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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.
Michael Overstreet, who practiced for the last eight years at Chamberlain Hrdlicka, said the “stars aligned” for a move to Gray Reed. The lawyer and CPA has worked on three deals recently that are indicative of a trend he is seeing in his practice.
Isreal J. Miller, a former trial attorney for the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, has joined the firm’s private wealth and tax controversy teams.
Former DLA Piper partner James C. Bookhout has joined Katten to chair its mergers and acquisitions litigation practice. The Lawbook visited with Bookhout about the move and how his practice has developed.
Trent Bridges is the firm’s third lateral partner hire in Houston this quarter. The former senior in-house lawyer with deep midstream experience was most recently at Sidley.
The firm announced that Ian Goldberg, the former head of the energy transactions group at Hunton Andrews Kurth, has joined the firm.
The firm announced this week that corporate finance partner Matthew Jones has lateraled over from Latham & Watkins, where he was on the deal teams for three billion-dollar-plus transactions in the first quarter.
Dallas partner J. Dean Hinderliter is the second tax partner in Texas that Bracewell has added this year as the firm seeks to build out its capabilities to steer clients through the energy transition.
The South Carolina-based law firm has recruited a total of 10 laterals from King & Spalding, Foley & Lardner, Frost Brown Todd, Hicks Thomas, and Platt Richmond.
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