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Jeff Schnick

Jeff oversees a news team of reporters who cover business litigation and trials, corporate mergers, acquisitions and capital markets, law firm management and business bankruptcies.

Enoch Kever Combining with Butler Snow

Butler Snow announced Wednesday that it has expanded the firm’s Austin office with the addition of 14 attorneys, all of whom were at Enoch Kever.

January 8, 2025 Jeff Schnick

2024-25 Partner Ranks Grow as 10 More Firms Reveal Texas Promotions

The wave of partnership promotions continues as 10 more law firms have announced Texas additions to their respective 2024-25 partnership classes. 

January 6, 2025 Jeff Schnick

BakerHostetler Will Ring in New Year with a Texas Expansion

BakerHostetler announced Tuesday that it will kick off 2025 in style by opening its 18th office nationwide and its third in Texas, which will include adding ten transactional lawyers from Locke Lord, including longtime partner Cynthia Bast, who will lead the new office.

December 10, 2024 Jeff Schnick

Paul Hastings Hires Eight V&E Finance Partners in Texas

The number of corporate finance lawyers may grow to as many as two dozen, lawyers familiar with the move told The Lawbook.

February 26, 2024 Jeff Schnick

Veteran Energy Partner Carl von Merz Joins Hunton Andrews Kurth’s Houston Office

A Houston partner boasting a two-decade track record of guiding notable energy industry transactions has left Mayer Brown to become the head of Hunton Andrews Kurth’s U.S. oil and gas practice.

February 7, 2024 Jeff Schnick

Updated — Weil, V&E, Wachtell, Sidley and Bracewell Advise on $7.3B Texas Energy Deal

Dallas-based fuel distribution giant Sunoco LP announced it intends to purchase pipeline and terminal company NuStar Energy in an all-equity transaction valued at approximately $7.3 billion.

January 22, 2024 Jeff Schnick

Veteran Energy Attorney Dale Smith Joins Willkie’s Houston Office

Willkie Farr & Gallagher has added energy finance and transactions attorney Dale Smith as a partner in its Houston office.

January 19, 2024 Jeff Schnick

Texas Assistant AG Joins Hunton AK’s Houston Office

Longtime environmental enforcement attorney David Terry has left the Texas Attorney General’s office for a position at Hunton Andrews Kurth in Houston.

January 17, 2024 Jeff Schnick

Akin, V&E Lead Nearly $1B Deal Between 7-Eleven, Sunoco

7-Eleven Inc. has agreed to purchase 204 stores hat include the Stripes and Laredo Taco Company brands from Sunoco LP. With locations primarily in New Mexico, Oklahoma and West Texas, the stores will join 7-Eleven’s more than 13,000-store portfolio. The purchase, valued at a reported $950 million, is the latest expansion for the convenience store giant. Akin, led by Thomas Yang and Ashton Barrineau Butcher, advised 7-Eleven on the deal, while Vinson & Elkins team, steered by Lande Spottswood and Yong Eoh, advised Dallas-based master limited partnership Sunoco.

January 12, 2024 Jeff Schnick

Latham, Jackson Walker Lead Mark Cuban’s $3.5B Sale of Mavs; Deal to Close This Week

On Wednesday, the NBA Board of Governors approved the majority stake sale from Mark Cuban to the families of Miriam Adelson, widow of casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, and Sivan and Patrick Dumont, who serves as president and COO of the casino company and is Adelson’s son-in-law. A Houston partner from Latham and Dallas lawyers from Jackson Walker played key roles in the deal.

December 27, 2023 Jeff Schnick

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  • Shell USA’s Cisselon Nichols Hurd Is Advancing Diversity While Setting the Standard in Environmental Law - After meeting a lawyer at her elementary school’s career day, Cisselon Nichols Hurd went home and informed her mother she did not want to follow in her footsteps of becoming a teacher. She wanted to become a lawyer instead.

    That’d be just fine, her mother replied.

    Fast forward to 2009, and Hurd’s mother accompanied her to the U.S. Supreme Court, where Hurd helped steer a groundbreaking environmental case that narrowed seller liability, endorsed apportionment principles and remains a cornerstone to the Superfund practice.

    The Association of Corporate Counsel’s Houston Chapter and The Texas Lawbook are honoring Hurd, Shell USA Senior Counsel, with the Achievement in Diversity and Inclusion award at the May 28 ceremony.
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    At Shell USA, where she serves as senior legal counsel of global litigation, Keith manages complex legal matters while also devoting significant time to pro bono work, mentoring young lawyers and leading service initiatives across Houston’s legal community — all while raising two daughters.

    The Association of Corporate Counsel’s Houston Chapter and The Texas Lawbook are honoring Keith with the Harry Reasoner Pro Bono Advocacy Award at the 2026 Houston Corporate Counsel Awards on May 28.
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Arthur Lotz
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Kimberly A. Moore
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