International law firm, Greenberg Traurig LLP, recently obtained a favorable outcome for an independent oil and gas exploration and production company. The Greenberg Traurig team headed by Tony Guerino, a shareholder in the energy litigation practice in the firm’s Houston office, settled an oil and gas suit involving breach of contract and fraud claims brought against the client for virtually no damages against the client. The case involved overriding royalty interests in the highly valuable Eagle Ford Shale and damage claims against the client in the hundreds of millions of dollars (more…)
Haynes and Boone, LLP Austin has welcomed David O’Brien as a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Property (IP) and Technology Transactions Section (more…)
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is advising Laredo Petroleum Holdings, Inc. in the proposed sale of its interests in properties and assets in the Anadarko Basin to affiliates of EnerVest, Ltd. for $438 million. The transaction, subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to close during the third quarter of 2013 (more…)
Nationally-recognized employee benefits and executive compensation lawyer David I. Schiller, who has substantial experience in all facets of the practice, joined Baker Botts L.L.P. today as a partner in the firm’s Tax department. He will be based in the Dallas office (more…)
On Monday, May 13, Tallgrass Energy LP announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 13,050,000 common units representing limited partner interests at the public offering price of $21.50 per common unit (more…)
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP represented Chesapeake Energy Corporation in the sale of certain midstream assets in the Anadarko Basin for $245 million to MarkWest Energy Partners. Bracewell is also representing Chesapeake Energy Corporation in the $300 million sale of Mid-America Midstream Gas Services, LLC to SemGroup Corporation (more…)
Continuing to add significant depth to its nationwide Intellectual Property bench, Fox is proud to welcome experienced trademark and copyright lawyer Michael J. Leonard to the firm’s Philadelphia office (more…)
David L. Burgert, a trial lawyer focused on patent disputes, has joined the Houston Office of global law firm Jones Day as a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice. He was formerly a partner at Houston’s Porter Hedges LLP (more…)
Noted Dallas attorney Laura M. Fontaine has joined the Dallas litigation firm of Gruber Hurst Johansen Hail Shank LLP (more…)
Jackson Walker L.L.P. successfully represented its client Armstrong Associates, Inc. in a reorganization that effectively merged Armstrong Associates into LKCM Equity Fund (more…)
Sidley Austin LLP announced today that Timothy C. Langenkamp, a capital markets lawyer with extensive experience in energy transactions, has joined the firm as a partner. He is resident in the firm’s Houston office and a member of its Securities/Capital Markets practice group. This addition continues the expansion of Sidley’s Houston office and further enhances the firm’s energy-focused capital markets team (more…)
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP announced that Carey R. Troell has joined the firm’s San Antonio office as a partner in the public finance practice. Troell focuses on tax-exempt financings and has clients in all aspects of public finance transactions including state and local government finance matters, including traditional municipal finance, tax increment finance, and public improvement districts (more…)
