Bracewell & Giuliani LLP represented CBFH, Inc., the holding company of CommunityBank of Texas, in the acquisition of MC Bancshares, Inc., the holding company of Memorial City Bank.
The all-cash transaction combines the roughly $2.8 billion combined assets of the banks to make CBFH one of the largest privately held banks in Texas, with the majority of its loans and deposits in the Houston marketplace. (more…)
Akin Gump today announced the addition of Michael J. Byrd as a partner in the firm’s energy practice in Houston. Mr. Byrd is an experienced and recognized attorney in the oil and gas industry, whose practice emphasizes upstream M&A transactions. He comes to Akin Gump from Baker & McKenzie, where he served as chair of that firm’s North America oil and gas practice group (more…)
Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce that corporate attorney Kevin Trautner has joined the firm’s Houston office as a partner.
Mr. Trautner joins Andrews Kurth’s corporate/securities practice group, where he will focus on working with public and privately held companies in a variety of corporate transactions. Mr. Trautner has extensive experience representing targets and acquirers in mergers and acquisitions, in addition to guiding businesses through initial public offerings. He also represents issuers and underwriters in a variety of securities offerings and provides strategic counsel in regulatory and corporate governance issues. (more…)
Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced today that highly regarded real estate partner Peter M. Oxman has joined the firm’s Houston office. The addition of Oxman marks the continued expansion of the firm’s 130-lawyer national Real Estate Department, recognized as the fourth largest real estate practice in the country. Oxman joins Seyfarth from King & Spalding LLP’s Houston office, where he was a partner in its Capital Transactions and Real Estate practice group. (more…)
Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE:CHK) announced today the execution of two agreements to sell midstream compression assets for total proceeds of approximately $520 million. (more…)
Anderson Kill, a national law firm best known for its work in insurance recovery, has opened a new office in Dallas, Texas.
David P. Bender, Jr., a shareholder in Anderson Kill’s Ventura, CA office and member of the firm’s executive committee, will divide his time between Ventura and Dallas. Mr. Bender concentrates his practice in insurance recovery. (more…)
Lawyers from Haynes and Boone, LLP assisted Celanese Corporation in creating an approximately $800 million joint venture with Mitsui & Co., Ltd. to develop and construct a methanol production plant designed to take advantage of the abundant new supplies of U.S. natural gas. The new joint venture will be known as Fairway Methanol LLC. (more…)
Leech Tishman recently welcomed Shana Metteauer Smith to the firm. Shana is an associate in the Energy Practice Group and is based in Houston, Texas. She focuses her practice primarily on oil and gas title examination. (more…)
An Akin Gump team led by corporate partner Seth Molay advised Diamondback Energy in its three pending acquisitions of additional acreage in the Permian Basin and an underwritten public offering to fund a portion of the purchase price for these acquisitions. The offering of three million shares of Diamondback common stock was launched on February 20, 2014, and priced that night at $62.67 per share, for estimated net proceeds at closing of $181.3 million. The underwriters will have an option to purchase up to an additional 450,000 shares of common stock from Diamondback. All of the shares to be sold in the offering are being sold by Diamondback. (more…)
Erika Bright has been named a partner with Wick Phillips, a full service business law firm based in Dallas. A former partner with Haynes and Boone LLP, Bright specializes in issues related to insurance, construction and commercial litigation. (more…)
Phelps Dunbar LLP welcomes three new attorneys to the firm’s newest office in Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas: Jared Harrell, Edel Cuadra, and Laura Bradarich. Mr. Harrell and Mr. Cuadra join the firm as counsel and Ms. Bradarich joins the firm as an associate. (more…)
The Houston office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Brett J. Young as a partner in the firm’s toxic tort/product liability practice. Young joins K&L Gates from Norton Rose Fulbright LLP. (more…)
