Jackson Walker LLP is pleased to welcome Wes Strickland to the firm as a partner in the Environmental and Legislative practice group. Mr. Strickland will work in the firm’s Austin office and focus on permitting, development and financing of water and other infrastructure projects across the United States. (more…)
Pillsbury is pleased to announce the opening of our Austin office as the next step in our firm’s strategic focus and our unwavering commitment to our clients throughout the state of Texas and the Gulf Coast. (more…)
Daniel Nossa is a partner in the Energy, Derivatives, and Investment Funds group at Jackson Walker. He advises public and private entities on commodity and financial transactions ranging from plain vanilla trades to complex multi-billion dollar structured deals. Mr. Nossa has extensive experience negotiating and drafting industry standard documentation such as the ISDA, GMSLA, MSLA, MSRA, EEI and NAESB agreements and many forms of credit support documents including CSAs, security agreements, guaranties and letters of credit. He advises dealers and end users on the Commodity Exchange Act and Dodd-Frank regulations. Mr. Nossa received his A.B., cum laude, from Princeton University and his J.D. degree from Stanford Law School.
Robert L. Rickman, Board Certified in Labor and Employment law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, joins Kane Russell Coleman & Logan PC (KRCL) in the Dallas office (more…)
Kane Russell Coleman & Logan PC (KRCL) is pleased to announce that Chris Harris, Board Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Tax Law, has joined the firm’s Dallas office. The firm’s new tax practice will include transactional tax planning for federal, state and international tax matters (more…)

Jackson Walker L.L.P. is pleased to welcome Drew Darby to the firm as of counsel in the Real Estate and Energy practice groups. A San Angelo native, Mr. Darby will work with the firm’s San Angelo and Austin offices (more…)
McGuireWoods LLP is opening a new office in Dallas, expanding the international law firm’s depth of services available in Texas and the southwestern United States. (more…)
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP represented CBFH, Inc., the holding company of CommunityBank of Texas, in the acquisition of MC Bancshares, Inc., the holding company of Memorial City Bank.
The all-cash transaction combines the roughly $2.8 billion combined assets of the banks to make CBFH one of the largest privately held banks in Texas, with the majority of its loans and deposits in the Houston marketplace. (more…)
Akin Gump today announced the addition of Michael J. Byrd as a partner in the firm’s energy practice in Houston. Mr. Byrd is an experienced and recognized attorney in the oil and gas industry, whose practice emphasizes upstream M&A transactions. He comes to Akin Gump from Baker & McKenzie, where he served as chair of that firm’s North America oil and gas practice group (more…)

Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce that corporate attorney Kevin Trautner has joined the firm’s Houston office as a partner.
Mr. Trautner joins Andrews Kurth’s corporate/securities practice group, where he will focus on working with public and privately held companies in a variety of corporate transactions. Mr. Trautner has extensive experience representing targets and acquirers in mergers and acquisitions, in addition to guiding businesses through initial public offerings. He also represents issuers and underwriters in a variety of securities offerings and provides strategic counsel in regulatory and corporate governance issues. (more…)
Seyfarth Shaw LLP announced today that highly regarded real estate partner Peter M. Oxman has joined the firm’s Houston office. The addition of Oxman marks the continued expansion of the firm’s 130-lawyer national Real Estate Department, recognized as the fourth largest real estate practice in the country. Oxman joins Seyfarth from King & Spalding LLP’s Houston office, where he was a partner in its Capital Transactions and Real Estate practice group. (more…)
Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE:CHK) announced today the execution of two agreements to sell midstream compression assets for total proceeds of approximately $520 million. (more…)

