Thompson & Knight LLP today announced the addition of Luis F. Gomar as a Partner in the Corporate and Securities Practice Group of the Firm’s Dallas and Mexico City offices. (more…)
Winstead PC welcomes Andrew Rosell, a shareholder in the corporate, securities/mergers and acquisitions practice group. Rosell was previously a partner at Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP. He will practice in Winstead’s Fort Worth office.
“I am excited to bring my practice to Winstead’s Fort Worth office and work with their deep bench of attorneys serving clients from every major investment center in Texas and Charlotte,” said Rosell. “It will be a great opportunity to expand Winstead’s services.” (more…)
The EnLink Midstream companies, EnLink Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE:ENLK) (the Partnership) and EnLink Midstream, LLC (NYSE:ENLC) (the General Partner) (together “EnLink”), today announced that a subsidiary of the Partnership has signed a definitive agreement to acquire LPC Crude Oil Marketing LLC (“LPC”), which has crude oil gathering, transportation and marketing operations in the Permian Basin, for approximately $100 million, subject to certain adjustments. (more…)
Marcus W. Deitz, an accomplished lawyer with more than 15 years of extensive experience as counsel for major local and regional bond issues, has joined McGuireWoods as a partner in Houston. The addition significantly enhances the firm’s highly regarded national public finance practice.
Deitz joins McGuireWoods from Norton Rose Fulbright where he was a partner working on a wide array of public finance transactions from the firm’s Houston and Denver offices. (more…)
Akin Gump advised Morgan Stanley in the sale, along with Chesapeake Energy Corporation, of natural gas producing assets in east Texas and north Louisiana to SND Operating, LLC. According to SND, the transaction was valued at $129 million in cash, subject to closing adjustments, and included 182,395 net acres, 73 percent operated by Chesapeake. As a result of the deal, SND, which is backed by Vortus Investment Advisors, now holds about 225,000 net acres of production. (more…)
The Plano law firm of Luna & Luna, LLP, has joined the Amarillo-based Underwood Law Firm, for an expanded presence in the areas of real estate and education law, according to Underwood managing partner Alan Rhodes.
“Uniting with the Underwood Law Firm gives us a larger footprint in education law and expands on our deep real estate expertise with additional claims and litigation capabilities,” said Scott Luna, managing partner of Luna & Luna. The combined firms will retain the name Underwood Law Firm. (more…)
Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce that Drew Baldinger is returning to the firm as a Business Transactions Partner in Houston.
Mr. Baldinger was most recently vice president, commercial and legal, for South Louisiana Methanol, headquartered in Austin, Texas. In that position, he oversaw all legal issues and was a member of senior management for an approximately $2 billion greenfield gas-to-methanol development. (more…)
