Cooley LLP announced today that it is advising Jazz Pharmaceuticals in its pending acquisition of EUSA Pharma. The Cooley team was led by Mergers & Acquisitions partner Jennifer Fonner DiNucci, based in Palo Alto.

Global law firm Squire Sanders has expanded its pensions practice in Manchester with the hire of a new partner, David Griffiths, who will join the Manchester office from Eversheds.

International law firm Davis Polk has hired a new attorney to serve as a partner for a London legal job.

The national law firm of Quarles & Brady achieved an important victory for its client, Munchkin, Inc., in a lengthy patent infringement battle between Munchkin and its direct competitor concerning Munchkin’s Twist-Tight™ children’s drinking cups. Quarles had earlier achieved a victory of non-infringement on summary judgment in the Western District of Wisconsin, and then successfully defended that victory from a motion for reconsideration and again on appeal. On appeal, the Federal Circuit affirmed the District Court’s decision that Munchkin’s Twist-Tight™ cups do not infringe a patent held by competitor Learning Curve, Inc. Munchkin was represented in the District Court and on appeal by Quarles & Brady attorneys Josephine K. Benkers and Martha J. Snyder.

A group of well-known St. Louis attorneys will join Polsinelli Shughart’s St. Louis office on May 1. The attorneys include Alan S. Breckenridge, Thomas J. Campbell, Ruben K. Chuquimia, Thomas P. Hohenstein, Bradley G. Kafka, and Sanford S. Neuman, all highly respected in the St. Louis business and legal communities. The St Louis addition includes five shareholders and nine other attorneys.