Even for a 2018 characterized by shake-ups – firm mergers, office openings, lateral raids – the changes at the top of the first-half M&A legal advisor charts are remarkable. V&E dropped. Kirkland ascended. And two national firms with no presence in Texas took the top deal value spots.
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Oil Patch Busts Out With $12.8B Pair Of Deals Involving Seven Texas Law Firms
Australian mining giant BHP Billiton announced it sold its U.S. shale properties for $10.8 billion in cash.
The buyers were BP, which picked up BHP’s Eagle Ford, Haynesville and Permian properties under unit Petrohawk Energy for $10.5 billion; and Merit Energy, whose unit MMGJ Hugoton III agreed to acquire BHP’s Fayetteville Shale assets for $300 million.
Toyota Legal Dept. Faces First Hometown Litigation Test
Toyota’s honeymoon in North Texas may be in jeopardy as a trial is underway that questions the carmaker’s integrity, corporate culture and the safety of its products.
2018: So Far, So Good; But Why Only ‘Good’?
January 2018 was greeted by stable energy markets, pent-up private equity and a spanking new investor-friendly tax law. That sounds like the elements of a record year, right?
Updated – Bell Nunnally Signs IP Partner Jeffrey Tinker
Tinker, a registered patent attorney, practiced for the past 11 years at Winstead.
AT&T Attorney Vicki Blanton Wins Award from National Bar Association Women Lawyers’ Division
Blanton is the recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Corporate Counsel Achievement Award for the National Bar Association (NBA) Women Lawyers’ Division.
Texas AG’s Office Special Counsel Joins Dykema in Austin
Michael Toth, who is also a current judicial candidate for the state’s Third Court of Appeals, will be a special counsel in Dykema Cox Smith’s business litigation group.
Technology and the Lawyer’s Lot: Some Observations from History
For generations technology has been replacing human manual labor. But today’s innovations are capable of doing increasingly complex “intellectual” tasks. Technology has already reshaped the practice of law, but will it ever make lawyers obsolete? Randy Gordon of Crowe & Dunlevy provides an analysis.
Hiersche Hayward Promotes Chris Summers to Shareholder
Summers represents clients in corporate and complex transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions.
Bradley Expands in Houston with Energy Litigation Trio
Three partners from Foley Gardere have lateraled to Bradley Arant Boult Cummings in Houston. The energy litigation trio held various leadership positions at Gardere.