Patrick M. Murphy
Shareholder, Corporate and Securities Group
Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, P.C.
STRADLING YOCCA CARLSON & RAUTH, P.C.,
Newport Beach and San Diego, CA
- Shareholder, Corporate and Securities Group, San Diego Office, 2011
- Associate, Corporate and Securities Group, San Diego Office, 2006-2010
- Associate, Corporate and Securities Group, Newport Beach Office, 2003-2006
- One of two attorney's responsible for opening the Firm's San Diego Office; assisted with all business development initiatives in San Diego County
- Specialize in representation of quick service restaurant, life science, technology, healthcare services and other established and emerging growth companies in their organization and contractual relationships, equity and debt financings, mergers and acquisitions, antitrust compliance, corporate governance, and other complex securities, intellectual property and Delaware and California corporate law matters
- Act as outside general counsel to established and emerging growth companies; coordinate attorneys in multiple legal departments and manage multi-department transaction teams; work with executive management teams and boards of directors on routine and extraordinary corporate transactions
Representative Transactions:
- Represented CKE Restaurants, Inc. in its $1 billion acquisition by Apollo Global Management.
- Public equity or debt offerings for CKE Restaurants, Inc., intralase Corp.; Powerwave Technologies, Inc.; The trizetto Group, Inc.; Pacific Mercantile Bancorp; Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; and Collectors Universe
- Numerous angel, venture capital and private equity financings/recapitalizations
- Mergers, stock and/or asset transactions for CKE Restaurants, Inc., Ligand Pharmaceuticals
- Incorporated; Nexus Biosystems, Inc., The Trizetto Group, Inc.; Powerwave Technologies, Inc.; Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; intralase Corp.; and Newport Corp.
- Credit facilities/debt financings for CKE Restaurants, Inc., Nexus Biosystems, Inc. Powerwave Technologies, Inc.; Auxilio, Inc.; and The Trizetto Group, Inc.
EDUCATION
ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, St. Louis, MO, Juris Doctor, Cum Laude May 2003
- St. Louis University Transatlantic Law Journal
- Merit Scholarship Award Recipient
- Order of the Woolsack Honor Society
TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY, Kirksville, MO, Bachelor of Science, Accounting December 1999 (Graduated in 3.5 years)
- Presidential Scholarship Recipient
- Bright Flight Scholarship Recipient
MEMBERSHIPS AND CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS
- State Bar of California
- Board of Directors, Boys Hope Girls Hope of Southern California
- Development Advisory Group, Junior Achievement of San Diego