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  • June 4, 2008 | The Recorder

    Brocade to Pay $160 Million In Backdating Suit

    Though Brocade Communications agreed on Monday to fork over a record $160 million to settle a civil backdating class action, Larry Sonsini isn't quite in the clear. The com

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  • November 14, 2002 | The Recorder

    Sweet Music in All-Stock Deal to Buy Rhapsody Networks

    San Jose's Brocade Communications Systems Inc. has acquired Fremont's Rhapsody Networks in an all-stock deal.The deal is valued at approximately $175 million, based on Brocade's stock

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  • June 29, 2012 | The Recorder

    Fenwick, Cooley Advise on Cloud Computing Company IPO

    SAN FRANCISCO — Attorneys from Fenwick & West in Silicon Valley advised cloud computing company ServiceNow Inc. in an initial public offering Friday that delivered the biggest first-

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  • January 31, 2002 | The Recorder

    Stormy Weather

    Intellectual property firms seemed to be nestled in a safe harbor as the economic storm began to lash Silicon Valley.After all, as tech-focused firms saw their corporate work plu

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  • September 20, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Fired Law Professor Gets Hearing, but Still Loses Job

    A former law professor who convinced a federal court that she was denied a tenure hearing before she was fired has nevertheless lost her bid to reclaim her old job. The U.S. District

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  • May 23, 2006 | The Recorder

    Lawyers, Patent Trolls Bridge Gap

    Five years ago, Thomas Friel Jr. would have been the last to admit he was working for patent-holding companies. Like most Silicon Valley attorneys with a large base of tech clients, Friel feared th

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  • September 16, 2005 | The Recorder

    Acquisition News

    ORACLE'S ACQUISITION OF SIEBEL SYSTEMSQuestion: What does one serial acquirer buying out another equal? Answer: A really big deal.That's what lawyers at Davis Polk &

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  • January 17, 2002 | The Recorder

    The Downward Spiral

    The year-end tally of deal activity confirms the worst for some of Silicon Valley's most prominent firms: Corporate work dropped off a cliff in 2001. At firms most identified wit

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  • December 7, 2007 | The Recorder

    Cooley Taps 12 New Partners

    Cooley Godward Kronish announced Wednesday the promotion of 12 new partners, nine of them in California.Seven of the new partners are business lawyers, three are litigators, one is an

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  • November 12, 2009 | The Recorder

    Silicon Scene

    For coffee-guzzling deal lawyers, it's kind of convenient when a merger client is a tasty coffee maker. Kenneth Guernsey , a partner at C

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