White-Collar/Regulatory Archives

Kirkland & Ellis Steals Second Gibson Dunn Partner in August

Kirkland & Ellis announced this morning that Prerak “Pre” Shah, a former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas, has joined its Houston office as a partner to focus on state attorneys general litigation.

Shah, who worked a year in the Texas attorney general’s office in 2016, told The Texas Lawbook that he lateraled to Kirkland because it “has an unmatched litigation platform, an exceptional client base and a real appetite for investing in areas where clients are facing growing risk.”

August 31, 2026 Mark Curriden

Litigation Roundup: Texas Oil Co. Ordered to Comply with SEC Investigation

In this edition of Litigation Roundup, Texas Instruments is dealt a blow by the Texas Business Court in its quest to get an injunction against a competitor and a half dozen amicus briefs have been filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit by parties in favor of preserving a Texas gun restriction penal code.

August 24, 2026 Michelle Casady

SEC: Execs at Subprime Auto Lender Used Bogus Collateral in $1.9B Fundraising Push

Federal securities regulators have accused three former top executives of Tricolor Holdings of a multiyear scheme to mislead investors about the subprime auto lender's financial health by double-pledging hundreds of millions of dollars in auto loans and disguising delinquent or worthless loans as legitimate collateral.

August 19, 2026 Mark Smith

Texas Regulator’s New Leader Targets Scams, Embraces Tech

Newly appointed Texas State Securities Board Commissioner Jeramy E. Heintz said he planned to ensure that the 69-year-old agency continues to modernize its operations by leveraging emerging technologies to remain a national model for other state regulators in protecting investors and markets.

August 3, 2026 Mark Smith

Oil Theft Ring Sold Stolen Permian Crude at Deep Discounts

Five men and a woman have pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal thousands of barrels of crude oil from Permian Basin producers and often selling it to other defendants in the conspiracy for a fraction of its value, according to U.S. Attorney Ryan Raybould for the Northern District of Texas.

July 20, 2026 Mark Smith

Texas Feels the Fallout as Federal White-Collar Cases Decline

Federal white-collar crime prosecutions generally have fallen both nationally and in Texas over the past three fiscal years, according to U.S. Sentencing Commission data.

A Texas Lawbook review found that for crimes ranging from antitrust to tax fraud, the numbers have steadily declined both nationally and in the four judicial districts in Texas.

July 8, 2026 Mark Smith

Report: Reitz Named U.S. Attorney for SDTX

Aaron Reitz, a former Trump administration official and top lawyer for the Texas attorney general, has been selected as the next U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Texas, according to a Bloomberg Law report published late Tuesday night.

The Texas Lawbook's Mark Smith talked to Reitz during his campaign for Texas attorney general.

July 8, 2026 Mark Smith

Litigation Roundup: Houston-Area Clinic Owner Arrested in Alleged $906M Fraud

In this edition of Litigation Roundup, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher secures a big win on appeal for a major Brazilian mining company that was facing a $500 million lawsuit in Nueces County, and a team from King & Spalding beats back class certification in a 6,000-plaintiff antitrust case playing out in federal court in Illinois.

June 22, 2026 Michelle Casady

Asked & Answered with FBFK’s Solomon Wisenberg: Investigating a President and Returning Home

In this edition of Asked & Answered, FBFK’s Solomon Wisenberg talks about how he got involved in the Whitewater-Lewinsky investigation and what trends he is seeing in his white collar criminal defense practice. While the Texan has spent the majority of his career in Washington, D.C., he returned home to the Lone Star state a few years ago and joined FBFK in December.

June 17, 2026 Alexa Shrake

From West, Texas, to Washington, DC: How a 2013 Explosion Still Shapes EPA’s Risk Management Program

The explosion not only devastated a Texas community, it initiated a reevaluation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Risk Management Program. As of 2026, the RMP is entering its fourth major rulemaking cycle since the explosion in West.

June 17, 2026 Matt Paulson

Litigation Roundup: Sidley Represents Big 12 in Suit Against Texas Tech

In this edition of Litigation Roundup, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Fort Worth regional office gets a final judgment against a Mansfield man accused in a $2.9 million fraud, and a company that offers an array of services to fuel retailers turns to the Texas Business Court in pursuit of $21 million in damages.

June 15, 2026 Michelle Casady

Collaboration, Coaching and Exxon’s Winning Securities Class Action Defense

In the counsel of many, there is wisdom.

That is a paraphrase of an Old Testament quote that I used in the opening of the securities class action we tried to a jury earlier this month in Judge Ed Kinkeade’s court in Dallas. It applied to our securities class action defense, which was rooted in the good faith efforts of the hard-working people of ExxonMobil. But it also applied to the trial team that won the case, a combination of firms and lawyers that came together to produce a winning result in a very rare circumstance where unexpected events intervened.

May 27, 2026 Tom Melsheimer