Deal count was up by five transactions versus the previous week. But the deal value was down by 31.7 percent over last week’s $12.6 billion–even counting a large October notes issue whose lawyers weren’t revealed until last week. Claire Poole’s weekly Deal Tracker Roundup recounts all the deals, all the details and all the numbers behind them in The Texas Lawbook.
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SCOTX Rules Oncor Must Pay Moving Costs
When it comes to relocating utility wires and poles when roadways are widened, the Texas Supreme Court says the old rules are still the rules. Read Janet Elliott’s account of Friday’s decision in The Texas Lawbook.
SEC Loses Three Senior-Level Enforcers to Dallas Financial Services Firm – Updated
SEC Associate Director Jessica Magee and two other key SEC lawyers are leaving the Fort Worth office to join the Beneficient Company Group, an alternative asset management firm led by Dallas financial titans Brad Keppner, Richard Fisher, Tom Hicks and others. The loss of the three senior SEC leaders leaves a huge void in the federal agency’s regional operations and could impact several high-profile prosecutions and investigations. The Texas Lawbook has full details, including interviews with SEC’s Shamoil Shipchandler and BEN CEO Brad Keppner.
Katten Muchin Officially Opens in Dallas
Chicago-based Katten Muchin Rosenman announced Monday that they have officially opened an office in Dallas with seven partners – six corporate M&A lawyers and one commercial litigator – that previously practiced with Andrews Kurth Kenyon.
Jury Slaps $43M Negligence Verdict on East TX Hospital and Suspended Doctor
A Tyler, Texas jury has awarded a former chemical company executive more than $43 million for lifelong damages he suffered after a local hospital allowed him to go under the
Q&A: Former American Airlines GC Gary Kennedy Discusses ‘Twelve Years of Turbulence’
For more than a decade, Gary Kennedy was a steady hand leading the corporate legal department at American Airlines, which faced tremendous turbulence and head winds – from the use of two of its plans by terrorists on 9/11 and the deadly crash of Flight 587 into a neighborhood in Queens to battles with its own labor unions and with Southwest Airlines over expansion at Love Field to its federal bankruptcy and merger with US Airways. In a new book to be released this week, Kennedy provides an extraordinary behind-the-scenes tour of these events and what really happened. Kennedy talked with The Texas Lawbook about the revelations in the book.
Porter Hedges Names Four New Partners
All four of the newly promoted partners are based in the firm’s Houston headquarters.
More AKK Lawyers go to DLA Piper, Orrick, Haynes and Boone, Shearman
The run on the bank of lawyers at Andrews Kurth Kenyon is continuing this week as three more law firms – Haynes and Boone, Orrick, Harrington & Sutcliffe and Shearman & Sterling – add to the list of law firms raiding the 115-year-old Houston corporate legal practice. DLA Piper made it official today that three AKK partners have joined its Dallas office today. The Texas Lawbook has full details.
Caldwell Boudreaux Promotes Deborah Repman to Partner
Repman is a graduate of the South Texas College of Law Houston.
Munck Wilson Announces Newly-Minted Partner
Neil Ferrari is based in the firm’s Dallas office and received his law degree from SMU Dedman School of Law.