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• Covington & Burling hires five lawyers for Shanghai Launch

  Feb 14 2012 Washington, D.C.-based firm Covington & Burling is waiting on regulatory approval for a new office in Shanghai, after hiring five lawyers from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich... more

• Irish firm A&L Goodbody set to launch in California

  Dec 22 2011 Irish firm A&L Goodbody is set to launch a new office in Palo Alto, California, relocating the firm’s IP and technology head John Whelan and tax partner Paul Fahy to... more

• AZB, Amarchand, Simpson Thacher and Wadia Gandhy advise on KKR, IFC investment in Magma Fincorp

  May 31 2011 Global investment firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR) and International Finance Corporation (IFC) are investing Rs. 440 crore ($ 100 million) in Kolkata-based... more

• Five firms advise on Microsoft's $8.5b acquisition of Skype

  May 12 2011 Microsoft Corp. has agreed to acquire the popular Internet telephone service Skype SA for $8.5 billion in the biggest deal in the software maker’s 36-year history.... more

• Simpson Thacher and Latham on AOL $315m acquisition of Huffington Post

  Feb 11 2011 The US internet company, AOL Inc. has bought Huffington Post for $315 million (Rs. 1,480 crore). Simpson Thacher and Bartlet advised long standing client AOL Inc.... more

• Morrison & Foerster elevates 14 to partnership

  Jan 06 2011 Morrison & Foerster has promoted 14 associates to the partnership in its annual promotions round. The details of the promotions are as follows: Hong Kong... more

• Skadden shuts down its San Francisco office

  Dec 08 2010 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has announced that it will close its San Francisco office at the end of June 2011. The lawyers in the San Francisco office - 17... more

• Skadden boosts Palo Alto litigation practice with hire of solo practitioner

  Dec 01 2010 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has secured the hire of Silicon Valley solo practitioner Allen Ruby. Ruby will bring his successful litigation practice to Skadden... more

• White & Case to lose yet another partner

  Mar 30 2010 Patent litigation partner Jennifer L Yokoyama is set to leave White & Case for in-house position at Nike. 'We are sorry to lose such a talented young partner in... more

• Cooley Godward Kronish makes second round of staff cuts

  Oct 05 2009 In the second round of staff cuts this year, technology and venture capital law firm Cooley Godward Kronish LLP laid off 58 employees - about 7 percent of the firm’s... more

• Wilson Sonsini loses $1m in alleged office supply scam

  Sep 07 2009 A purchasing specialist at Palo Alto law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati helped a San Francisco office supplier defraud the firm of around $1 million through... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf represents eBay on $1.9bn Skype deal

  Sep 03 2009 Just one month after hiring eBay's longtime advisers from Cooley Godward Kronish, Dewey & LeBoeuf has won a mandate to represent the acution site on its $1.9bn deal to... more

• Paul Hastings poaches Skadden patent star Jeffrey Randall

  Aug 11 2009 Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker has hired Jeffrey Randall, a star patent litigator from the Palo Alto office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, who is known... more

• Wilson Sonsini cuts 113 jobs, freezes associate salaries

  Feb 09 2009 Palo Alto-based Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, one of of the largest law firms in Silicon Valley, has announced it is laying off 45 lawyers and 68 staff members.... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf to shut down San Francisco office

  Feb 04 2009 Dewey & LeBoeuf will close its San Francisco office and move all attorneys and staff to East Palo Alto. The combined office will have nine partners and about 20... more

• McDermott takes Heller office space in Palo Alto

  Nov 10 2008 McDermott Will & Emery LLP plans to lease Menlo Park office space vacated by failed Heller Ehrman LLP. The firm has signed a 10-year lease to for more than 80,000... more