Baker Donelson announces the addition of Susan Mathews to the Firm’s Houston, Texas office (more…)
National law firm Polsinelli Shughart welcomes health care and commercial litigation attorney Sherri T. Alexander as a shareholder in the firm’s Dallas office. With more than 25 years of experience, Alexander has successfully represented public and private companies in both state and federal courts and before arbitration panels and government agencies.
The Houston office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added Arthur A. Howard as a partner in the firm’s corporate/M&A practice. He joins K&L Gates from Haynes and Boone, LLP.
On April 8, 2013, NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NRG), entered into an agreement with a consortium of affiliates of Atlantic Power Corporation, John Hancock Life Insurance Company (U.S.A.), and Rockland Capital, LLC to acquire the Gregory cogeneration plant in Corpus Christi, Texas (more…)
A Weil team led by Corporate partners R. Jay Tabor and Danielle Do is advising longtime client General Electric in connection with its proposed $3.3 billion acquisition of Lufkin Industries Inc., a Texas-based publicly traded provider of artificial lift technologies for the oil and gas industry and a manufacturer of industrial gears, broadening GE Oil & Gas’ artificial lift capabilities and complementing GE’s existing product line. GE will pay Lufkin shareholders $88.50 per share in cash. The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2013 (more…)

Bracewell & Giuliani LLP is representing Lufkin Industries Inc. in connection with an agreement and plan of merger pursuant to which, upon the satisfaction of certain closing conditions, General Electric Co. will acquire Lufkin, a leading provider of artificial lift technologies for the oil and gas industry and a manufacturer of industrial gears, for approximately $3.3 billion (more…)
The complex commercial litigation and intellectual property boutique Ahmad, Zavitsanos, Anaipakos, Alavi & Mensing P.C. (or AZA) has hired three more highly qualified young lawyers from Big Law firms in Texas and Washington, D.C (more…)
Champe Fitzhugh joins Munsch Hardt’s Corporate & Securities practice as a Shareholder. Throughout his career, he has been involved in jury and bench trials, and arbitrations, involving breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, misrepresentation and personal injury claims, as well as a jury trial for a test group in a mass tort case, most frequently in the energy and construction industries. Most notably, Champe has participated in three International Chamber of Commerce arbitrations in front of tribunals sited in London, all in international matters, as well as some Texas-sited American Arbitration Association matters concerning primarily construction disputes (more…)
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented BMO Capital Markets as sole lead arranger and sole bookrunner, and Bank of Montreal, as the administrative agent in connection with a $1 Billion amended and restated senior secured revolving credit facility for WildHorse Resources, LLC (more…)

Houston-based Hi-Way Equipment Company LLC, along with Hi-Way Holdings LLC and HWE Real Estate LLC, reported today that they have filed petitions in Fort Worth federal court under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code (more…)
The law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP is pleased to announce that Matthew Sikes has joined the Firm’s Trial Department as an Associate in the Dallas office (more…)
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP advised GAIL Global (USA) LNG LLC in its new terminal service agreement with Dominion for 2.3 mmtpa liquefaction capacity in the Cove Point LNG liquefaction terminal project in Lusby, Maryland (more…)

