Global law firm White & Case LLP has grown its leading International Arbitration Practice with the addition of a new partner, Jorge Mattamouros, a New York and Portugal qualified lawyer joining the Firm’s Houston office. Mattamouros will play an important role in the Firm’s international arbitration matters in the Latin America and Lusophone regions. Mattamouros comes to White & Case from King & Spalding, where he worked as a partner in their International Arbitration practice. (more…)
David Ammons, a commercial litigator board certified in Oil, Gas and Mineral Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, has joined Haynes and Boone, LLP as a litigation partner in the Houston office. (more…)
Edel Cuadra has joined LeClairRyan as a partner on the firm’s Labor and Employment team. He is resident in the national law firm’s Houston office. (more…)
Simpson Thacher is representing KKR in connection with its proposed acquisition of Discovery Midstream from TPG Growth for approximately $1.2 billion. The company is being acquired through a newly formed joint venture with Williams (NYSE: WMB) and is being funded primarily through KKR’s energy and infrastructure funds. Williams’ initial economic contribution and ownership will be 40% of the purchase price, while KKR’s initial economic contribution and ownership will be 60% of the purchase price. Williams will be the operator of Discovery and will hold a majority of governance voting rights. Williams has committed to fund additional capital as required to bring its economic ownership to 50/50. (more…)
Kirkland & Ellis LLP is pleased to announce that Sean T. Wheeler has joined the Firm’s Houston office as a partner in the Corporate Practice Group. Mr. Wheeler brings more than 20 years of experience handling securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance matters for companies in the energy industry, including master limited partnerships. He has led 23 IPOs in the past five years, and, in 2016 alone, advised issuers and underwriters in over 29 securities offerings, more than any other Texas-based partner. (more…)
The Houston office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes partner Robert H. George and counsel Edmundo de la Fuente to its power practice. Both lawyers join K&L Gates from Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, where George served as the Houston office’s managing partner. (more…)
Christopher D. Porter has joined the firm’s Houston office as a partner. Mr. Porter is an experienced business trial lawyer representing both plaintiffs and defendants. He litigates a broad spectrum of business disputes, ranging from breach of contract and trade secret claims to business torts and antitrust disputes. Mr. Porter received his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, cum laude. He earned his B.A. in Business Administration from University of Texas at El Paso, where he belonged to Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Philip R. Martinez in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.
King & Spalding today announced that Carol Burke, Susan Berry and Kimberlee Cagle have joined the firm as partners in the firm’s Corporate, Finance and Investments practice group in the Houston office to advise on a broad range of complex finance matters, including oil and gas financings, project financings, real estate acquisition, development financings and corporate matters. (more…)
Akin Gump is pleased to announce that Jocelyn D. Tau has joined the firm as a tax partner in its Houston office. Ms. Tau has extensive experience working on matters pertaining to the taxation of master limited partnerships (MLPs), private equity transactions and structures, mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations and capital market transactions, particularly within the energy industry. She comes to Akin Gump from Hunton Andrews Kurth. (more…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
