Nixon Peabody Adds IP Counseling and Transactions Team

Thursday, September 8, 2016

San Francisco, CA, and Washington, DC. Nixon Peabody continues its West Coast expansion with the addition of a patent counseling and IP transactions team. Led by San Francisco–based partner On Lu, the team includes attorneys Dr. Eduardo (Ed) Quiñones and Dr. Zhou Lu each of whom bring a deep knowledge of technology issues and the challenges and opportunities facing high-tech companies. More >>

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Cooley Makes Significant Additions to Life Sciences Patent Group

Monday, July 25, 2016

Cooley is further expanding its patent counseling & prosecution practice with the addition of Mika Reiner Mayer’s team from Morrison & Foerster LLP. The team includes lawyer and licensed medical doctor Walter Wu, who joins the firm as a partner. Wu earned his MD from the University of California, Davis School of Medicine and his JD from UCLA School of Law. More >>

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K&L Gates Bolsters Intellectual Property, Life Sciences Practices with San Francisco, Palo Alto Partner Additions

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes intellectual property partners Roger C. Kuan and Jason J. Novak to its Palo Alto and San Francisco offices, respectively. They join K&L Gates from Thermo Fisher Scientific, where they each served as Director/IP Counsel, helping to manage the company’s intellectual property team and matters. More >>

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Morrison & Foerster Significantly Expands Bay Area Private Equity and Corporate Practices

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Morrison & Foerster, a leading global law firm, is pleased to announce the hiring of four new partners in the San Francisco Bay Area. Three partners – Darío Avram, Patrick D. Huard and Alex S. Kaufman – join Morrison & Foerster’s Private Equity Investments & Buyouts Group, and the fourth partner, Sara L. Terheggen – joins the firm’s Corporate Department.

Messrs. Avram, Huard and Kaufman all come to the firm from Kirkland & Ellis with significant expertise and relationships in the private equity space. Dr. Terheggen joins Morrison & Foerster from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, combining a public company practice, advising on numerous corporate finance transactions, initial public offerings and corporate governance matters, with a fund practice, working with private equity and other funds on fund formation and other transactions. More >>

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Cooley Expands Private Equity Practice with World-Class Additions

Monday, May 9, 2016

Cooley is enhancing its global private equity group with the arrival of three prominent partners. Ron Hopkinson joins in New York from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, where he was head of the firm’s private equity group. Eric Schwartzman joins in Palo Alto from Weil, Gotshal & Manges’ Silicon Valley office. Hopkinson and Schwartzman, former partners of Latham & Watkins, worked extensively together in New York representing a myriad of private equity sponsors. In London, Stephen Rosen joins the firm from Olswang, where he was head of the private equity and venture capital group. More >>

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