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Alan Albright Jumps to Sutherland

The IP expert is the fourth lawyer to join the firm’s Austin office during the past year.

April 11, 2014 Mark Curriden

Jackson Walker Shines in Otherwise Dismal Women Partner Promotions Trends

Statistics show that a small cadre of law firms have experienced extraordinary success promoting women to partner, while a large majority of Texas firms continue to lag way behind, according to an analysis conducted by The Texas Lawbook of 40 of the state’s largest and most prominent law firms.

Eighteen of the law firms in the study elected zero or one woman into the partnership from 2012 to 2014. By contrast, a small handful of law firms promoted as many or more women to partner as they have men during the same three-year period.

But no law firm in the state has a better record in recent years of promoting women to partner in Texas than Jackson Walker. The Dallas-based firm elevated nearly double the number of any other law firm during the time period.

April 10, 2014 Mark Curriden

Good as Gold: Jury Gives Dillon Gage Nod in Art Gallery Spat

A federal jury has nixed an attempt by a Los Angeles art gallery to do an end-run around the Robert Allen Stanford receivership claims process and recover nearly $3 million that it provided the imprisoned Houston billionaire’s empire for the purchase of 100 gold bars.

April 9, 2014 Mark Curriden

HayBoo Closes Two Deals for Alta Mesa for $523 Million

It’s been a busy week for transactional lawyers at Haynes and Boone, as well as those Bracewell and Locke Lord, who served on the other end of two deals HayBoo closed for Alta Mesa for $523 million.

April 4, 2014 Mark Curriden

SEC v. The Wylys: Insider Trading Trial Goes Way Beyond Texas

Dallas billionaire investor Sam Wyly wrote in his book 1,000 Dollars and an Idea that “the world owes a debt of gratitude” to junk bond king Michael Milken. Wyly is now on trial in the very same federal courthouse in New York where Milken pleaded guilty 24 years ago this month to financial fraud and insider trading.

The SEC accuses Wyly and the estate of his deceased brother, Charles Wyly, of profiting more than $550 million from an elaborate fraud that violated insider-trading laws through the use of offshore trust accounts. Securities lawyers in Texas say the SEC has a lot riding on the outcome of the trial.

April 4, 2014 Mark Curriden

SEC v. The Wylys: Insider Trading Trial Goes Way Beyond Texas

Dallas billionaire investor Sam Wyly wrote in his book 1,000 Dollars and an Idea that “the world owes a debt of gratitude” to junk bond king Michael Milken. Wyly is now on trial in the very same federal courthouse in New York where Milken pleaded guilty 24 years ago this month to financial fraud and insider trading.

The SEC accuses Wyly and the estate of his deceased brother, Charles Wyly, of profiting more than $550 million from an elaborate fraud that violated insider-trading laws through the use of offshore trust accounts. Securities lawyers in Texas say the SEC has a lot riding on the outcome of the trial.

April 4, 2014 Mark Curriden

Andrews Kurth Advises SensoryEffects in $567 Million Transaction

Dallas-based private equity firm Highlander Partner is selling its portfolio company, SensoryEffects, to Balchem Corporation for $567 million.

April 3, 2014 Mark Curriden

V&E and Robinett Law Firm Advise in Austin Social Marketing Merger

Two Austin-based tech companies agreed Wednesday to merge to become the “strongest and most comprehensive social marketing company.”

April 2, 2014 Mark Curriden

V&E and Robinett Law Firm Advise in Austin Social Marketing Merger

Two Austin-based tech companies agreed Wednesday to merge to become the “strongest and most comprehensive social marketing company.”

April 2, 2014 Mark Curriden

Hilltop & SWS Use NY Lawyers in $316 Million Deal

Hilltop GC Corey Prestidge and SWS GC Allen Tubb turned to Wachtell Lipton and Davis Polk to advise on their deal.

April 2, 2014 Mark Curriden

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