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Natalie Posgate

Natalie Posgate covers pro bono work, public service and diversity within the Texas legal community.

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Natalie Posgate

Natalie Posgate covers pro bono work, public service and diversity within the Texas legal community.

Natalie joined The Texas Lawbook in 2012 as a founding staff member shortly after receiving her Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Southern Methodist University. While at SMU, Natalie and SMU-classmate-turned-Lawbook-colleague Brooks Igo published “Sweeping Rape Under the Rug,” an award-winning investigative piece about SMU’s handling of on-campus sexual assaults. Later that year, Natalie and Brooks published a follow-up piece that broke the news of the first grand jury indictment in decades of an SMU student involving an alleged on-campus sexual assault. She began her reporting career in college as an intern for The Dallas Morning News’ breaking news desk, and before that, interned for Texas Highways magazine.

In the early days of The Lawbook, Natalie served as a general assignment reporter and covered everything from lawsuits to Texas law schools to mergers and acquisitions to legal industry trends. Before launching The Lawbook’s pro bono, public service and diversity beat, Natalie served as senior litigation writer. She has covered numerous high-profile trials gavel-to-gavel, including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s 2013 insider trading case against Dallas Mavericks owner and Shark Tank star Mark Cuban and a 2018 products liability trial that rendered a $242 million jury verdict against Toyota Motor Corp.

In 2021, Natalie profiled former East Texas federal prosecutor Joshua Russ, who went on the record for the first time with Posgate about resigning and filing a whistleblower complaint against the Department of Justice for its alleged political interference in a civil case Russ was leading against Walmart for its role in the opioid crisis. The piece is cited in a chapter of “Servants of the Damned,” a book released in September 2022 by New York Times journalist and bestselling author David Enrich.

Through The Lawbook’s content partnerships, Natalie’s work has regularly reappeared in the Houston Chronicle, Dallas Business Journal and The Dallas Morning News.

Natalie lives in East Dallas with her husband David and German Shorthaired Pointer rescue Stella. She is an avid runner, reader, hiker and coffee drinker.

Bracewell Advises Apache in $713M Exit from Canada

Apache has exited Canada through the closing of three different transactions. The Houston-based energy company said it will use the $713 million in proceeds to focus on the Permian Basin, fund its capital program, and reduce debt.

July 12, 2017 Natalie Posgate

Jones Day Advises on $3B Plano Real Estate Deal

South Carolina-based Greystar Real Estate Partners said it will pay $3 billion to purchase Monogram Residential Trust, a Plano-based REIT that owns, operates, and develops luxury residential and corporate apartment communities.

July 7, 2017 Natalie Posgate

Wilson Elser Leads $1B Sale of George Clooney’s Casamigos Tequila

When is a tequila shot before noon warranted? When you facilitate the $1 billion sale of George Clooney's tequila business, of course.

June 22, 2017 Natalie Posgate

Vinson & Elkins Turns 100

V&E has faced turbulent times during its 100 year history, including the Enron scandal. But the firm continues to thrive with 700 lawyers in 16 offices across the globe, $653 million in revenues last year and profits per partner at $1.8 million.

June 20, 2017 Natalie Posgate

V&E and Latham Take Lion’s Share of 2016 Offering Work

Though the type of securities offerings that companies issued differed from 2015 to 2016, the Texas law firms and lawyers behind the offerings stayed pretty close to the same, according to new data from The Texas Lawbook’s Corporate Deal Tracker. To no one’s surprise, most lawyers ranked at the top are all Houstonites. But one Dallasite broke the mold on the issuer’s side. This article names the individuals dominating securities work and has a breakdown of how each firm’s capital markets work in 2016 compared to the previous year. (Spoiler alert: two firms handled 65 percent of all securities offerings in the 2016 database).

May 11, 2017 Natalie Posgate

‘Runaway Swiss Businessman’ Pleads Guilty to Perjury in Court Filings

A Swiss businessman and former Dallas resident who was a fugitive abroad for nine months last year will plead guilty to one count of perjury in a federal bankruptcy proceeding, according to papers filed by his lawyers and the U.S. government late last week.

May 8, 2017 Natalie Posgate

Exclusive: Saudi Prince Wins $3M From Irving’s Youtoo Media

In a unanimous verdict, five women and three men ordered Youtoo Media and its general partner, Christopher Wyatt, to pay more than $3 million to Prince Mansour Bin Abdullah Al-Saud of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for his lost investment. The court also tossed a $6 million claim the prince’s courtroom opponents brought against him.

April 16, 2017 Natalie Posgate

2016 M&A Lawyer Leaderboard: Houstonians and a Lotta White Guys

The scoreboard for the top Texas M&A deal-makers in 2016 is final. From Akin Gump, Andrews Kurth Kenyon and Baker Botts to Latham, V&E and Weil, all the usual suspects are there. Several newcomers have broken into the top 30. Kirkland's investment in Houston is paying off. But The Texas Lawbook does more than just name names. We paint a biographical portrait of Texas deal-makers. FYI: Most are from Houston - not Dallas. Very few are women and even less are ethnic minorities.

March 30, 2017 Natalie Posgate

Corp. Deal Tracker: M&A Firm Leaderboard Played Musical Chairs in 2016

For most Texas-based M&A lawyers, 2016 was not in line with one of Charles Dickens’ most famous lines: it was neither the best of times nor the worst of times for corporate transactional work. But some changes occurred among the law firm leaderboard. New data from The Texas Lawbook’s Corporate Deal Tracker reveals which firms stayed at the very top for handling the most M&A work in 2016 and which firms got booted out of the top by others. This report provides a full analysis on the new rankings and insights from firm leaders for how deal flow is looking in 2017.

March 27, 2017 Natalie Posgate

Exclusive: Runaway Swiss Businessman Returns to Dallas… In Handcuffs

A Swiss arbitration ruled that Rudolf Suter owed $2 million to a Florida investor from a failed business deal. Suter ignored it. When the investor discovered he was living large in Texas, the investor sought and received a judgment from a Dallas federal court. Suter filed for bankruptcy. He ignored that until he was threatened with jail. And when a Dallas federal judge decided to hold a contempt hearing, Suter caught a British Airways jet for London. Last month, Suter was arrested when he tried to return to the U.S. He was returned to Dallas, cuffed hand and foot, for a hearing last Friday and was presented with a whole new legal problem: federal charges for lying during his bankruptcy proceedings. “He has been avoiding the U.S. legal system for over five years,” said one of the lawyers involved. “Although it took a while, it looks like the system has caught up with him.”

January 10, 2017 Natalie Posgate

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