Dykema today announced the addition of John C. Dickey to its Corporate Finance Practice Group as a member in the firm’s Dallas office. Prior to joining Dykema, Dickey was a shareholder with Greenberg Traurig LLP, where he was Practice Group Leader of the Dallas office’s Corporate & Securities Section (more…)

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King & Spalding has recruited Erika Serran Toussaint to join its global disputes practice as a counsel in its Houston office as the firm continues to expand its international investment treaty and cross-border commercial disputes practice in the United States and abroad, the firm announced today (more…)

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Daniel Nossa joins the Energy practice and the Derivatives group in the Houston office at Jackson Walker (more…)

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DLA Piper advised BP in the US$2.5 billion agreement to sell its Southern California refining and marketing business to San Antonio-based refiner Tesoro Corp (more…)

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In an exciting development for the firm’s Austin office, Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP has announced that Erika D. Benson is taking on a new legal job at the firm.  The partner, who has 13 years of experience at the U.S. Department of Energy, brings extensive government relations and energy capabilities to the office (more…)

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Jackson Walker L.L.P. represented J.B. Poindexter & Co., Inc. in the successful completion of a $25 million 144A senior debt offering on August 20, 2012 (more…)

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On August 13, 2012, Andrews Kurth LLP, a recognized leader in the diversity and inclusion arena, filed an Amicus Brief on behalf of its client the Houston Community College System (“HCC”) in support of the Respondents in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, et al., Case No. 11-345, now pending before the United States Supreme Court. Oral arguments are scheduled for October 10, 2012 (more…)

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Bracewell & Giuliani LLP represented Canyon Partners LLC in the $200 million acquisition of Houston Pavilions, a mixed-use complex (more…)

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Bracewell & Giuliani LLP represents Citigroup, as lead arranger and administrative agent, in a $225 million term loan acquisition financing to a joint venture between Boardwalk Pipeline Partners and its general partner Loews Corporation, in connection with the acquisition of PL Midstream LLC from PetroLogistics (more…)

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Haynes and Boone, LLP announces the closing of the majority ownership acquisition of Service King Collision Repair Centers by the Carlyle Group, a global alternative asset manager company (more…)

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Jones Day announced that William Prescott Mills Schwind, an oil and gas industry lawyer focused on cross-border transactions, has joined the Houston Office as a partner in the Firm’s Energy Practice (more…)

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Bracewell & Giuliani LLP is representing Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (KMP) in its agreement to sell Kinder Morgan Interstate Gas Transmission, Trailblazer Pipeline Company, the Casper-Douglas natural gas processing and West Frenchie Draw treating facilities in Wyoming, and the company’s 50 percent interest in the Rockies Express Pipeline (REX) to Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP (more…)

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