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The acquisition — advised by Gibson Dunn, Milbank and Latham & Watkins — opens the door for the company's Starlink network to connect directly with cellular customers. And compete directly with cellular providers like Verizon and AT&T.
The deal signals Devon’s effective exit from the Eagle Ford to focus on the Permian Basin. Latham & Watkins and Vinson & Elkins served as outside legal advisors for Crescent, while Kirkland & Ellis represented Devon.
In a wide-ranging interview, Gibson Dunn capital-markets leader Hillary Holmes takes Texas Lawbook subscribers inside a career that placed her at the center of SpaceX’s historic public offering this year. But that is only the latest chapter in a much deeper Texas story that charts her rise from the Houston “deal room” of her childhood to one of the country’s top corporate lawyers, known for her instinct to see beyond the transactions themselves.
Jackson Walked picked up two new partners to their Houston office with the addition of an immigration lawyer from Foster LLP and debt finance lawyer poached from Kirkland & Ellis.
On Monday, in apparent response to concerns about potential disruption to the Texas electrical grid, Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the state’s top two energy agencies to pause any new data center grid connections while the effect of those connections is studied by the state.
The deal for the Houston-based valve distributor provides both tech and customer-base expansion for Ferguson's push into data center infrastructure air and water services. Orrick, Kirkland and Foley are advising.
A low‑key SEC data dump on July 1 quietly implies a CapM “revival” based on first‑quarter numbers. A closer look shows the comeback is largely powered by SPACs, not new operating companies. So, how much of this recovery is substance, and how much is spin?
Shell Offshore, a subsidiary of Houston-based oil giant Shell Oil, announced that it is selling its interest in two major offshore Gulf platforms to Talos Energy and Ridgewood Energy for $1.7 billion.
Taking advantage of its expanded new market cap, Space Exploration Technologies announced its pricing of an inaugural $25 billion bond issue. Gibson Dunn lawyers in Texas and New York advised.
An Eastern District of Texas jury in Marshall swatted Verizon Wireless with a $190 million verdict for infringement of a patent owned by Aspen Networks, a California technology company. The case is one of three such cases alleging the unauthorized use of Aspen's system to connect cellular phone calls in-progress between cell and Wi-Fi systems. The other two cases involving AT&T Mobility and T-Mobile USA are still pending.
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