Houston, Tx., USA - May 23, 2012, Houston, Tx., USA - Endeavour International Corporation, an oil and gas exploration and production company, announced that Ralph A. Midkiff has joined the company as senior vice president and general counsel.
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Mr. Midkiff has more than twenty years experience successfully representing clients in major business litigation cases throughout the United States, including winning a world record securities arbitration award for $429 million in a case tried before the New York Stock Exchange. His practice includes representing clients in energy, oilfield services, petrochemicals, technology, financial services, securities, investments, money management, fraud, and other complex business and corporate litigation matters.
He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Rice University in 1981 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He was selected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi. He graduated with Honors from the University of Texas School of Law in 1984, where he was on the Texas Law Review and received the Order of the Coif (top ten percent of his class).
Mr. Midkiff practiced with Porter & Clements, LLP from 1984 to 1993, where he was a partner from 1989 to 1993. He was a partner with Clements, O’Neill, Pierce, Wilson and Fulkerson, LLP from 1993 to 2004. He established Zummo & Midkiff, LLP in 2005 and was a partner there until 2008. He joined Chamberlain as a shareholder in 2008.
Mr. Midkiff has broad experience in the types of business and corporate litigation generally encountered by companies, especially those in the energy, oil and gas, oilfield service, petrochemicals, technology, investment, and financial services industries. He has handled cases involving breach of contract, fraud, mergers and acquisitions, insurance coverage, unfair competition, tortious interference, investor and shareholder disputes, arbitration, employment disputes and executive compensation, protection of trade secrets and intellectual property, and many other business disputes. ■