A group of Houston lawyers on Monday handled a complex transaction for the coal industry’s first publicly-traded master limited partnership and its general partner that is worth around $1.1 billion.
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DBJ: Energy Transfer Sells Troubled Pipeline Stake to Blackstone for $1.5 Billion
Lawyers from Vinson & Elkins and Latham & Watkins advised on Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners’ $1.57 billion sale of its stake in the Rover Pipeline to funds managed by Blackstone Energy Partners and Blackstone Capital Partners.
DBJ: Energy Transfer Sells Troubled Pipeline Stake to Blackstone for $1.5 Billion
Lawyers from Vinson & Elkins and Latham & Watkins advised on Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners’ $1.57 billion sale of its stake in the Rover Pipeline to funds managed by Blackstone Energy Partners and Blackstone Capital Partners.
Jury: Dallas Wedding Photog Defamed, Gets $1M
A jury has ordered a Dallas couple to pay $1 million to prominent portrait photographer Andrea Polito for conducting a public campaign that defamed the photographer and basically destroyed her business.
Bell Nunnally Joins Associate Salary Hike, Raises First-Year Pay to $180K
The 54-lawyer firm is matching the first-year pay adjustments made last summer by more than a dozen much larger firms in Texas after New York powerhouse Cravath, Swaine & Moore – considered the precedent setter for BigLaw pay – announced that it would increase its first-year associate salaries to $180,000.
Gibbs & Bruns Partner Barrett Reasoner Inducted as Fellow of International Academy of Trial Lawyers
The IATL has an exclusive membership of 500 active trial lawyers under the age of 70.
DLA Piper Names Co-Managing Partner of Austin Office
John Guaragna focuses his practice on technology and intellectual property counseling and litigation.
Locke Lord Selects Cynthia Timms to Lead Appellate Practice
Most recently, Timms helped protect her client’s multimillion-dollar patent judgment.
Bracewell Partner Elizabeth Bowes Elected President of Women in Public Finance – TX Chapter
Bowes is based in Austin.
Judge Slams Rowdy Girl Farm Owners for Frivolous Lawsuit
A Houston judge has ruled that a $1 million defamation lawsuit filed by the self-proclaimed Queen of Honky Tonk and her husband against a former supporter of their Angleton pro-animal rights farm is frivolous and awarded the couple to pay $57,000 in lawyer fees and penalties to the defendant.