It was a day before Hurricane Harvey was forecast to strike Texas, and with the deadline looming to complete a complicated transaction for a client, Haynes and Boone partner Ricardo Garcia-Moreno in Houston said he started to panic.

“To put it mildly, at about 2 o’clock on Thursday, I started to freak out. We were a week away from closing,” said Garcia-Moreno, who dealt with no power at home when Hurricane Ike hit Houston in 2008 and was worried he would have the same issue with Harvey.

Ricardo Garcia-Moreno, a Haynes and Boone partner.