Huntsman’s general counsel and chief compliance officer led the company’s in-house team and received assistance from a Kirkland group that included Houston lawyers.
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Halcón Files for Bankruptcy …Yet Again
Houston oil and gas explorer Halcón Resources filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy a second time – and went with the same law firm it did the last go around. Claire Poole has the names.
American Airlines Names Priya Aiyar as New GC
The Fort Worth-based airline conducted a national search to replace Paul Jones, who retired earlier this year. Willkie Farr partner Priya Aiyar, whose practice specialized in litigation and global trade and investment disputes, will start the job in September and will relocate to American’s DFW headquarters.
Houston Firm Joins Billion-Dollar Club
Wilson Cribbs and Goren’s Tony Marré and Derek Pershing recently reached the $1 billion mark for real estate deals handled over the last year-and-a-half, trading around everything from luxury apartments to retail centers to storage facilities. Marré talks about what’s fueling all the work – and what may be to come.
GT Signs Ex-Bell Nunnally Commercial Litigator
Daniel Elms practiced at Bell Nunnally for more than a decade. Two of his former colleagues at the Dallas firm have joined GT in the past year.
Houston Financial Services Litigator Laterals from Morgan Lewis to Reed Smith
Christina Vitale has developed significant expertise in financial services class actions, banking enforcement actions and consumer protection issues.
Investment Management Partner Joins Munsch Hardt from Haynes and Boone
Bo Sartain, who founded and ran a software company from 2010 to 2014, focuses his law practice on working with investors and entrepreneurs in complex financing and acquisitive transactions.
CDT Roundup: 13 Deals, 12 Firms, 108 Lawyers, $5.76B
There is some anxiety ahead of this week’s expected approval by Anadarko Petroleum shareholders of the company’s $38 billion sale to Occidental Petroleum. Though approval won’t likely thwart Carl Icahn’s proxy fight, it will allow Oxy to size-up assets whose sale might help pay down the transaction’s sizable debt. In her weekly Roundup, Claire Poole discusses the ramifications along with a week’s worth of Texas M&A deals.
City of Dallas Loses Interlocutory Appeal in Rare Exaction Case
The Dallas Fifth Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of a real estate developer in a rare exaction challenge brought against the City of Dallas over a 10-foot strip of land on Mockingbird Lane in East Dallas.
Dallas Court of Appeals Denies En Banc Review Over a Once Rare Dissent
The new Democratic majority in the Fifth Court of Appeals was viewed as favoring trial court discretion and seen as pro-jury trial, thus not inclined to expand rules or processes that would resolve cases in other ways. But an appeal of a medical malpractice case directly pits those two ideas against each other and provides valuable insight into the philosophy of the new majority.