Burleson LLP, the largest full-service law firm in the country devoted specifically to the oil and gas sector, announced today that it has opened a new location in Midland, Texas to serve companies with interests in the Permian Basin. Frank Hunold, who has practiced law for more than two decades, will serve as its managing partner (more…)

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The partnerships of Novak Druce + Quigg LLP and Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP, jointly announced today that their merger discussions have progressed ahead of schedule. The firms have officially voted and executed agreements to merge effective January 1, 2013, creating the 7th largest IP boutique in the U.S. The new firm, to be known as Novak Druce Connolly Bove + Quigg LLP, will boast more than 140 attorneys, agents and technical advisors across seven offices (more…)

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Shackelford, Melton & McKinley, LLP, is pleased to announce the addition of commercial transactions partner Scott J. Conrad in the firm’s Dallas office (more…)

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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP announced today that prominent environmental attorney Matt Paulson will join the firm as a partner, resident in Austin, Texas, where he currently is based, and will head up Katten’s Environmental Aspects of Energy Production Practice (more…)

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SNR Denton announced today that Matthew Harper has joined the firm’s Dallas office as a partner in the Intellectual Property and Technology practice (more…)

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Accomplished Texas appellate lawyer Danica L. Milios, the former Deputy Solicitor General for the Office of the Attorney General of Texas, is joining two of her former state government colleagues in the litigation and appellate practice at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP in Austin (more…)

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Beirne, Maynard & Parsons, LLP, a civil litigation firm, is pleased to announce the addition of Marcos G. Ronquillo as a partner in the firm’s Dallas office (more…)

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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP served as legal advisor to Cinemark USA, Inc. in its planned acquisition of Dallas-based Rave Cinemas. The $240 million deal includes substantially all of Rave’s assets, primarily consisting of 32 movie theaters with 483 screens in 12 states (more…)

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A Weil team led by Dallas Corporate partner Glenn West advised the special committee of the board of directors of Titanium Metals Corporation (TIMET), the largest titanium manufacturer in the US, in TIMET’s all-cash sale to Precision Castparts Corp., a worldwide manufacturer of complex metal components and products (more…)

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Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, announces the addition of Mark Mathews to the Firm’s Houston office (more…)

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King & Spalding advised Haddington Ventures, L.L.C. on the closing of a $350 million private equity fund, Haddington Energy Partners IV, LP, for investments in midstream energy infrastructure (more…)

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Bracewell & Giuliani LLP represented Evercore Partners, advisor to Targa Resources Partners LP, regarding Targa Resources Partners’ acquisition of 100% of Saddle Butte Pipeline, LLC’s ownership of its Williston Basin crude oil pipeline and terminal system and its natural gas gathering and processing operations for cash consideration of $950 million, subject to customary purchase price adjustments and certain contingent payments.

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