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Publications

EPA Rulemaking Hotline
3/3/2010
"How Significant is Carbon Financing for Latin America?"
Inter-American Dialogue's Latin America Energy Advisor
March 2010
SEC Proposes Amendments to Issuer Repurchase Rule
Rule 10b-18: Safe Harbor from Liability for Market Manipulation
2/16/2010
EPA Issues New Renewable Fuels Standard
2/12/2010
"PD Vital to the New Way Forward: Insights from Five Managing Partners"
NALP Bulletin
February 2010
"Purchasing Loans? Ten Warning Signs for Investors,"
Private Mortgage Finance Association
February 2010
"5 Things You Should Never Say To A Client"
Law360.com
1/29/2010
Stricter Smog Standards to Burden Municipalities and Industry
1/26/2010
Estate and Generation-Skipping Tax Repeal for 2010
1/13/2010
Increased Governmental Scrutiny on Oil and Gas Development
1/11/2010
Establishing Bank Holding Company Insolvency: Lessons Learned from The Bank of New England Corporation Bankruptcy
Banking & Financial Services Policy Report
January 2010
Fraudulent Transfer Remedies Available to Bank Holding Company Bankruptcy Trustees After Gramm-Leach-Bliley
The Banking Law Journal
January 2010
"Inside the Minds: Emerging Applications for ADR," author of chapter: "International ADR Developments: Innovative Approaches to Resolving New Types of Disputes"
January 2010
SEC Approves Proposal Regarding Enhanced Proxy Disclosure
12/17/2009
Constructing a Bank Holding Company Insolvency Model: Part II
American Bankruptcy Institute Journal
December 2009
"From Shovel Ready Projects to Sustainable Partnerships"
EnergyPulse
12/2/2009
"Controversial Uses of the "Clawback" Remedy in the Current Financial Crisis"
Texas Bar Journal
December 2009
EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Starts January 2010
11/16/2009
Constructing a Bank Holding Company Insolvency Model: Part I
American Bankruptcy Institute Journal
November 2009
"OUP Legal Aspects of Carbon Trading: Kyoto, Copenhagen, and beyond," co-author of chapter: "Emissions Trading in the US: Legal Issues"
Oxford University Press
October 2009
"Offsetting the Invisible Hand: Flaws in the GHG Offset Regime Under the Waxman-Markey Bill"
Bloomberg Law Reports
October 2009
"Finding 'The One'"
Women's Council on Energy and the Environment's Webzine
10/4/2009
"12 Ways to Get Lenders to Call Back,"
Scotsman Guide
October 2009
"What's Keeping Managing Partners Up at Night? Five Managing Partners to Respond at PDI"
NALP Bulletin
October 2009
General Growth Properties Bankruptcy: SPE Structure Survives, but Consideration of Corporate Group Permitted,
Real Estate Finance
October 2009
EPA Moving Ahead with Regulation of Greenhouse Gases
9/25/2009
"Pleading the Case for Working Together"
Peer to Peer, The Quarterly Magazine of ILTA
September 2009
Impact of the Obama Administration’s Financial Regulatory Overhaul on the Securitization Markets
9/8/2009
"Texas Legislature Passes Certificate of Title Bill Negating Effect of Clark Contracting Decision,"
LJN's Equipment Leasing Newsletter
September 2009
"FCPA Prosecution: Lessons Learned From Deferred and Non-Prosecution Agreements," (co-author)
White-Collar Crime Andrews Litigation Reporter
August 2009
Administration Unveils Over-The-Counter Derivatives Reform
8/28/2009
Round 2 of General Growth Properties Bankruptcy: Motions to Dismiss SPE Bankruptcies Denied, No Bad Faith, Corporate Group Considered
8/27/2009
Congress Pushes Forward Executive Compensation Regulation and Say on Pay Legislation
8/18/2009
"Offsetting the Invisible Hand"
The Power Marketing Association OnLine
July 2009
"Cooperative Federalism"
EnergyPulse
7/6/2009
"Cooperative Federalism"
EnergyPulse Weekly
7/6/2009
Resolution of Claims involving Medicare Beneficiaries under the MMSEA
New Reporting Requirements and Significant Penalties for Failing to Protect Medicare’s Interests
7/1/2009
“Diversity in a Downturn: Can we afford to continue to support diversity and inclusion in this economy? Can we afford not to?”
The Lonestar Administrator
July 2009
"Obama Administration Announces Financial Regulatory Overhaul"
6/24/2009
Round 1 of General Growth Properties Bankruptcy: SPE Structure Survives
6/24/2009
A New Kind of Cybersquatting
Facebook, Twitter and Online Social Media Sites
6/12/2009
Ups and Downs for Legacy CMBS: TALF Expands, but S&P Signals Downgrades
5/29/2009
"Stimulus Bill Opportunities: Solar, Efficiency and Their Convergence"
5/14/2009
"President Obama’s Proposal Regarding U.S. Federal Income Tax Deferral and Enforcement against Tax Havens"
5/5/2009
"Family and Medical Leave, Military Family Leave, and Updates to Regulations"
5/4/2009
"Clark Contracting: Texas Lien Assignees Unperfected?"
Pratt's Journal of Bankruptcy Law
May 2009
"Lone Star State Wrestles with Car Loan Fate,"
American Securitization Forum
Spring 2009
Treasury Expands Opportunities for Fund Managers in the Legacy Securities Program
4/13/2009
"Is 'Microenergy' a Viable Strategy for Rural Electrification?"
Inter-American Dialogue's Latin American Advisor: Energy
April 2009
Treasury Announces Public-Private Investment Program
3/30/2009
"Clark Contracting: Texas Lien Assignees Unperfected?"
3/16/2009
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Fast Facts

1. Andrews Kurth LLP received high marks in the recent rankings released by the Chambers USA Guide. The firm received 4 national practice area rankings, 10 Texas practice area rankings and 2 District of Columbia practice area rankings. The guide also ranked 31 Andrews Kurth lawyers, 5 of which ranked nationally. (June 2009)

2. mergermarket ranked Andrews Kurth #6 Legal Advisor for M&A transactions in Texas by volume (21 deals) and #7 Legal Advisor for M&A transactions in Oklahoma by value ($443 million) and in its U.S. Regional M&A Roundup 2008 in the South report. (February 2009)

3. Thomson Reuters ranked Andrews Kurth #5 Underwriters Counsel ($8.11 billion; 137 issues) in its U.S. Municipals Review for Year End 2008. (February 2009)

4. Ranked among the nation’s top debt and equity legal advisors in the recently released Thomson Reuters U.S. Capital Markets Review for Year-End 2008, including a #2 ranking in U.S. IPOs as Manager Legal Advisor. (January 2009)

5. The American Lawyer magazine ranked Andrews Kurth #5 in its list of Leading World-Wide Gas and Oil M&A Legal Advisors. In 2007, Andrews Kurth engaged in 20 oil and gas merger and acquisition deals that totaled $23.46 billion. (October 2008)

6. PlacementTracker listed Andrews Kurth in its PIPE Market Issuer Counsel League Table. The firm closed 6 private placement deals totaling more than $319 million in the first three quarters of 2008. (October 2008)

7. The Executive Legal Advisor listed Andrews Kurth three times in its list of Top Ten Texas IPO's in 2007. (October 2008)

8. The American Lawyer 2009 Corporate Scorecard has ranked Andrews Kurth in several categories for securities offerings during 2008, including #2 in Municipal Bonds and #3 in IPOs. In addition, the firm was recognized for its involvement in two of the largest bankruptcies filed in 2008. (April 2009)

9. Named one of best law firms in the nation for women, 2008 and 2009 by Working Mother magazine and Flex-Time Lawyers LLC. 

10. Created first MLP—master limited partnerships—to help energy clients grow.

11. Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst, 2008 “Most Active Law Firms” in number of deals and funds represented.

12. Counselors in project financing of second largest wind project in U.S., Sweetwater Wind Farm.

13. Andrews Kurth is the seventh largest bankruptcy law firm in the nation.

14. Helped launch Houston Urban Debate League in 2008 to encourage success of public high school students.

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