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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DLA Piper announced today that Cedric Chao has joined the firm’s Litigation practice as a partner in the San Francisco office.

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Today, Pillsbury welcomed Thomas A. Zimmer to the firm’s San Francisco office as a partner in the firm’s Finance group. Zimmer, formerly a partner with Holland & Knight, will serve as co-leader of Pillsbury’s transportation finance team along with partner Mark Lessard in New York. He was previously Chair of Holland & Knight’s Finance group and was the Deputy Section Leader of its Business Law Section.

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Continuing with its planned strategic growth, Novak Druce Connolly Bove + Quigg LLP, the IP super boutique, announced that Pamela K. Fulmer joined the firm as a partner on March 18th. She will practice out of the firm’s San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices where she will concentrate on intellectual property litigation as well as disputes related to trade secrets, unfair competition, licensing and other complex issues.

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DLA Piper announced today that Zhaoyang “Paul” Li has joined the firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology practice and Patent Prosecution group as a partner in the San Francisco office.

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