Texas Legal Market Remains Hot, Firm Expansions and Lateral Hires Continue
According to a report, White & Case will open an office in Houston, and two firms have raided Andrews Kurth Kenyon's Dallas office.
January 25, 2018 at 01:51 PM
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Texas was a hotbed for lateral moves in 2017, and the activity hasn't stopped in the new year. A recent report from Texas Lawbook promises much more Texas activity, with a number of lawyers from Andrews Kurth Kenyon's Dallas office set to leave the firm, and New York firm White & Case planning to open an office in Houston next month.
According to the report, two groups of lawyers from the Dallas office of Andrews Kurth, which is in merger negotiations with Virginia firm Hunton & Williams, are on their way out. One group in Dallas, led by partners Mark Solomon, a corporate and security partner who is managing partner of the office, and Peter Bogdanow, a co-chair of the private equity and M&A practice, plans to move to Katten Muchin Rosenman, which has offices in Austin, Houston and Irving. Another group, led by partners Marc Katz, chair of the labor and employment section, and trial lawyer Rob Hoffman, plans to move to DLA Piper's Dallas office.
Andrews Kurth and Katten Muchin declined to comment. A spokesperson for DLA Piper did not immediately respond.
Andrews Kurth and Katten Muchin have each recently lost some lawyers in Texas to other firms. As we reported previously, In 2017, a Dallas real estate group left Andrews Kurth for Greenberg Traurig, several lawyers left Andrews Kurth to help Jackson Walker launch a white-collar crime defense group, and several joined King & Spalding in Houston. Reed Smith's Houston office picked up lawyers from Katten Muchin.
But now there's more. The Texas Lawbook report said Jay Cuclis, an energy transactions and projects partner at Vinson & Elkins in Houston and Hong Kong will join the new White & Case office. It would be the firm's first office in Texas.
Cuclis did not immediately return a telephone message and White & Case declined comment.
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