Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
Jackson Walker bagged a piece of a pretty big deal, the sale of Apax Partners-backed Acelity Inc. and its KCI units to 3M for $6.725 billion, a move that preempts KCI's planned initial public offering. Claire Poole has the details.
A multi-defendant white-collar criminal case in federal court presents unique challenges, from managing a multitude of lawyers to the avoidance of conflicts. Tom Melsheimer of Winston & Strawn, who represented the only defendant acquitted in the Forest Park Medical Center bribery case, reflects on the strategies and disciplines that helped the jury single out his client as the only one among nine defendants they could unanimously regard as innocent.
Monica Latin has been elected to become the first female managing partner of Carrington Coleman, where she has spent her entire legal career. The Lawbook caught up with Latin to learn about her new role, which she will assume in May 2020.
The State Bar of Texas released its monthly list of disciplinary actions taken against Texas lawyers. Here are their actions and findings.
For the second straight year, members of the State Bar of Texas have elected presidents that oppose radical reforms and favor continued mandatory membership dues for the 100,000 attorney organization. Texas lawyers chose Richmond criminal defense attorney Larry P. McDougal to be its leader in 2020.
With 11 pretrial guilty pleas and seven convictions, the Forest Park litigation shows that federal prosecutors are willing to aggressively pursue criminal kickback, bribery and conspiracy charges in the health care industry. But as Alyson Brown of Clouse Brown shows, the trial also provides insights that can guide health care professionals in their contracting relationships.
Deal counts in Texas dropped precipitously in the first quarter of 2019. Although the count was over the much-valued 200 mark, deal values were even worse. The Lawbook's Claire Poole has the exclusive Mergermarket figures.
A federal judge has frozen the assets of two unknown stock traders amid allegations that they used insider trading to make $2 million from Chevron's announcement to buy The Woodlands-based oil company Anadarko Petroleum. Sergio Chapa of the Houston Chronicle has the breaking story.
Private equity funds are charging higher performance fees, exiting their investments sooner and raising funds faster. The Lawbook's Claire Poole has those figures and the key players in Texas dealmaking last week.
Monica Karuturi, an associate GC at CenterPoint Energy was visiting relatives in India when she first got word that CenterPoint was interested in acquiring Vectren, an Indiana-based utility. Within days she was on a flight to New York City to begin fleshing out the agreement. In the next few months Karuturi's team put together a $6 billion deal that has been named M&A Transaction of the Year in the 2019 Houston Corporate Counsel Awards. Mark Curriden has the background on the remarkable, award-winning transaction.
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