Latham Scoops up V&E PE Partner
The flurry to attract new partners with robust private equity practices continues as Latham & Watkins brings in a new corporate department member in Houston.
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The flurry to attract new partners with robust private equity practices continues as Latham & Watkins brings in a new corporate department member in Houston.
William Marsh, who was at Baker Hughes for more than two decades, helped lead the oilfield services giant through its $31 billion mega merger with GE Oil & Gas.
Daniel Tristan, who was previously at Baker Botts, is Shearman's second Houston partner hire this year.
The information services giant’s ELM Solutions unit provides enterprise legal spend and matter management, contract lifecycle management and legal analytics solutions.
The firm - which focuses on advising venture and growth technology and life sciences clients - has added a former Vinson & Elkins deal partner in Austin.
Seven years ago this month, Kirkland & Ellis opened its first Texas office in Houston with a handful of lawyers. Today, the world’s largest law firm by revenues now has 290 lawyers operating in Texas and that number is about to grow. In fact, Kirkland has more offices in Texas than any other state.
The new measure has been enthusiastically received, according to the firm's human resources manager.

Before he became U.S. Attorney General and long before he became a controversial champion of the rule of law, Ramsey Clark was a lawyer for his family's Texas-based firm. Clark died last week at age 93, and The Lawbook's Tony Mauro looks at those Texas roots.
The new addition includes a promotion and comes two weeks after the firm announced that A.J. Ericksen and Jason Rocha moved their practices to the New York-based firm.
Akin Gump has added two transaction lawyers that previously held leadership roles at Thompson & Knight and have deep ties to North Texas' energy community.

The Palo Alto firm's new Texas teammate previously helped lead Shearman & Sterling's entrance into the market in 2018.
Justice Bill Whitehill has returned to private practice after losing his reelection bid for a seat on the Dallas Court of Appeals in November.
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