Jackson Walker successfully represented Prophet Equity, a Southlake, Texas-based private equity firm, and its portfolio company, Hatch Stamping Company LLC, in its acquisition of the assets of Tennessee-based Metal Quest, Inc. The transaction closed on September 11, 2015. (more…)
Wick Phillips is pleased to announce the expansion of the firm’s intellectual property practice with the addition of Amy LaValle and Jerry C. Harris, Jr. joining the firm as partners in the Dallas office. (more…)
Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Craig A. Lackey has joined the firm’s Corporate practice as a partner in the Dallas office, where he will focus his work on consumer lending-based financial transactions and restructurings. (more…)
Schiff Hardin LLP is pleased to announce that Tracey R. Wallace has joined the firm as a partner in the Labor and Employment group. A versatile practitioner with experience spanning the spectrum of labor and employment law, Tracey joins the firm’s Dallas office from Jackson Walker LLP. (more…)
John M. Elsley joined Phelps Dunbar’s Houston, Texas office as a partner in the firm’s admiralty and litigation practice. His addition further expands the firm’s ability to serve clients in Texas and throughout the Gulf South with admiralty, litigation and arbitration needs. (more…)

The global law firm Jones Day has announced that Jason S. Varnado, Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Texas, will join its Houston Office in December as a partner in the Firm’s Investigations & White Collar Defense Practice. Mr. Varnado has focused on high-profile white collar prosecutions. (more…)
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, a counselor to global financial institutions and corporations, announced today that Tania S. Perez has joined the firm’s Energy and Commodities Practice and will be in the Houston office. (more…)
Continuing its strategic growth in Texas, the international law firm of Greenberg Traurig, LLP has added three real estate attorneys to its Austin office. Carey Gunn Venditti, a native Austinite and a graduate of The University of Texas, who has nearly 20 years of experience joined as a shareholder, and Emily Jung and Jennifer Cook Purcell joined as associates. All three lawyers were previously with Winstead. Venditti joins her former colleague, Joshua Bernstein, a real estate shareholder in Greenberg Traurig’s Austin office. (more…)
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP announced today that four partners are joining its environment and natural resources practice. Sara M. Burgin, Kevin D. Collins, Matt Paulson, and Whit Swift will work primarily from Bracewell’s Austin office, joining the firm’s environmental team anchored in Austin, Houston and Washington, D.C. (more…)

The law firm of Kane Russell Coleman & Logan PC (“KRCL”) has expanded its Energy Group in Houston with the addition of four attorneys. David Bond, Thomas G. Ciarlone, Jr., Andrea “AJ” Johnson, and Demetri Economou have joined KRCL after working at a national law firm that primarily represents companies in the oil and gas industry. (more…)
Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international law firm, announced today that Christopher V. Ryan, Margaret J. Sampson and Stephen M. Hash have joined the firm’s Austin office as Partners. (more…)
A recent Law360 article covers the arrival of new partner Jeffrey Peterson to McGuireWoods’ Dallas office, where he will join the firm’s healthcare team. The September 8 article, titled “McGuireWoods Grabs Ex-Tenet M&A Counsel For Texas Office,” details Peterson’s career as mergers and acquisitions counsel, and also includes his impressions on his new firm. (more…)

