Jones Walker LLP is pleased to announce that the firm is expanding in Texas with the addition of an office in Dallas. The office will be opened by Jones Walker partners Ben H. Harris, III, Michael Anthony “Tony” Shaw and Kevin O. Ainsworth, who will focus initially on existing asset recovery clients in the region.
Akin Gump served as legal advisor to London Broadcasting Company, a portfolio company of SunTx Capital Partners, in the sale of six of its television stations in Texas to Gannett Co., Inc. for $215 million. The deal closed on July 8, 2014. (more…)
Godwin Lewis PC, the noted Texas trial and appellate firm, with offices in Dallas, Houston and Plano, has announced that Family Law attorney Michelle May O’Neil has joined the firm as its newest shareholder.
Ms. O’Neil has over 20 years of experience in the field of family law, representing men, women and children in family law matters, including divorce, child custody and complex property division. She also brings a depth of experience in family law appellate matters to the Godwin Lewis Family Law group. Donald E. Godwin, Chairman and CEO of Godwin Lewis, states, “Michelle comes to our firm with a great deal of experience. She is well-known for the compassion and accessibility she brings to her client relationships, as well as a relentless nature in the pursuit of client goals. We are very pleased to have her with us at Godwin Lewis.” Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, Ms. O’Neil is one of only about 800 Board Certified family law attorneys in Texas. (more…)
Akin Gump served as counsel to Diamondback Energy, Inc. in the pricing of an underwritten public offering of two million shares of its common stock by certain selling stockholders at a price to the public of $90.04 per share. The total deal size is $180 million. (more…)
FordHarrison LLP is pleased to announce that Jennifer Jones has joined the firm as a Senior Associate and Brian Landa as an Employment Attorney, both in the Dallas office. This follows a recent expansion that brought Partners Adam Dougherty, Fred Gaona, and Lawrence McNamara to the Dallas office at the end of 2013.
“We are so excited to have Jennifer and Brian join as a part of the growth and development of our office,” said Vista Lyons, the Office Managing Partner of FordHarrison’s Dallas office. “Jennifer has vast traditional labor experience and Brian possesses a great deal of knowledge regarding employment law. They both have the utmost commitment to excellent client service and we feel lucky to have them as part of the expansion to our footprint in Dallas, and nationwide.” (more…)
Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law practice representing management, has added widely respected attorney Arthur (Art) T. Carter to its Dallas office. A Chambers-ranked attorney and Board Certified in Labor and Employment Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, Carter was previously a partner with Haynes and Boone. He joins Littler as a shareholder and brings more than 30 years of labor and employment law experience. (more…)
DLA Piper announced today that Karl Dial will join the firm’s Litigation practice as a partner in the Dallas office.
Dial is a trial lawyer who handles complex business and commercial litigation. He represents directors and officers in securities class actions, derivative cases and proxy solicitation claims. A CPA, he also has significant experience representing accounting, consulting and law firms in defense of professional negligence, malpractice and breach of duty litigation. He has tried trade secrets and intellectual property cases as well, and handles arbitrations in addition to general commercial litigation work. (more…)
Cox Smith today announced that attorney Jaime Ramón has joined its Dallas office as a shareholder in the firm’s Labor & Employment Law practice. He was previously a partner in K&L Gates’ Dallas office. (more…)
National law firm Polsinelli welcomes William H. Church, Jr. as shareholder to bolster the firm’s commercial litigation capabilities in Texas and nationally. Church has 25 years of experience in all aspects of handling business litigation matters and serves clients in the oil, gas and electric industries. He joins a growing Dallas office, and a national team of attorneys with long history of representing Fortune 500 companies in state and federal courts, as well as ADR forums and foreign jurisdictions. (more…)
On April 29, 2014, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a final greenhouse gas emission permit to FGE Texas LLC for the construction of two natural gas-fired combined-cycle electric generation plants near Westbrook in Mitchell County, Texas. The total investment will be $1.2 billion. (more…)
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP announced today that Shamoil T. Shipchandler, former Deputy Criminal Chief for the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Texas, has joined the firm as a partner in its Dallas office. Prior to joining the firm, Shipchandler served for almost more than 10 years as an Assistant United States Attorney, where his district-wide leadership responsibilities included serving as the Attorney-in-Charge of the Plano office and as the Asset Forfeiture Chief. (more…)
The Firm represented Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc. and Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc., as the initial purchasers, in connection with the Section 3(a)(2) exempt offering of $175 million aggregate principal amount of 5.25% Subordinated Notes due 2026 by Texas Capital Bank, N.A. (“Texas Capital Bank”). The offering closed on January 31, 2014. (more…)
