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Allen Matkins gains Piazza in Del Mar Heights

By Richard Binder

Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP has announced that Ethna M.S. Piazza has joined its corporate practice group in the firm's Del Mar Heights office.

For more than 25 years Piazza has advised entrepreneurs, investors, family-owned businesses and companies ranging from start-ups, to mid-market (both public and private), to multi-national corporations in a significant number of mergers and acquisitions, business and international contracts, and technology and intellectual property matters. She represents a broad range of clients, including golf and sporting goods companies, security companies, aerospace and defense companies, medical device manufacturers, apparel companies, and entrepreneurs. Her principal areas of practice are business transactions, mergers and acquisitions, technology transactions, corporate finance (including venture capital and equity fund financings), international contracts, manufacturing, distribution, licensing and joint ventures. She also advises clients on Internet law issues such as privacy, electronic signatures, and website development, hosting and product fulfillment.

Prior to joining Allen Matkins, Piazza was a shareholder with Houston-based Chamberlain Hrdlicka. Prior thereto she was a partner in the Del Mar Heights office of Sheppard Mullin. She was also in-house counsel at Exxon, where she handled M&A activities in refining, shipping and pipeline, as well as natural resource damage issues.

In 1985, Piazza received her J.D. from the University of Texas. In 1982, she received her B.S. from the University of Houston. She is admitted to practice in California and Texas.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on September 09, 2010 (boomark / email).