Harvest Midstream Strikes $1B Deal for MPLX Gas Assets in Rockies

Harvest Midstream is making a $1 billion bet on the Rockies, agreeing to acquire natural gas gathering and processing assets from Ohio-based MPLX. The deal expands Houston-based Harvest’s footprint in Wyoming, Utah and Colorado with 1,500 miles of pipelines and 845 million cubic feet per day of processing capacity, underscoring the private midstream company’s push for scale in natural gas. A Texas team from Kirkland & Ellis advised Harvest on the transaction.

August 28, 2025 Jeff Schnick

Asked & Answered with Gibson Dunn’s Trey Cox: Pizza, Pipelines and a Hot Streak

Asked & Answered is a new standing feature The Texas Lawbook will bring readers every other week, highlighting the work of leading Texas lawyers and offering insight into their lives outside the courtroom. In this edition, we sit down with Trey Cox, co-chair of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s global litigation practice group and co-partner in charge of its Dallas office.

Cox has won some big verdicts recently and, with another trial on his calendar in October, he plans to keep the momentum going.

August 27, 2025 Alexa Shrake

Freeman Seeks Dismissal of GWG Bondholders’ RICO Suit

Elizabeth Freeman and her law firm filed the 54-page dismissal motion, which includes more than 1,000 pages of exhibits, on Tuesday. The bondholders had filed suit in June, alleging she was among a group of individuals working “together to prey upon distressed entities for their own financial gain.” 

August 26, 2025 Michelle Casady

AT&T to Acquire EchoStar Wireless Licenses for $23B

The deal helps resolve regulatory pressures on EchoStar to use or lose federal licensing in the mid-band and low-band spectrum. The deal was handled in-house for AT&T with help from Sullivan & Cromwell and Arnold & Porter.

August 26, 2025 Allen Pusey

Litigation Roundup: Dallas Firm Readies for Airline Fatality Trial 

In this edition of Litigation Roundup, Baker Botts is hired by Tesla to defend against patent infringement claims in the Eastern District of Texas, jury selection is underway in an airline crash fatality suit that a Dallas law firm is taking to trial in Washington State, and a recent appellate ruling from Eastland could have a broad impact in personal injury cases.

August 25, 2025 Michelle Casady

Elon Musk Hires Carrington Coleman and NY Firm to Battle Apple, OpenAI

Elon Musk’s X Corp. and xAI sued Apple and OpenAI in federal court in Fort Worth on Monday, accusing the duo of being involved in a monopolistic scheme to dominate the global market for artificial intelligence. To lead the litigation, which seeks billions of dollars in damages, Musk and the two companies hired the Dallas law firm Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal and New York-headquartered Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider.

August 25, 2025 Mark Curriden

Crescent Energy to Acquire Permian Rival Vital Energy for $3.1B

V&E, Kirkland and Gibson Dunn were among the advisors on the deal which secures a spot for Crescent among the top ten independent oil and gas producers in the region.

August 25, 2025 Allen Pusey

Keurig Dr Pepper Turns to Paul Weiss to Lead $18.4B Deal for JDE Peet’s

Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison served as lead counsel for Keurig Dr Pepper in its landmark $18.4 billion acquisition of Dutch coffee giant JDE Peet’s, alongside the in-house lawyers of KDP's team. Paul Weiss continues to be a central legal adviser in high-profile Texas transactions, even as it eyes its first office in the state. A&O Shearman advised JDE Peet's.

August 25, 2025 Jason Philyaw

CDT Roundup: Data Centers, AI Hunters and HVAC Companies Fuel PE Activity

The week ending Aug. 23 saw 23 deals for just over $15.2 billion. The deals included three transactions — in media, oil and gas and electrical services — which together accounted for $13.6 billion, amounting to 90 percent of the total. But the week saw a slurry of PE transactions, most of them in the electrical, HVAC or data services sectors and they involved a broad variety of interesting businesses. That and more in this week's CDT Roundup.

August 24, 2025 Allen Pusey

DOJ to Appeal Susman Godfrey Victory in Trump EO Case

The U.S. Department of Justice notified U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan that the government plans to appeal her decision two months ago to strike down President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting Susman Godfrey. The Justice Department provided no details of its appellate arguments.

August 22, 2025 Mark Curriden