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Shell Sells Gulf Offshore Assets for $1.7B
Shell Offshore, a subsidiary of Houston-based oil giant Shell Oil, announced that it is selling its interest in two major offshore Gulf platforms to Talos Energy and Ridgewood Energy for $1.7 billion.
K&L Gates Bolsters Corporate Offerings, Adds Energy & Infrastructure GC in Dallas
Pat Knapp elaborated on his decision to join K&L Gates, highlighted what he is seeing in energy and infrastructure deals, and made a bold prediction about his Notre Dame Fighting Irish in an interview with The Texas Lawbook.
Dallas Bankruptcy Partner Jumps from Sidley to Troutman
Rakhee Patel, a bankruptcy and restructuring partner, has joined Troutman Pepper Locke in Dallas after more than three years at Sidley Austin. She will focus her practice on complex corporate restructurings, bankruptcy matters and related litigation and transactions for debtors, private equity sponsors, lenders and other stakeholders.
How the 5th Circuit Fared in the October 2025 SCOTUS Term
The U.S. Supreme Court’s October 2025 docket delivered a substantial course correction for the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, with the high court reversing or vacating its rulings more often than not.
The Texas Lawbook looks at Fifth Circuit decisions recently reviewed by the Supreme Court, including summaries for the high court’s merits docket, its emergency docket and its grant-vacate-remand orders.
Litigation Roundup: Lawyer Defendants Beat Buzbee Suit with TCPA
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, jurors in East Texas find Samsung infringed another patent, and Texas touts a nearly $34 million settlement with AstraZeneca in a qui tam case where The Lanier Firm and McKool Smith represented the relators.
Business Court Mulls Injunction in Texas Instruments Trade Secrets Case
Texas Instruments turned to the Texas Business Court last month to sue a former employee and his new employer, GlobalFoundries, for allegedly stealing trade secrets. The Texas Lawbook was in Fort Worth Monday morning for the temporary injunction hearing, but the courtroom was sealed shortly after Vartabedian Katz Hester & Haynes partner Marc Katz began his opening statements for Texas Instruments.
The Curious Case of Married Business Partners: Why Texas Shouldn’t Let Love Hide the Ledger
Texas law has always been fond of a good boundary line, and few are trickier than the one between the bedroom and the boardroom. Texas’ economy is bursting with family-run companies, spousal co-ownerships and mom-and-pop empires, and the line between marriage and management can get blurry. The law, however, needs that line to stay crystal clear.
CDT Roundup: Back to Basics
The 11 transactions for the week ending June 27 included deals involving heavy construction, data security, robotics, renewable power assets, Rare Earth materials and offshore aviation services. They were together valued at $46 billion — with the heavy number provided by an inaugural $25 billion debt offering by the Space Exploration Technologies Corporation.
That and more in this edition of CDT Roundup.
Texas Lawbook Launches Funding League Tables Alongside CDT Rankings
At the request of multiple firms and dealmakers over 10 months, The Texas Lawbook is now introducing funding league tables alongside our existing Corporate Deal Tracker rankings. Readers can find the firm and individual dealmaker funding rankings in this story, along with updated 2025 CDT rankings for M&A and CapM that hadn’t yet been shared beyond The Lawbook‘s the Sunday CDT newsletter.