A Weil team led by Dallas M&A partner R. Jay Tabor advised Kinder Morgan, the third largest energy company in North America, in its $5 billion (including assumption of debt) acquisition of Copano Energy LLC, a midstream natural gas company which owns an interest in or operates approximately 6,900 miles of pipelines and nine processing plants primarily in the south central US.

In addition to R. Jay Tabor, the Weil team advising Kinder Morgan Energy Partners included Public Company Advisory Group (PCAG) partner P.J. Himelfarb (Dallas); Capital Markets partner Heather Emmel (New York); Antitrust partners Steven Newborn and Laura Wilkinson (both of Washington, DC); Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits partners Michael Nissan and Amy Rubin (both of New York); Tax partner Jared Rusman (Dallas); M&A associate Sachin Kohli (New York); Capital Markets associate Suzanne Lee (New York); Corporate associates Sandra Rutova (New York) and Samuel Peca (Dallas); PCAG associate Adé Heyliger (Washington, DC); Antitrust counsel Vadim Brusser (Washington, DC); Antitrust associate Megan Peloquin (Washington, DC); Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits associates Eric Schecter, Adam Mendelowitz, and Kate Napalkova (all of New York); and Tax associate Russell Stein (Boston).

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