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Allen Pusey

Allen Pusey is a senior editor and writer at The Texas Lawbook.

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Allen Pusey

Prominent legal and investigative journalist Allen Pusey is a senior editor and writer at The Texas Lawbook.

Prior to joining The Lawbook, Pusey was the editor and publisher of the ABA Journal, which is the nation’s largest circulation legal publication. Before his decade with the Journal, Pusey spent 26 years as a reporter and editor at The Dallas Morning News, where he was a special projects editor and covered the Supreme Court of the United States.

A former director at the Center for Public Integrity, Pusey brings extraordinary experience and knowledge of the legal industry to The Texas Lawbook. Our readers are now the beneficiaries of his amazing talent as a writer and editor.

You can reach Allen at allen.pusey@texaslawbook.net or 202.669.4398.

Capital Markets Transactions

A periodically updated list of Capital Markets transactions reported to the Texas Lawbook through June 30, 2021. It reflects deals handled by the Texas offices of law firms or deals involving Texas companies.

September 23, 2021 Allen Pusey

CDT: Texas Firm Rank All-M&A Parties

This ranks lead participation by law firms in which Texas offices were led the legal advisory teams for any parties of a merger, acquisition, divestiture or joint venture reported to or by The Texas Lawbook during the first six months of 2021 — whether or not values were disclosed.

September 8, 2021 Allen Pusey

CDT Lead Texas M&A Law Firms for H1 2021

Corporate Deal Tracker: Law firms in which Texas lawyers were the lead legal advisors for the buyers, sellers or targets of a merger, acquisition, divestiture or joint venture during the first six months of 2021.

August 26, 2021 Allen Pusey

Texas Law Firm PPP Lending Less in 2021, But More Than Reported in 2020

Newly released data from the Small Business Administration reveals the full extent to which Texas law firms relied on Payroll Protection Plan loans to stay afloat while adjusting to the widespread disruptions of the Covid-19 pandemic. But the data also shows that law firms in Texas rebounded enough to leave a fair amount of federal money on the table. The Texas Lawbook has the numbers.

August 5, 2021 Allen Pusey

HollyFrontier and Holly Energy Partners Add Sinclair Dinosaur for $1.8B

Dallas-based HollyFrontier Corporation and Holly Energy Partners are paying $1.8 billion to add Sinclair Oil’s iconic brand and distribution network to their operation.

August 3, 2021 Allen Pusey

Mergermarket: Top 50 M&A Deals H1 2021

Below are the top valued 50 M&A transactions for the first half of 2021 involving one or more Texas-headquartered companies. The data compiled by Mergermarket and provided exclusively to The

July 19, 2021 Allen Pusey

SCOTX Walks Back Demand for PUC Review in Common Law Cases Against Utilities

In 2018 the Supreme Court of Texas established a precedent requiring common law cases involving the operation of utilities, even those involving personal injury, to be reviewed by the Public Utilities Commission before reaching the courts. In three opinions filed since Friday, the court has been recalibrating that requirement. The Lawbook’s Allen Pusey reviews those cases and the issues that caused the court to take a new look at its own precedent.

June 30, 2021 Allen Pusey

SCOTX: The World’s Largest Retail Operation Is Not a ‘Seller’

When is a seller not a seller in Texas? When it advertises products online, takes money for them and delivers them to customers, according to the Texas Supreme Court. That opinion was delivered Friday in response to a certified question regarding Amazon.com from the U.S. Fifth Circuit. It was not a unanimous view, as The Lawbook’s Allen Pusey explains.

June 28, 2021 Allen Pusey

SCOTX Reaches ‘Wayback’ To Reject Narrowing of Out-of-State Jurisdiction

Invoking a web archive and a social media page as evidence of “purposeful availment,” the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday that a Connecticut company could be sued in Texas, despite its claim that it never had any intention of doing business here.

June 25, 2021 Allen Pusey

Fifth Court of Appeals Affirms Summary Judgment Denial in D Magazine Libel Case

The defamation suit brought by a woman accused by D Magazine of living in University Park while on a federal food program took a step closer to trial last week when the Fifth Court of Appeals refused to dismiss her case against the Dallas publication. The court ruled that enough issues of fact have been raised by the plaintiff to preclude a summary judgment. Allen Pusey has details.

June 14, 2021 Allen Pusey

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  • William Turcotte’s Big Year: Bankruptcy, Two Major Mergers, a Pandemic, Marriage and a Cowboy’s Common Sense - Growing up the son of a South Texas rancher and educator, William Turcotte learned about facing tough times, long days of manual labor and the importance of a great education. Turcotte needed those principles the past two years as the general counsel at Noble Corporation. In a matter of months, he led the offshore drilling contractor in and out of bankruptcy, eliminating $3.4 billion in bond debt. Only weeks after emerging from Chapter 11, Noble acquired Pacific Drilling. In November 2021, Turcotte and Noble were at it again, closing a $3.13 billion all-stock merger with Maersk Drilling.

    “The joke was ‘You can always sleep when you’re dead,’” Turcotte told The Texas Lawbook. The Association of Corporate Counsel’s Houston Chapter and The Texas Lawbook have named Turcotte as one of two finalists for the 2022 Houston Corporate Counsel Award for General Counsel of the Year for a Small Legal Department.
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  • Phillips 66 Team Used 11 p.m. Nightly Calls and Creative Legal Work to Complete $3.4B Transaction - Each night at 11 p.m. for nearly a year, Robert Task, Julie Pradel and Maine Goodfellow were on the phone discussing the problems they faced, the challenges lying ahead and the successes achieved that day. The three senior-level in-house counsel at Phillips 66 spent hundreds and hundreds of hours negotiating the terms, handling due diligence, doing the paperwork and getting the necessary approvals to push Phillips 66’s $3.4 billion acquisition of its limited partner, Phillips 66 Partners, over the finish line. Task, Pradel and Goodfellow faced multiple headwinds: stresses from the lingering pandemic, fluctuating oil and gas prices, rising interest rates, a tumultuous global economic environment and wild swings in stock prices. But they got the deal done and it is a finalist for the 2022 Houston Corporate Counsel Award for Transaction of the Year. May 17, 2022Mark Curriden

GCs, Lawyers & Firms

  • Gibson Dunn Adds Another PE Partner from Willkie - After only 16 months at Willkie, Jesse Myers has moved to Gibson Dunn. He joins former Willkie colleague, Michael De Voe Piazza, who made the move to Gibson in March. He also joins a cadre of transactional partners who have left Willkie in the past several months. Claire Poole has the details.
  • Two Energy Deal Lawyers Boomerang to Norton Rose Fulbright
  • TX GC Forum Honors Mary Kay’s Julia Simon for Ethics and Law
  • Capital Markets Pro Michelle Earley Moves to O’Melveny
  • Former Texas SG Kyle Hawkins Exits Gibson Dunn for Lehotsky Keller Litigation Boutique
  • Christopher Peponis Leaves White & Case for Latham
  • Updated — Answering a Call of Duty, KRCL Attorney Johnathan Jordan Joins Envy Gaming as VP of Legal
  • Jackson Walker’s Recruiting Chief on Recent Wave of Partner Hires, TX Legal Market and More
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Akin Gump
Allegion
American Airlines
Ashford
AZA
Baker Botts
Bell Nunnally
BHP
Blueknight
Bracewell
Cardinal Midstream 
Citi Private Bank
Convene
Crescent Energy
Dykema
EnCap Flatrock
EN Engineering
Enoch Kever
Ergon
FBFK
Gibson Dunn
Gray Reed
Harrison Steck
Hilcorp
Hines
Holland & Knight
Hunton AK
Huntsman
Jackson Walker
Jones Day
K&L Gates
Kelly Hart
Kirkland
Kizzia Johnson
Lehotsky Keller
Locke Lord
Lynn Pinker
Mary Kay
McGuireWoods
Medical Informatics
Miller Bryant
Munck Wilson
Munsch Hardt
Norton Rose Fulbright
O'Melveny
Pan Capital Management
Phillips 66
Pillsbury
Precisely
Remington Hotels
Rogge Dunn Group
Schlumberger
Sentry Center Holdings
Shearman & Sterling
Shell 
Sheppard Mullin
Sidley
Siltstone Capital
Simpson Thacher
Stanley Access
Sun Communities
TG Advisers
TotalEnergies
V&E
Weil
White & Case

Lawyers in the News

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Will Anderson
Larry Barden
Will Becker
Lisa Bennett
Kathleen Bertolatus
David Beveridge
Jeff Brooker
Alaina Brooks
Shonn Brown
Brad Butwin
Andy Calder
Chrysta Castaneda
Matt Cavenaugh
Jeff Cody
Wade Cooper
Mike Considine
Jay Cuclis
Josh Davidson
Trey DeLoach
Tess Dennis
Alyssa Desgranges-Ellett
Michelle Earley
Adam Endick
Kimberly Fitzpatrick
Keith Fullenweider
Paul Genender
Doug Getten
Catharine Hansard
Clifford Harrison
Henry Havre
Kyle Hawkins
Ashley Hill
Allyson Ho
Brad Honeycutt
Michael Hurst
Scott Keller
Mehdi Khodadad
Brad Kizzia
Peter Kosydar
Chris Kratovil
Melissa Lorber
Todd Lowther
John Martin
Cynthia Martinez
Greg McAllister
Sarah McLean
Harriet Miers
Rob Miller
Yvette Ostolaza
Scott Parel
Andrew Piel
Veronica Polnick
Robert Rabalais
Dianne Ralston
David Rassin
Doug Rayburn
Courtney Roane
Whit Roberts
Anna Rotman
Casey Shaw
Bo Shi
Julia Simon
Rachael L. Smiley
Macey Reasoner Stokes
David Stryker
Saba Syed
Theresa Terrell
Travis Torrence
Tyler Vinal
Cliff Vrielink
Dale Wainwright
Mani Walia
Rob Walters
Jonathan Whalen
Kelsi White
Wesley Williams
Angela Zambrano
Kent Zimmermann

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