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D CEO magazine and the Association for Corporate Growth recognized VF Corporation's 2017 acquisition of Fort Worth-based Williamson-Dickie Mfg. Co., an $820 million transaction, among the biggest deals of the past year. The transaction, for which a Haynes and Boone, LLP team led by Partners Brian Barnard and Tom Tippetts advised Williamson-Dickie, was a finalist in the Strategic Acquisition/Merger category of the D CEO/ACG Dallas/Fort Worth 2018 Mergers and Acquisition Awards
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San Antonio Scene Magazine has recognized Haynes and Boone, LLP Associate Abby Johanson in its annual Rising Star Lawyer feature. The magazine spotlights San Antonio young lawyers who have been practicing law for 10 years or less. The Rising Stars are nominated by senior lawyers who believe they have a bright future in the legal profession, according to the magazine. Johanson is a member of Haynes and Boone's Real Estate Practice Group
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On May 8, the Fifth Court of Appeals in Dallas overturned a $7 million judgment in a suit filed by a painter who alleged damages resulting from exposure to paint products made by E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Co. Haynes and Boone, LLP Counsel Mike Hatchell represented DuPont on appeal, including filing briefs and handling oral arguments in the Dallas appellate court
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Haynes and Boone, LLP appellate teams led by Partner M.C. Sungaila secured three wins in cases argued over three consecutive months before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. These are the cases: Fierro v. Smith, et al. (No. 17-15288): Sungaila and Associate Marco Pulido, together with Loyola Law School Los Angeles Professor Paula Mitchell, served as appointed pro bono appellate counsel to a prison inmate pursuing federal civil rights claims against Arizona state prison officials
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The Environmental Law Institute (ELI) named Haynes and Boone, LLP Partner Julie Domike to its Leadership Council. Based in the firm's Washington, D.C., office, Domike counsels a variety of companies, including refineries, engine manufacturers, independent power producers, fuel producers and farm equipment makers, on a wide range of environmental regulatory matters, including complex negotiations with the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Haynes and Boone, LLP has won the 2018 AT&T Legal Department Diversity and Inclusion Progress Award. Each year, AT&T honors one of its outside law firms for making the most progress in promoting a diverse workplace. With its 2018 award, AT&T sought to spotlight firms that had made progress during 2017 in diversifying their attorney ranks and were working to increase the pipeline of diverse talent entering the legal profession
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Haynes and Boone, LLP Partner Albert Tan spoke at two seminars in April, one involving oil & gas financing and the second covering a range of legal industry topics of interest to lawyers of Asian-Pacific Islander heritage in Texas. On April 10, Tan participated in a Haynes and Boone-hosted seminar at the firm's New York office that explored the structures and methods that private equity funds use to raise, leverage and deploy capital in the energy sector
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More than 50 Haynes and Boone, LLP lawyers and 18 practice areas have been recognized in the 2018 Chambers USA legal directory published by Chambers & Partners. The directory recognized the Appellate Group on its new "Spotlight Table" for its depth of practice and breadth of experience. Chambers also designated two of the firm's practice areas as "recognized practices" with nationwide scope: Banking & Finance and Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
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Affiliates of Royal Dutch Shell plc announced on April 24, 2018, that an agreement had been entered into to sell its downstream business in Argentina to Ra�zen for US$950 million in cash proceeds at completion, subject to customary closing conditions. Ra�zen, a joint venture set up in 2011 between an affiliate of Shell and Cosan, is a leading biofuels producer and fuels distributor in Brazil and currently manages more than 6,000 Shell branded service stations
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Haynes and Boone, LLP Senior Counsel Jeff Civins and Partner Suzanne Murray played central roles in one of the nation's leading environmental law events, the EARTHx Law and Policy Symposium. Held April 20 at the State Fairgrounds in Dallas, the event attracted environmental scholars and business leaders from diverse perspectives, who discussed how to chart a course for a future that is both protective and productive
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D Magazine named 42 Haynes and Boone, LLP lawyers across multiple practice areas to its Best Lawyers in Dallas list for 2018, the most selections for the firm over the past decade. Lawyers considered for the directory are nominated by their peers, with practitioners allowed to submit one member of their firm and two lawyers outside their firm, based on work they have witnessed firsthand. A select panel of lawyers evaluates the nominations to finalize the list
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A Haynes and Boone, LLP team led by Denver Partner Robert Ziemian helped a firm client, Nite Ize, Inc., (Nite Ize) secure a General Exclusion Order (GEO) from the International Trade Commission (ITC) excluding from importation all products covered by certain Nite Ize patents related to their Steelie ecosystem of hands-free mobile device mounts
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A Haynes and Boone, LLP team has won Dallas Court of Appeals affirmance of a significant victory for the National Football League. A fantasy football convention company backed by former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo had sued the league, alleging the NFL tortiously interfered with its actual and prospective contracts with players and NFL Network on-air talent to participate in an event scheduled to take place at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas
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Eight Haynes and Boone, LLP lawyers have been featured in the Washington, D.C., Super Lawyers/Rising Stars directory, an annual award listing published by Thomson Reuters. Partner Julie Domike also was named among the Top 50 Women Lawyers in D.C. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement
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Haynes and Boone, LLP Partner Scott Cunning, the administrative partner for the firm's Washington, D.C., office, will speak May 10 at the Financial Times U.S. Healthcare & Life Sciences Summit in New York City. Cunning will participate in a panel discussion titled: "Doing the Patent Dance in the Biosimilars Era
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Can a public body, say, the University of Texas System Board of Regents, meet across the border in Mexico? How's a city council supposed to comply with rules for posting notice about an emergency meeting when, say, Hurricane Harvey inundates roads and hammers the electrical grid? What's a walking quorum anyway? Haynes and Boone, LLP Partner Tom Williams tackled these sorts of issues on April 17 at the Freedom of Information Foundation�s Open Government Seminar at the University of Texas
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To show high school sophomores the many facets of working at a law firm, Haynes and Boone, LLP lawyers and staff members hosted scholars from Uplift Grand Preparatory School on March 29. Uplift Grand, a public college-preparatory charter school in Grand Prairie, is a new partner with Haynes and Boone's pipeline initiatives to raise awareness about careers in law with diverse groups of scholars and help them explore what the path to a legal career might look like
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Six Haynes and Boone, LLP lawyers - in the Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston offices - have been elected to membership as Fellows of the Texas Bar Foundation. They are Partners Sakina Rasheed Foster and Janice V. Sharry in Dallas; Partner Stephen M. Pezanosky and Counsel Sharon M. Cooper in Fort Worth; and Associates Wolf McGavran and Arsalan Muhammad in Houston
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Haynes and Boone, LLP's spring 2018 survey of oil and gas borrowers and lenders demonstrates a modestly improved outlook for the upstream oil and gas industry. In its "Borrowing Base Redeterminations Survey: Spring 2018," the firm polled a cross-section of industry executives to glean their views about the state of the energy lending market. Specifically, the survey asked respondents to offer predictions about producers' future borrowing capacity or "borrowing bases
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Haynes and Boone, LLP lawyers teamed with representatives from client Halliburton to provide legal assistance for 75 Houstonians at a pro bono clinic on March 24. During the neighborhood clinic, volunteer lawyers met with each client for 30 minutes to assess their needs, provide advice and determine whether they required more-extensive assistance
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Haynes and Boone, LLP Partner Keith Sambur and Associate Andrew Gillespie, members of the firm's Denver office, represented a private real estate investment firm in the sale of a south Florida office campus for approximately $190 million. The sale closed Mar. 28, 2018. The parties structured the transaction as a sale of 100 percent of the membership interests of the limited liability company that owns the office complex
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Haynes and Boone, LLP Partner Jeff Dorrill posted his latest in a string of victories in endurance competitions, finishing first in in his age category (55-59) in the 2018 Rock 'n' Roll Dallas Half Marathon. Dorrill battled difficult conditions, including 93 percent humidity and a hilly course, to finish the 13.1 mile race in 1:31:21, a second ahead of the second-place finisher
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Franchise Times has recognized Haynes and Boone, LLP Partner Deborah Coldwell and Counsel Maral Kilejian as 2018 Legal Eagles, a publication featuring the top franchise practitioners in the United States. Legal Eagles are selected through nominations from peers, clients and the publication editors. This marks the second time that Kilejian has been selected as a Legal Eagle and the 14th selection for Coldwell
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BTI Consulting Group named Haynes and Boone, LLP Partner Brian Barnard and Counsel Emmie Gooch to its Client Service All-Stars for 2018. BTI said the All-Stars "stand out in the sea of legal services providers" but share key characteristics, including superior client focus, exceptional legal skills, unmatched business understanding and the ability to deliver outsized value. "In the eyes of clients, these attorneys are unsurpassed in their delivery of client service," BTI said
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Haynes and Boone, LLP's Patent Prosecution Practice Group has been ranked among the nation's best by financial services firm Ocean Tomo and IAM based on data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Ocean Tomo/IAM's 2017 Leading Law Firm Report listed Haynes and Boone seventh among the top 10 firms for information technology patent work. The company, which provides intellectual property-related services, said its analysis is designed to "celebrate the achievements of U.S. law firms which .
