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Angeles Garcia Cassin’s practice is focused on defending companies in the healthcare, retail and e-commerce industries. One of her existing clients is already a client of Sheppard Mullin, she shared in an interview with The Texas Lawbook.
Mark Holmes is known for counseling sponsors, borrowers and lenders leading project and leveraged finance transactions across traditional and emerging energy and infrastructure sectors.
As equity partner, Nicholas Sarokhanian will work out of the firm’s Dallas and Minneapolis offices, cementing his family’s pandemic move to the Twin Cities’ area where his wife stars in the Magnolia Network’s The Art of Vintage.
Jacqui Bogucki, a highly regarded transactional lawyer specializing in infrastructure deals, has left Simpson Thacher for Weil, Gotshal & Manges in Houston. She's the fifth partner to join Weil's Houston office in the last year.
This Saturday, upwards of 300,000 people will line the sides of Allen Parkway just west of downtown Houston to take in what is called the world’s largest art car parade. The Lawbook spoke with three attorneys who have participated in the parade about why they chose to turn their vehicles into mobile pieces of art and why the event is one they’ve stayed involved with year after year.
Most of the proposed rules on the State Bar of Texas rules vote ballot are similar to American Bar Association rules and modernize Texas laws, an expert said. The voting period closes April 30.
For 24 years, Julia Simon successfully navigated danger zones, intellectual property matters and litigation threats as the chief legal officer at Addison-based skincare and cosmetics company Mary Kay. On Wednesday, Simon started her new position as a partner at the Dallas litigation boutique Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann after retiring from Mary Kay.
"Twenty-three years is a long time. But when you love what you do and where you work, it seems like no time at all," Simon told The Texas Lawbook in an exclusive interview. "That is especially true at a company like Mary Kay where I was able to use my legal knowledge and strategic thinking to protect entrepreneurial opportunities for women around the globe. I am proud of the compliance programs we built. I am proud of the important legal precedent we established through a complex litigation docket. I am most proud of the team that I led. They are absolutely incredible."
J. Casey Roy’s experience in regulatory and healthcare matters presents a “truly unique breadth of expertise,” firm partner Jason Binford said in announcing the lateral move. Roy also previously served as an assistant attorney general for Texas.
A veteran enforcement lawyer with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has joined Kirkland & Ellis’s Dallas office as a partner.
The firm announced that Ian Goldberg, the former head of the energy transactions group at Hunton Andrews Kurth, has joined the firm.
The firm announced this week that corporate finance partner Matthew Jones has lateraled over from Latham & Watkins, where he was on the deal teams for three billion-dollar-plus transactions in the first quarter.
Dallas partner J. Dean Hinderliter is the second tax partner in Texas that Bracewell has added this year as the firm seeks to build out its capabilities to steer clients through the energy transition.
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