Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP is pleased to announce the addition of Scott D. Deatherage as a partner in the Firm’s Dallas office. Mr. Deatherage focuses his practice on environmental, energy and greenhouse gas regulatory matters (more…)

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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…)

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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…)

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Jackson Walker successfully represented client NuStar Energy L.P. in the sale of its San Antonio refinery and related assets to Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P. for $100 million, plus closing date inventory of approximately $15 million. The deal closed on Jan. 2, 2013. The related assets included a terminal in Elmendorf, Texas, and a pipeline connecting the terminal and refinery (more…)

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National law firm Wilson Elser is pleased to announce that Houston law firm Powers & Frost, LLP has joined the Am Law 100 firm, nearly doubling the number of attorneys in its Houston office (more…)

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Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, announced that Bill Hart Jr. has joined the firm in Houston as a partner in the Banking & Finance practice. Previously, he was a partner with Baker Botts in Houston (more…)

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Morgan Lewis announced today that Ryan McConnell, a former assistant U.S. attorney, will join the firm as a partner in its Litigation practice, resident in the firm’s Houston office (more…)

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Wick Phillips Gould & Martin, LLP, a full-service business law firm, announces a complete defense verdict for client TXU. Following a week-long trial in the 68th Judicial District Court in Dallas County, Honorable Martin Hoffman, Presiding, the jury rejected the Plaintiff’s claims of gender discrimination and harassment against TXU Retail Services Company (more…)

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Oil and gas production company Gulfport Energy Corp. was advised by a team from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in its acquisition of additional working interests in the Utica Shale in eastern Ohio (more…)

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Jackson Walker is pleased to welcome new attorney Jeffrey S. Hamilton. Mr. Hamilton joins the Wealth Planning group in the Dallas Office (more…)

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In the first case reaching the merits of a motion to dismiss under the new Citizens Participation Act, the Dallas Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Jackson Walker client Univision 23 KUVN and ordered the trial judge to dismiss the case and award damages and costs to the television station (more…)

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Burleson LLP, the largest law firm in the country devoted specifically to the oil and gas sector, announced today that Gary Brown has joined as a Partner in the Litigation Practice Group in the Houston office (more…)

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