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Anna Butler

Anna Butler is the corporate transactions reporter for The Texas Lawbook, covering mergers and acquisitions and capital markets. Anna is the former managing editor of the Dallas Business Journal, where she led day-to-day newsroom operations, audience engagement strategies and paid subscription growth. A seventh-generation Texan, Anna grew up in central Austin. She studied History, Latin and Art History at Wake Forest University in North Carolina before graduating from the French Culinary Institute in New York. She lives in Lakewood with her beagle.

Baker Botts, Wachtell Advise on $17B Cabot-Cimarex Merger

Strategic combinations continue to be the theme of energy M&A in 2021 as Cabot and Cimarex announce plans to combine in an all-stock "merger of equals."

May 24, 2021 Anna Butler

Kirkland Adds Corporate Partner in Austin Office

Kirkland & Ellis has added the former co-chair of Baker Botts' private equity pillar as a partner in its all-new Austin office.

May 20, 2021 Anna Butler

CDT Roundup: 18 Deals, 13 Firms, 220 Lawyers, $10.6B

There's renewed vigor behind the Baby Boomer exit thanks to option value, pandemic fatigue and the looming threats of shifting capital gains and QBI treatments. The Texas Lawbook has that take on the sell-side environment and more in this week's Corporate Deal Tracker installment.

May 19, 2021 Anna Butler

Texas-based Core-Mark Snapped Up in $2.5B Deal

A handful of Dallas-based Weil lawyers aided in the proposed $2.5 billion sale of Core-Mark, a large convenience store distributor headquartered in Westlake, Texas.

May 18, 2021 Anna Butler

Dallas’ AT&T Gets Creative to Alleviate Debt in WarnerMedia Spin-off Agreement With Discovery

AT&T's Troy Hatch, Michael Pratt, Terry Velesiotis, Brandon Satterwhite and David McAtee led the Dallas company's internal team in a $43 billion transaction that would see WarnerMedia combine with Discovery Inc. for an all-new, standalone entertainment entity.

May 17, 2021 Anna Butler

Two More Corporate Transactions Partners Leave TK for Akin Gump

Akin Gump has added two new partners to its corporate transactions practice, including the former leader of Thompson & Knight's Fort Worth office.

May 17, 2021 Anna Butler

CDT Roundup: 17 Deals, 10 Firms, 156 Lawyers, $10.4B

SPACs are finding their targets faster, according to a new PitchBook analysis. But that could slow again. The CDT Roundup explains all that along with its usual review of last week's transactions.

May 11, 2021 Anna Butler

Plano’s At Home Group to Go Private in PE Buyout

Funds affiliated with private equity giant Hellman & Friedman plan to purchase Plano home decor retailer At Home in a deal valued at $2.8 billion. Two New York-based firms advised on the transaction.

May 6, 2021 Anna Butler

Country’s Largest Gas Producer to Acquire Assets From Houston’s Alta in $2.925B Deal

Thirty-one Texas lawyers from Latham & Watkins, Kirkland & Ellis and in-house counsel are playing a role as EQT Corp. enters a purchase agreement for hundreds of thousands of acres in the Marcellus Shale held by Houston's Alta Resources.

May 6, 2021 Anna Butler

CDT Roundup: 21 Deals, 16 Firms, 125 Lawyers, $7.2B

As businesses small and large angle for growth in the post-pandemic future, decision makers are eyeing the best means to raise capital, rebound to pre-Covid levels and stave off worries of a 2021 recession, according to Truist. In this week's CDT, more than 120 lawyers took part in 21 deals.

May 5, 2021 Anna Butler

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  • Laura Tyson’s Responsibilities at EMG ‘Extend Far Beyond a Traditional GC’ - The evening before Thanksgiving last year, Energy and Minerals Group General Counsel Laura Tyson was working to close a $1.5 billion transaction when she learned that an investor had filed a lawsuit in Delaware to pause the deal. The litigation didn’t just threaten a transaction, it threatened the future of the company. Despite facing enormous challenges and extraordinarily tight deadlines, Tyson identified and hired a new legal team and put together their legal response to force the litigation into confidential arbitration only five days later.

    EMG and Tyson won the litigation and closed the major continuation vehicle transaction. She is also the winner of the 2026 Houston Corporate Counsel Award for General Counsel of the Year for a Small Legal Department.
    May 27, 2026Mark Curriden
  • Energy Transfer’s Ali Henderson is a ‘Trial Warrior’ - Most lawyers go a lifetime without winning a nine-digit litigation. Energy Transfer Assistant GC Ali Henderson won two in 2025. She co-led a complex, high-stakes trial in North Dakota that culminated in a historic $667 million jury verdict for the midstream energy giant. And she co-led the defense of a $200 million lawsuit against her company for negligence and trespass.

    The Association of Corporate Counsel’s Houston Chapter and The Texas Lawbook are awarding Henderson, Energy Transfer and the lawyers at Yetter Coleman and Gibson Dunn with the 2026 Houston Corporate Counsel Award for Business Litigation of the Year. The Business Litigation award is one of the few that also recognizes the role of outside counsel in court victories.
    May 24, 2026Mark Curriden

GCs, Lawyers & Firms

  • Winston & Strawn Adds Former Baker Botts Partner to Its IP Roster - Morgan Mayne is the newest addition to Winston & Strawn’s litigation and intellectual property practice. She makes the move to the other side of Klyde Warren Park in downtown Dallas from Baker Botts, where she spent the first 12 years of her career.
  • Houston Maritime Litigation Partner Moves to SBSB
  • Houston Employee Benefits Partner Returns to Norton Rose
  • Dallas Regulatory Partner Moves from Haynes Boone to Holland & Knight 
  • Dallas SALT Partners, Senior Counsel Lateral to Holland & Knight 
  • Hello, Larry: Chamberlain Hrdlicka’s New Managing Shareholder Seeks Strategic Growth
  • Houston Commercial Litigation Partner Moves from Kirkland & Ellis to Latham & Watkins
  • Buffey Klein Takes Her BR Practice to Blank Rome
  • Dallas Commercial Litigation Partners Move from Spencer Fane to BakerHostetler
  • Baker Botts Adds Dario Mendoza to Executive Compensation, Employee Benefits Team in Dallas
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Lawyers in the News

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Chip Babcock
Chris Bankler
Jamie B. Beaber
David J. Beck
Bill Benitez
Jessica Berkowitz
Brent Bernell
Tyler Bexley
Shawn Blackburn
Michael Blankenship
Jeffrey Brill
Anita Brown
Ian Brown
Stuart Campbell
Jack Chadderdon
Paul Clement
Erin Nealy Cox
Scott Craig
Kevin Crews
Shamus Crosby
Hannah M. Crowe
Geoffrey Culbertson
Sean Cunningham
John Daywalt
Rajiv Dharnidharka
James Ducayet
Brian K. Erickson
Scott Everett
Weiru Fang
Elizabeth Freeman
Tad Freese
Melanie Fry
Geoff Gannaway
Paul Genender
John J. Gilluly III
Rodney Gilstrap
Andrew Gorham
John Greer
Joseph Grinstein
Matthew Haddad
Colleen Haile
Breen Haire
Shahmeer Halepota
Dionne Hamilton
Troy Harder
Rusty Hardin
Michael Hawes
Nathan Hecht
Stephen Hessler
Hillary Holmes
Marc Jaffe
Lauren Jenkins
David Jones
Atma Kabad
Susan Kennedy
David Kinder
Justin King
Allan Kirk
Melanie Koltermann
Doug Kubehl
Joe Laurel
Sang Lee
Steven Lockhart
Arthur Lotz
Barbara Lynn
Mike Lynn
Nora McGuffey
Stephanie McPhail
Mark Melton
Jeri Leigh Miller
Kimberly A. Moore
Mark Moore
Shelby Morgan
Alia Moses
Davis Mosmeyer III
Darren Nicholson
Eamon Nolan
Ivy Nowinski
Holland O’Neil
George Padis
Ian Peck
Jonathan Platt
Chase Proctor
Doug Rayburn
Joel Reese
Kevin Richardson
Andrew Rodheim
Seth Rubinson
Mazin Sbaiti
Ana Sanchez
Vincenzo Santini
Jeffrey Scharfstein
Robert Schroeder III
Scott Seidel
Steven Sexton
Ahmed Sidik
Robert Slovak
Emily Smith
Melissa R. Smith
Jonathon Soler
Robert Soza
Lande Spottswood
Craig Stanfield
Justin Stolte
Josh Teahen
Kelly Tidwell
Linda Tieh
Rafael B. de Toledo
Monica Uddin
Rhett Van Syoc
Rahul Vashi
Gabe Vazquez
Patrick Venter
Sarah Walden
Kandace Walter
Kyle Watson
Mikell Alan West
Noël Wise
Meng Xi

Firms in the News

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AZA
Baker Botts
The Bandas Law Firm
Beck Redden
Boies Schiller Flexner
Bracewell
Bradley Arant
Burns Charest
Clement & Murphy
Condon & Forsyth
DLA Piper
Dykema
Foley & Lardner
Gibson Dunn
Gillam & Smith
Haynes Boone
Holland & Knight
Jackson Walker
King & Spalding
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Lynn Pinker
Mayer Brown
MoloLamken
Pamela Welch PLLC
Patton Tidwell Culbertson
Paul Hastings
Porter Hedges
The Probus Law Firm
Reese Marketos
Rusty Hardin & Associates
Sbaiti & Company
Sidley Austin
Simpson Thacher
Skadden
Squire Patton Boggs
Sullivan & Cromwell
Susman Godfrey
Troutman Pepper Locke
Vinson & Elkins
Weil
Willkie
Winston & Strawn

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