Some thought QEP’s $740 million divestiture deal might not happen. But lawyers in Dallas, Houston and Austin saw it through. Details are in The Texas Lawbook.
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Baker Botts Names Van Beckwith Chair of Litigation Department
Beckwith is also a member of the firm’s executive committee.
Cantey Hanger Adds Former Tarrant County Bar Association President as Partner
Robert Aldrich, Jr. returns to the firm he started in private practice.
Former UT System GC Jumps to Pillsbury in Austin
Barry Burgdorf was most recently the chief operating officer at Remeditex Ventures, a $300 million biotech venture capital firm.
Mergermarket Law Firm H1 2017 M&A Rankings: V&E, Kirkland, Latham – and a lot of Non-Texas Firms
The Texas Lawbook has exclusive new Mergermarket M&A data on the law firms doing the most deals for Texas companies during the first half of 2017. Twenty-three of the top 30 law firms advised on more transactions than they did one year earlier. Four law firms did fewer deals than they did in H1 2016. Eight firms doubled the number of transactions they handled and 21 of the 30 firms doing the most deals are based outside of Texas. The Lawbook has all the details.
Gibson Dunn, Jones Day Advise on $170M Propane Deal
Houston-based American Midstream Partners said Monday that it will sell its propane marketing and services business to Netherlands-based SHV Energy NV for $170 million in cash.
Baker Botts, Locke Lord Advise on $450M Quanta-Stronghold Deal
A cluster of Houston-based lawyers from Baker Botts and Locke Lord said Friday that they closed Quanta Services’ $450 million acquisition of Stronghold Specialty, a La Porte-based services provider for clients in the refining and petrochemical industries.
KPMG Lures Seven-Member Group from McDermott in Texas
It is the first sizable group from a law firm to join KPMG, according to Henry Yu, associate director of corporate communications.
Coats Rose Opens First Office in Midwest
The launching of the firm’s Cincinnati grows the firm’s affordable housing practice to 18 lawyers nationwide.
Fox Rothschild Adds Dallas Litigation Partner C. Dunham Biles
Biles was most recently at Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith.