The SEC’s Fort Worth Regional Office announced Wednesday that it has charged and settled a case against an Edinburg paralegal-turned-registered municipal advisor accused of defrauding a South Texas school district involving multiple municipal bond offerings.
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Norton Rose Fulbright, Gibson Dunn Advise in $1.12B Asset Sale
Canadian oil and gas pipeline giant Enbridge announced a large asset sale on Wednesday. Lawyers from Norton Rose Fulbright counseled Enbridge’s U.S. affiliate on the sale of Midcoast Operating to ArcLight Capital Partners-backed AL Midcoast Holdings for $1.12 billion in cash. Gibson Dunn led the deal for ArcLight.
Corp. Deal Tracker Weekly Round-Up: 13 Firms and 88 TX Lawyers Advise on 11 Deals Worth $1.4B
The first week of May saw asset sales, an initial public offering and joint ventures in the energy industry along with mergers in the coal and banking sectors. There also were joint ventures announced by companies big and small and the formation of a new private equity fund.
Former AccessHealth GC Jumps to Seyfarth Shaw in Houston
Janice Suchyta is the former general counsel and chief strategy officer of AccessHealth, a federally qualified not-for-profit community health center with 16 locations and more than 200 employees.
East Texas Law Firm Changes Name
Siebman, Burg, Phillips & Smith, a law firm known for its work before the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Northern Districts of Texas, is now Siebman, Forrest, Burg & Smith.
Katten Muchin Adds Former Federal Chief Judge & Four Lawyers in Dallas
Chicago-based Katten Muchin Rosenman announced Wednesday that it has added five new lawyers to its young Dallas office, including former U.S. District Chief Judge Jorge Solis of the Northern District of Texas. Katten opened its Dallas office in February and now has 19 lawyers in multiple practice areas. The firm also has 11 attorneys in Houston and four in Austin.
Texas Jury Awards $166M in Murder-for-Hire Case
A Fort Worth jury slapped a $166 million judgment against the daughter and son-in-law of a North Texas woman who was killed in 2014 for the proceeds of life insurance policies totaling $5 million.
Akin Gump & Norton Rose Fulbright: Deep Texas Roots, Billions in Revenues and Categories of their Own
Neither Akin Gump and Norton Rose Fulbright are headquartered in Texas any longer, but they boast deep roots in the state and are among the largest law firms operating in Texas in terms of revenues and lawyer head count. Both firms topped $1 billion in firm-wide revenues in 2017. To be sure, they are quite different law firms with widely divergent stories.
Houston Appeals Court Reverses $17M Baylor Drowning Verdict
© 2018 The Texas Lawbook. By Natalie Posgate (May 4) – A Houston appellate court has tossed out a $17 million jury negligence verdict against subsidiary of Baylor University’s general
Four Corporate Law Firms Bet on Texas… and Only on Texas
Gray Reed, Jackson Walker, Thompson & Knight and Winstead are ignoring the overwhelming trend to go national and are focused almost entirely on Texas. The strategy, they say, is good business, good for clients and good for the legal profession. Their success may come down to one question: Can they hire and retain talented lawyers in key practice areas who are satisfied making several hundred thousands dollars a year in compensation instead of millions of dollars a year?