Jackson Walker is pleased to welcome new attorney Michael S. Held. Mr. Held joins the Bankruptcy group in the Dallas Office.

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Attorneys with the law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP represented TEAK Midstream, L.L.C. (“TEAK”), a privately owned midstream natural gas company based in Dallas, in the execution of a $1 billion definitive agreement with Atlas Pipeline Partners, L.P. (“Atlas”). The transaction, announced on April 16, 2013, is awaiting regulatory approval and expected to close in the second quarter of 2013.

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Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Kelly D. Hine and I. Bobby Majumder have joined the firm’s Dallas office as Partners. In addition, three associates have also joined the firm’s Dallas office.

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Wick Phillips, a full-service business law firm with offices in Dallas, Fort Worth and Austin, Texas, announces that David Anderson has joined the Dallas office as a partner in the commercial litigation group. In addition to his 16 years of commercial litigation expertise, Anderson handles many intellectual property cases. Some of his most high profile cases include work for companies such as Medtronic, Inc.; BearingPoint, Inc. (formerly KPMG Consulting); Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.; US Synthetic Corporation; and Silver Point Capital, L.P., among others.

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A team of Haynes and Boone, LLP lawyers served as U.S. counsel to Strides Arcolab Ltd. in its $1.6 billion sale of Agila Specialties Private Ltd., a generic drug maker of injectable medicines, to Mylan Inc., the second largest stand-alone generic drug maker.

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James Jacks has joined the Dallas legal office of Patton Boggs, according to a press release.  The litigation partner brings 30 years of experience with the U.S. Attorney’s Office to the firm.

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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP advised Oklahoma City-based oil and gas production company Gulfport Energy Corporation on a pair of deals announced today.

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Jackson Walker successfully represented Nationstar Mortgage Holdings Inc. (“Nationstar”), a Lewisville, Texas-based leading residential mortgage services company, in the acquisition of Equifax Settlement Services Holding, LLC, a leading provider of appraisal, title insurance and settlement services, from Equifax Inc. The transaction closed on February 6, 2013.

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Patton Boggs LLP is pleased to announce that James T. Jacks, former United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, has joined the firm as partner. Resident in Patton Boggs’ Dallas office, Mr. Jacks joins the firm’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice group.

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Attorneys with Haynes and Boone, LLP advised American Airlines in its just-announced, 12-year capacity purchase agreement with Republic Airways Holdings, the first large regional jet service deal of its kind in American’s history.

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