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Andrews Kurth

Number of Articles Found: 125

1. $100M Verdict For BP Workers Slashed In Gas Leak Suit

Wednesday, Mar 17, 2010

A federal judge has slashed a jury's award of more than $100 million to BP Products North America Inc. workers injured in a gas leak at the oil giant's Texas City, Texas, plant to less than $400,000.

2. Microchip Wants Sealed $1.5M Delphi Case Axed

Tuesday, Mar 16, 2010

Microchip Technology Inc. has hit back at Delphi Corp., asking a bankruptcy judge to throw out Delphi's $1.5 million adversary case and accusing the formerly bankrupt auto parts supplier of manipulating the Bankruptcy Code.

3. DOJ Scrutinizes $5.5B Baker Hughes, BJ Merger

Monday, Mar 15, 2010

While oil and gas services heavyweight Baker Hughes Inc. is eager to close its $5.5 billion acquisition of BJ Services Co., the deal has yet to receive antitrust approval from the U.S. Department of Justice, raising concerns about potential hang-ups over the companies’ overlapping businesses.

4. Oasis Plans $350M IPO For Williston Basin Play

Friday, Mar 05, 2010

Houston-based oil and natural gas developer Oasis Petroleum Inc. has filed for an initial public offering worth up to $350 million and plans to use proceeds from the stock sale to fund an expansion of drilling on its properties in the Western U.S.

5. Pillsbury Lures Vinson Transactional Energy Lawyer

Tuesday, Feb 16, 2010

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP has nabbed from Vinson & Elkins LLP a Houston transactional lawyer who focuses on the energy industry.

6. 5 Things You Should Never Say To A Client

Friday, Jan 29, 2010

As a rule, attorneys should strive to communicate candidly with clients, but while honesty is generally the best policy, there are some things you might like to keep to yourself. Law360 gives you a crib sheet for what not to say.

7. Noteholders Fight Spansion's Disclosure Statement

Monday, Jan 25, 2010

A group of noteholders has launched a challenge to Spansion Inc.'s recently approved disclosure statement for its Chapter 11 reorganization plan, arguing the statement is “replete with fundamental misrepresentations” and therefore shouldn't be used as a benchmark at the upcoming confirmation hearing.

8. Christie's Retains Win In Suit Over Art Stolen By Nazis

Thursday, Jan 21, 2010

A South Korean art collector who sued famed auction house Christie's for selling a painting stolen by the Nazis has lost a bid to amend the complaint following a federal judge’s earlier ruling that the contract suit was time-barred.

9. Williams Cos. Restructures, Launches $3B Buyback Bid

Tuesday, Jan 19, 2010

Natural gas producer Williams Cos. has launched a $3 billion note buyback offer as part of a restructuring effort aimed at consolidating pipeline and other assets and boosting the company’s access to capital markets.

10. Law Firms Open Their Wallets For Haiti

Friday, Jan 15, 2010

As the world scrambles to come to Haiti's aid in the wake of Tuesday's devastating earthquake, law firms are stepping up in both traditional and novel ways. Over 80 firms responded to a Law360 query into what they are doing financially and otherwise to respond to the Haitian crisis.

11. Court Probes FERC Termination Of Mass. Plant License

Thursday, Jan 14, 2010

Probing the little-used justification of “implied surrender,” a federal appeals court heard arguments Thursday over the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s termination of a license for a small hydroelectric plant, which the former owner contends was unfairly stripped from him, according to his attorney.

12. NextMedia Plans Sale To Creditors In Prepack Ch. 11

Monday, Dec 21, 2009

Radio station owner NextMedia Group Inc. filed for bankruptcy on Monday after reaching a prearranged agreement to sell the company to its second-lien creditors.

13. First International Settles Online Message Patent Suit

Thursday, Dec 10, 2009

First International Bank has become the latest defendant to reach a license agreement in a lawsuit accusing several banks of infringing a Wolf Run Hollow LLC patent for transmitting secure online messages.

14. Receiver Seeks $545M From Stanford Investors

Tuesday, Dec 08, 2009

Having failed to pin down certain investors in Robert Allen Stanford’s alleged Ponzi scheme as relief defendants, the receiver for the Stanford estate is now taking a different tack to recover at least $545 million in proceeds that some 200 investors received from the alleged scam.

15. Creditors Fight Approval Of FairPoint DIP Loan

Monday, Dec 07, 2009

Creditors of FairPoint Communications Inc. have objected to the company's proposed $75 million debtor-in-possession financing, which they say is designed to force a plan of reorganization favored by FairPoint and its prepetition lenders.

16. Discovery Disputes Continue In Milk Antitrust MDL