Los Angeles Business Journal

El Segundo-based boutique firm Solganick & Co. focuses on established and growing companies within the software and IT services sectors. To date, the firm has advised on more than $20 billion in merger and acquisition transactions.

Custodian firm Altruist Corp. is establishing itself as a strong competitor against giants such as Charles Schwab Bank and Fidelity Investments . The Culver City-based financial technology company, which safekeeps assets for financial advisers and investors, has now achieved unicorn status with the help of a $169 million series E funding round.

I mmunityBio Inc., the Culver City-based immunotherapy company founded by billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong that last month won Food and Drug Administration approval for its lead drug candidate Anktiva, has wasted no time moving that drug to market and laying the foundation for its next application of the drug.

The recently established Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine in Pasadena has tapped a Harvard University Medical School associate dean as its next dean and chief executive.

Groza DOROTHY GROZA JOINS CGS3 AS SENIOR COUNSEL Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson LLP (CGS3), a Southern California commercial real estate law firm, has named Dorothy Groza as senior counsel to the firm. Specializing in commercial real estate, business transactions and dispute resolution, she joins CGS3’s complex transactions practice group and is based in […]

Taix Vince Taix has joined Fifth Third Bank, N.A., as Vice President, Treasury Management Officer, serving middle market companies in Los Angeles. He has over 28 years of banking experience with a focus on treasury management, helping companies achieve financial goals by providing them with strategic consultative treasury management solutions.

From Left to right: Evan Richardson, Bryson Reaume and Luke MacDougall REAUME RICHARDSON WELCOMES NEW LEADERSHIP After two decades of pioneering in the commercial construction arena, Reaume Richardson is embarking on a significant transformation within its leadership structure, signaling a new era for the Los Angeles based general contracting firm. Bryson Reaume, who has served […]

ERIC PERLMUTTER-GUMBINER Partner, Greenberg Glusker LLP (310) 201-7438

Midnight Musings: 3 Risks Keeping Us Up at Night Will “higher for longer” rates hurt? Credit stress has been mostly contained to the office commercial real estate sector, but persistently high rates could see those pockets of pressure broaden. Elsewhere, small and medium-sized businesses tend to be more indebted, with their ability to repay interest […]