Akin Lands CapM Partner from Kirkland
Bryan Flannery is the fourth corporate partner lateral recruit to Akin’s Houston office over the last two months. He has advised on multiple billion-dollar deals this quarter.
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Bryan Flannery is the fourth corporate partner lateral recruit to Akin’s Houston office over the last two months. He has advised on multiple billion-dollar deals this quarter.
Grogan, who moves to Greenberg Traurig from Paul Hastings, has guided several cryptocurrency firms through Chapter 11 in recent years.
Holland & Knight announced Thursday that Ryan Phelps, a 2016 graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, has joined its Tax, Executive Compensation and Benefits Practice Group.
Diebel was most recently a senior attorney at Munsch Hardt. He said he has long been impressed with attorneys at Bell Nunnally and wanted to be part of “creating something special.”
Energy finance lawyer Daniel Tristan has rejoined the firm where he has spent the majority of his career.
The firm’s recent hires of Trey McDonald and James McFall from Jackson Walker and former Houston City Council member Ronald Green enhance its capabilities in sports and entertainment and public finance, in particular.
Kansas City-based Polsinelli announced Wednesday it has opened its third office in Texas in ‘Funkytown’ with a group of four transactional lawyers. Firm leaders say Fort Worth is a right fit for the Midwest firm.
In a Q&A with The Lawbook, Willding describes recent deals he has handled, elaborates on a “significant pickup” in middle-market M&A deals, and identifies other trends he is observing
The Texas Lawbook visited with Woodruff about how she keeps all the balls in the air, trends in health care, mentorship advice, and the innovative work by Katten client Parker University, a chiropractic college in Dallas that boasts the second largest chiropractic cohort of any campus in the world.
Stephen M. Boone, Jr. brings “strong industry knowledge and significant corporate experience in the upstream and midstream sectors” to Sidley. In January, Boone helped guide Talos Energy in its $1.29 billion acquisition of QuarterNorth.
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