Greenberg
joined Tucker Ellis LLP in Los Angeles.
He concentrates his practice on white collar criminal defense, cyber crime, environmental and workplace safety emergency response, maritime and energy issues and business litigation.
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A former federal prosecutor for the Central District of California, Greenberg has experience handling white collar criminal cases involving public corruption, tax fraud, money laundering, bribery, antitrust, theft of trade secrets, off-label marketing, importation violations, securities fraud and cyber crime. He is based in Los Angeles.
Address
515 South Flower Street, 42nd Floor , Los Angeles 90071
T:
(213) 430-3355
F:
(213) 430-3409
Yoka & Smith LLP
R. Bryan Martin
joined Yoka & Smith LLP as partner in 36 Executive Park, Suite 110, Irvine, CA 92614.
Product Liability, Business Solutions, Transportation, Business Torts/Litigation/General Liability, Employment & Labor
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In today's marketplace, high-stakes litigation is a reality for which every company must be prepared. A weak defense against a high-exposure lawsuit can be catastrophic for a company. It is essential for companies to work with a team of attorneys that has real trial experience and a history of successful defense results. At Yoka & Smith, we are nationally recognized as a Go-To defense firm. When the stakes are high and a business cannot afford to lose, we are a firm that has the experience and resources to mount a strong, efficient and effective defense for clients in California and throughout the country in product liability and catastrophic personal injury actions, commercial and business litigation, toxic exposure cases, class actions, complex tort actions and other civil litigation claims.
Address
445 South Figueroa Street, 38th Floor , Los Angeles 90071 United States
T:
(213) 427-2300
F:
(213) 427-2330
Yoka & Smith LLP
Bret R. Henry
was promoted to partner of Yoka & Smith LLP in 445 S Figueroa Street, 38th Floor.
Product Liability
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In today's marketplace, high-stakes litigation is a reality for which every company must be prepared. A weak defense against a high-exposure lawsuit can be catastrophic for a company. It is essential for companies to work with a team of attorneys that has real trial experience and a history of successful defense results. At Yoka & Smith, we are nationally recognized as a Go-To defense firm. When the stakes are high and a business cannot afford to lose, we are a firm that has the experience and resources to mount a strong, efficient and effective defense for clients in California and throughout the country in product liability and catastrophic personal injury actions, commercial and business litigation, toxic exposure cases, class actions, complex tort actions and other civil litigation claims.
Robins Kaplan LLP
Steven Charles Carlson
joined Robins Kaplan LLP as partner in Silicon Valley.
Carlson is a member of the firm's intellectual property and technology litigation group. He focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation, including commercial, patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, and unfair competition.
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Ellen H. Ehrenpreis
joined Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP as partner in Menlo Park.
Ehrenpreis advises companies on financings, M&A, corporate and securities matters, commercial transactions, intellectual property and litigation strategy.
Solomon Ward Seidenwurm & Smith LLP
Stephen Thomas Toohill
joined Solomon Ward Seidenwurm & Smith LLP as partner in San Diego.
Toohill is a member of the firm's real estate department. He focuses on the representation of commercial, retail, hospitality, industrial and biotech developers, owners and tenants, in regards to acquisition, development, leasing and sale of improved and unimproved property.
California Law Revision Commission
Olga Vitalyevna Mack
joined California Law Revision Commission in Dublin.
Mack started her legal career as an IP litigator at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Most recently, she was general counsel at ClearSlide from 2015 to 2017.
Mack is a co-founder of SunLaw Network, an organization that helps the next generation of women general counsel and in-house leaders by providing peer mentoring and connecting with current general counsel.
She also founded the Women Serve on Board movement, which makes a fiscal and social case for gender equality on corporate boards of directors.
Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Troy Zander
as managing partner
Zander is a member of the firm's Corporate Department, where he will focus on lender-side financing. He has wide-ranging experience with middle-market financing transactions, including traditional commercial leveraged debt financings, venture debt financings and bridge loans.
Zander has represented clients, including agents, lenders and participants in credit facilities totaling over $50 billon. He also devotes a large portion of his practice to debt restructuring, and has managed over $2.5 billion in federal, state and out-of-court proceedings. In addition to managing bankruptcy and out-of-court proceedings for companies, secured and unsecured creditors, committees, trustees and asset purchasers, Zander also represents lenders in forbearances, loan restructurings, amendments and modifications.
Zander earned his J.D. from the University of California San Diego School of Law and his B.A. from the University of California San Diego. He is a member of the California Bar Association, San Diego County Bar Association and the Federal Bar Association. Zander is active in the San Diego community, having served on boards for Feeding America-San Diego, The New Children's Museum and the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation.
Details
With more than 600 attorneys and other legal professionals, Barnes & Thornburg is one of the largest law firms in the country. The firm serves clients worldwide from 14 offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Delaware, Indiana, Los Angeles, Michigan, Minneapolis, Ohio, San Diego and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit us online at www.btlaw.com or on Twitter @BTLawNews.
Address
501 W. Broadway, Suite 800 , San Diego 92101 United States
T:
(312) 252-4108
Perkins Coie LLP
Matt Oshinsky
joined Perkins Coie LLP as partner in Palo Alto.
As a legal counselor to startups, Matt Oshinsky advises and guides emerging growth companies throughout their corporate life cycles. Matt also represents a range of private equity and venture capital investors. His business depth of counsel includes extensive experience representing well-established and market-leading technology and medical device companies in mergers, acquisitions and strategic investments.
Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Dawn Collins
joined Barnes & Thornburg LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Dawn Collins has 20 years of experience as a civil litigator, but she places an emphasis on litigation prevention measures for her corporate clients, including conducting workplace investigations, ensuring best practices related to discharge, discipline, leaves and reductions, drafting employment agreements, and complying with wage and hour laws. She is often called upon to defend clients in high-stakes wage and hour class actions alleging violations of federal and California wage and hour laws.
Collins earned her J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law and her B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Tae Kim
joined Barnes & Thornburg LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Tae Kim represents corporate clients in high-stakes wage and hour class and representative actions, and single plaintiff discrimination harassment claims. Her wage and hour work includes the defense of disputes involving misclassification, commissions, meal and rest breaks, off-the-clock work and piece rate compensation as well as advising clients on wage and hour compliance and conducting audits. She also regularly advises clients on best practices related to terminations, leaves of absence and accommodations, as well as conducting workplace investigations.
Kim earned her J.D. from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, and her B.A. from University of California, Los Angeles.
Buchalter
Peter W. McGaw
joined Buchalter as of counsel in San Francisco.
Peter McGaw will join Buchalter as of counsel in the litigation and environmental and natural resources practice, where he is an expert in environmental law. His practice includes regulatory, remediation, and property damage matters arising out of environmental legislation. McGaw also advises on legislative and regulatory drafting, and advocacy on environmental issues.
McGaw earned his J.D. from the University of California Berkeley School of Law and his B.A. Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University.
Douglas C. Straus
joined Buchalter as shareholder in San Francisco.
Douglas Straus focuses his practice on commercial litigation in the areas of financial services, real estate development and lending, solid waste management, health care, and insurance.
Mr. Straus represents both private and public sector clients in dispute resolution in business, real estate, and public sector conflicts. As a skilled litigator, Mr. Straus has prevailed in jury trials, court trials and arbitrations involving tens of millions of dollars.
Mr. Straus earned his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and his B.S. highest distinction, from Northwestern University.
Benjamin C. Ellis
joined Buchalter as attorney in San Francisco.
Benjamin C. Ellis has joined Buchalter as an attorney in their litigation and environmental and natural resources practice. As a litigation attorney, Ellis' environmental law experience includes working on matters associated with water contamination, permitting disputes, CERCLA and toxic exposure. Ellis has worked alongside government groups: Department of Toxic Substances Control, California Public Utilities Commission, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, California Air Resources Board, Regional Water Quality Control Boards and Caltrans.
Ellis earned his J.D. with a concentration in environmental law from Vermont Law School. Ellis received his B.A. from The Evergreen State College.
Zachary B. Young
joined Buchalter as attorney in San Francisco.
Zachary B. Young has joined Buchalter as an Attorneys in their Litigation Practice. Litigation Attorney Zachary Young advises clients on matters involving contract disputes, fraud, intellectual property rights, including trade secret misappropriation, class action matters, and other complicated business disputes. Young has been successful in cases in both federal and state court, including the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Young earned his J.D., cum laude, from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Young received a double major, magna cum laude, from Santa Clara University, including a B.S. in Political Science and a B.S.C. in Business Management.
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Buchalter is a full-service business law firm representing local, regional, national, and international clients in a multitude of practice areas and their subspecialties, among them: Bank and Finance, Corporate, Health Care, Litigation, Insolvency and Financial Law, Intellectual Property, Labor and Employment, Real Estate, and Tax and Estate Planning. Buchalter has offices in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Francisco, Napa Valley, Sacramento, San Diego, Scottsdale, and Seattle. For more information about the firm, visit: buchalter.com.
Nossaman LLP
Simon Adams
joined Nossaman LLP as partner in San Francisco.
Simon Adams is a partner in Nossaman's Real Estate Practice Group with more than 20 years of experience. He has handled leasing transactions and construction contract matters for a variety of commercial, retail and industrial spaces, including professional offices, technology laboratories, data centers, telecom towers, and brick and mortar stores. He also advises on acquisitions, dispositions and sale and leaseback arrangements and provides counsel on financing issues, as necessary.
Adams counts among his clients major information technology and telecommunications companies, pharmaceutical corporations, medical insurance providers, pension finance firms, and banks. He has counselled organizations on their strategic real estate investment programs as well as how to buy, build and shape a suitable headquarters for their operations.
Prior to joining Nossaman, Adams was a partner in the San Francisco office of an international law firm.
Representative Work
Negotiated the development of a $35 million call center.
Negotiated a $50 million construction contract for a new campus building on behalf of software company PeopleSoft, prior to its acquisition by Oracle Corp.
Counselled client and negotiated on its behalf the development of a campus building, keeping within its $330 million budget.
Negotiated the development of three campus buildings valued at $50 million in Hayward.
Negotiated construction contracts and an architect agreement totaling $100 million for a new cathedral.
Negotiated the lease of a 270,000 square foot headquarters for an insurance client in San Francisco.
Negotiated the Bay Area research and development headquarters of a European telecom company.
Negotiated a 273,000 square foot headquarters sublease arrangement that included three office buildings for a technology client in Sunnyvale.
Counselled clients on a $45 million technology laboratory development.
Negotiated and administered the sale of an $8 million transfer station.
Represented a Chinese public company in connection with its acquisition and concurrent entry into a joint venture with a U.S. logistics company operating in the Western United States.
Negotiated the lease with option to purchase of commercial space in Rancho Cordova.
Address
50 California Street, 34th Floor , San Francisco 94111 USA
T:
(414) 438-7225
DLA Piper LLP
Holly Lake
joined DLA Piper LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Employment
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Joining the firm's employment practice, Lake represents both private and public employers in all aspects of employment law and related litigation, including discrimination, harassment, wrongful discharge and wage-and-hour matters. She also advises clients on day-to-day employment issues, including trends, best practices and compliance strategies, and has significant experience in Office of Federal Contract Compliance matters, pay equity issues and affirmative action plan development. She is based in Los Angeles.
Rimon PC
Peng Chen
joined Rimon PC as partner in San Diego.
Chen is a member of the firm's litigation and intellectual property groups. He focuses his practice on patent prosecution and strategic counseling. He also handles the areas of patent litigation, inter parties review, reexamination, interference, opposition, and licensing.
In addition, Chen leads his biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and diagnostics clients through the technical and legal challenges involved in developing and protecting their critical IP assets.
King & Spalding LLP
Torrey Jeanine McClary
joined King & Spalding LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
McClary is a member of the firm's healthcare team. She specializes in representing health systems, academic medical centers, biotech companies and technology firms in a range of corporate and transactional matters.
DLA Piper LLP
Stacy Paz
was promoted to partner of DLA Piper LLP in East Palo Alto.
Transactional tax practice
Louis Lehot
was promoted to partner of DLA Piper LLP in East Palo Alto.
Emerging growth and venture capital practice
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Paz and Lehot have been named co-managing partners, succeeding Rich Scudellari, who served as managing partner and co-managing partner of the office since 2012. Prior to the appointment, Paz worked as vice office managing partner for Silicon Valley and is the co-chair of the firm's transactional tax practice. She focuses on advising clients in federal and state tax issues in mergers and acquisitions, spinoffs, restructurings, limited liability companies and other pass-through entities, liquidations and other significant transactions. Lehot works as the co-chair of DLA Piper's emerging growth and venture capital practice, focusing in the areas of corporate, securities and mergers and acquisitions law, advising public and emerging private companies and their venture capital and private equity investors from formation to liquidity. This includes public offers and private placements of equity, equity-linked and debt securities, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, spinoffs, strategic investments and joint ventures as well as corporate governance and securities compliance matters. "Stacy and I are excited to take the reins and continue to drive the growth we've seen in our Silicon Valley office, bringing our clients to a higher level from garage to global," Lehot said. "We're grateful for the opportunity to bring our complementary skill sets together to help chart out the next chapter of DLA Piper, not just a global firm, but a local firm with a team committed to serving their communities as well as their clients with a distinct voice and spirit." They are both based in East Palo Alto.
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP
Jeremy Mittman
joined Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP as partner in Los Angeles.
Jeremy Mittman defends employers, at the trial and appellate court levels, in litigation involving wrongful discharge, sexual harassment, wage and hour class actions, breach of contract and employment discrimination. He also specializes in privacy and data security, and a large part of his practice focuses on international employment matters. He works with clients on multi-country HR projects involving issues such as data privacy in Global Human Resources Information Systems, multi-country employment contracts, international background checks, terminations and other HR actions.
Address
11377 W. Olympic Boulevard , Los Angeles 90064 United States
T:
(310) 312-2000
F:
(310) 312-3100
Barnes & Thornburg
Ryan J. Barncastle
joined Barnes & Thornburg as partner in Los Angeles.
Barnes & Thornburg LLP has added Ryan J. Barncastle as a partner in the Corporate Department in Los Angeles. Barncastle represents sophisticated businesses, real estate companies, family offices, entrepreneurs and investors in complex transactional matters. His corporate practice includes advising clients with respect to strategic entity formation, debt financings, securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital investments, equity compensation, corporate governance, joint venture arrangements and extraordinary corporate deals. Specific to real estate, Barncastle works with institutions, investment companies, lenders, developers, brokers, operators and property management firms in connection with financing, syndication, acquisition, disposition and leasing matters.
Details
With more than 600 attorneys and other legal professionals, Barnes & Thornburg is one of the largest law firms in the country. The firm serves clients worldwide from 14 offices in Atlanta, California, Chicago, Delaware, Indiana, Michigan, Minneapolis, Ohio, Texas and Washington, D.C.
Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson LLP (CGS3)
Robert J. Bell
joined Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson LLP (CGS3) as partner in Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson LLP (CGS3) - San Diego Office.
With more than 40 years of industry experience, Bell focuses his practice on real estate development/construction, investment and brokerage matters and will work from CGS3's headquarters in San Diego. Bell's career spans the spectrum of real estate development, investment, construction and brokerage matters including multi-family, urban infill, mixed-use, hospitality, industrial, retail, office and land transactions. He has represented some of the nation's most successful homebuilders and commercial developers.
In addition, Bell is a licensed California real estate broker and served as outside general counsel for the San Diego Association of Realtors for over 25 years. He is also a founding member of the California Association of Realtors' Legal Affairs Committee.
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Since its inception in 2013, CGS3 has quickly established a reputation as one of the leading real estate law firms in California, attracting some of the state's finest real estate attorneys from both large corporate firms and senior in-house positions. With practice areas including land use, finance, acquisition/disposition, entity formation, tax, development, land use, leasing, distressed assets and litigation/disputes, CGS3 is located at 12750 High Bluff Drive, Suite 250, San Diego, California 92130 and 10940 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 2200, Los Angeles, California 90024. For more information, visit http://www.cgs3.com.
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Walter Wu
joined Dorsey & Whitney LLP as partner in Palo Alto.
A licensed physician, Wu focuses his practice on patent prosecution and portfolio strategy for life sciences clients and patent due diligence for life sciences investors. He represents companies in the digital health, medical diagnostics, bioinformatics, ophthalmic and wound care industries.
Address
305 Lytton Ave. , Palo Alto 94301
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP
Joseph C. Kracht
joined Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP as partner in San Diego.
Kracht joins Gordon & Rees' employment law and commercial litigation practice groups. He focuses his practice on complex civil litigation, writs and appeals. He has experience in state and federal civil rights claims, patent litigation, partnership disputes, securities fraud and wage and hour disputes.
Address
101 W. Broadway, Suite 2000 , San Diego 92101
McManis Faulkner
Ann M. Ravel
joined McManis Faulkner as of counsel in San Jose.
Ravel was appointed to the Federal Election Commission by President Barack Obama in 2013 and served as FEC chair and vice chair. Prior to that, she was appointed chair of the California Fair Political Practices Commission and served as a deputy assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice. She currently serves as a senior fellow at nonprofit research organization MapLight, focusing on digital deception issues in politics.
Address
50 W. San Fernando St., 10th Fl , San Jose 95113
Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson LLP
Robert J. Bell
joined Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson LLP as partner in San Diego.
As a real estate attorney, Bell focuses his practice on real estate development and construction, investment and brokerage matters. He has experience working on real estate matters in a range of industries, including hospitality, industrial, retail, office, multifamily and urban infill. He is also a licensed California real estate broker.
Address
12750 High Bluff Dr., Suite 250 , San Diego 92130