Vinson & Elkins

1. Freshfields' US Litigation Group Gains 3 New Partners

Monday, Mar 15, 2010

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP has beefed up its litigation team in the United States by adding three parters, including a former federal prosecutor, to its dispute resolution practice, bolstering the firm's ability to assist clients with cross-border matters that involve a U.S. component.

2. Trustee Gives Vinson, Genovese Bribery Claims To Feds

Friday, Mar 12, 2010

A U.S. Trustee’s Office representative has told a Virgin Islands court that he forwarded bribery allegations concerning Vinson & Elkins LLP and Genovese Joblove & Battisa PA attorneys — lodged by a bankrupt Caribbean telecommunications executive — to the U.S. attorney's office for that district.

3. Linklaters Represents BP In $7B Oil Deal With Devon

Thursday, Mar 11, 2010

Devon Energy Corp. has agreed to sell its assets in Brazil, the Gulf of Mexico and Azerbaijan to BP PLC for $7 billion and to buy into a joint venture to develop oil sands in Canada with the British oil giant for $500 million, the companies announced Thursday.

4. Celgene, Novartis Resolve ADHD Patent Suits

Monday, Mar 08, 2010

Celgene Corp. and Novartis AG have reached an agreement to settle separate patent infringement suits against KV Pharmaceutical Co. and IntelliPharmaCeutics Corp. over drugs that treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, the latter of which brought antitrust counterclaims against the pharmaceutical companies.

5. 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.

6. White & Case Atty To Open Kaye Scholer Valley Office

Wednesday, Mar 03, 2010

A career in technology law that began with a visit to an arcade 30 years ago is now taking White & Case LLP partner William Sloan Coats to Kaye Scholer LLP, where he will lead the firm's new Silicon Valley office.

7. KBR Appeals $19M Loss In Army Food Contract Suit

Friday, Feb 26, 2010

Kellogg Brown & Root International Inc. has appealed a federal judge's $19 million award to subcontractor Paul Morrell Inc. in a breach of contract suit accusing the former Halliburton Co. unit of inducing the subcontractor to accept reduced payments for military food services in Iraq.

8. LCD Patent Suit Withstands Sharp's Bid To Dismiss

Thursday, Feb 25, 2010

A federal judge has denied Sharp Corp.'s motion for summary judgment in a dispute with Advanced Technology Incubator Inc. over two patents related to color filters on LCD screens, paving the way for the case to go to trial.

9. 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.

10. Apple, Google Want Web Patent Suit Moved To Calif.

Thursday, Feb 11, 2010

Apple Inc., Google Inc. and 10 other defendants targeted in Eolas Technologies Inc.’s patent infringement suit over interactive Web site technology are pushing for the case to be moved from Texas to California.

11. Bi-Lo Creditors Fight Bid to Retain Consultant

Thursday, Feb 11, 2010

Creditors of bankrupt Southern supermarket chain Bi-Lo LLC have objected to its request to retain Valuation Research Corp. as an “ordinary course of business” professional.

12. Orrick Gives Breakdown Of Merit-Based Bonuses

Wednesday, Feb 10, 2010

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has revealed how much it is paying its associates in merit-based bonuses for 2009, offering a rare glimpse into the mechanics of alternative compensation schemes as more firms shift away from lockstep pay.

13. Jones Day Snags Vinson Securities Litigator

Tuesday, Feb 09, 2010

Jones Day has bolstered its nationwide securities litigation and SEC enforcement practice with the addition of the group's first member in the firm's Houston office.

14. Vinson Answers Complaints With New Bonus Payouts

Monday, Feb 08, 2010

Following numerous internal complaints, Vinson & Elkins LLP has reportedly increased the size of its merit-based bonuses, particularly to associates outside of New York.

15. Farms, Egg Trade Groups Try To Thin Antitrust MDL

Monday, Feb 08, 2010

Land O' Lakes Inc., United Egg Producers Inc. and a host of other defendants have asked the court to drop much of the direct purchasers' complaint in litigation accusing a slew of egg trade groups and agricultural companies of a long-running conspiracy to limit production and drive up prices.

16. Freedom Drops Market-Cornering Claims V. Novation

Thursday, Feb 04, 2010

Freedom Medical Inc. has dropped Novation LLC from a suit that accuses the company and several other large players in the medical equipment rental industry of conspiring to monopolize the $450 million market.

17. Judge Tosses Fraud Claims Against Cohmad, Cohn

Tuesday, Feb 02, 2010

A federal judge on Tuesday threw out the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's claims that Cohmad Securities Corp, co-founder Maurice “Sonny” Cohn and other executives aided and abetted Bernard Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme in violation of federal securities laws.

18. Vinson, Trustees To Face Witness Bribery Claims

Monday, Feb 01, 2010

A judge in the U.S. Virgin Islands has granted a defunct telecommunication firm executive's request to conduct a disciplinary hearing to determine possible sanctions for several law firms and trustees accused of orchestrating a scheme to provide free legal services to a material witness in three of his company's pending bankruptcy cases.

19. Subcontractor Wins $19M In Army Food Services Spat

Monday, Feb 01, 2010

A federal judge has awarded Kellogg Brown & Root International Inc. subcontractor Paul Morrell Inc. nearly $19 million in its breach of contract suit accusing the former Halliburton Co. subsidiary of inducing it to accept reduced payments for food services in Iraq.

20. Vinson To Unfreeze Pay, Use Cravath Bonus Model

Friday, Jan 29, 2010

Vinson & Elkins LLP has reportedly ended its salary freeze and outlined how it will dole out merit-based bonuses and raises to associates.