Accomplished Dallas business trial attorneys Ladd Hirsch and John Tancabel join Winstead’s Business Litigation Practice Group as shareholders in the firm’s Dallas office. The duo brings a well-established Business Divorce practice to the firm representing majority business owners and substantial minority investors who have conflicts arising out of their ownership interests in private companies. (more…)
Winston & Strawn LLP is pleased to announce the addition of Charles Haag to the firm’s Transactions Department as a partner in Dallas. Charles is a seasoned capital markets and securities attorney who joins Winston from Jones Day. (more…)
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP announced today that the firm is expanding its presence in Texas with seven new partners based in Dallas. The move deepens Katten’s award-winning practice that handles sophisticated corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and transactional capabilities for its clients in numerous industries across the country and overseas. The new partners were all previously with Andrews Kurth Kenyon LLP in Dallas. (more…)
Morgan Lewis today continues its substantial growth in Houston over the last year as it welcomes M&A and corporate partner Sameer V. Mohan. Mr. Mohan, who arrives from another global law firm, expands Morgan Lewis’s services to energy and healthcare clients involved in complex domestic and cross-border transactions. (more…)
McGinnis Lochridge—a legal fixture in Austin for 90 years—today announced that 10 lawyers will join the firm on February 1, bringing decades of experience in a wide variety of corporate and transactional matters, as well as estate planning and tax matters. This well-respected group had been at the prestigious Austin-based firm Graves Dougherty Hearon & […]
Will Becker has joined Locke Lord’s Dallas office as a Partner in the Firm’s Tax Department. Becker is well versed in federal income, Texas franchise and sales and use tax matters, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, REITs, real estate joint ventures, acquisitions and dispositions, corporate reorganizations, spin-offs and restructurings. Becker, who joins the Firm from Andrews Kurth Kenyon LLP where he was a Partner, assists clients in analyzing a variety of tax matters and their impact on corporations, S corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, real estate investment trusts, hedging transactions and other derivative transactions. (more…)
Norton Rose Fulbright today announced that Todd A. Schroeder, a well-respected tax lawyer with significant experience advising a broad array of clients on complex tax planning and tax structuring matters, has joined the global law firm as a partner in its Dallas office. He comes to Norton Rose Fulbright from Baker McKenzie. (more…)
Jones Walker LLP announced today that Joseph “Joe” Bain has joined the Business & Commercial Litigation Practice Group as a partner in the Houston office. (more…)
Yetter Coleman has bolstered its strong intellectual property trial group by adding leading litigators Bob McAughan and Jeff Andrews as partners to represent clients in the energy, technology, and finance industries. (more…)
Winston & Strawn LLP today announced the addition of Douglas Atnipp to the firm’s Transactions Department in Houston. Doug joins Winston from Greenberg Traurig LLP, where he served as co-managing shareholder of the firm’s Houston office and co-chair of the energy practice group. (more…)
Akin Gump today announced that W. Robert Shearer has joined the firm as a partner in its energy practice in Houston. Mr. Shearer focuses on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity and capital markets transactions for energy, oil field services, manufacturing and technology clients. Mr. Shearer began his legal career at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP in Houston. He spent the last 13 years as a corporate partner at BakerHostetler LLP, where he was immediately prior to joining Akin Gump. (more…)