Michael Adams is a partner in the Litigation and Intellectual Property groups at Jackson Walker. For more than 25 years, Mr. Adams has practiced patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret law, with an emphasis on the litigation, procurement, and licensing of intellectual property rights. His practice has focused on those intellectual property issues arising in the following industries: computer, semiconductor, electronics, software, e-commerce and internet. Mr. Adams has participated in patent infringement trials before the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern (Marshall) and Western (Austin) Districts of Texas and the Eastern District of Virginia, and appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (more…)
Jackson Walker successfully represented an affiliate of its client, Virtus Real Estate Capital, in the formation of a programmatic joint venture with a multi-national real estate operator to develop a new brand of senior living facilities. The joint venture’s initial project is currently under development in Orem, Utah (more…)
Procopio is at it again. Just months after opening a new office in the heart of Silicon Valley, Procopio announces the opening of a new office in another key technology center, and a gateway to Latin America – Austin, Texas. To lead the development of the office, Procopio welcomes seasoned international corporate attorney Alejandro Suarez to the firm. With over ten years of experience working in international corporate law, Mr. Suarez’s experience includes structuring and documenting new businesses, mergers, acquisitions and private equity agreements (more…)
Austin IP Boutique Pirkey Barber PLLC is pleased to announce the addition of Chris Kindel, Rebecca Younger and Megan Myers. Founded in 2006 by Louis Pirkey, Bill Barber and Steve Meleen, Pirkey Barber has grown to 18 attorneys and supports some of the most recognizable and valuable brands nationally and abroad (more…)
It’s no secret that those of us at the Texas Chronicles and Kinney Recruiting have deep ties to the University of Texas. We are of course based in Austin, and several of our employees attended the University and the School of Law. And the orange in our logo is no coincidence. Needless to say, our offices have seen more than a few heated discussions about football, basketball, the Big 12, baseball, volleyball, Mack Brown, national championships, swimming & diving…(the list goes on). We’ve even been prone to a few DFW/Austin inter-office arguments over TCU or the occasional bout with Evan Jowers, whose beloved Gators somehow hired our head coach in waiting.
With that in mind, there’s some news from right here in the capital of Texas that encompasses a few of our interests. The just announced retirement of athletic director DeLoss Dodds has opened one of the biggest jobs in American sports. In a press release, the University stated that it will retain executive search firm Korn/Ferry to fill the position. This is exciting news for our staffing industry cohorts, and we wish them the best of luck in the process. It also shows that no matter what the position, the involvement and insight of a great recruiting team can make all the difference for both employers and candidates.
American Energy – Utica, LLC (“AEU”), an affiliate of American Energy Partners, LP, raised approximately $1.7 billion in private equity commitments and term loan proceeds to pursue a business plan focused on the Utica Shale. AEU’s lead equity investor is The Energy & Minerals Group based in Houston, and additional equity was provided by First Reserve Corporation based in Greenwich, CT and others. The term loan facility was led by GSO Capital Partners based in New York and additional debt investors, including Magnetar Capital and BlackRock, Inc (more…)
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP represented Los Angeles based Thomas Properties Group, Inc., a full-service real estate company, in a long term lease to Statoil Gulf Services L.L.C., the U.S. upstream subsidiary of the Norwegian energy company, at CityWestPlace in Houston’s Westchase District. The lease includes 581,000 square feet, which more than doubles the size of Statoil’s North American headquarters. By mid-2015, Statoil will occupy the entirety of the 431,000 square foot CityWestPlace Building 2 (2107 CityWest Boulevard). The company also extended its existing lease of 150,000 square feet in CityWestPlace Building 4 (2103 CityWest Boulevard) (more…)
Jackson Walker L.L.P. successfully guided its client, Dr. Robert Dull, an Austin investor with several significant real estate holdings in Nicaragua, through a real estate transaction that had turned sour (more…)
A team of Haynes and Boone, LLP lawyers advised Super D, a global music wholesaler, in its acquisition of Alliance Entertainment Holding Corporation, a multimedia wholesale distributor, from Platinum Equity and the Gores Group (more…)
Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce that Julie Houston has joined the firm’s Public Finance practice as Counsel in Austin (more…)
Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP is pleased to announce the addition of Christina T. Wisdom as of counsel in the Government Affairs Practice Group in the Firm’s Austin office. With more than 10 years of legislative and regulatory leadership, Ms. Wisdom will focus her practice on environmental and energy matters (more…)
Jackson Walker L.L.P. successfully represented its client, an Austin–based property owner, in a complex refinancing transaction involving two skilled nursing facilities (more…)
