On Tuesday, July 23, 2013, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the State of Texas lodged in federal district court in San Antonio a proposed consent decree with the San Antonio Water System (SAWS) resolving claims regarding sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs). SAWS is a public utility owned by the City of San Antonio, providing sewage treatment and wastewater services to the city (more…)
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented BMO Capital Markets Corp. as bookrunner and sole lead arranger, and Natixis, New York Branch, as the administrative agent in connection with a $175 million second lien term loan credit facility for Citrus Energy Appalachia, LLC (more…)
Waller, a nationally recognized law firm with offices in Austin, today announced that healthcare attorney Amanda K. Jester has joined its Austin office as partner. Formerly a partner at McDermott Will & Emery LLP, in Miami, Fla., Jester focuses her practice on advising and representing a vast range of healthcare clients including private equity funds, physician practices, hospital and health systems, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care centers and pain management clinics (more…)
Dykema, a leading national law firm, today announced the addition of Victor C. Johnson to its Intellectual Property Group as a member in the firm’s Dallas Office. Prior to joining Dykema, Johnson was a Principal at the Yarbrough Law Group (YLG), where he was head of the Intellectual Property Litigation and Brand Protection Group (more…)
Jackson Walker L.L.P. achieved a victory for its client Redneck Pipe Rental Inc. in a case before the 284th Judicial District Court in Montgomery County, Texas, that involved a contract for the fabrication and sale of 100,000 feet of drill pipe (more…)
A cross-practice deal team led by Akin Gump global energy and transactions partners J. Vincent Kendrick and Patrick Hurley advised Houston-based Genesis Energy in its acquisition, for approximately $230 million, of all the assets of the downstream transportation business of Hornbeck Offshore Transportation, LLC (more…)
Heather Bailey New has joined Bell Nunnally & Martin LLP as a partner and member of its Litigation practice. New has more than 14 years of trial and appellate experience and joins from the Dallas office of Haynes and Boone, LLP (more…)
Fulfilling a long-term strategic goal for the Haynes and Boone, LLP San Antonio office, veteran real estate and business lawyer Frank Ruttenberg has joined as partner along with two experienced of counsel, Elizabeth Breazeale and Andrew Baumgardner (more…)
Global law firm Jones Day announced that Richard J. Johnson, an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas focused on cyber crime, intellectual property theft, and the collection of electronic evidence, has joined the Dallas Office as of counsel in the Intellectual Property Practice. Prior to his government service, Mr. Johnson was an associate at Covington & Burling LLP in Washington, DC (more…)
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Wells Fargo Securities, LLC as sole lead arranger and sole bookrunner, and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as the administrative agent, in connection with a $200,000,000 senior secured revolving credit facility for Flatonia Energy, LLC (more…)
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP is representing Apache Corporation (NYSE, Nasdaq: APA) in the sale of its Gulf of Mexico Shelf operations and properties to Fieldwood Energy LLC (Fieldwood), an affiliate of Riverstone Holdings, for $3.75 billion (more…)
The Firm is representing Fieldwood Energy LLC (“Fieldwood”), a portfolio company of Riverstone Holdings LLC, in connection with the acquisition financing relating to its announced acquisition of Apache Corporation’s (NYSE, Nasdaq: APA) Gulf of Mexico Shelf business for $3.75 billion. The properties to be acquired represent the largest operated asset base on the Gulf of Mexico Shelf and comprise more than 500 blocks and 1.9 million net acres (more…)
