Jackson Walker L.L.P. represented Austin-based PMB Helin Donovan in its recent merger with Dallas-based Vink Teague & Associates. The deal marks the latest development in PMB Helin Donovan’s plan to expand through strategic acquisitions into one of the nation’s top 100 accounting firms.

V&E served as counsel to long-time client BMC Software, Inc., in its $300 million acquisition of Numara Software, a leading global provider of integrated IT management solutions for the mid-market.

The Austin office of national labor and employment law firm Constangy Brooks & Smith, LLP is pleased to announce that it is expanding with the addition of partner Scott Agthe and associate Amy Ybarra.  Both were most recently with the Agthe Law Firm, P.C.  The pair will officially join Constangy when the Austin office relocates on February 13 to its new location at 8911 Capital of Texas Highway, Ste. 3350, Austin, TX 78759. The Austin office, opened in 2003, is headed by partner Mark Flora.

Jackson Walker is pleased to welcome back partner Bill Cobb. Mr. Cobb practices in the Litigation and Insurance groups in the Austin office.

Fulbright represented Skokie, Ill.-based EPN Group, in connection with a $1.4 billion deal to sell 47 shopping centers it owns across the US to a joint venture between New York-based Blackstone Real Estate Partners and Ohio-based DDR Corp.

Locke Lord announces that Bart Huffman has joined its Austin office as a Partner in the Intellectual Property (IP) Practice Group. Huffman headed his previous firm’s Privacy and Data Security practice, and his wide experience in this complex area of the law increases Locke Lord’s IP platform as it evolves to meet clients’ growing global needs.

Graves Dougherty is pleased to welcome David P. Smith to the firm’s Regulatory, Environmental and Real Estate practices.

The international law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP announced that Ronald G. Skloss has joined its Austin office as shareholder in the Corporate & Securities Practice. Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig, Skloss was an equity partner at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP and Andrews Kurth LLP.

Bracewell & Giuliani LLP announced today that John A. Riley and Christopher C. Thiele have joined the firm’s Austin office as partners in the environmental strategies practice. Prior to joining the firm, Riley was a partner and Thiele was counsel in Vinson & Elkins LLP’s environmental litigation and regulation practice.

Beveridge & Diamond, P.C. is pleased to announce that Bryan J. Moore has joined the Firm’s Texas office as a Principal and member of its Environmental and Litigation Practice Groups.  Mr. Moore joins the Firm from Vinson & Elkins, where he was Counsel.