Reed Smith LLP today announced its expansion into the Lone Star State. The firm’s first Texas office is now open for business in the BG Group Place at 811 Main Street, Houston. The move is the culmination of a longstanding desire by Reed Smith to enter the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the country’s energy capital. More than half of Reed Smith’s largest clients have operations in Houston, and this office will allow Reed Smith to improve service to those clients and develop new relationships. The office opened with 12 partners from the local offices of seven leading law firms forming the initial group of new Reed Smith partners. Six of the lawyers are joining Reed Smith’s Energy & Natural Resources Industry Group (ENR); two join the U.S. Commercial Litigation practice; and one each join the Life Sciences Health Industry (LSHI), Labor & Employment, Financial Industry, and Intellectual Property Groups.

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Bracewell & Giuliani LLP represented BHP Billiton Petroleum (Deepwater), Inc., a mining and petroleum company, in the negotiations of a build-to-suit lease for its corporate headquarters in the Galleria area of Houston, as well as the reorganization of more than 700,000 square feet of additional office space in the company’s existing portfolio of office space. Once constructed, the new building at 1500 Post Oak Boulevard will contain approximately 543,143 square feet.

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