William Flanagan

Last month I wrote about Billy R. Flanigan, a businessman who has spent nearly two decades trying to recover millions of dollars from a breach-of-contract ruling involving the Mexican government oil workers union.I didn't mention that beyond Flanigan's problems with Mexico, he has another legal dispute here in Texas.

In the 1980s, Flanigan formed a partnership with a Houston attorney, David B. Black, and they each became half-owners of a company they formed called Arriba Limited, incorporated in the Bahamas.
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But Black and Flanigan had a falling out, which has led to a long, tangled and ongoing legal dispute played out in courts in Harris County and the Bahamas.
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Stan Nelson, a Houston attorney who has been appointed indirectly by the Supreme Court of the Bahamas to represent the company, called me after my column appeared to complain that Flanigan is not supposed to be representing himself as the owner of Arriba.
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Though Flanigan remains a 50 percent shareholder, the true legal representative of Arriba Limited is now a court-appointed receiver from the Bahamas named James B. Gomez.

1984 William Flanagan, head of Arriba Ltd., signed a deal with Mexico's Petroleum Worker's Union for at least 6 million barrels of slop oil.The union failed to deliver and Flanagan won a suit in 1986.