Wick Phillips Gould & Martin, LLP, a full-service business law firm, announces a complete defense verdict for client TXU. Following a week-long trial in the 68th Judicial District Court in Dallas County, Honorable Martin Hoffman, Presiding, the jury rejected the Plaintiff’s claims of gender discrimination and harassment against TXU Retail Services Company (more…)
Oil and gas production company Gulfport Energy Corp. was advised by a team from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in its acquisition of additional working interests in the Utica Shale in eastern Ohio (more…)
Jackson Walker is pleased to welcome new attorney Jeffrey S. Hamilton. Mr. Hamilton joins the Wealth Planning group in the Dallas Office (more…)
In the first case reaching the merits of a motion to dismiss under the new Citizens Participation Act, the Dallas Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Jackson Walker client Univision 23 KUVN and ordered the trial judge to dismiss the case and award damages and costs to the television station (more…)
Burleson LLP, the largest law firm in the country devoted specifically to the oil and gas sector, announced today that Gary Brown has joined as a Partner in the Litigation Practice Group in the Houston office (more…)
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP advised Hicks Equity Partners in a partnership it established with The Riverside Company to form H-D Advanced Manufacturing Company, a holding company specializing in heavy-duty, precision-engineered industrial components. The former CEO of a Hicks portfolio company will lead H-D (more…)
A team of Haynes and Boone, LLP lawyers advised Rise Energy Partners, LP in connection with its sale of interests in various oil and gas producing properties offshore southern California to Memorial Production Partners LP (MEMP) for a purchase price of about $271 million (more…)
Bracewell & Giuliani is representing Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (KMP) in its announced agreement to sell its one-third interest in the Express-Platte pipeline system to Spectra Energy Corp for approximately $380 million (more…)
Attorneys with the law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP represented Dallas-based Cardinal Midstream LLC in the company’s recent $600 million sale of its natural gas processing, treatment, and pipeline systems in the Woodford Shale region of southeastern Oklahoma to Atlas Pipeline Partners L.P. of Philadelphia (more…)
Bracewell & Giuliani is representing Chesapeake Energy Corporation in its agreement to sell a substantial majority of its remaining midstream assets to Access Midstream Partners, L.P. for approximately $2.16 billion. The assets are located primarily in the company’s Marcellus, Utica, Eagle Ford, Haynesville, and Niobrara shale plays (more…)
Bracewell is representing Prosperity Bancshares in the $193.9 million acquisition of Oklahoma City-based Coppermark Bancshares. This transaction expands Prosperity outside Texas for the first time (more…)
The WhiteWave Foods Company (“The Company”) (NYSE: WWAV) announced that it has agreed to sell certain assets owned by the Company to Morningstar Foods for $60 million, net of taxes, in connection with the separately announced sale by Dean Foods Company of its Morningstar business to Saputo Inc (more…)
