Pillsbury picked off two energy litigators in Houston this week from Womble.
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San Antonio Automotive Litigator to Join Dykema
Daniela Gonzales Aldape is leaving a San Antonio litigation firm for a national platform at Dykema.
Premium Subscriber Spotlight: Haynes and Boone
Haynes and Boone said its biggest achievement in 2020 was continuing to grow as a firm and moving forward on long-term plans despite the challenges posed by the pandemic: the firm opened new offices in San Francisco and North Dallas; signed a lease to move its Dallas office in 2021 to a new office tower; and hired 46 lateral lawyers in key markets and practices.
Insurer Must Cover Landry’s in Credit Card Hack, Appellate Court Rules
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit says the Houston-based restaurant chain’s insurance company is required to represent its client in litigation over an Internet breach that led to disclosure of millions of customers’ personal data.
CDT Roundup: 14 Deals, 11 Firms, 124 Lawyers, $4.009B
Mergermarket data provided exclusively to The Texas Lawbook shows that deal flow quarter over quarter continued at a rapid clip in the first half of the year, but the deal values came with a heftier price tag in Q2. And in this week’s Corporate Deal Tracker Roundup, July continues to lag – though nothing new based on comparative data.
Deal Flow in First Half of 2021 Overshadows 2020 – But It Wasn’t Difficult
While public offerings and mergers tied to SPACs have cooled in the past few months, transaction activity tied to Texas companies in the first half of 2021 pretty much reflected the broader themes seen across the country. New H1 data from Mergermarket shows that Texas-based dealmaking is in lockstep with the rest of the planet on the road to recovery. The Lawbook’s Anna Butler describes what seems to be driving the moment.
Texas Breeder of Rare Red Wagyu Cattle Wins $30M Verdict
During the trial in Fort Bend County, the plaintiff’s lawyers from McKool Smith & Yetter Coleman claimed a breeding association failed to deliver promised DNA proof of a herd’s valuable lineage. Bruce Tomaso details the case.
Mergermarket: Top 50 M&A Deals H1 2021
Below are the top valued 50 M&A transactions for the first half of 2021 involving one or more Texas-headquartered companies. The data compiled by Mergermarket and provided exclusively to The
State Bar’s Sylvia Firth to the Fifth: Not Appealing Decision on Mandatory Dues
Leaders of the State Bar of Texas decided Monday that they will not appeal a recent federal appeals court decision that some of the organization’s lobbying efforts violate the First Amendment rights of its members whose mandatory dues go to fund some of those initiatives.
IP Expert: Texas is the Future of Patent Litigation
Phillip Philbin has been an eyewitness to the ever-changing and increasingly important world of intellectual property litigation over the past three decades. He said patents are becoming even more critical to business operations and international commercial competition.