Houston Lawyers Dodged Harvey to Keep $179M Deal on Track
With Hurricane Harvey ready to hit Houston, a deal team from Haynes and Boone took steps to outfox the storm.
September 28, 2017 at 05:00 PM
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It was a day before Hurricane Harvey was forecast to strike Texas, and with the deadline looming to complete a complicated transaction for a client, Haynes and Boone partner Ricardo Garcia-Moreno in Houston said he started to panic.
“To put it mildly, at about 2 o'clock on Thursday, I started to freak out. We were a week away from closing,” said Garcia-Moreno, who dealt with no power at home when Hurricane Ike hit Houston in 2008 and was worried he would have the same issue with Harvey.
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Garcia-Moreno said he and Chad Mills, a Haynes and Boone partner in Houston also working on the deal, decided to send associate Valisa Berber-Thayer to Dallas because that's where Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld lawyers on the other side of the deal were.
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