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Perkins Coie announced Tuesday that it is adding a group of three Texas-based partners, Kyle Fox, Richard Dusenbury and John-Paul Haskins, to its M&A and PE practice. The trio joins Perkins Coie from Greenberg Traurig, where each group member worked for at least five years, primarily serving clients within its M&A and PE practice group.
In the last six months, Schouest, Bamdas, Soshea, BenMaier & Eastham has opened offices in two Texas port cities, Corpus Christi and now Galveston.
When veteran Houston M&A lawyer Stephen Gill moved to Skadden last month, it was a seismic move on a national scale in terms of hiring skilled dealmaking talent. In this exclusive Q&A with The Texas Lawbook, Gill took some time to talk about trends, why the time was right to make the move to Skadden and more.
John Collins III assists prominent families in multiphase estate planning, executing advanced trust and gift strategies, and working through complex tax, wealth transfer and business planning needs across a range of asset mixes, industries and stages of development.
Chad Nichols is returning to Akin after two years at Gibson Dunn. In 2024, Nichols provided financing advice on the divestiture of Arcosa’s steel unit as part of the Dallas company’s $1.2 billion acquisition of Stavola and on the formation of a joint venture in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.
Sidley Austin has added Houston-based partner Steven Tredennick to its energy, transportation and infrastructure practice.
Dean Omar Branham Shirley was in back-to-back trials last year across the country against Johnson & Johnson over allegations the pharmaceutical giant's talc-based baby powder contained cancer-causing asbestos. During an October interview with The Texas Lawbook in her Dallas home, name partner Jessica Dean was in between trips to Boston and Pittsburgh to try cases. “I believe, in a lot of the cases we work on, we allow someone who’s lost their life to bad conduct to be remembered in all sorts of fun ways: in the minds of jurors, in the minds of judges,” she said. “A case can live for years.”
As a partner in the firm, she said, she will work to expand its white-collar and government compliance practice as well as doing appellate work.
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