Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP draws on the firm’s global network to represent leading corporations and financial institutions in multi-jurisdictional disputes. The team is regularly called upon to handle regulatory inquiries and enforcement, investigations, and criminal prosecutions, as well as civil litigation, arbitration and mediation. Richard Krumholz in Dallas is global head of litigation and disputes. Splitting her time between New York and Washington DC, Robin Adelstein is global head of antitrust and competition and co-head of US commercial litigation, alongside Andrew Price in Houston. Michael W O’Donnell leads the commercial litigation practice in San Antonio and Marc Collier is head of litigation and disputes in Austin. New York-based Victoria Corder is a go to for contractual, fraud and business torts disputes.
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Key clients

  • Office of the Attorney General of Texas
  • Republic National Distributing Company (RNDC)
  • H-E-B, LP v. Platinum Fire
  • Western Midstream
  • NXP Semiconductor N.V.
  • Southwest Airlines Co.
  • Prime Communications, LP
  • CPS Energy
  • LiftFund
  • Woodside Energy Hawaii, Inc.

Work highlights

  • Retained by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas to represent the State of Texas against Google for various alleged violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act related to claims that Google deceptively tracked users' location and internet usage.
  • Representing RNDC in a counterclaim against Sazerac Company, Inc., alleging that Sazerac’s initial lawsuit lacked proper context and contained incorrect information about RNDC.
  • ## INSERTED START: 20-01-2025 04:38:35 H-E-B outsourced the testing and maintenance of a fire protection system for a 70,000 square feet freezer warehouse Platinum Fire. In connection the annual inspection and testing, Platinum Fire performed a trip test on a Deluge Valve and failed to reset the valve as required by industry standards and the contract between the parties. This failure resulted in water entering the sprinkler pipes within the freezer warehouse resulting in a pipe rupture which flooded the warehouse which is at below freezing temperatures causing significant losses and business disruption.

Lawyers

Practice head

Richard Krumholz; Steve Jansma; Robin Adelstein; Andrew Price; Marc Collier; Jason Fagelman; Michael Swartzendruber; Joseph Graham, Jr.; Michael O’Donnell

Other key lawyers

Victoria Corder; Reagan Brown; Rafe Schaefe;