DLA Piper announced today that Karen Nelson has joined the firm’s national Health Care Enforcement and Compliance practice as of counsel in the Austin office. Previously, Nelson served as Deputy Inspector General and Chief Counsel for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission’s (HHSC) Office of Inspector General (more…)
The law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP is pleased to announce the expansion of its Trial Practice Group. Patrick F. McManemin joins Thompson & Knight as a Partner, and J. Thomas Gilbert, Michael Tristan, and John P. Vacalis join as Counsel (more…)
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP advised Laredo Petroleum Holdings, Inc. in a public offering of 16 million shares of company stock (more…)
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP is representing Evercore Partners in a merger between Pioneer Natural Resources Company (Pioneer) and Pioneer Southwest Energy Partners L.P. (Pioneer Southwest) (more…)
On July 25, 2013, Jackson Walker L.L.P. won a decisive victory for its clients when a Parker County District Court Judge granted summary judgment and dismissed all claims against Jackson Walker’s clients and ordered that the plaintiffs take nothing in a high–profile lawsuit involving horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) (more…)
Bracewell & Giuliani, LLP represented Atlantic Power Corporation, John Hancock Life Insurance Company (U.S.A.) and Rockland Capital, LLC in their sale of Gregory Power Partners, L.P. to NRG Energy, Inc (more…)
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP is representing Spectra Energy with liability management and the financing elements of the company’s MLP drop-down transactions (more…)
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented BMO Capital Markets as sole lead arranger and sole bookrunner, and Bank of Montreal, as the administrative agent in connection with a $500 Million senior secured revolving credit facility for WildHorse Resources II, LLC (more…)
Polsinelli welcomes experienced attorney Gemma L. Descoteaux to the firm’s Dallas office as a shareholder where she will concentrate her practice on corporate matters, including acquisitions, divestitures, strategic alliances and joint ventures, technology and outsourcing arrangements and other sophisticated commercial transactions in a wide variety of industries. Prior to joining Polsinelli, Descoteaux worked for several major technology firms, including Texas Instruments (more…)
Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP is pleased to announce that Dallas attorney James J. Sullivan has joined the Firm as a partner in the Real Estate Practice Group (more…)
Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Ann Marie Painter has joined its Dallas office as a partner in the firm’s Labor & Employment practice. She was most recently a partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. Painter is the third partner to join the Dallas office since March (more…)
Jeremy Mouton has joined Porter Hedges as a partner in the Energy Section. His practice focuses on advising oil and gas companies on a variety of corporate, transactional and commercial matters, with an emphasis on upstream joint ventures, acquisitions and divestitures. He also represents consumer product, distribution chain, and technology companies in connection with joint ventures, acquisitions, divestitures, commercial contracts, project development, and other corporate and commercial matters (more…)
