﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Mergers &amp; Acquisitions Updates from Cooley LLP</title><description>Mergers &amp; Acquisitions Updates from Cooley LLP</description><link>http://www.cooley.com</link><item><title>54 Attorneys and 22 Practice Areas Recognized in &lt;em&gt;Chambers USA&lt;/em&gt; 2010 Edition</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Palo Alto, Calif. – June 29, 2010&lt;/strong&gt; – Cooley LLP announced that the 2010 edition of &lt;em&gt;Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business&lt;/em&gt; recognizes 54 Cooley attorneys as leaders in their respective fields, with 15 attorneys receiving a #1 ranking. Six Cooley practices rec...</description><link>http://www.cooley.com/showpressrelease.aspx?Show=63998</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Special Issues Involved in Acquiring Divisions or Subsidiaries of Larger Companies</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Merger and acquisition transactions come in myriad forms.&amp;nbsp;One of the most challenging is the divestiture or acquisition of a division,&amp;nbsp; subsidiary, line of business or business unit being extracted from a larger company.&amp;nbsp;A divisional acquisition (as used here to refer to all such t...</description><link>http://www.cooley.com/showarticle.aspx?Show=64059</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cooley Announces Addition of Two Antitrust Partners</title><description>&lt;strong&gt;Washington, DC and Palo Alto, CA – April 19, 2010 -- &lt;/strong&gt;Cooley Godward Kronish announced that &lt;a target="_self" href="http://www.cooley.com/hmorse"&gt;Howard Morse&lt;/a&gt;, former Assistant Director of the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade Commission and co-chair of the antitrust pra...</description><link>http://www.cooley.com/showpressrelease.aspx?Show=63790</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cooley Ranks in American Lawyer's Corporate Scorecard</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Palo Alto, Calif. –&amp;nbsp; April 9, 2010&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; –&amp;nbsp; Cooley Godward Kronish LLP ranked fourth last year in follow-on offerings and ranked among the top 25 M&amp;amp;A legal advisors to U.S. companies based on the number of transactions valued at more than $100 million, in &lt;em&gt;The Am...</description><link>http://www.cooley.com/showpressrelease.aspx?Show=63778</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cooley Advises JDA Software on Financing to Support Acquisition of i2 Technologies</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Cooley team representing JDA Software included partners&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.cooley.com/jscherer" target=_self&gt;Joseph A. Scherer&lt;/a&gt; and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.cooley.com/gmamarca" target=_self&gt;Gian-Michele a Marca&lt;/a&gt; and associates &lt;a href="http://www.cooley.com/mtollini" target=_...</description><link>http://www.cooley.com/showpressrelease.aspx?Show=63318</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cooley Advises Peet's Coffee in Agreement to Acquire Diedrich Coffee</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Cooley team representing Peet's Coffee included partners &lt;a href="http://www.cooley.com/kguernsey" target=_self&gt;Kenneth Guernsey&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.cooley.com/dlipkin" target=_self&gt;David Lipkin&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.cooley.com/gmamarca" target=_self&gt;Gian-Michele a Marca&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a h...</description><link>http://www.cooley.com/showpressrelease.aspx?Show=63314</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>97 Cooley Godward Kronish Attorneys Named to &lt;em&gt;Super Lawyers&lt;/em&gt; 2009</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;October 28, 2009&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; "&gt;–&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Law &amp;amp; Politics&lt;/em&gt; magazine recognized 97 Cooley Godward Kronish attorneys in its 2009 &lt;em&gt;Super Lawyers&lt;/em&gt; publications. Only five percent of the lawyers in the each state or region are honored by &lt;em&gt;Super Lawye...</description><link>http://www.cooley.com/showpressrelease.aspx?Show=63267</link><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Partner Fred Muto Named San Diego Corporate Lawyer of the Year</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;San Diego – Sept. 17, 2009 --&lt;/strong&gt; Cooley Godward Kronish announced today that &lt;a href="http://www.cooley.com/mutoft" target=_self&gt;Fred Muto&lt;/a&gt;, the head of the firm's San Diego office, was named the 2010 Corporate Lawyer of the Year in San Diego by Best Lawyers. &lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;A reco...</description><link>http://www.cooley.com/showpressrelease.aspx?Show=63151</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cooley Advises Evalve on Sale to Abbott Worth up to $410 Million</title><description>&lt;div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Cooley team was led by partner &lt;a href="http://www.cooley.com/dinuccijf" target=_self&gt;Jennifer Fonner DiNucci&lt;/a&gt; and included partners &lt;a href="http://www.cooley.com/rbrigham" target=_self&gt;Robert Brigham&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.cooley.com/bmiller" target=_self&gt;Buff Miller&lt;/a&gt;,...</description><link>http://www.cooley.com/showpressrelease.aspx?Show=63147</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Cooley Advises Leo Pharma in $287.5 Million Agreement to Acquire Peplin</title><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Cooley legal team representing LEO Pharma A/S included partners &lt;a href="http://www.cooley.com/gsato"&gt;Glen Sato&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.cooley.com/dlipkin" target=_self&gt;David Lipkin&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.cooley.com/gmamarca"&gt;Gian-Michele a Marca&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.cooley.com/n...</description><link>http://www.cooley.com/showpressrelease.aspx?Show=63102</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>