Goodwin Procter, a national Am Law 50 firm, announced today that Jared G. Jensen has joined the firm’s San Francisco office as a partner in its Private Equity Practice. Jensen joins Goodwin from Amazon.com where he was Senior Corporate Counsel.

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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Charles J. Stevens has returned to the firm in its San Francisco office as a partner.  Stevens, a former Gibson Dunn partner, U.S. Attorney and Assistant U.S. Attorney, was the founding partner of Stevens, O’Connell & Jacobs, a litigation boutique focused on government investigations.

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Schiff Hardin welcomes Paula Leibovitz Goodwin as a partner in the Private Clients, Trusts and Estates Group in the firm’s San Francisco office. Ms. Goodwin has more than 30 years of experience in estate planning and decedent estate administration, with an emphasis on tax planning for both large and small estates.

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Lawyer M.J. Pritchett has taken a new job with Arent Fox in San Francisco.  The partner, who joins from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, focuses his legal practice on Real Estate matters.  Pritchett has extensive experience in  acquisition, disposition, secured lending, public finance, leasing, and more.

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Shearman & Sterling is advising Western Digital Corp. in the acquisition by its subsidiary, HGST, of Virident Systems, Inc. in a transaction valued at $685 million. Closing of the acquisition, which is subject to customary conditions, is expected to occur in the fourth calendar quarter of 2013.

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Covington & Burling is advising Microsoft Corp. in its purchase of substantially all of Nokia’s devices & services business. Under the transaction, Microsoft will also license Nokia’s patents, and license and use Nokia’s mapping services. The total transaction price is EUR 5.44 billion in cash — or more than $7 billion.

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With a focus on the ever-changing needs of our clients’ workplaces, Nixon Peabody has further strengthened its labor and employment practice with the arrival of new partner Karen D. Ng, a nationally recognized leader in employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs). Ms. Ng joins Nixon Peabody’s San Francisco office from Sedgwick LLP, where she led the employee benefits practice.

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Arent Fox LLP is pleased to announce the expansion of both its nationally recognized Real Estate practice and its new San Francisco office with the addition of real estate transactions partner M.J. Pritchett. Mr. Pritchett joins Arent Fox less than a month after the addition of three Intellectual Property and Health Care attorneys to its Northern California office. He will focus his practice on real estate transactions involving acquisition, disposition, development, and leasing; secured lending and troubled debt resolution; and public finance and securitization.

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The International law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP, has added shareholder R. Bruce Steinert, Jr. in the Corporate & Securities practice group. He will reside in the firm’s San Francisco office.

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Highly-regarded securities litigation and enforcement lawyer, Michael Charlson, who handles the full spectrum of securities work for pharmaceutical, technology and financial services clients, has joined Vinson & Elkins LLP in San Francisco.

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