Global law firm White & Case LLP has added new partner David Strickland to its Global Project Finance Practice and its Global Oil & Gas Industry Group in Houston. Strickland comes to White & Case from King & Spalding, where he advised owners of major petrochemical and refinery, LNG, oil & gas and power projects around the world. (more…)

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Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, today further advanced its Houston expansion with a leading group of four insurance litigators, including experienced partners David Clark and Kristen McDanald. They enhance the capabilities of the national Litigation Practice Group, at a time when Corporate Counsel ranked Akerman first among the top 10 law firms dedicated to financial services and insurance clients. Alongside associates Rick Gene Boepple and Mark Shutt, their arrival more than doubles Akerman’s Texas headcount since 2016. Akerman has grown to 65 litigation and transactional lawyers in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Austin. (more…)

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Morgan Lewis today welcomes Jeff S. Dinerstein, a veteran corporate lawyer with an extensive background in representing clients in mergers and acquisitions, continuing the robust expansion of the firm’s Houston office. (more…)

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Haynes and Boone, LLP is opening an office in The Woodlands, a fast-growing corporate hub near Houston. (more…)

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Fenimore, Kay, Harrison & Ford, LLP, a nationally-recognized independent bank boutique law firm, today announced its expansion into the Dallas-Fort Worth market with the opening of its Dallas office and the addition of three experienced banking attorneys. With the addition of Robert Flowers, Jacque Kruppa and Pam O’Quinn, the firm has expanded its banking practice to 14 attorneys and 2 paralegals. (more…)

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Global law firm Reed Smith today announced the addition of a 15-person team from Norton Rose Fulbright to its Life Sciences Health Industry Group (LSHI). As part of this expansion, Reed Smith will open an office in Austin, Texas, its second in Texas and 28th worldwide. (more…)

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Kirkland & Ellis LLP is pleased to announce that R. David Wheat will join the Firm’s Houston office as a partner in the Tax Practice Group. (more…)

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Oklahoma City-based law firm Phillips Murrah announces it has opened an office in Dallas with the addition of new Director Mark Golman to the Firm. Golman, who is leading the expansion efforts south of the Red River, focuses his practice on the purchase and sale of businesses and assets, the negotiation of long-term supply agreements and financing arrangements, corporate counseling, and bankruptcy and insolvency-related matters. (more…)

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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP announced today that it has expanded its Corporate and Litigation practices with the arrival of five new attorneys in its Dallas office. Greg Hidalgo is a partner in the Corporate practice. Barrett R. Howell and Brandon N. McCarthy are partners in the Litigation practice, while former federal Judge Jorge A. Solis joined as special counsel. Aaron P. Pinegar is special counsel in the firm’s Transactional Tax Planning practice. Hidalgo previously was a partner at McDermott Will & Emery. Howell and McCarthy were partners at Bracewell LLP. Pinegar formerly was a senior associate at Baker Botts LLP. (more…)

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Shearman & Sterling launches an office in Houston with six partners – its second Texas office following its Austin office opening in March. The Houston-based team significantly expands the firm’s existing global energy capabilities with a focus on oil and gas transactions and projects, in complement to the firm’s existing highly regarded global energy group, particularly in Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Latin America. (more…)

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Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Mark L. Johansen has joined the firm’s Commercial Litigation practice as a partner in Dallas. Born and raised in Dallas, Mark was most recently a name partner at litigation trial boutique Gruber Hail Johansen Shank, which he helped found in 2006. (more…)

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Bracewell LLP announced today that James P. Plummer has joined the firm’s San Antonio office as a partner in the public finance department. He joins Bracewell from Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP. (more…)

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