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.
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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.
Weil Promotes Two Dallas Lawyers to Partner
David Gail and Benton Lewis are in the firm’s private equity and banking and finance groups, respectively.
Former DART GC Hyattye Simmons Named Lamar University Distinguished Alumnus
Lamar has created a scholarship in Simmons’ name.
Holland & Knight Signs Energy Duo in Austin
Todd Kimbrough and Dane McKaughan both lateraled from Greenberg Traurig.
SMU Dedman Announces Emerging Leader Board
The 32 members of the board have graduated from SMU Dedman in the past 20 years and are employed across the country.
HVL Names New Executive Director
Wafa Abdin was previously vice president for immigration and refugee services at Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston
K&L Gates Partner Kim Askew Receives DBA’s Inaugural Distinguished Service Award
The award going forward will be named the Kim Askew Distinguished Service Award.
Updated – Capital Markets Pro Julian Seiguer Jumps to Kirkland
Seiguer ranked fifth in The Texas Lawbook’s Corporate Deal Tracker in 2016 for leading or co-leading the most securities offerings on the issuer’s and underwriters’ side combined.