Kirkland & Ellis advised Braemont Capital, an investment firm that partners with market-leading companies at growth inflection points, on its strategic investment in TEC Services, LLC, a premier provider of essential janitorial and sanitation services to the grocery and food distribution end markets.
Kirkland & Ellis advised Amplify Energy Corp. (NYSE: AMPY) on its definitive merger agreement with privately held Juniper Capital to combine with certain Juniper portfolio companies which own oil-weighted producing assets and leasehold interests in the DJ and Powder River Basins.
According to Validity Finance, the Texas civil trial docket is booming and the growing case backlog suggests more need for funding. Validity reports demand for funding nationally up nearly 50 percent in 2020.
Kenneth W. Starr, an attorney with a distinguished legal, academic and public service record, has joined the Lanier Law Firm in an Of Counsel position.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP is pleased to announce that Sean T. Wheeler has joined the Firm’s Houston office as a partner in the Corporate Practice Group.
HOUSTON – iHeartMedia Inc. filed a motion for entry of an order in which it is seeking to obtain post-petition financing with Citibank in an attempt to pay back its pre-bankruptcy asset-based lenders and fund its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case.
DALLAS – DePuy Orthopaedics and Johnson & Johnson will get a new trial after the previous one in 2016 ended with the companies having to pay $151 million in damages to five plaintiffs with alleged hip replacement injuries.
What prompts a man to change his mind on a serious matter after 35 years, and should the reversal be met with pride (for eventually getting it right), or chagrin (for taking so long)? For reasons of vanity, I’m going to take a positive tack and choose the former.
DALLAS – Earlier this year, DePuy Orthopaedics and Johnson & Johnson appealed a trial court decision that would have them pay out $150 million in damages to five plaintiffs.
Within a year’s time, federal juries plucked from the Eastern District of Texas have levied more than $1.1 billion in damages against the Tech giant Apple Inc. for alleged patent infringement.
A federal lawsuit accuses Baker Hughes, Inc. and Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations, Inc., doing business as a Baker Oil Tools, Inc., of property damage caused by defective sub-surface gas and oil storage equipment. In the suit filed Sept. 21 in the Houston Division of the Southern District of Texas, Triuva Kapitalverwaltungsgesellschaft mbH alleges Baker Hughes poorly designed and manufactured the equipment in question.
