Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC has merged with the Houston law firm of Spain Chambers, marking Baker Donelson’s entry into Texas with a major step in the Firm’s continuing strategic growth.
The merger of Spain Chambers into Baker Donelson brings the Firm’s total number of attorneys and advisors to nearly 620 across 17 offices in six states and Washington, D.C. The firm will maintain the name of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC (more…)
Kenya S. Woodruff has joined the Dallas office of Haynes and Boone, LLP as of counsel in the firm’s Healthcare Practice (more…)
Thomas McCaffrey has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP’s Houston office as a partner in its energy and global transactions practice. Previously, Mr. McCaffrey was a partner in the Houston office of an international law firm (more…)
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP is representing Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE: KMI) in its agreement to acquire all of the outstanding shares of El Paso Corporation (NYSE: EP) for approximately $38 billion, including the assumption of debt outstanding at El Paso Corporation and including the debt outstanding at El Paso Pipeline Partners, L.P. (NYSE: EPB) (more…)
Royce Poinsett, who has developed a broad range of government relations expertise in handling federal, state and local issues, has returned to Baker Botts L.L.P. as special counsel based in the firm’s Austin office (more…)
Patton Boggs LLP recently expanded its Intellectual Property and Business practices with the addition of Darren W. Collins as a partner in the firm’s Dallas office (more…)
Winstead PC announced the expansion of its real estate practice with the addition of two real estate development, entitlement-focused shareholders, one development planner, one development project manager, and their support team. The group will be led by Stephen (Steve) O. Drenner and work in Winstead’s Real Estate Development & Investments Practice Group in Austin and San Antonio (more…)
Brian Antweil has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP’s Houston office as a partner in its litigation and alternative dispute resolution practice. Previously, Mr. Antweil was a partner in the Houston office of a mid-sized, international law firm where he led the firm’s Business Litigation South Practice Group (more…)
Anthony F. Newton, an experienced corporate transactional attorney with a background in private middle-market energy-related transactions, has moved as a partner to Haynes and Boone, LLP as part of an expansion of the firm’s corporate and energy practices (more…)
The international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP announced that corporate and securities attorney Darrell R. Windham has joined as Co-Managing Shareholder of its Austin office and Chair of its Texas Corporate & Securities Practice (more…)
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP announced today that former U.S. magistrate judge Chad Everingham has joined as a partner in its intellectual property practice in the firm’s newly established office in Longview, Texas. His arrival coincides with that of partner David M. Stein, who joined the firm’s intellectual property practice today in its Downtown Los Angeles office (more…)
Noble Energy, Inc. (Noble Energy) announced today that it closed the previously announced agreement to create a joint venture partnership with CONSOL Energy, Inc. (CONSOL Energy) for the development of CONSOL Energy’s Marcellus Shale properties in southwest Pennsylvania and northwest West Virginia (more…)
