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The ruling paves the way for North Dakota-based Meridian Energy Group to move forward with its Davis Refinery project, which will impact the company's growing Houston operations and legal work by some Texas lawyers handling the financing.
Uber Technologies, which has sought to delay planned investments in Texas due to the COVID-19 pandemic, announced the acquisition of one of its home-delivery rivals. Allen Pusey has the details.
As the new head of the Houston Volunteer Lawyers program, Anne Chandler brings a lot of pro bono experience to the job. Even as a second year law student, she helped pioneer a pro bono asylum project at the University of Houston Law Center and represented a Guatemalan girl who was raped repeatedly for three years.
The first six months of 2020 downright sucked for corporate M&A law firms. New Mergermarket data shows that 11 of the top 12 corporate practices did fewer transactions involving Texas-based businesses than they did the year before. For the first time in 13 years, no firm reported working on at least 30 Texas transactions. The Texas Lawbook has the law firm rankings.
A divided Texas Supreme Court decided Friday to cancel the bar examination scheduled for late July due to increasing concerns about “the recent surge in COVID-19 cases” and “uncertainty regarding the availability of examination sites.”
The country's largest franchisee of two major fast food chains, a fairly new company that is the product of the No. 1 and No. 3 largest sand suppliers in the U.S. and an exit by a behemoth oilfield services company are the latest happenings on U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David Jones' docket in the Southern District of Texas. Plus, an upcoming Ch. 11 to watch out for.
UPDATED: Texas-headquartered dealmaking has plummeted to historic levels in 2020. The second quarter had only 89 deals, only one more than Q1 2009, at the nadir of the Great Recession. The Texas Lawbook has the numbers and they include a nearly 94% drop in year-over-year value from 2019.
The State Bar of Texas reported its formal actions for June, including 3 disbarments, 11 lawyers suspended and 2 public reprimands. There were no judicial actions reported.
The lawsuit claims Red Bull committed fraud, breached its fiduciary duty and breached a contract when it ended its two-decade business relationship with KC Distributing despite promises that KC would not be terminated and despite significant investments KC had made.
Another Texas exploration and production company has sought protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Fort Worth-based Lilis Energy filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Texas, citing $251 million of debt.
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