Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, a leading counselor to global financial institutions and corporations, today announced that it has added one of the foremost attorneys in energy finance, Michael Niebruegge, to the Partnership. Mr. Niebruegge will bring his expertise in financing oil and gas production and reserve-base lending to Cadwalader’s newly formed Energy and Commodities Advisory Practice (more…)
Porter Hedges represented Noble Energy, Inc. (Noble Energy) in an agreement announced today 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…)
A team of Akin Gump attorneys advised oilfield services company Great White Energy Services in its recent $742 million sale to Archer Limited, a global oilfield service company specializing in drilling services and well services. The deal was announced on August 1, 2011 and is expected to close in the third quarter of 2011.
Dan A. Fleckman has joined Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell’s Houston Office as a Partner in the Firm’s national Corporate and Energy Practices, effective immediately. Fleckman has more than 30 years of experience in all types of transactions and represents publicly held and private companies in corporate finance, governance, mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) and more (more…)
The highly regarded, Chambers-rated, Houston intellectual property trial firm of Slusser Wilson & Partridge, L.L.P. has joined forces with the internationally regarded firm Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Bill Slusser, Mike Wilson and Jayme Partridge have extensive jury trial experience in patent cases. Each has an engineering degree and excels at making technical issues understandable (more…)
Morgan Lewis today announced that J. Todd Culwell—a transactional attorney with nearly 20 years of experience advising clients on electric power, LNG and other infrastructure projects—has joined the firm as partner in its energy transactions practice, resident in Houston. He focuses his practice on the development financing, acquisitions and divestitures of energy infrastructure projects in the United States and internationally (more…)
Adams and Reese welcomes Benny C. Pace to the firm’s Houston office and as the new Banking and Finance Team Leader in Texas. Pace previously served as the former head of the banking and finance section at several Texas law firms, including Ross, Griggs & Harrison, the Houston office of Kelly Hart & Hallman, and also the former head of the financial entities section at Chamberlain Hrdlicka (more…)
The firm is representing Petrohawk Energy Corporation in connection with its acquisition by BHP Billiton in a transaction valued at approximately $15.1 billion. The transaction, which is subject to at least a majority of the outstanding Petrohawk shares being tendered and other customary conditions, is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2011 (more…)
If you take a look at our new job postings at www.kinneyrecruiting.com, you will see numerous immediate opportunities in the major Texas markets. Hiring in Texas has increased tremendously in ‘11 and we are now seeing multiple-offer situations for our candidates, and firms and in-house departments are making hiring decisions at a pre-recession pace. It […]
BHP Billiton and Petrohawk Energy Corporation (“Petrohawk”) announced late yesterday that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement for BHP Billiton to acquire Petrohawk for $38.75 per share by means of an all-cash tender offer for all of the issued and outstanding shares of Petrohawk, representing a total equity value of approximately $12.1 billion and a total enterprise value of approximately $15.1 billion, including the assumption of net debt (more…)
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery today announced that it has named partner Steven G. Spears as partner-in-charge of the Firm’s Houston office, effective immediately. Spears, a partner in McDermott’s Intellectual Property Litigation Practice Group, will be responsible for overseeing, and implementing the Firm’s strategic regional business objectives, and ensuring that the Firm’s Houston office effectively meets the needs of the Firm’s current and future client base (more…)
A new Houston Chronicle article detailing a recent Rice University study on population growth can be found here.
