Meta Materials Inc. of Nevada agreed in a cease-and-desist order to pay a $1 million fine. A lawsuit against the company’s two principal executives remains pending in the Southern District of New York.
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Consumers depend on insurance companies to provide protection and support in trying times, but what happens when even that insurance company becomes vulnerable to cyber risk? Just like any other business, it is critical that insurers assess their own cyber risk.
Winstead Adds Real Estate Shareholder from Fried Frank
With the move from New York to Dallas, Luis Murguia is being minted a shareholder.
Schouest, Bamdas, Soshea, BenMaier & Eastham Launches Dallas Office
Houston-based SBSB Eastham has opened its Dallas location with six new partners who joined from Hartline Barger. The group will focus on construction defect litigation, personal injury defense and employment and labor law.
Tom Tippetts, 1977-2024
A longtime M&A lawyer who spent the majority of his career with Haynes Boone died earlier this month. “While he was often the smartest person in any room, he was always the last to acknowledge it,” the firm stated. “But everyone around him benefitted, including his partners, young lawyers who became his mentees, the many clients turned friends and countless colleagues who shared his company and conversation.”
CDT Roundup: 12 Deals, 8 Firms, 137 Lawyers, $5.7B
Thomas Laughlin is one busy dude. Trinity Hunt Partners helps keep him that way. The CDT Roundup this week takes a deeper look at what Trinity and Laughlin, a Dallas-based Kirkland PE partner, have been up to, of late. There’s that, and the usual summaries of transactions reported last week along with the firms and lawyers who worked them. But brace yourself; the list will be, shall we say, a brief read.
Peter Berg Moves to White & Case
Berg, a former partner at King & Spalding in Houston, advises owners and developers in the construction of large-scale energy construction projects, whether on-shore, off-shore or renewable.
Litigation Roundup: Oncor’s Transmission Line Appraisal Suit to Proceed
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, Haynes Boone helps Fox News escape a defamation lawsuit stemming from the Allen Outlet Mall shooting, a Metroplex resident is sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for fraud over his allegedly bogus $200 million offer to buy Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit and a former San Antonio-area city councilwoman is vindicated by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Texas Business Court Countdown: Time to Update Your Forum Selection Clause?
Many litigants feel that Sept. 1 can’t come fast enough, and with it the promise to usher in a new era for high-stakes Texas commercial litigation. But others are quick to caution that, for all the anticipation, plenty of open questions remain. One way or another, every lawyer advising on a new contract that potentially qualifies for dispute resolution in the business court may confront the same question: Should we push for a forum selection clause that preemptively agrees to have new disputes heard in the new court?
Akin Lands CapM Partner from Kirkland
Bryan Flannery is the fourth corporate partner lateral recruit to Akin’s Houston office over the last two months. He has advised on multiple billion-dollar deals this quarter.