GableGotwals is pleased to announce the recent additions of Tim Sowecke as a Shareholder and Alex R. Telarik as Of Counsel to the Firm's offices in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, respectively.
GableGotwals is pleased to announce the return of Douglas J. May, following more than a decade as general counsel of a publicly-traded energy company. As a Shareholder in the Tulsa office, Doug will focus on contracts, securities, finance, mergers and acquisitions, governance, energy, and commercial law.
GableGotwals acted as local counsel to ONE Gas Inc. in its $300 million public offering of 5.10% Senior Notes Due 2029. J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Mizuho Securities USA LLC and U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc. acted as joint book runners.
U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers®, for the 13th consecutive year, announced the "Best Law Firms" rankings. GableGotwals is ranked in the 2024 list regionally in 71 practice areas.
Benchmark Litigation, a guide that provides analysis of commercial and financial litigators and law firms in the United States, named GableGotwals as a "highly recommended" law firm for Dispute Resolution in their 2023 rankings. Nine GableGotwals attorneys were also recognized.
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BPX, Zurich American, and others sued Cameron International Corporation in Oklahoma state court for more than $65 million in connection with work that Cameron performed on an oil and gas well in DeWitt County, Texas. Cameron removed the case to federal court, even though Cameron and BPX were both citizens of Texas, claiming that BPX had been fraudulently joined as a plaintiff in an improper attempt to destroy diversity jurisdiction. BPX and Zurich American filed a Motion to Remand arguing, among other things, that the doctrine of fraudulent joinder did not apply to plaintiffs like BPX and Zurich American. The Honorable Charles B. Goodwin of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma agreed with BPX and Zurich American, noting the “pragmatic reasons to limit application of the fraudulent joinder doctrine to defendants and the absence of Tenth Circuit authority concluding that extension of the doctrine to plaintiffs is appropriate.” Therefore, Judge Goodwin concluded that federal jurisdiction did not exist and remanded the lawsuit back to Oklahoma state court.
Congratulations to BPX Operating Company and Zurich American Insurance Company for their successful Motion to Remand. BPX and Zurich American are represented by John Sullivan, Rob Robertson, and Brian Tully.