Gibson Dunn’s acquisition of well known technology transactions and outsourcing expert Dan Mummery from Latham & Watkins in Silicon Valley. Mummery's outsourcing practice has included work for such clients as American Express, AT&T, BellSouth, British Telecommunications, Cable & Wireless, Chase Manhattan Bank, Hughes, Chevron, DuPont, Entergy, Gateway, General Motors, Levi Strauss & Co., McGraw-Hill, Miller Brewing Company, Ryder, Sempra, Tenet Healthcare, United Air Lines, UnitedHealthcare and WellPoint. Prior to joining Latham, Mummery was a partner in the Palo Alto office of Cooley Godward, where he headed Cooley's outsourcing practice group. Before joining Cooley in 2001, Mummery was a partner in the New York office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, where he led Milbank's global technology transactions group. Mummery is ranked by Chambers & Partners in the first tier of the leading outsourcing lawyers in the world;
The placement of a 10-lawyer intellectual property group with Foley & Lardner. The group led by prominent litigator and former co-chair of Heller Ehrman's Litigation Practice, David Kleinfeld, join Foley in their San Diego and Del Mar offices. In addition to Kleinfeld; former Heller partners Kurt Kjelland, Dan Silverman, Chad Fuller and Barry Tucker and five former Heller associates join Foley including Steve Moore, Ph.D., Sam Hellfeld, Richard Thill, Nicole Cunningham and Tammy Boggs. Bob Palmer, Ph.D., also joins as a patent specialist. Kleinfeld has been widely recognized as one of the top business litigators in California, receiving various recognitions for his work including being listed as one of San Diego's top business litigators by San Diego Magazine and one of California's top rainmakers by California Law Business;
The placement of an international trade practice group opening offices for Winston & Strawn in Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai. The practice team joins from Heller Ehrman. The partners joining in Hong Kong are Simon Luk, David Hall-Jones, and Michael Phillips. Luk, the former chair of Heller's Hong Kong practice, has substantial experience in corporate mergers and acquisitions, private equity and fund formation, and advising emerging companies. Phillips' credentials include capital markets, M&A transactions, real estate finance, hospitality, and insolvency matters. Hall-Jones is well known for his experience in international arbitration and complex commercial litigation, particularly involving cross-border implications. The Hong Kong team will continue to work closely with Winston’s new Washington, D.C.-based international trade partners William Barringer, Daniel Porter, Christopher Dunn and James Durling, all of whom have been involved in numerous trade cases with regard to China. The group also includes one of counsel, three associates, four high-level trade analysts and other key support professionals who are based in China;
The opening of Mintz Levin’s San Diego office with 5 partners and 6 associates from Fish & Richardson. Joining the firm are partners Eddie Rodriguez, the Head of the Corporate and Securities Group; Craig Hunsaker, the Managing Partner of Fish and Richardson’s San Diego office; Lance Kurata; James Cleary; Carl Kukkonen, and Of Counsel Jeremy Hayden. Also joining Mintz Levin’s San Diego office from Fish & Richardson is Marketing Director David Salisbury. Watanabe & Nason serves as strategic consultants to Mintz Levin in their California expansion efforts;
The opening of the Century City office of Steptoe & Johnson with litigation partners from Alschuler Grossman Stein and Kahan in Los Angeles - including Mark Neubauer, Katessa Charles Davis, Rebecca Edelson, Meredith Moss and Michael Heimbold. An intellectual property group of four lawyers headed by patent lawyer Robert Kovelman. Kovelman, formerly a partner and chair of the Intellectual Property Department in the Los Angeles office of Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner joined Steptoe along with of counsel Brooke Quist and associates vanessa Owen and Andrew Chen. Litigation partner Seong Hwan Kim, formerly a partner at Christensen Glaser in Los Angeles. All of the lawyers who joined Steptoe were placed by Watanabe & Nason, LLC;
The opening of McGuireWoods office in Los Angeles with the merger of Van Etten Suzumoto & Becket. McGuireWoods has 750 lawyers in 13 domestic offices and two international offices. Van Etten Suzumoto & Becket was founded in 1996 by former partners of Pillsbury Winthrop (formerly known for real estate transactions, labor and employment, and complex business litigation). All 16 of Van Etten's partners will join McGuireWoods as partners with the firm;
The placement of Steve Swinton and attorneys Alex Long and Adam Welland with Latham & Watkins in San Diego. Swinton was formerly the Firmwide Chair of Cooley Godward's Intellectual Property practice. His practice involves hotly-contested patent infringement, trade regulation and other intellectual property litigation matters. Swinton has also distinguished himself as a business litigator with extensive trial experience having represented clients and tried to decision a wide range of patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret matters. He has been listed in "The Best Lawyers in America" since 1993;
The placement of corporate partner David Hernand with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in their Los Angeles/Century City office. Formerly a partner with Latham & Watkins, Hernand practices corporate law, with a focus on public and private mergers and acquisitions in the technology industry. Hernand focuses his corporate practice on public and private M&A, corporate securities and general company representation, with a particular emphasis on technology companies. He also has significant experience in representing investment banks and private equity and venture capital firms, as well as companies and institutional investors;
The placement of intellectual property litigation partner Terry McMahon, as the Global Intellectual Property Chair for McDermott, Will & Emery, resident in their Menlo Park office. McMahon has been widely recognized by the legal and business communities, having been named a worldwide leader of IP in Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2001-2009), recognized by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2004-2008). He has more than 30 years of trial experience representing technology heavyweights including American Express, Aristocrat Technologies, Creative Labs, Extreme Networks, Fairchild, Fresenius Medical, General Electric, Logitech, Qualcomm Incorporated, Seagate Technology, Silicon Image and Tercica, Inc. on “bet the company” cases taking on major technology companies such as Baxter, Genesis Microchip, Hyundai, Intel and Lucent;
The opening of Morrison & Foerster's San Diego office with the acquisition of intellectual property litigation partners David Doyle, (former Managing Partner of Baker & McKenzie's San Diego office and Firmwide IP chair), Craig Celniker and corporate, securities partner Carlos Heredia, together with 13 associates;
Predominately litigation driven 50-attorney firm Stephan, Oringher, Richman, Theodora joined forces with 15-attorney corporate boutique Miller & Holguin. Headquartered in Century City, the new firm boasts in excess of 60 attorneys between Los Angeles and its Costa Mesa office. The firm now known as Stephan, Oringher, Richman, Theodora & Miller will have particular expertise in serving healthcare clientele with SORT's significant healthcare litigation practice complimenting Miller & Holguin's extensive healthcare regulatory and transactional practice;
The opening of Paul Hastings San Diego office with the acquisition of eight partners and 30 associates from Brobeck. Practice areas includes intellectual property, securities and commercial litigation;
The representation of Jones Day which consummated the acquisition of 10 IP partners. Intellectual property partners Coe Bloomberg, Robert Dickerson, Lois Kwasigroch, Lawrence LaPorte, Ted Maceiko, Donald McCarthy, David Randall, Jerrold Reilly, Brent Sokol and Michael Tomasulo all joined Jones Day in their Los Angeles office. All were formerly partners with Lyon & Lyon in Los Angeles;
The opening of Mintz Levin's Palo Alto office with the acquisition of the Reed Intellectual Property Law Group, a prominent Palo Alto-based law firm with extensive experience representing clients in the life sciences and technology sectors. The placement of Robert P. Taylor with Mintz Levin as the Managing Member of the firm's Palo Alto office. Taylor is formerly of Howrey LLP, where he founded and managed the firm's Northern California practice. Taylor has served as trial counsel in numerous patent and antitrust matters involving a wide range of technologies and industries, including thin film transistors, semiconductor manufacturing equipment and processes, surgical devices, stem cell technology, DNA arrays, genetic expression of proteins, liquid chromatography devices, audio compression algorithms, network switching equipment, microprocessors, automotive electronics and many more.
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