Thomas McCaffrey has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP’s Houston office as a partner in its energy and global transactions practice. Previously, Mr. McCaffrey was a partner in the Houston office of an international law firm (more…)
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP is representing Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE: KMI) in its agreement to acquire all of the outstanding shares of El Paso Corporation (NYSE: EP) for approximately $38 billion, including the assumption of debt outstanding at El Paso Corporation and including the debt outstanding at El Paso Pipeline Partners, L.P. (NYSE: EPB) (more…)
Brian Antweil has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP’s Houston office as a partner in its litigation and alternative dispute resolution practice. Previously, Mr. Antweil was a partner in the Houston office of a mid-sized, international law firm where he led the firm’s Business Litigation South Practice Group (more…)
Anthony F. Newton, an experienced corporate transactional attorney with a background in private middle-market energy-related transactions, has moved as a partner to Haynes and Boone, LLP as part of an expansion of the firm’s corporate and energy practices (more…)
Noble Energy, Inc. (Noble Energy) announced today that it closed the previously announced agreement to create a joint venture partnership with CONSOL Energy, Inc. (CONSOL Energy) for the development of CONSOL Energy’s Marcellus Shale properties in southwest Pennsylvania and northwest West Virginia (more…)
The global law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP is pleased to announce that Anna Marie Dempsey has rejoined the Firm as a Partner in its Corporate and Securities Practice Group in Houston (more…)
Jones Walker announced today that Patrick R. Byrd joined the firm as an associate in the Business & Commercial Litigation Practice Group. Mr. Byrd will practice from the firm’s Houston office (more…)
Scott Chalmers, a construction and procurement specialist, has joined the global transactions practice of King & Spalding as an English law qualified foreign legal consultant in its Houston, Texas, office, the firm announced today. He joined King & Spalding from White & Case LLP (London), where he was a senior associate and specialized in large and complex international infrastructure and construction projects (more…)
Adams and Reese LLP recently expanded the OSHA regulatory services that it offers to its clients by hiring two lawyers who have more than 25 years of combined experience in OSHA regulatory work as John Surma and Collin Warren join the firm’s Houston office (more…)
The global law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP is pleased to announce that Wade A. Johnson has joined the Firm’s Trial Department as an Associate in the Houston office (more…)
A labor and employment litigator who is widely respected for her extensive trial experience and advice representing a range of employers, has rejoined Fulbright & Jaworski as senior counsel.Teri L. Danish previously spent six years at the international firm as an associate in the 1990s (more…)
Longtime corporate and securities attorney Robert Eickenroht has joined the Houston Office of Locke Lord as a Partner in its growing Corporate Energy Practice Group. Eickenroht has practiced law for more than 25 years and has a broad-based corporate securities practice focused on general corporate and partnership law, merger and acquisition transactions, joint ventures, equities and energy (more…)

