The business and entertainment law firm Shackelford, Melton & McKinley, LLP, announces the addition of corporate attorney James M. Addams in the firm’s Dallas office (more…)
Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that Kelly D. Hine and I. Bobby Majumder have joined the firm’s Dallas office as Partners. In addition, three associates have also joined the firm’s Dallas office (more…)
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP represented Moelis & Company, advisor to the Board of Directors of CenterPoint Energy, Inc., regarding CenterPoint Energy’s agreement with OGE Energy Corp. and ArcLight Capital to form a master limited partnership (MLP), which will include CenterPoint Energy’s interstate pipelines and field services businesses and the midstream business of Enogex LLC, owned jointly by subsidiaries of OGE and Arclight. The partnership will have combined assets of nearly $11 billion (more…)
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery LLP is advising ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC in connection with the formation of a master limited partnership that will include the midstream businesses of Enogex LLC, which is jointly owned by ArcLight and OGE Energy Corp., and the interstate pipelines and field services businesses of CenterPoint Energy, Inc (more…)
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that Sam Cooper has joined the firm as a partner with the Litigation practice in Houston. Mr. Cooper joins from Baker Botts LLP, where he was global co-chair of the White Collar and Corporate Investigations Group. He possesses diverse litigation and energy industry expertise, which will help reinforce the complex litigation, white-collar, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), investigations, and international arbitration capabilities at Paul Hastings (more…)
Jackson Walker L.L.P. successfully represented Holt Texas, Ltd., as borrower, in complex financing transactions totaling over $850 million. The transactions, which closed on Feb. 19, 2013, included $200 million in new credit and amending and renewing over $650 million in existing credit (more…)
Sidley Austin LLP announced today that Timothy J. Devetski, a leading tax lawyer in Houston with extensive experience in energy sector transactions and capital markets, is joining Sidley as a partner. Mr. Devetski will be resident in Sidley’s Houston office and will be part of its global Tax and Tax Controversy practice groups (more…)
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP represented Evercore Partners, advisor to the Conflicts Committee of the Board of Directors of the general partner of Memorial Production Partners LP, regarding Memorial Production Partners LP’s agreement to acquire certain oil and gas producing properties in East Texas and North Louisiana from its sponsor, Memorial Resource Development LLC, for a purchase price of $200 million, which includes $4 million of net working capital and other customary purchase price adjustments (more…)
On March 14, 2013, CenterPoint Energy, Inc., OGE Energy Corp. and ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC announced that they have entered into an agreement to form a joint venture that will include CenterPoint Energy’s interstate pipelines and field services businesses and the midstream business of Enogex LLC, which is owned jointly by subsidiaries of OGE Energy and ArcLight (more…)
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Wells Fargo Securities, LLC as sole lead arranger and sole bookrunner and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as the administrative agent in connection with a $400 million senior secured revolving credit facility for Lonestar Resources America Inc (more…)
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP is representing Citibank, as administrative agent and arranger, in $2.45 billion of debt financing for an $11 billion deal that would create one of the largest master limited partnerships (MLP) in the United States (more…)
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP won a federal jury verdict in a patent suit on behalf of Syntrix, a biotechnology research firm, against Illumina in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington before U.S. District Judge Benjamin H. Settle (more…)
