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$3.8B Energy Merger = Lots of Texas Lawyers & Financial Advisers Billing Hours
More than 50 lawyers from five different law firms – Bracewell, Haynes and Boone, Kirkland & Ellis and Latham & Watkins – are representing clients in the $3.8 billion merger this week of Silver Run Acquisitions II with Alta Mesa Holdings and Kingfisher Midstream. The financial advisers include Barclays, Tudor, Pickering, Holt, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan. The Texas Lawbook has the details.
Transocean Turns to King & Spalding for $3.4B Acquisition
Transocean GC Brady Long selected King & Spalding as the company’s lead U.S. legal adviser on its $3.4 billion purchase of Norway’s Songa Offshore announced Tuesday – a deal characterized as the biggest offshore drilling sector merger since oil prices collapsed in 2014.
HayBoo Leads $820M Dickies Deal
Fort Worth-based Williamson-Dickie turned to its long-time outside counsel Haynes and Boone to advise the family-owned workwear maker in its $820 million sale to branded lifestyle apparel manufacturer VF Corporation of North Carolina.
Why Pro Bono? The Payoff is Helping Others
Lawyers and firms often engage with causes by providing their services pro bono. It’s a way of giving back to the community and of strengthening ties to places where the ordinary course of business may not lead. And sometimes, those causes can make a positive impact on both the lives of individuals and the community at large. This story is one such example.
Oilfield Services Continue to Consolidate with Nabors Acquisition
The consolidation oilfield services continues with Nabors Industries acquisition of Tesco Corp. Norton Rose Fulbright helped make it happen. Details in The Texas Lawbook.
AK, Bracewell, Gibson Dunn and V&E Lead Week of M&A and Capital Markets
Midstream and infrastructure oil and gas deals stood out among the transactions of note this week. Lawyers from Andrews Kurth, Gibson, Dunn, Bracewell and Vinson and Elkins were in the thick of things. See who they are and what they did The Texas Lawyer.
Updated – Texas General Counsel Pay Summary
Corporate Counsel magazine has identified the top 150 best paid corporate general counsel and a dozen work at Texas-based companies made the list, including the top legal officers at Baker Hughes, iHeartMedia, Yum!Brands and nine energy companies.
Updated – Energy Litigator David Elrod Jumps to Shackelford
Elrod and a team of energy litigators have left Dallas litigation boutique Gruber Elrod. Also lateraling over from Gruber Elrod are partner Worthy Walker, of counsel Barbara Wohlrabe and associate Hayley Ellison.
Texas is Ground Zero for Pres. Trump Reshaping Judiciary
President Trump is filling federal court vacancies at a record pace, hoping to reshape America’s judiciary while filling a nationwide backlog of openings that has Texas at its epicenter. Trump is expected to have an out-sized impact on legal climate in the Lone Star State, which has 13 openings – 11 at the district court level and two appeals court vacancies. That is more than any other state. This article has the details.