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Cross-Border Dealmaking for TX Companies Plunges in 2017
Cross-border deals in Texas are down dramatically in 2017. Aside from the usual suspects – a strong dollar and undependable oil prices – is a new one: the uncertain parameters of the Trump administration’s “America First” policies. Some transactional lawyers think a lack of policy structure breeds uncertainty among foreign investors. Others think it has no effect at all. This exclusive in The Texas Lawbook has the numbers and the story behind them.
Veteran Houston White Collar Lawyer Joins Orrick
Chris Flood practiced for the last 20 years with his brothers at Flood & Flood.
Former AUSA & Cyber Expert Moves to Squire Patton Boggs in Dallas
Matt Yarbrough founded the first Cybercrimes and Criminal Intellectual Property Task Force in the Northern District of Texas during his five-year tenure at the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Texas Lawbook Exclusive: UDF Sues Kyle Bass & Hedge Fund Amid Flurry of Law Enforcement Investigations – Updated
The two-year feud between Hayman Capital Management hedge fund manager Kyle Bass and United Development Funding erupted publicly last week when UDF filed an explosive lawsuit accusing Bass and Hayman of illegally spreading false information about the Grapevine-based real estate development lender in an effort to destroy its business and reap financial gain by short-selling UDF stocks.
Locke Lord’s Steve Jacobs Advises Brookfield on $855M Houston Center Purchase from J.P. Morgan Asset Management
Locke Lord partner Steve Jacobs snagged a big real estate deal this week, serving as local counsel for Brookfield Property Partners on its purchase of the Houston Center office-and-retail complex downtown from J.P. Morgan Asset Management.
Louisiana Firm Opens First Texas Office in Houston
Baton Rouge-based Kean Miller announced it has combined with the Houston law firm Ogden Broocks & Hall.
Corp. Deal Tracker Weekly Round-up: 6 Firms, 31 Lawyers, 6 Transactions, $1.8B, and a Dull Week for Texas Deal-Makers
Deals involving Royal Dutch Shell and Austin-based Bazaarvoice brightened an otherwise dull $1.8 billion week in Texas deal-making. Claire Poole has the names and the numbers behind the deals in The Texas Lawbook.
Houston is Center of Int’l Business Corruption Probes
Houston businesses last year accounted for seven, or about one-fourth of the 26 cases brought by the Justice Department under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Over the past decade, Houston federal court has become one of the busiest in the nation for cases involving foreign bribery cases in large part because of the concentration of energy companies that do business around the world. The Houston Chronicle has an in-depth report.
Bracewell Partner Jarvis Hollingsworth Appointed to Chair TRS Board of Trustees
Hollingsworth, a member of Bracewell’s management committee, will chair the TRS board through August 2023.