Looper Reed & McGraw welcomes Jason Luter as an Associate in the Dallas Tax Section. Luter has extensive experience in all types of executive compensation, ERISA and employee benefit matters (more…)
Jackson Walker successfully represented its client CHRISTUS St. Michael Health System in reaching a long-term lease agreement to operate Atlanta Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Texas (more…)
Simpson Thacher recently represented Midstates Petroleum Company, Inc. (“Midstates”) and Midstates Petroleum Company LLC in connection with the financing of its acquisition (the “Acquisition”) of certain interests in producing oil and natural gas assets, unevaluated leasehold acreage and related hedging instruments from Eagle Energy Production LLC (“Eagle”) for $650 million in cash and stock. Eagle is an independent energy company focused on exploration and development of oil and natural gas properties, with a focus on the Mississippian Lime formation in northwestern Oklahoma and southern Kansas (more…)
Law firm Winstead PC has hired an impressive group of energy, environmental, and commercial litigation attorneys, led by Richard (Rick) M. Simses and Paul M. Lavelle, former partners at Beirne, Maynard and Parsons who each have over 30 years of litigation experience, much of which is Louisiana-based. Simses, Charles Miers and Jon Vicklund are joining the firm’s office in The Woodlands, Texas. Lavelle will open the New Orleans Winstead office, serving as its managing shareholder (more…)
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP is pleased to announce that Justice Dale Wainwright has joined the firm’s appellate practice in Austin. Justice Wainwright recently stepped down as a justice on the Texas Supreme Court after 10 years of service (more…)
A team of Haynes and Boone, LLP lawyers advised Schmidt Funeral Home in the recent sale of its business to Carriage Services, Inc (more…)
Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP is pleased to announce the addition of James Howard, formerly of Locke Lord LLP, as a partner in the Firm’s Houston office. Mr. Howard’s practice will focus on international and business tax, securities, and finance (more…)
A team of Haynes and Boone, LLP attorneys advised, as Texas counsel, Panda Power Funds on the completion of secured financing to develop a natural gas-fired power plant in Sherman, Texas (more…)
On September 25, Mediacom Communications Corporation entered into a distribution agreement with TiVo Inc. to provide TiVo’s next-generation whole home DVR solution to Mediacom subscribers (more…)
On Aug. 30, 2012, Jackson Walker obtained a key victory for its client, Bankcard Processing International L.L.C., when the Court of Appeals for the First District of Texas overturned a $1.5 million judgment against the company and other defendants (more…)
