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The final day has passed for Governor Abbott to veto legislation that was approved during Texas' 89th Legislature Regular Session.

Last week Bracewell discussed the Trump administration's initial easing of restrictions on Venezuelan oil with General License...

Benjamin Israel, a partner with Bracewell & Giuliani LLP, coordinates the firm’s renewable energy practice, and focuses his practice on transactional and regulatory aspects of utility and nonutility electric power generation. Israel spoke with SNL Energy on June 11 to provide an overview of wind hedging. An edited transcript of that conversation follows.

The US Supreme Court has recently granted certiorari on the issue of whether a corporation can be held liable for the conduct of its affiliate without first satisfying the well-settled standards...

USPTO Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart's 26 March memorandum fundamentally altered the institution framework for IPRs and PGRs by removing the PTAB's...

France is at a crossroads. The convergence of booming demand, complex regulation and new legal frameworks creates risks — but also unprecedented opportunities for investors who plan with foresight and structure their projects to anticipate these reforms.

On October 16, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit revived a lawsuit filed by residents and property owners along the Mississippi Gulf coast against several corporations in the energy, fossil fuels and chemicals industries alleging that the defendants were responsible for property damage caused by Hurricane Katrina.

Effective March 16, 2009, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will require all companies raising capital in a non-public offering that qualifies under Regulation D to file the information required on Form D electronically.

On September 19, 2008, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued an emergency order temporarily suspending the timing restrictions and significantly increasing the volume limitation for issuer repurchases under Rule 10b-18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

In her September 23 opinion in In re Royal Street Bistro, LLC, et al., No. 21-2285,

In an opinion issued on February 11, 2009, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that "commodity forward agreements" under the safe harbor provisions of the bankruptcy code include agreements that are not traded on an exchange and involve physical delivery of the commodity.

As hurricane season kicks off, ensuring your company's insurance coverage can withstand the storm is more important than ever. Commercial property insurance policies contain numerous...

Idera Pharmaceuticals is challenging recently enacted interim procedures for revising patent term extensions as being inequitable.

In what has been an on-going saga, development, and steady march, the Board of Directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN") recently reiterated its support for its proposed new generic Top-Level Domain ("gTLD") registration system.

On June 7, 2011, the New York Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of a $900 million lawsuit brought by former shareholders against America Movil SAB ("Movil"), Latin America’s largest mobile phone carrier, on the grounds that a general release entered into by the parties in 2003 barred Plaintiffs’ claims. Centro Empresarial Cempresa SA et al. v. America Movil SAB de CV et al., -- N.E. 2d --, 2011 WL 2183293, slip op. at 1, 14 (June 7, 2011).

While the biodiesel industry's focus on environmental regulatory matters understandably has been drawn toward critical path issues relating to fuel standards, it is essential that biodiesel manufacturing, terminal and transportation companies not lose sight of the complex and burdensome environmental regulatory compliance requirements that apply to their facilities, much as they do to other fuel refiners and handlers.

Generative AI tools have quietly entered the expert witness process, and recent litigation developments show how exposed that process can become. Experts who use AI tools like ChatGPT or other LLMs to help draft reports may be creating a detailed, time-stamped record of their reasoning that opposing counsel can obtain and use to undermine the expert at deposition or trial.

Against that backdrop, activity within the global upstream M&A space has been modest, with deal volumes and values down against 2021 and the five-year average.