Christina Ibrahim’s accomplishments at Weatherford International include multiple large M&A deals and guiding the oil services company through a highly successful bankruptcy and restructuring that eliminated $6 billion in debt. But her achievement was much different, much deeper and much more important. The Association of Corporate Counsel Houston and The Texas Lawbook award the 2020 Houston Corporate Counsel’s General Counsel of the Year Award for a Large Legal Department to Ibrahim.
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Houston Appellate Races Remain Tight, Process far from Over
Three days after the election and with nearly all the votes counted, the four judicial races in Houston’s First and Fourteenth Court of Appeals are in a photo finish that seems to reflect that two Republican incumbent justices and two Democratic challengers are on the verge of winning.
Like President Donald Trump and Former Vice President Joe Biden, the fate of all eight candidates is still pending as they enter the weekend. One of the candidates has a lead of 0.6%.
“All I can say is we are ahead as of now,” Amparo Monique Guerra, a candidate for the First Court told The Texas Lawbook. Natalie Posgate has all the details.
CDT Roundup: 10 Deals, 8 Firms, 103 Lawyers, $4B
It’s hard to say where the current capital markets would be without special purpose acquisition corporations. But it’s not hard at all to say that they are becoming more and more important. The CDT Roundup explores.
Mergermarket Q3 Law Firm Deal Value Leaders: Alston & Bird, White & Case and Simpson Thacher
Nearly all the firms handling the largest M&A deals in Texas are based outside of the state. Nearly a half of them have no office in Texas. And only three of the top 40 are headquartered in Dallas or Houston. The deal value rankings can be highly misleading, and all legal analysts agree it is an inferior measure to deal count rankings. Even so, it is a fun number to discuss. So, we do.
UPDATED: Houston Appellate Races Tighten Between Red & Blue (Again); Dems Sweep Dallas COA Races
The four races for seats on Houston’s First and Fourteenth courts of appeals are incredibly close. Three incumbent Republican justices are leading their opponents by 1%, while one Democratic candidate is ahead of the GOP incumbent justice by 1%. By contrast, three Democratic district court judges are leading the incumbent Republican justices on the Dallas Court of Appeals by significant margins. Natalie Posgate has the details.
Republican Jim Wright Defeats Dallas Lawyer Chrysta Castañeda for RRC Seat
No Democrat has won a seat on the industry-friendly Railroad Commission since 1990.
Democrats Hold Grip on Dallas, Harris County District Courts
With results still trickling in, Democrats seemed certain to maintain their lock on the civil District Court benches in the state’s two most populous counties.
TX Supreme Court Stays Solidly All Republican
At a time when political analysts say Texas is trending blue, the state’s voters overwhelmingly decided to keep the Texas Supreme Court totally Republican. With 90% of the counties reporting, all four incumbent state Supreme Court justices cruised to re-election Tuesday. In fact, all four justices won their races by larger vote margins than did their colleagues in 2018. The Texas Lawbook has the details.
Texas Judicial Election Results
The Texas Lawbook has five journalists tonight – election night – covering the judicial appellate and trial court races and will provide details as the election results are provided.
McKinney Investor Pleads Guilty to $13M Securities Fraud
North Texas venture capitalist Patrick O. Howard pleaded guilty Tuesday via video teleconference to running a Ponzi-type scheme and committing federal securities fraud in 2015, 2016 and 2017. The Texas Lawbook has details.