Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company, in agreement with NTT Europe, a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT Communications, to establish a European data centre in the U.K. Scheduled for completion in 2014, the new data centre will be salesforce.com’s sixth worldwide and will support the company’s cloud computing services across its growing customer base in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

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Gerald F. George, a lawyer known nationally for handling major environmental litigation throughout the U.S., has joined the environmental group at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP as a partner in the firm’s San Francisco office.

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Goodwin Procter recently advised client NIKE, Inc. (NYSE: NKE) in its issuance of $1 billion in aggregate principal amount of notes in an underwritten public offering. Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated acted as representatives for the several underwriters in connection with the transaction.

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Building on its recent momentum in San Francisco, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. announced that Jonathan A. Shapiro, an experienced corporate and securities litigator formerly of Wilmer Hale, has joined as a Member and the Head of the firm’s West Coast Litigation Practice. He is the fourth new Member to join the San Francisco office in the last month.

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David W. Van Horne, Jr. has been recruited by Goodwin Procter for their San Francisco office.  The partner practices in the corporate space, primarily focusing on emerging growth compaies and venture capital funds.  He brings a solid background in corporate formation, governance, and M&A work and represents clients in the software and entertainment industries.

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Goodwin Procter, a national Am Law 50 firm, announced today that David W. Van Horne, Jr. has joined the firm’s Business Law Department in its San Francisco office as a member of Goodwin’s Technology Companies Group. He will focus on representing emerging growth companies throughout their life cycle as well as advising venture capital funds and structuring investments from seed through growth stage. Van Horne joins Goodwin from Gunderson Dettmer, where he was a partner in its Silicon Valley office.

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Continuing the expansion of the firm’s West Coast presence and nationally-recognized product liability and life sciences capabilities, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. has added a product liability group to its San Francisco office with the addition of Daniel J. Herling and Michelle Gillette, who join as Members. The group builds on the thriving litigation, corporate, intellectual property and real estate practice the firm has established in the Bay Area.

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Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm advised Post Advisory Group LLC in the sale of a minority stake in Post Advisory Group, LLC to Nippon Life Insurance Company.

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Vedder Price is pleased to announce its entry into the California market with an office in San Francisco.

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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Marc Fagel will join the San Francisco office as a partner. Most recently the Director of the San Francisco Regional Office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Fagel will join the firm’s Securities Enforcement practice.

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