U.S. Bank names top commercial banker U.S....

U.S. Bank names top commercial banker

U.S. Bancorp, headquartered in Minneapolis, announced Friday that

Steve Takei has been named to U.S. Bank’s top commercial banking

position in Orange County. Takei, 49, has been assigned to U.S.

Bank’s Newport Beach office.

Takei is slated to report to Todd Hollander, the bank’s market

president for Orange County and the Inland Empire. Takei’s most

recent experience was as a senior vice president in Bank of America’s

healthcare group. Takei, who lives in Laguna Niguel, earned his MBA

from UC Berkeley and a law degree from Hastings College of the Law.

UCI names competition after Newport law firm

The UC Irvine Paul Merage School of Business announced Wednesday

it would name its business-plan competition after Newport Beach law

firm Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth.

The school agreed to rename its competition after the firm

provided a donation to fund the competition’s prizes and

administrative costs.

The size of the donation was not disclosed in the announcement.

The competition is an eight-month project that requires

participants -- who are not required to be UC Irvine business school

students -- to develop a plan for a new company. The team that wins

first prize in the annual competition is awarded $15,000.

In this year’s competition, the winning team was called Unicom,

and team members worked on a plan involving enhanced cell phone

technology.