Watanabe Nason & Seltzer - Recent Transactions

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The placement of an intellectual property litigation group led by Jeff Randall, an intellectual property star at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom with Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker. Randall will co-chair the firm's global IP practice. He brings with him a team that includes Allan Soobert and Jeff Pade, who will be posted in Washington, D.C. Randall will work in Palo Alto, where he is based, and in D.C. Randall has represented eBay Inc., Qualcomm, Dell, Genentech, Apple, Cisco Systems and Intel Corp., among other companies, and has won more than 30 jury trials, as well as handling appeals all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court. Among his successful cases, Randall is credited with saving the day for Dell Computers, and Sun Microsystems Inc., in patent infringement cases that had put their core businesses at risk, and, in the latter's case, carried possible damages of $3 billion.
The opening of Jenner & Block’s Los Angeles office led by two prominent partners from Kirkland & Ellis; Rick Richmond and Brent Caslin. Richmond will serve as the Managing Partner for the Los Angeles and is a member of the Firm’s Management and Marketing and Business Development Committees. Prior to joining Jenner & Block, Richmond was a partner in the Los Angeles office of Kirkland & Ellis. From 1987-89, he served as an appellate attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division. He was a Law Clerk to the Honorable Harlington Wood, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and he also was a Research Assistant for the book The Supreme Court, authored by then-Justice William H. Rehnquist. Richmond is a trial and appellate lawyer and client counselor with 23 years of experience in state and federal courts, in federal and local administrative proceedings, and before AAA and other arbitration panels. He has tried 21 cases and handled numerous TRO and injunction proceedings in venues across the country, including in California, Arizona, Washington, New York, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas, and Louisiana. Jenner & Block now has approximately 470 attorneys in four offices: Chicago, New York, Washington, D.C, and Los Angeles.
The placement of corporate and emerging company practice partners Michael Kagnoff, Martin Nichols, Jeffrey Thacker and Ross Burningham with DLA in San Diego. All were formerly partners with Heller Ehrman in San Diego. Prior to joining DLA and upon Brobeck’s dissolution in 2003, Watanabe Nason represented the group in joining Heller Ehrman.
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 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 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.
Paul Hasting’s hire of top antitrust partner Michael Cohen in the Washington, DC office. Cohen, formerly a partner with Heller Ehrman, focuses his practice on criminal and civil antitrust litigation, as well as merger clearance and civil conduct investigations before the United States Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission. He serves as antitrust counsel for a diverse array of clients including Del Monte Foods, Symantec Corporation and Western Refining, which Cohen successfully defended through trial and appeal of Western’s acquisition of Giant Industries. Prior to Heller Ehrman, Cohen served in private practice and served as an Assistant Special Prosecutor investigating and prosecuting criminal wrongdoing related to the failure of major financial institutions.
Jones Day’s acquisition of prominent labor and employment partner Curt Kirschner. Kirschner joins Jones Day in San Francisco and was a partner with O’Melveny & Myers. Kirschner's practice focuses on complex labor and employment disputes, especially in health care. He is the designated outside labor counsel to the American Hospital Association and he has also represented clients in various other industries including the public sector, investment services and broadcasting
The placement of corporate partners Eric A. Klein and John Molloy with Sheppard Mullin in Los Angeles. Klein most recently practiced as a leader of Katten Muchin Rosenman's West Coast Mergers and Acquisitions and Securities practices. Prior to joining Sheppard Mullin, Watanabe Nason represented Klein and Molloy in their move from Shaw Pittman to Katten Muchin.
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 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;