A jury in Midland on Friday returned a $5.9 million verdict against an oil field company from Glen Rose and an employee who killed four people while speeding to work in a rainstorm. The verdict is believed to be the largest ever in a personal injury case in Midland County.
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In the middle of Covid and locked down at home, Match Group CLO Jared Sine guided a massively complex $30 billion reverse corporate spin-off, settled a highly contentious IP lawsuit with competitor Bumble and negotiated a $1.7 billion acquisition of South Korea-based Hyperconnect.
Sine made news last month when he told U.S. Senators about anticompetitive practices of Apple and Google regarding their domination of the app platform space.
“And yes, we are fighting the two biggest and most powerful companies in the history of the world,” he said. “All in a day’s work.”
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Former TK Finance Chair Jumps to Baker Botts
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DBJ: Caris Raises Over $800M, Putting Valuation at $7.8B
Shearman & Sterling advised the Irving-based company that has now raised roughly $1.3 billion in outside financing since 2018, the Dallas Business Journal reports.
Updated: Judge Dismisses NRA Bankruptcy as “Not Filed In Good Faith”
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