Deal activity this past week came close to the 2018 record. Helped along by BHP Billiton’s massive sale of its U.S. shale assets to BP and Merit Energy for $10.8 billion, the deal activity reached $15.1 billion.
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Q&A with State Bar of TX Chair Laura Gibson on Future of the Bar & the Legal Profession
(July 31) – The State Bar of Texas has faced significant criticisms during the past two years – much of it from its own ranks. This occurs at the same
Four different law firms advise on two energy-related infrastructure deals worth $2.3B
Texas lawyers from four different law firms were involved in two energy infrastructure-related deals announced Monday that together amounted to nearly $2.3 billion.
DBJ: DOJ wants Bench Discussions between AT&T and Judge Unsealed
The U.S. Justice Dept. wants a federal appeals court in the AT&T case to make public conversations conducted at the bench between the trial judge and lawyers for both sides in the recent antitrust trial. The DOJ asks that all “all non-confidential portions of the trial transcript, including the district court’s bench conferences throughout trial, be unsealed and released to the public,” the filing said. The Dallas Business Journal has the full story.
Former Parkland Hospital GC Joins Dallas Boutique
Paul Leslie, who was executive vice president and general counsel at Parkland Hospital for eight years, has returned to private practice at Estes Thorne & Carr.
M&A H1 Rankings: Shake Outs At The Top
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.
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.