In a move to expand the midstream and upstream energy deal-making capabilities of its preeminent Private Equity practice, international law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP has added Rodney L. Moore as a partner in the firm. He joins Weil from Vinson & Elkins LLP and will split his time between Weil’s Houston and Dallas offices (more…)
Porter Hedges today announced that Jonathan M. Pierce — an intellectual property attorney who specializes in patent and trademark law, as well as intellectual property agreements — has joined the firm as a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice. His clients include multinational corporations, domestic companies, and individuals in all aspects of intellectual property law (more…)
Haynes and Boone, LLP recently represented Texas Advanced Optoelectronic Solutions Inc. (TAOS), a leading optoelectronic solutions provider, in its $320 million combination with austriamicrosystems AG (more…)
Beirne, Maynard & Parsons, L.L.P. announces the opening of a San Antonio, Texas office. The firm now has offices in Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, and New Orleans (more…)
Attorney Patrick Garcia, a former Assistant United States Attorney for the Department of Justice in El Paso, Texas, has joined the Houston office of the international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP. He joins as an associate in the Litigation and White Collar Defense practice areas (more…)
Dallas Partner Bob Bragalone represents three men wrongfully incarcerated by the State of Texas — Steven Phillips, James Giles and Patrick Waller — in their battles with their former attorney Kevin Glasheen (more…)
The global law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP is pleased to announceBarbara-Ellen Gaffney has joined the Firm’s Labor and Employment Practice Group in the Dallas office. She joins Thompson & Knight as an Attorney (more…)
Blank Rome LLP is pleased to announce that on July 1, 2011, the Firm officially opened its Houston, Texas office, which resulted from the combination, announced last month, with Houston-based litigation boutique Abrams Scott & Bickley, L.L.P. In addition to the five partners and various other professionals from Abrams Scott & Bickley, including Barry Abrams, Robert Scott, Susan L. Bickley, Sue D. Rosenthal and Jack W. Higdon; Blank Rome Partner Joseph F. Speelman will also reside in the Houston office (more…)
Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (“Mitsui”) announced yesterday that it, through its subsidiary Mitsui E&P Texas LP, has entered into a definitive agreement with SM Energy Company (“SME”) to acquire a 12.5% working interest in SME’s Eagle Ford property in Texas, which is approximately 47,000 net acres and includes 39,000 net acres of Eagle Ford Shale (more…)
Cooley LLP on Thursday obtained a rare defense jury verdict in the Eastern District of Texas for client Vistaprint Limited in a patent infringement suit against ColorQuick (ColorQuick, LLC v. Vistaprint Limited et al.). Vistaprint (Nasdaq: VPRT) is a leading online provider of professional marketing products and services to micro businesses and the home (more…)
The Firm represented the lead arrangers, led by Royal Bank of Canada, The Royal Bank of Scotland plc and Société Générale, in connection with a $667 million secured construction, term and letter of credit facility to Sharyland Projects, L.L.C. and represented affiliates of Prudential Insurance Company of America in connection with the purchase of $60 million of secured fixed rate notes from Sharyland Projects to finance in part the construction of 300 miles of high voltage transmission lines and four substations in the Panhandle and South Plains regions of Texas to be leased to Sharyland Utilities, L.P (more…)
With the addition of 25 attorneys to its offices in Houston, San Antonio, and Pittsburgh, Burleson LLP has broadened its regional and national footprint, further strengthening its ability to provide the widest range of legal services to companies and financial institutions in the oil and gas industry (more…)
