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Claire Poole

Veteran Deal Lawyer Bruce Herzog Heads to Latham

Herzog, who has been 32 years in the private equity trenches, was a partner at Vinson & Elkins before joining Willkie Farr & Gallagher in 2008.

March 18, 2022 Claire Poole

Vic Zanetti: Quarterbacking for the Hunts from the Sidelines

Katten deal lawyer Vic Zanetti is in a league of his own. As the go-to attorney for Trinity Hunt Partners, he has led 100-plus deals for the private equity fund since its inception, including more than 20 in 2021 alone. Zanetti is also the only person outside the Hunt family to serve on the Arrowhead Sports Trusts, which controls the Kansas City Chiefs and major league soccer franchise FC Dallas.

In a conversation with The Lawbook, Zanetti answers questions about deals, dealing with surviving brain cancer and how he forged his relationship with the Hunt family.

February 11, 2022 Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 18 Deals, 16 Firms, 124 Lawyers, $5.63B

Most alternative investors are sticking to their long-term plans despite the coronavirus, although they differ on when business will return to normal, while deal flow involving Texas lawyers continues to trend upward.

May 12, 2020 Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 15 Deals, 10 Firms, 90 Lawyers, $10.4B

The capital markets continued to provide more solid companies with the cash they need to keep going through the coronavirus pandemic.

May 5, 2020 Claire Poole

Southwest Airlines Raises Another $6B

Three large capital markets transactions – plus last week’s $3.2 billion in funding from the federal government – bring the Dallas airline’s total cash haul to more than $9 billion.

April 30, 2020 Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 8 Deals, 9 Firms, 36 Lawyers, $3.4B

The impact of the coronavirus on pending transactions may be overstated, according to one law firm, while new deals involving Texas lawyers slumped last week. Claire Poole reports.

April 28, 2020 Claire Poole

Texas Lawyers’ Capital Markets Deals Down Nearly 25% in 2019

Blame the oil and gas industry, which even before the market collapse had difficulty attracting funding given its out-of-favor status on Wall Street.

April 24, 2020 Claire Poole

Morgan Stanley Holds Top Spot in Q1 Dealmaking Value in Texas

Houlihan Lokey ranked-one in deal count, handling 11 transactions in the state. Claire Poole reports on the latest exclusive Mergermarket numbers.

April 23, 2020 Claire Poole

CDT Roundup: 19 Deals, 14 Firms, 92 Lawyers, $9.5B

Last week was a big one for capital markets transactions, in spite of…well, everything. M&A? Not so much. In her weekly CDT Roundup, Claire Poole has names and numbers for the deals that kept Texas lawyers busy while they WFH.

April 21, 2020 Claire Poole

Paul Hastings Brings Back Restructuring Lawyer, This Time as Partner

The move returns the Blank Rome attorney to his former firm, where he last served as counsel.

April 17, 2020 Claire Poole

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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.
    May 19, 2022Mark Curriden
  • 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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