Jason Dearen

April 03, 2003 | Law.com

Montreal's SR Telecom Inc. has acquired San Jose-based Netro Corp. for $121 million in cash and stock. The Montreal office of Canada's Fasken Martineau DuMoulin represented SR Telecom. Attorneys in the Menlo Park office of Davis Polk & Wardwell represented Netro in the deal.

By Jason Dearen

4 minute read

May 09, 2003 | Law.com

To some, the Department of Homeland Security seems like a glimmer of hope in an economic wasteland. This vast new bureaucracy comprises 22 federal agencies and is in the market for new IT products to use in everything from day-to-day operations and database infrastructure to security-related projects. Robert Sherry, a partner at Kirkpatrick & Lockhart who specializes in handling federal deals for technology companies, believes the Department of Homeland Security will create a lot of new business.

By Jason Dearen

6 minute read

October 10, 2002 | The Recorder

NetIQ Corp., a San Jose-based maker of business network security software, recently completed its fourth acquisition over the past 18 months, this time of Houston's Pentasafe Security Technologies Inc. for $255 million in cash and stock. Lawyers in the Menlo Park office of Davis Polk & Wardwell represented NetIQ in the transaction.

By Jason Dearen

3 minute read

June 19, 2003 | Law.com

In an arid initial public offering landscape, a successful IPO by FormFactor Inc. -- the first this year by a Bay Area company -- has many in the Valley feeling cautiously optimistic. Attorneys in the Mountain View office of Fenwick & West and the Palo Alto office of Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich represented Livermore-based FormFactor, a maker of wafer probe cards for the semiconductor industry, in the June 12 IPO.

By Jason Dearen

3 minute read

November 07, 2002 | Law.com

Scotts Valley-based Borland Software Corp., a maker of applications used by software designers, has acquired TogetherSoft Corp., a Raleigh, N.C., designer of software development tools, in a deal worth approximately $185 million in cash and stock. The software development products of both companies are expected to merge into one another, creating more advanced software development tools.

By Jason Dearen and Brenda Sandburg

4 minute read

June 26, 2003 | Law.com

In a week of heightened activity in the biotechnology sector, two industry mammoths -- Biogen Inc. and IDEC Pharmaceuticals Corp. -- have agreed to a merger worth about $6.7 billion. Attorneys in the San Diego and Palo Alto offices of Pillsbury Winthrop represented IDEC in the deal. Lawyers in the New York office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom did the deal for Biogen.

By Jason Dearen

4 minute read

July 07, 2003 | Law.com

Michele Ballard Miller was tired of seeing the mommy track treated like a case of the mumps. By the time she quit big-firm life in 1998, she'd become an equity partner at then-Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May. But even as a partner, she couldn't square the conflicting demands of her children and the firm's clients. Something had to give. So Miller left Crosby and started the Miller Law Group in Larkspur with another woman wanting out of big-firm life.

By Jason Dearen

6 minute read

August 15, 2002 | Law.com

By Jason Dearen

2 minute read

October 31, 2002 | Law.com

Lawyers in the San Francisco and Sacramento offices of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe served as co-note counsel on a $9 billion municipal finance transaction involving the sale of state of California 2002-03 Revenue Anticipation Notes.

By Jason Dearen

3 minute read

March 28, 2003 | Law.com

Law firms fighting in a tight economy for opportunities to serve as outside counsel are finding they have to work harder and provide more perks. That's the verdict from 16 general counsel and 16 law firm leaders who gathered at a Bar Association of San Francisco conference Thursday to discuss the changing relationship between inside and outside counsel.

By Jason Dearen

4 minute read