Amar Thakur has joined the firm as a partner in its Los Angeles office. Thakur, who has an Electrical Engineering degree, specializes in intellectual property litigation and intellectual property licensing matters.

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Matthew B. Gruenberg, a noted corporate lawyer, has joined Barnes & Thornburg LLP’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the firm’s Corporate Department and will chair the Franchising & Distribution Law Practice Group.

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DLA Piper today announced that Patrick Connolly has joined the firm’s Tax practice as a partner in the Los Angeles office.

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Hunton & Williams LLP continues its strategic growth with the addition of partner Colleen Doyle and counsel Diana Martin to the firm’s environmental law practice group. Formerly with Bingham McCutchen LLP, Doyle and Martin are based in the firm’s Los Angeles office and rejoin partner Scott Burton, who moved to the firm from Bingham in 2008.

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, represented Wells Fargo Capital Finance, LLC, a unit of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. in financing two acquisitions made by Bullhorn Inc., a recruiting software company owned by private equity firm Vista Equity Partners. Bullhorn Inc. has acquired MaxHire Solutions Inc. of Vancouver, Canada, and Sendouts LLC based in St. Louis. The two software firms provide services to staffing and recruiting agencies.

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented St. Joseph Heritage Healthcare (“Heritage”) in the purchase of substantially all of the assets of Mission Internal Medical Group, Inc., a California professional medical corporation (“MIMG”), which owns and operates a comprehensive, multi-specialty medical practice and conducts such practice in several office locations in southern Orange County, California.

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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP announced today that Jeffrey A. Finn has joined its Century City office and will head the firm’s West Coast Patent Practice. Finn represents start-up, emerging growth and large corporations in all aspects of intellectual property law, with an emphasis on patent litigation.

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Loeb & Loeb LLP achieved a significant appellate victory on behalf of clients Showtime Networks Inc. and Darlene Hunt, creator and head writer of the Showtime original television series The Big C, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court’s grant of summary judgment against a woman who alleged that the series infringed her screenplay.

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The Firm represented underwriters, led by BofA Merrill Lynch and RBS, in a public offering of $350 million principal amount of 4.875% Notes due 2022 of Avnet, Inc.

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Alston & Bird LLP announced today that James R. Roberts, Jr., has joined its litigation team as a partner in the firm’s Los Angeles office. With a national practice, Mr. Roberts has nearly 30 years of experience defending complex and high-exposure lawsuits in state and federal courts. He has developed a reputation among his clients for his ability to successfully resolve their most difficult disputes. A seasoned trial attorney, Mr. Roberts has extensive class action experience, and regularly defends high-stake matters involving claims of wage and hour law violations, employee misclassification, unfair competition, false advertising, disability discrimination and privacy violations.

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