Jackson Walker L.L.P. successfully represented its client, Pacific Northern, Inc., in a recapitalization that involved Pacific Northern’s management and an investor group led by Barton Creek Equity Partners and Tuckerman Capital. Pacific Northern operates manufacturing facilities in China, and has sales activities in the Americas, Europe and Asia (more…)
Guida, Slavich & Flores, PC. is pleased to announce that John Dugdale has joined the Firm as Of Counsel in its Dallas office. Dugdale has comprehensive experience handling all aspects of environmental remedial and related regulatory compliance issues (more…)
Haynes and Boone, LLP client TransData Inc., a leading manufacturer of advanced solid-state electricity meters has announced it has licensed its wireless smart electric meter patent portfolio consisting of U.S. Patent Nos. 6,181,294; 6,462,713; and 6,903,699 (the “Smart Meter Patents”) to a leading smart grid solutions provider (more…)
Procopio is at it again. Just months after opening a new office in the heart of Silicon Valley, Procopio announces the opening of a new office in another key technology center, and a gateway to Latin America – Austin, Texas. To lead the development of the office, Procopio welcomes seasoned international corporate attorney Alejandro Suarez to the firm. With over ten years of experience working in international corporate law, Mr. Suarez’s experience includes structuring and documenting new businesses, mergers, acquisitions and private equity agreements (more…)
Akin Gump served as U.S. legal counsel to Alliance Data Systems and its LoyaltyOne business in the acquisition of a 60 percent ownership stake in Netherlands-based BrandLoyalty (more…)
The business and entertainment law firm Shackelford, Melton & McKinley, LLP, is pleased to announce the addition of former Pronske & Patel, P.C., attorneys Rakhee Patel, Wande Elam andChristina Stephenson to the firm’s Dallas bankruptcy group (more…)
Winstead PC welcomes Marcus J. Brooks. Brooks is a shareholder in Winstead’s taxation, employee benefits and private business practice group. He was previously a partner at Naman Howell Smith & Lee, PLLC (more…)
DLA Piper announced today that Teri Donaldson has joined the firm’s Litigation practice as a partner in the Houston office (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 $300,000,000 senior secured revolving credit facility for Gran Tierra Energy International Holdings Ltd (more…)
Newfield Exploration Company, an independent energy company, has announced the signing of a share purchase agreement to sell all of its equity interests in Newfield Malaysia Holdings to SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad for a total cash consideration of $898 million. The transaction is expected to close in early 2014 (more…)
Porter Hedges successfully represented KBR in a recent international arbitration proceeding (under the ICDR) and received a final award in favor of KBR zeroing out a Kuwaiti subcontractor. This marks the fifth international arbitration hearing in the last three years in which Porter Hedges has zeroed out a claimant’s request for disputed funds (more…)
On October 30, 2013, Sprague Resources LP (“Sprague” or the “Partnership”) completed its initial public offering of 8,500,000 common units representing limited partner interests, at $18.00 per unit. Sprague has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,275,000 common units. The common units are being traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “SRLP.” (more…)
