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Houston plastics company makes $1 billion unsolicited offer for competitor.
Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury

Houston plastics company makes $1 billion unsolicited offer for competitor.

Jane Snoddy Smith of Austin is representing EPN Group, a subsidiary of Elbit Imaging, in its sale of 46 retail shopping centers for $1.4 billion.
He's brash, bold and paid nearly $1,000 an hour. But he will always be known for the Cuban motion.
The 1970s Dr Pepper commercial was catchy: “I’m a Pepper, he’s a Pepper, she’s a Pepper, wouldn’t you like to be a Pepper, too?”

In opening statements today in the state’s $1 billion false drug marketing case against Johnson & Johnson, a lawyer for the company said he will present “real world” evidence that the antipsychotic Risperdal was widely used by medical professionals on adults and children because it works better than competing products.
Allen Jones was an investigator for the Pennsylvania Inspector General a decade ago when a routine inquiry exposed a pattern of pharmaceutical companies lavishing trips, meals and other perks on state officials who were in positions to influence which drugs would be used to treat patients under Medicaid.

Lawyers from the Texas offices of Jones Day represented Chesapeake Midstream Partners LP in its $865 million purchase of an affiliated pipeline unit called Appalachia Midstream Services LLC. and its Marcellus Shale assets.

Andrews & Kurth is representing Houston-based WCA Waste Corporation in its sale to Macquarie Infrastructure Partners II for $526 million – an all-cash deal that was made public Wednesday.

Andrews & Kurth is representing Houston-based WCA Waste Corporation in its sale to Macquarie Infrastructure Partners II for $526 million – an all-cash deal that was made public Wednesday.

A combination of high-profile bankruptcies, political conflicts and contentious business disputes dominated the Texas legal landscape during the past year.

Just three weeks. That’s how long it took Dallas M&A lawyer Troy B. Lewis and his team at Jones Day to close The Weir Group’s $675 million acquisition of Houston-based Seaboard Holdings, an independent wellhead solutions provider focused on the growing North American unconventional oil and gas drilling and production markets.
Just 18 months ago, Bi-Lo was mired in bankruptcy. Today, the southern grocery chain, which is now owned by Dallas-based Lone Star Funds, announced it is acquiring Winn Dixie for $560 million in an all-cash deal.
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