Brown & Fortunato Announces Two Attorneys Selected as Texas Rising Stars

Brown & Fortunato is pleased to announce Eric J. Matthews and Jonathan E. Sterling have been selected as 2024 Texas Rising Stars. Each year, no more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor.

Eric is a member of B&F’s Corporate Group. His transactional practice includes mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and real estate. Eric advises at every phase of the business cycle, from formation to termination, and he has experience handling a variety of equity and asset transactions. Eric is based in the Amarillo office and has been selected to the Rising Stars list in 2023 and 2024.

Jon is a shareholder and a member of the firm’s Corporate Group. His practice focuses on business transactions in the energy, entertainment, financial services, logistics, real estate, and technology industries, with an emphasis on transactions in the healthcare space. He is based in the Dallas office and has been selected as a Super Lawyer Rising Star in Texas for 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024.

Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area. The result is a credible, comprehensive, and diverse listing of exceptional attorneys.