Holland & Knight has added international disputes attorney Juan Alcalá as a partner in its Austin, Texas, office. Mr. Alcalá was previously a partner with Gardere and served as co-chair of its international dispute resolution practice. (more…)
Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP is pleased to welcome accomplished litigator Sean M. Whyte as a partner in the Firm’s Dallas office. He joins the Firm from Alston & Bird, where he has practiced since 2011. (more…)
Klemchuk LLP, a full-service intellectual property (IP), technology, internet, and business law firm, proudly announces E. Taylor Robertson as its newest principal. (more…)
William R. Peterson joins Morgan Lewis today as a partner in the firm’s highly ranked appellate practice. Mr. Peterson, who served as a law clerk to Fifth Circuit Judge Edith Jones and to US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has argued before the US Supreme Court, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and state courts of appeals. (more…)
Thompson & Knight LLP today announced the addition of J. Dean Hinderliter as a Partner in the Tax Practice Group of the Firm’s Dallas office. (more…)
Newfield Exploration Company has signed a definitive purchase and sale agreement with a subsidiary of Chesapeake Energy Corporation to acquire approximately 42,000 net acres in the Anadarko Basin STACK play for $470 million. Akin Gump advised Newfield in the matter. (more…)
Pillsbury today announced the addition of Dillon Ferguson, one of Texas’ foremost oil and gas lawyers, as a partner in the Litigation practice. Ferguson comes to the firm from Andrews Kurth and will split time between Pillsbury’s rapidly expanding Austin office and the Houston office. (more…)
Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. (Munsch Hardt), a Texas-based commercial law firm, expands its Bankruptcy, Financial Restructuring and Insolvency practice group with the recent addition of John Cornwell. (more…)
Memorial Production Partners LP (“MEMP”) has entered into an agreement to acquire Memorial Production Partners GP LLC from Memorial Resource Development Corp. (MRD) for $0.75 million in cash. Memorial Production Partners GP LLC is the general partner of MEMP and holds the general partner interest and 50 percent of the incentive distribution rights (IDRs) in MEMP. As part of the transaction, MEMP will also acquire the other 50 percent of the IDRs held by Natural Gas Partners. Akin Gump acted as legal advisor to MEMP. (more…)
Morgan Lewis has significantly deepened its award-winning labor and employment team in Texas with the addition of highly ranked partner Ethel J. Johnson, who will be resident in the firm’s Dallas and Houston offices. Ms. Johnson joins Morgan Lewis from the employment litigation practice of another global law firm. (more…)
Morgan Lewis has significantly deepened its award-winning labor and employment team in Texas with the addition of highly ranked partner Ethel J. Johnson, who will be resident in the firm’s Dallas and Houston offices. Ms. Johnson joins Morgan Lewis from the employment litigation practice of another global law firm. (more…)
National law firm Wilson Elser announced today that five attorneys from Schell Cooley LLP ‒ partners Jennifer Martin and Lisa Wilson, along with Stephani Johnson and Jennifer Murphy, of counsel, and Michael Rose, associate ‒ have joined the firm’s Dallas office. (more…)
