Bloomberg Law
Oct. 26, 2017, 2:00 PM UTC

Another Large Law Firm Raids Houston for Partners

Nushin Huq
Special Correspondent

Sidley Austin LLP is adding five partners from Andrews Kurth to its capital markets and M&A practices, which will round out the firm’s energy expertise, the firm said.

David Buck, Jon Daly, Angela Richards and George Vlahakos will join as partners in the firm’s Houston office, while the fifth partner, Bill Cooper, will split his time between Houston and Washington D.C.

The group marks the latest instance of a large international firm luring partners away from a Texas firm.

Earlier this year, Gibson Dunn lured six energy transactional partners away from Baker Botts LLP. There have been others. Last year ...

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