Law firm Winstead PC welcomes shareholder and environmental attorney Christopher B. Pepper, previously a staff attorney for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and a senior research associate with the Institute of Environmental and Human Health in Lubbock, Texas (more…)
Jackson Walker successfully represented Prophet Equity LP, a $300 million Texas-based private equity firm, in the acquisition of Hatch Stamping Company and its affiliated entities in a series of five acquisition transactions and two lending transactions. The deals were all closed on December 20, 2012 (more…)
A team of Haynes and Boone, LLP lawyers, working with attorneys from Shearman & Sterling LLP, assisted Citigroup and Goldman Sachs on state regulatory and environmental aspects of two exchange offers for Energy Future Holdings Corp. (EFH) and Energy Future Intermediate Holding Company (EFIH) for $1.3 Billion in New Notes and an Unsecured Exchange Offer for $124 Million (more…)
Jackson Walker successfully represented Buffalo Studios LLC, a privately held social and mobile games developer, in the sale of its Bingo Blitz business and Santa Monica, Calif., development studio to Caesars Interactive Entertainment, Inc (more…)
Jackson Walker won a significant victory for its clients when the commissioners of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) unanimously voted to overturn the Executive Director’s decision that would have negatively affected property tax determinations for 19 power generators (more…)
Jackson Walker L.L.P. successfully represented Select Milk Producers, Inc., a cooperative of 87 large family-owned dairies, in a joint venture with The Coca-Cola Company to operate a health and wellness company known as Fair Oaks Farms Brands (more…)
Here are some of the major legal career moves in Austin last month:
Matt Paulson joined Katten Muchin in Austin. The partner brings expertise in environmental law as it relates to the energy industry. He is a graduate of the University of Denver School of Law and U.C. Santa Cruz and joins from Baker Botts.
Greenberg Traurig hired Lance Anderson for its IP practice. Joining as an Of Counsel, the attorney will concentrate on transactional intellectual property work. Anderson obtained his J.D., bachelor’s, and master’s degrees from Texas Tech University.
Danica Milios was recruited by Sutherland Asbill & Brennan from her position as Deputy Solicitor General for the Office of the Attorney General of Texas. The litigation attorney is a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law and Texas A&M.
If you would like to discuss the Austin legal job market, contact Kinney Recruiting today. We take pride in being some of the best legal recruiters in the industry and are happy to share our knowledge with motivated candidates.
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP announced today that prominent environmental attorney Matt Paulson will join the firm as a partner, resident in Austin, Texas, where he currently is based, and will head up Katten’s Environmental Aspects of Energy Production Practice (more…)
Accomplished Texas appellate lawyer Danica L. Milios, the former Deputy Solicitor General for the Office of the Attorney General of Texas, is joining two of her former state government colleagues in the litigation and appellate practice at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP in Austin (more…)
International law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP announced that K. Lance Anderson has joined its Austin office as of counsel in firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology practice (more…)
A team of Haynes and Boone, LLP attorneys advised Deutsche Bank in arranging a loan to fund construction of a $73 million, 7.5-megawatt (net) biomass-to-energy facility near Koloa on the Hawaiian island of Kaua`i that will sell its output to Kaua’i Island Utility Cooperative (KIUC) (more…)
Austin maintained its record several major career moves a month in September. Here is a summary of some of the biggest legal recruiting news.
Sedgwick added a group of six attorneys with a variety of environmental, land use, and commercial litigation experience. The group includes partners Alan Glen, Michael Klein, and Lisa Michaux Magids.
Partner Brian Flood and of counsel Wendy Keegan were recruited to Brown McCarroll’s health care team. The lawyers bring years of experience in health care policy, operations, compliance, risk, and fraud.
Continuing its growth in Texas, Dykema Gossett hired Kimberly Kiplin for the firm’s Government Policy group. Kiplin joins from her job as General Counsel of the Texas Lottery Commission.
The Austin legal jobs market is steady and strong. If you would like to discuss career possibilities, now could be the best time to talk to a legal recruiter at Kinney Recruiting!
