Hunton & Williams LLP is pleased to announce the expansion of its private investment funds practice with the arrival of Evan Williams as a lawyer in the Dallas office. Prior to joining Hunton & Williams, Evan served as an outsourced general counsel and chief compliance officer for alternative investment managers, including both private equity and hedge fund managers. Evan also has experience serving as an in-house lawyer and compliance officer at a multibillion-dollar registered investment adviser (more…)
Thomas F. Allen, Jr., has joined the Dallas Office of global law firm Jones Day as a partner in the Issues & Appeals Practice. Formerly a partner at Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P., he has extensive experience representing clients before the Supreme Court of Texas, intermediate Texas courts of appeals, and federal courts of appeals (more…)
The international law firm Bryan Cave LLP announced today that Gregory Sachnik has joined the firm’s Dallas office as counsel. He will practice within the firm’s Class & Derivative Actions and Commercial Litigation Practice Groups (more…)
A team of Haynes and Boone, LLP lawyers advised Super D, a global music wholesaler, in its acquisition of Alliance Entertainment Holding Corporation, a multimedia wholesale distributor, from Platinum Equity and the Gores Group (more…)
Michael Saslaw, one of the leading corporate lawyers in Dallas, has joined Vinson & Elkins as a partner (more…)
Jackson Walker L.L.P. successfully represented Teladoc, Inc. in its recent acquisition of Consult A Doctor in a deal that was announced on Sept. 4, 2013. The firm also assisted Teladoc in closing on approximately $15 million in Series E financing (more…)
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP advised Diamondback Energy, Inc. in its definitive agreement with IBEX Mineral Resources LLC and Beehive Partners LLC to purchase mineral interests underlying approximately 15,000 gross (12,500 net) acres in Midland County for approximately $440 million, subject to certain adjustments. The proposed transaction is expected to close by the end of September 2013, subject to completion of due diligence and satisfaction of closing conditions. Diamondback intends to finance the acquisition with debt and cash on hand (more…)
Polsinelli welcomes attorneys Riva T. Johnson, Patti J. Hedgpeth and Meredith VanderWilt to the firm’s national Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Practice. The trio joins a deep bench of employee benefits attorneys who cover all aspects of plan creation and design, executive compensation agreements and compliance responsibility. Charlotte K. Ackley, a senior benefits advisor, also joins Polsinelli and brings 25 years of employee benefits experience having previously worked with Johnson and Hedgpeth for many of those years as well. With this addition, Polsinelli’s Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Practice is now one of the largest in Dallas and growing nationally (more…)
International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges is representing Houston-based oil and gas producer Apache Corporation in the sale of a 33 percent stake in its Egyptian oil and gas business to China’s Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration and Production Corporation (Sinopec). Apache’s Egyptian production in 2012 totaled an average of 100,000 barrels of oil and 354 million cubic feet of natural gas per day, while providing employment for about 9,000 people in Egypt, where the company has two decades of industry experience. In announcing the transaction on August 29, 2013, Apache pointed to the Sinopec deal as the first step in a global strategic partnership between the two companies to pursue joint upstream oil and gas projects. The deal is expected to close in Q4 (more…)
Jackson Walker L.L.P. successfully represented its client, American Communications, in its acquisition by Clover Holdings, Inc. The deal was announced on Aug. 13, 2013 (more…)
Jackson Walker L.L.P. represented its client, San Antonio–based Abraxas Petroleum Corporation (NASDAQ: AXAS), in the sale of its non–operated Bakken assets to Natural Resource Partners L.P. (NYSE: NRP) for $38.3 million (more…)
Phelps Dunbar LLP announces the opening of a new firm office in Dallas/Fort Worth on July 16, 2013, established with six attorneys formerly of long-standing Texas firm Cantey Hanger LLP. This is Phelps Dunbar’s second location in Texas after Houston and 11th office overall (more…)
