It’s been a busy year for Rutan & Tucker’s George Wall. The corporate attorney has closed a dozen deals, including three $50 million transactions,The Outdoor Channel’s public merger, Ocean Pacific’s acquisition by Warnaco and Frontier Systems’ sale to Boeing. He also handled a $10 million financing for Chris Massey’s healthcare companies. Seller Tom Tierney and buyer Bill Farley both asked Wall to represent them in the Body Wise Inter-national deal; Wall wound up referring Tierney to his former firm, Palmieri, Tyler. Now Wall is helping defeated GOP Senatorial candidate Bill Jones take Pacific Ethanol public. “It’s a pretty closed circle at the ownership level of these companies,” says the well-connected Wall. When he’s not charging $450 an hour, Wall has been helping Tom Tucker organize the L.A. chapter of the Republican PAC, New Majority. Twenty members are signed up and Wall says former Guv Pete Wilson and former L.A. Mayor Dick Riordan have agreed to add their $10,000 checks From Russia with love: John Ortega, former exec of Clothestime and ICN Pharmaceuti-cals, e-mailed friends from his current home of Moscow that he and Russian girlfriend Victoria Manjoulina were the new parents of Sophia Manjoulina Ortega. Ortega noted that he’s 55 and Vic’s 24 The Irvine Chamber of Commerce plans to erect a sign at its new high-visibility location along the 405 freeway next to Entrepreneur magazine Glenn and Mindy Stearns of Newport Coast play “the millionaire and his wife” on the TBS reality show, “The Real Gilligan’s Island”
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Stark evidence that the Big Apple is co-opting the Rally Monkey, procured by Ms. S on a recent business trip. Memo to Arte Moreno: Turnabout’s fair play. Why not rename your team the New York Angels? |
The OC Register’s John McDonald, the L.A. Times’ Jean Pasco, KCAL 9’s Michelle Gile and The Irvine Company’s Bill Rams re-launched the OC Press Club with a mixer at the Green Parrot in Santa Ana. For info call (714) 796-6743 Las Vegas entrepreneur Ronn Bailey, whose holdings include Vanguard Research Institute in Orange, has ponied up $1 million to drive in the grueling, 16-day Dakar Road Race in January St. George & Carnegie is 10 years old JWA holiday tips: Nov. 19 to 30 is the busiest season and Nov. 24 and 28 are the busiest days. Get to the airport at least 90 minutes early. Expect a car search if you park in the terminal. Good luck trying to get undeveloped film past the scanners.
