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Allen Pusey

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

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.

Jared Sine’s So Far, So Good, Very Remarkable Year

While the rest of us have been dodging disaster, Jared Sine has been having a very, very good year. After settling with Bumble, the chief legal officer for Match helped guide the company through a reverse-split from Barry Diller’s IAC. Even in the best of times, it’s a complicated transaction that requires intense attention, a firm sense of direction and lots of luck. But add to that an economic collapse and a global pandemic and you ... well, Sine explains what it took to The Texas Lawbook.

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CDT Roundup: Six Deals, 5 Firms, 50 Lawyers, $1.98B

During a horrible stretch for traditional oil and gas transactions, there is one category of energy transactions that has been holding its own: renewables. And even under the mudslide of bankruptcies and recap transactions, it's hard not to notice that Texas lawyers are beginning to cash in.

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V&E Leads Noble Energy’s Sale to Chevron

Houston-based Noble Energy GC Rachel Clingman chose Vinson & Elkins to lead the oil and gas company's sale to Chevron for $5 billion or $13 billion in enterprise value, which includes debt. Chevron hired lawyers at Paul Weiss and Shearman & Sterling as its legal advisors. This is the largest M&A deal in the Texas oil patch this year.

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1,160 Texas Law Firms Receive Pandemic Paycheck Protection

Updated to include lender details According to data released Monday by the U.S. Treasury Department, 1,160 Texas law firms applied for and received as much as $924 million total in ultimately forgivable loans from the Paycheck Protection Program. The Texas Lawbook has the entire list and it includes law firms from every corner of the state.

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Texas Law Firm PPP Loans

The U.S. Treasury Department released this week the names of Texas businesses receiving loans under the Paycheck Protection Program voted by Congress in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the

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M&A Hits Lowest Mark Since 2009

UPDATED: Texas-headquartered dealmaking has plummeted to historic levels in 2020. The second quarter had only 89 deals, only one more than Q1 2009, at the nadir of the Great Recession. The Texas Lawbook has the numbers and they include a nearly 94% drop in year-over-year value from 2019.

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State Bar Discipline

The State Bar of Texas reported its formal actions for June, including 3 disbarments, 11 lawyers suspended and 2 public reprimands. There were no judicial actions reported.

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