Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP advised the conflicts committee of the LINN Energy board of directors in LINN’s purchase of Berry Petroleum Company (more…)
Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, announced that it represented Chesapeake Energy Corporation in the negotiation of a 10-year agreement with Methanex, the world’s largest supplier of methanol, to supply 350 billion cubic feet of natural gas required for Methanex’s methanol plant in Louisiana. The structure of the agreement links natural gas prices to the price of methanol, reducing the exposure to natural gas price fluctuations. Natural gas deliveries will coincide with the startup of the plant in 2014 (more…)
Attorneys with the law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP represented WBI Energy, Inc., a subsidiary of MDU Resources Group, Inc. (NYSE: MDU), in the formation of Dakota Prairie Refining, LLC, a $300 million joint venture with Calumet Specialty Partners, L.P. (NASDAQ: CLMT) that will develop, build, and operate a diesel refinery in southwestern North Dakota. The transaction was announced on Feb. 7, 2013 (more…)
Porter Hedges represented a Special Committee of the Gulfport Energy Corporation (“Gulfport”) Board of Directors in the $220 million acquisition of Utica Shale acreage from Windsor Ohio, LLC (“Windsor Ohio”). The purchase includes approximately 22,000 net acres in the Utica Shale in Eastern Ohio and increases Gulfport’s leasehold interests in the Utica Shale to approximately 137,000 gross (128,000 net) acres and increases its working interest in the acreage to 93.8% (more…)
Winston & Strawn LLP has announced Chris Ferazzi and Richard (“Dick”) Wynne have joined its Houston office, expanding the firm’s corporate and transactional capabilities in the growing market. Mr. Ferazzi and Mr. Wynne join Winston & Strawn from Porter Hedges LLP and add significant depth in areas including mergers & acquisitions, private equity and securities. The addition of these practitioners underscores Winston & Strawn’s commitment to developing a full-service platform in Houston (more…)
The international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP welcomes Kendyl Hanks to the Austin office as a shareholder in the Litigation Practice (more…)
Wick Phillips, a full-service business law firm with offices in Dallas, Fort Worth and Austin, Texas, announces the addition of Greg Young as a partner in the Austin office, who will also manage the firm’s Central Texas operations. With more than 14 years of experience, Young has handled a wide variety of corporate and transactional matters for clients, including mergers and acquisitions, loan transactions on both the borrower and the lender side, formation and governance of corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies, as well as venture capital and other private equity transactions (more…)
Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. is pleased to announce a new practice area and the expansion of their Houston team. With the addition of attorney Gary J. Ilagan, and paralegals, Miguel Cervantes and Leticia Rodriguez, this team adds immigration as a new practice area for the Houston office (more…)
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP advised Oklahoma City-based oil and gas production company Gulfport Energy Corporation on a pair of deals announced today (more…)
King & Spalding advised Freeport LNG Expansion, L.P. in the company’s binding 20-year liquefaction tolling agreement with an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of BP p.l.c., covering 50 percent of the production capacity from the initial two trains of Freeport LNG’s natural gas liquefaction and LNG (liquefied natural gas) loading facility on Quintana Island near Freeport, Texas (more…)
Wick Phillips, a full-service business law firm with offices in Dallas, Fort Worth and Austin, Texas, announces the addition of Daniel McCarthy as a partner in its Fort Worth office. McCarthy specializes in assisting clients with structuring new business entities, planning joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, asset protection planning, business succession planning, and estate planning (more…)
Law firm Winstead PC welcomes shareholder and environmental attorney Christopher B. Pepper, previously a staff attorney for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and a senior research associate with the Institute of Environmental and Human Health in Lubbock, Texas (more…)
