Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Mizuho Bank, Ltd., and RBS Securities Inc., as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as the administrative agent, in connection with a $3 billion Second Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Agreement for Valero Energy Corporation (more…)
Michael Adams is a partner in the Litigation and Intellectual Property groups at Jackson Walker. For more than 25 years, Mr. Adams has practiced patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret law, with an emphasis on the litigation, procurement, and licensing of intellectual property rights. His practice has focused on those intellectual property issues arising in the following industries: computer, semiconductor, electronics, software, e-commerce and internet. Mr. Adams has participated in patent infringement trials before the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern (Marshall) and Western (Austin) Districts of Texas and the Eastern District of Virginia, and appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (more…)
McGuireWoods LLP today announced that Barbara Spudis de Marigny has joined the firm’s tax practice as a partner in Houston. De Marigny brings more than 30 years of experience advising businesses on taxation of their operations, mergers and acquisitions, partnerships and joint ventures. She has extensive experience representing clients in the energy industry, including vertically-integrated majors, MLPs, and private equity investors in companies operating midstream, upstream or in the oilfield services sector (more…)
Akin Gump advised U.S. Concrete, Inc. in the company’s 144A/Reg. S offering of $200 million aggregate principal amount of 8.500% senior secured notes due 2018 (the “New Notes”). The New Notes are senior secured obligations of the company and are guaranteed by the existing and future subsidiaries of the company. The company used a portion of the net proceeds from the offering to repay all of the outstanding borrowings under its revolving credit facility and to redeem all of its outstanding 9.50% Senior Secured Notes due 2015. U.S. Concrete will use the remaining net proceeds from the offering for general corporate purposes (more…)
McGlinchey Stafford is pleased to announce that Emily Stroope has joined the firm’s consumer financial services litigation team in Dallas, Texas. The national law firm now has thirty-three attorneys practicing in Texas, with eighteen lawyers in its Dallas office and fifteen in Houston (more…)
The Firm represents GeoSouthern Eagle Ford Development, LLC in connection with its announced sale of its Eagle Ford subsidiaries to Devon Energy Corporation (NYSE: DVN) for $6 billion in cash. GeoSouthern is a privately held, independent exploration and production company based in The Woodlands, TX. The Company focuses its efforts in the Texas Gulf Coast area and owns and operates substantial acreage positions in the Eagle Ford Shale and Austin Chalk trends. In addition, GeoSouthern’s midstream affiliate, Eagle Ford Field Services, owns a crude oil terminal and pipeline servicing the company’s Eagle Ford assets. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2014 (more…)
Jackson Walker successfully represented an affiliate of its client, Virtus Real Estate Capital, in the formation of a programmatic joint venture with a multi-national real estate operator to develop a new brand of senior living facilities. The joint venture’s initial project is currently under development in Orem, Utah (more…)
International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP announced today that Courtney Solcher Marcus has rejoined the Firm as a partner in the Firm’s Global Finance Practice, based in the Dallas office (more…)
On November 13, 2013, LGI Homes, Inc. (the “Company”) completed its initial public offering of 10,350,000 shares of common stock at a price of $11.00 per share, including 1,350,000 shares sold pursuant to the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares (more…)
Reed Smith LLP today announced the addition of Bryan K. Brown and Marlen Whitley as partners in its Houston office (more…)
The Houston office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes John F. Sullivan III as a partner in the firm’s commercial disputes practice. Sullivan joins K&L Gates from Watt Beckworth Thompson Henneman & Sullivan LLP (more…)
Akin Gump advised Oryx Energy Projects & Services, a Qatari service provider for the oil and gas, petrochemical and utility sectors, in a joint venture announced today with Stork Technical Services, a Netherlands-based asset integrity services provider for the oil and gas, power and chemical utility industries. The joint venture, to be known as Stork Oryx Turbo Machinery Services LLC, will be based in Ras Laffan, Qatar, and will offer combined technical services capabilities in the Middle East and North Africa market (more…)
