Author: Olivia Pulsinelli

Clifford Chance has offices in 32 cities, but Houston is only the third U.S. location.

Texas has the most companies on the Fortune 500 list for the second year in a row, and Houston accounts for nearly half of the state’s total. Much of that is thanks to energy companies, which had a strong year.

This marks Houston’s eighth win in the James Beard Foundation’s Restaurant & Chef Awards.

NRG Energy announced a $1.75 billion deal to exit the nuclear power business, additional share buybacks and a new CFO. The announcements come on the heels of an activist investor urging NRG to make changes to its board of directors and refocus on its c…

Venator Materials expects to emerge from bankruptcy quickly. On May 15, the manufacturer and marketer of chemical products said an “overwhelming majority of its lenders and noteholders” had agreed to the terms of a comprehensive recapitalization plan, …

The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo has elected a woman as chairman of the board for the first time since the show began in 1932. In 2018, she became the first woman ever elected to the HLSR’s Executive Committee.

In this week’s Restaurant Roundup, one of the creators behind The Burger Joint and The Taco Stand has opened a space-themed cocktail lounge in Montrose, and the owners of Nobie’s and The Toasted Coconut plan to open a nostalgic pizza joint with a mini-…

The University of Texas System Board of Regents appointed Dr. Jochen Reiser to the role on May 24 after naming him the sole finalist on April 27.

Chord Energy was created through the merger of Houston-based Oasis Petroleum Inc. and Denver-based Whiting Petroleum Corp. When the deal was announced last year, the companies said they expected to create a “premier operator in the Williston Basin.”

The expansion is needed so the two-decades-old terminal can better accommodate Carnival Cruise Line’s Carnival Jubilee, which arrives in Galveston in December.