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A team of lawyers from Norton Rose Fulbright’s Austin, Houston and San Antonio offices handled two hospital transactions in Oklahoma worth at least $750 million. The team’s client called the lawyers “integral in completing our deal.” Details here.

If one were to look at Jim Griffin’s 2016 monthly calendar, there would be quite a few events scribbled in. A 1,700-mile move and phone calls and meetings for Microsoft’s $26.2 billion purchase of LinkedIn would just be a couple. The Texas Lawbook recently sat down with Griffin at the Dallas Ritz-Carlton to learn about what has been occupying the time of one of the state’s busiest M&A lawyers of 2016.

If one were to look at Jim Griffin’s 2016 monthly calendar, there would be quite a few events scribbled in. A 1,700-mile move and phone calls and meetings for Microsoft’s $26.2 billion purchase of LinkedIn would just be a couple. The Texas Lawbook recently sat down with Griffin at the Dallas Ritz-Carlton to learn about what has been occupying the time of one of the state’s busiest M&A lawyers of 2016.

Baker Hughes and GE turned to New York law firms to handle their merger that will combine GE’s oil and gas business with Baker Hughes to create a new publicly-traded company co-headquartered in Houston and London.

A big-dollar showdown between two legendary oil and gas names in Dallas goes to trial this week in West Texas in a decade-long dispute over ownership interests and revenues from more than 160 wells in Reeves and Pecos counties. T. Boone Pickens’ Mesa Petroleum sued J. Cleo Thompson and three Midland E&P companies for allegedly violating the terms of a decade-old investment contract potentially worth up to $1 billion.