On March 16, 2011, Judge Daniels in the Southern District of New York approved the plan of distribution supported by Gibbs & Bruns client Carnegie Mellon University in the $815 million Westridge Capital receivership case, SEC v. WG Trading Investors, L.P. et al., 09-CIV-1750 (S.D.N.Y).  In a hearing on March 16th, Gibbs & Bruns partner […]

HOUSTON, March 15, 2011 – Gibbs & Bruns LLP announced today that a Texas jury awarded a $116 million fraud verdict late Monday against Dallas billionaire Trevor Rees-Jones and energy giant Devon Energy Production Co., L.P. (DVN).  The damages for fraud and breach of fiduciary duty were awarded to D. Bobbitt Noel, Jr., who was […]

Countrywide RMBS Initiative Houston, January 28, 2011 – Counsel for BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP and Gibbs & Bruns LLP on behalf of certain investors including those who signed the previously-reported October 18, 2010 letter with respect to private label residential mortgage-backed securitizations, as well as counsel for The Bank of New York Mellon, as […]

Gibbs & Bruns is lead counsel to over a dozen large institutions who collectively hold over 25% of the Voting Rights in 225 securitization pools that issued over $175 billion of Countrywide-issued mortgage-backed securities. Our clients engaged us to enforce their rights, through the governing agreements, to compel the repurchase of ineligible mortgages that do […]

HOUSTON, October 18, 2010 – Today, the holders of over 25% of the Voting Rights in more than $47 billion of Countrywide-issued RMBS sent a Notice of Non-Performance (Notice) to Countrywide Home Loan Servicing, as Master Servicer (“Countrywide Servicing”), and to Bank of New York, as Trustee, identifying specific covenants in 115 Pooling and Servicing […]

HOUSTON, August 9, 2010 – Kathy Patrick, a partner in Gibbs & Bruns, represents The John M. O’Quinn Foundation, the sole beneficiary under the will of the late, legendary trial lawyer John O’Quinn.  On August 9th, Patrick and Gibbs & Bruns associate Laura Kissel won an important preliminary victory when the Honorable Mike Wood, Harris […]

Robin Gibbs, Founding Partner of Gibbs & Bruns LLP, is featured in the July/August edition of The Houston Lawyer‘s “A Profile in Professionalism.” Click here to read Professionalism: An Essential Aspect of our Practice of Law.

On the heels of his service as President of the Houston Bar Association (HBA), Gibbs & Bruns partner Barrett Reasoner assumed a role on the State Bar of Texas’s Board of Directors this June.  Barrett serves as Representative of District 4, Place 1 with a term that expires in 2013.  The Board serves as the governing body of […]

HOUSTON, May 10, 2010 – Gibbs & Bruns LLP received the prestigious 2009 Harris County Bench Bar Pro Bono Award in the mid-size firm category at the second annual Harris County Bench Bar Pro Bono Award ceremony today.  The Houston Bar Association and the Harris County judiciary established the award program to recognize outstanding pro bono service […]

HOUSTON, April 30, 2010 – Following a complex three-month jury trial against the Port of Houston Authority—and a resulting jury verdict for Gibbs & Bruns client Zachry Construction Corporation—the trial court entered final judgment this week awarding Zachry $23.4 million in damages.  This breach of contract lawsuit arose from the Port’s last-minute rejection of a […]