Veteran environmental and technology lawyer Susan Snyder has rejoined Vinson & Elkins LLP as a partner in Austin, bringing with her longstanding knowledge of the environmental and natural resources issues affecting the firm’s clients (more…)
Jackson Walker successfully represented its client Zachry Holdings, Inc. in the acquisition of Houston-based JV Industrial Companies, a major industrial services provider that serves Fortune 500 clients, primarily in the refining and petrochemicals sector (more…)
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP is pleased to announce that Justice Dale Wainwright has joined the firm’s appellate practice in Austin. Justice Wainwright recently stepped down as a justice on the Texas Supreme Court after 10 years of service (more…)
A team of Haynes and Boone, LLP attorneys advised, as Texas counsel, Panda Power Funds on the completion of secured financing to develop a natural gas-fired power plant in Sherman, Texas (more…)
Sedgwick is pleased to announce the addition of six attorneys to our Austin office. Three partners, Alan Glen, Michael Klein and Lisa Michaux Magids, and three associates, Rebecca Barho, Laura Evans and Brooke Marcus Wahlberg, have joined the firm (more…)
Brown McCarroll is pleased to announce that Brian Flood and Wendy Keegan have joined the firm, as partner and of counsel, respectively. Both join as members of the health care practice group (more…)
Ryan Law, a national law firm focusing on federal and state and local corporate tax controversies, tax litigation, and tax planning, today announced that Robert W. Nuzum has joined the Firm as a Partner based in the Austin, Texas, office. Mr. Nuzum has more than 32 years of legal experience in tax planning, tax structuring, and tax litigation in the federal and state and local tax areas (more…)
Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP represented BP in its sale, announced on Sept. 10, 2012, of interests in a number of oil and gas fields in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico to Plains Exploration and Production Company for a total of $5.55 billion (more…)
Austin saw two big legal job changes last month:
The corporate and securities practice at Jackson Walker has recruited associate attorney Nicole Brennig to the firm’s Austin office. Ms. Brennig comes to Jackson Walker from Proskauer Rose, LLP.
Gardere Wynne & Sewell LLP has announced the recruitment of former Department of Energy counsel Erika Benson to the firm’s government affairs practice. Ms. Benson joins the firm as a partner.
Dykema today announced the addition of Kimberly L. Kiplin, former General Counsel of the Texas Lottery Commission, as Senior Counsel in the Firm’s Government Policy practice group. Kiplin, who retired from the Texas Lottery Commission effective August 31, will be based in Austin (more…)
In an exciting development for the firm’s Austin office, Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP has announced that Erika D. Benson is taking on a new legal job at the firm. The partner, who has 13 years of experience at the U.S. Department of Energy, brings extensive government relations and energy capabilities to the office (more…)
Jackson Walker L.L.P. represented J.B. Poindexter & Co., Inc. in the successful completion of a $25 million 144A senior debt offering on August 20, 2012 (more…)
