Simpson Thacher represented Oaktree Capital Group, LLC in the registered follow-on offering of 8.05 million Class A units representing limited liability company interests. Morgan Stanley, BofA Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse were the joint global coordinators for the approximately $431 million offering. Oaktree intends to use all of the net proceeds from the offering to acquire interests in its business from certain of its directors, employees and other investors.
Tags: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | Los AngelesDean Herman and Hee Young Lee Join Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck as Partners in Firm’s Los Angeles Office; Senior Counsel and Three Associates Also Join LA Office
Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck, LLP (KDV), a leading national law firm, today announced that Dean B. Herman, who has more than 30 years of experience in insurance industry and business litigation, and Hee Young Lee, who has represented insurers and policyholders for more than a decade, have joined the firm as partners in its Los Angeles office. They will be accompanied by Craig D. Aronson as senior counsel and Steven S. Son, Andrew C. Johnson and Mikhaile P. Savary as associates.
Tags: Los AngelesKatten Represents Sacramento Basketball Holdings in Purchase of NBA’s Sacramento Kings
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP represented Sacramento Basketball Holdings LLC, a buyer group led by TIBCO Software CEO and Chairman Vivek Ranadive, in completing its acquisition of the National Basketball Association’s Sacramento Kings from the Maloof family.
Tags: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP | Los AngelesThompson Coe Partners with Frances O’Meara to Open California Office
Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, LLP has partnered with Frances O’Meara to form Thompson Coe & O’Meara, LLP to practice law in California.
Tags: Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, LLP | Los AngelesLouis Dienes Joins Locke Lord’s Los Angeles Office as Partner in the Corporate Practice Group
Louis Dienes has joined Locke Lord’s Los Angeles office as a Partner in the Corporate Practice Group. Dienes brings a wealth of experience working with clients in mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, equity and debt financings, and business operations.
Tags: Locke Lord LLP | Los AngelesPartner Mike Heimbold Joins Sheppard Mullin Century City
Michael R. Heimbold has joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a partner in the firm’s Business Trial and Intellectual Property practice groups, based in the firm’s 60-attorney Century City office. Heimbold joins from Steptoe & Johnson in Century City.
Tags: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP | Los AngelesKasowitz Opens Los Angeles Office with Leading Insurance Recovery Litigators Jerold Oshinsky and Linda Kornfeld
Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP is pleased to announce that nationally renowned insurance recovery litigators Jerold Oshinsky and Linda Kornfeld are joining the firm’s insurance recovery group as partners and will launch the firm’s Los Angeles office. The move reunites them with Robin Cohen, their partner at a previous firm and the leader of Kasowitz’s award-winning insurance recovery group, and further entrenches the group’s national leadership position.
Tags: Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP | Los AngelesAkin Gump Advises Kingston Technology Company in Agreement with Powerchip Technology Corporation
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP represented Kingston Technology Company, Inc. in an agreement with Powerchip Technology Corporation, a Taiwanese public company, to acquire certain assets of Powerchip in a deal valued at approximately $200 million. Kingston Technology Company, Inc. simultaneously entered into a transaction pursuant to which Powerchip will provide foundry services to Kingston Technology Company, Inc. for a two-year period in a deal valued at approximately $380 million.
Tags: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP | Los AngelesVeteran Land Use and Environmental Attorney Joins Cox Castle & Nicholson
Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP is pleased to announce that prominent land use and environmental attorney David Waite has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner. Waite brings 20 years of experience to the firm’s nationally recognized real estate practice, with particular expertise in real estate development of infill sites and master-planned communities.
Tags: Los AngelesAkin Gump Represents True Religion in Merger Agreement with TowerBrook Partners
True Religion Apparel, Inc. today announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with TowerBrook Capital Partners L.P., the New York and London-based investment management firm, in a transaction valued at approximately $835 million.
Tags: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP | Los Angeles