Thompson Coburn announced this week that it has recruited Thompson & Knight corporate associate Susan Fisher to join the firm’s Dallas office as a partner.
Fisher says knowing Nicole Williams, Elizabeth Myers and Jennifer Ecklund — who left TK to lead Thompson Coburn’s foray into Texas prior to the pandemic — was a key factor in her decision to move.
Add to that the chance to get in on the ground floor of building the firm’s corporate practice in Dallas and it was an opportunity she says she couldn’t pass up.
Susan Fisher
Fisher has advised companies in the energy, technology, home healthcare, restaurant and manufacturing industries on stock purchases, asset purchases and mergers, senior and subordinate financings and private securities offerings.
Over the past year, Fisher has advised on the sale of a home healthcare provider to a private equity sponsor and the sale of a newspaper business in California.
In January, The Texas Lawbook reported in its Corporate Deal Tracker Roundup that Fisher was part of the TK deal team that guided Baylor Bancshares, along with First Bank and Trust and Baylor Mortgage Company, in its $2.1 billion merger with Lubbock-based Peoples Bancorp.
“M&A is obviously very hot right now,” Fisher, a graduate of SMU Dedman School of Law, said. “The pandemic is coming to an end, and clients are increasingly ready to start doing new deals or to re-negotiate deals that stalled during the pandemic. It’s an exciting time to be a deal lawyer.”
In addition to bringing on Fisher, Thompson Coburn also announced the hiring of two associates – Alfred Blue III and Alejandra Siller.
Blue, a UNT Dallas College of Law graduate, was previously a senior trial attorney at insurance giant Allstate and is a 2021 member of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity’s Pathfinder program. Siller, an SMU grad like Fisher, joins from Clark Hill and will focus on banking and commercial finance work.