Proterra, a California-based EV manufacturing company, announced Tuesday that it is going public through a merger with an Arclight SPAC. Lots of Texas lawyers were involved. Caroline Evans has all the details and all the names.
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2020: Worst Year for Texas M&A Since 2011
What started out as a good year became a bad year but became a good year again. Mergermarket has the numbers, The Lawbook’s Caroline Evans has the details.
‘You Have Been Grossly Negligent’: Fireworks Continue in Legal Recruiter Case
A magistrate judge in Austin has ordered the lawyer for legal recruiter Evan Jowers to reconsider a brief filed by Jowers that heavily criticized the judge in response to a sanctions warning.
“Judges like you are the reason most Americans who are frivolously sued … don’t trust the court system to defend themselves, even if they can raise the funds,” the brief states.
Texas Pacific Land Trust Converts to Delaware Model
An iconic Texas landowner with origins as the developer of an uncompleted transcontinental railroad has reorganized as a Delaware corporation. The move settles a longstanding proxy fight over governance of one of the largest land holdings in Texas. Caroline Evans has the names of the lawyers involved.
Munis 2020: A Big Year During a Bad One
Maybe other kinds of legal work lagged in 2020, but the municipal bond market in Texas prospered as bond entities took advantage of favorable market conditions to push new projects or refinance old ones. The Lawbook’s Nushin Huq has the names of the firms that benefitted from a very good, very strange year.
DBJ: Tuesday Morning Emerges from Chapter 11
The Dallas-based home goods retailer filed for bankruptcy last May. Haynes and Boone guided the company, which is emerging with additional liquidity that will support its ongoing operations and strategic initiatives.
Updated – Fired DFW Asst GC Paul Davis: ‘I was not trying to break in’ the Capitol
Westlake-based Goosehead Insurance terminated the employment Thursday of its assistant GC, Paul Davis, who posted a video on Instagram Wednesday that appears to show himself inside the Capitol building as part of the Trump protest that turned into a riot. Davis, who posted several social media messages claiming the elections were a fraud, said Thursday that he was “fired for exercising my First Amendment rights.”