DALLAS – A team of Haynes and Boone, LLP attorneys assisted Fossil, Inc. in its just-announced agreement to acquire Skagen Designs, Ltd. and certain of its international affiliates for approximately $225 million in cash and 150,000 shares of Fossil common stock. The acquisition, which is subject to certain conditions, including regulatory approval, is expected to be finalized in February.
Randy S. Hyne, Fossil’s vice president and general counsel, led the transaction, assisted by a Haynes and Boone deal team that included Dallas partners
Tom Harris and
Garrett A. DeVries, and associates
David J. Colletti Jr. and
Mark J. Robinson Jr.
DALLAS – Five associates and four of counsel at Haynes and Boone, LLP have been elevated to partnership in 2012. The newly elected partners are Daniel Gold, Dustin Johnson, Jeremy Kernodle, John McGowan, Matt Zmigrosky, Ralph Arpajian, Gregg Miller, Noah Shapiro and George Parker Young.
“I am proud to announce and congratulate the class of 2012 partners,” said Managing Partner Terry Conner. “They are not only knowledgeable and skilled in their profession, but are excellent representatives of the client-centric focus we promote at Haynes and Boone.”
HOUSTON – A team of Haynes and Boone, LLP attorneys has successfully defended client Curves International, Inc. against trademark and antitrust claims asserted in federal court by Go Figure, Inc. (Civil Action No. 4:09-CV-2930)
After more than two years of litigation, Houston Partners
Yasser Madriz and
Mike Powell joined Houston Associate
Mike Raab and Washington, D.C. antitrust Partner
Richard Ripley in the Dec. 12 trial before Judge Hoyt in the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division.
DALLAS – Haynes and Boone, LLP has been designated as a Community of Respect® by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for its commitment to respect and diversity.
To earn the Community of Respect® designation in 2011, Haynes and Boone taught economically disadvantaged youth, many of them minorities, about the world of corporate finance; created a summer clerkship for a first-year minority law student; and mentored middle school students. In addition, the firm maintains ongoing efforts to attract minority attorney candidates under its minority attorney initiatives, women attorney initiatives, the LGBT Committee and the Minority Scholars Program.
Say you’re an in-house lawyer developing a compliance policy on gifts and hospitality for an oil and gas company. Or maybe you’re in private practice and helping a telecommunications company implement a whistleblower hotline.
Where do you turn for a benchmark?
On Tuesday, the business ethics think tank [The Ethisphere Institute] rolled out a new online database that compiles the codes of conduct and policies from the 500 largest corporations by revenue into a searchable dataset. Access to the database, which was created in partnership with attorneys
Ryan D. McConnell, Katharine Southard and Charlotte Simon, is free.
SAN ANTONIO – A team of Haynes and Boone, LLP lawyers successfully represented
Keystone-Texas Property Holding Corporation in an appeal arising out of a failed sale of the Marriott Rivercenter Hotel.
Keystone owned the land underlying the hotel, and HMC Hotel Properties II Limited Partnership leased the land from Keystone. HMC later sued Keystone for breach of the lease as Keystone was set to close an agreement to sell the land to a third party. After the sale fell through, Keystone filed counterclaims against HMC for slander of title and tortious interference with contract.
DALLAS – Haynes and Boone, LLP has successfully assisted AT&T International, Inc. in an exchange offer launched by America Móvil, S.A.B. de C.V. to acquire the capital stock of Teléfonos de México, S.A.B. de C.V. (Telmex) it does not already directly or indirectly own.
AT&T tendered its share participation in Telmex in a transaction valued at about US$1.1 billion. The public offer was launched Oct. 11 on the Mexican and New York stock exchanges and closed Nov. 11.