In response to client demand for expanded insurance litigation services across the country, Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, Ltd. announces the addition of veteran trial attorney Patrick M. Kemp, who joins the firm’s Austin, Texas, office as a shareholder. (more…)

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as joint lead arranger and joint bookrunner, with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as joint lead arranger and joint bookrunner, and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as the administrative agent, in connection with a $600 million senior secured revolving credit facility for Lario Oil & Gas Company. (more…)

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Akin Gump advised the conflicts committee of El Paso Pipeline Partners, L.P.’s (EPB) general partner, El Paso Pipeline GP Co. LLC, in a deal in which EPB said it will acquire Kinder Morgan, Inc.’s 50 percent stake in Ruby Pipeline, 50 percent stake in Gulf LNG and 47.5 percent stake in Young Gas Storage. The transaction is valued at approximately $2 billion, including $1.012 billion of proportionate debt at Ruby and Gulf LNG, resulting in an equity purchase price of $972 million. (more…)

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April 30, 2014 ‒ EQT Corporation (NYSE: EQT) today announced that EQT Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE: EQM) (Partnership) has agreed to acquire EQT’s Jupiter natural gas gathering system (Jupiter) for $1.18 billion. EQT will receive $1.12 billion of cash and $59 million of common and general partner units. The Jupiter system gathers EQT’s Marcellus production in portions of Greene and Washington Counties, Pennsylvania, and consists of approximately 35 miles of natural gas gathering pipeline and approximately 21,300 horsepower of compression. Jupiter has a total of 970 MMcf per day of pipeline capacity and six interconnects with the Partnership’s transmission and storage systems. (more…)

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