Christine B. LaFollette

Contracts

Christine B. LaFollette, Mitchell L. Griffith, Thomas Yang | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Several significant amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law (the DGCL) were approved and signed into law last month. These amendments are substantially the same as the amendments originally proposed in April 2014 and generally went into effect on August 1, 2014, as described below. In...

Technology

Garrett A. DeVries, Alice Hsu, Christine B. LaFollette, Bruce S. Mendelsohn | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

On April 2, 2013, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a Report of Investigation (the “Report”)[1] in connection with its investigation of whether a post by the chief executive officer of Netflix, Inc. on his personal Facebook page violated Regulation FD. The SEC...

Energy | Private Equity

Christine B. LaFollette, J. Kenneth Menges, Jr. | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Editor: As partners-in-charge of the Houston and Dallas offices respectively, would you each describe your practice as well as the practices that each of your offices specializes in? Menges: Our practice in Dallas is a diverse general business practice that serves a variety of industries. We...