Bracewell & Giuliani LLP is representing Wells Fargo Bank in its purchase of the energy lending unit of BNP Paribas. Wells Fargo will acquire $9.5 billion of total loan commitments, including $3.9 billion in funded balances (more…)

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Bracewell & Giuliani LLP is representing Kinder Morgan, Inc. in the sale of El Paso Corporation’s exploration and production business, EP Energy Corporation (EP Energy), for approximately $7.15 billion to affiliates of Apollo Global Management, LLC and Riverstone Holdings, LLC, who are joined by Access Industries, Inc. and other parties (more…)

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Bracewell & Giuliani LLP is representing Rockland Capital LLC, a private equity firm focused on energy-related investments, in its purchase of two separate power assets (more…)

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The law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP is pleased to announce that Geoffrey A. Long has joined the Firm’s Houston office as a Partner in the Corporate and Securities Practice Group (more…)

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The law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP is pleased to announce that Casey Ragan and Rebecca R. Seidl have joined the Firm as Attorneys in the Oil and Gas Practice Group (more…)

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King & Spalding advised Freeport LNG Expansion, L.P.,  in a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract with a joint venture comprised of Zachry Industrial, Inc., and CB&I Inc. for the engineering and design of the Freeport Liquefaction Project near Freeport, Texas (more…)

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Sidley Austin LLP today announced the opening of a Houston office, with the addition of seven partners coming from seven different firms in Houston (more…)

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V&E served as counsel to long-time client BMC Software, Inc., in its $300 million acquisition of Numara Software, a leading global provider of integrated IT management solutions for the mid-market (more…)

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DLA Piper announced today that it had advised the consortium of Korea Investment Management Co., Ltd., Samsung Securities Co., Ltd. and Daewoo Securities Co., Ltd. (the “Consortium”) in the acquisition of US$308 million worth of US oil assets in the Ankor offshore field (the “Ankor oil assets”) from Ankor E&P Holdings Corporation (“AEPH”) — a wholly owned US subsidiary of Korea National Oil Corporation (“KNOC”) (more…)

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Sadler Law Firm LLP, the Houston-based national law firm dedicated to the legal concerns of energy companies, launches an office in Fort Worth, its third national office and second in Texas (more…)

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The Austin office of national labor and employment law firm Constangy Brooks & Smith, LLP is pleased to announce that it is expanding with the addition of partner Scott Agthe and associate Amy Ybarra (more…)

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Looper Reed & McGraw welcomes Chris Shea (Houston – Healthcare Law), Rand Lionberger (Houston – Oil & Gas Law), Rachel Crockett (Dallas – Employment Law), Jennifer Gurevitz (Dallas – Tax Law) (more…)

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