Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (“Mitsui”) announced yesterday that it, through its subsidiary Mitsui E&P Texas LP, has entered into a definitive agreement with SM Energy Company (“SME”) to acquire a 12.5% working interest in SME’s Eagle Ford property in Texas, which is approximately 47,000 net acres and includes 39,000 net acres of Eagle Ford Shale (more…)

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Cooley LLP on Thursday obtained a rare defense jury verdict in the Eastern District of Texas for client Vistaprint Limited in a patent infringement suit against ColorQuick (ColorQuick, LLC v. Vistaprint Limited et al.).  Vistaprint (Nasdaq: VPRT) is a leading online provider of professional marketing products and services to micro businesses and the home (more…)

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The Firm represented the lead arrangers, led by Royal Bank of Canada, The Royal Bank of Scotland plc and Société Générale, in connection with a $667 million secured construction, term and letter of credit facility to Sharyland Projects, L.L.C. and represented affiliates of Prudential Insurance Company of America in connection with the purchase of $60 million of secured fixed rate notes from Sharyland Projects to finance in part the construction of 300 miles of high voltage transmission lines and four substations in the Panhandle and South Plains regions of Texas to be leased to Sharyland Utilities, L.P (more…)

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Davis Polk advised JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as administrative agent and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. as lead arrangers in connection with the $1.25 billion senior secured revolving credit facility for El Paso Corporation, El Paso Natural Gas Company and Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company (more…)

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