Winston & Strawn LLP has announced the expansion of the firm’s global energy practice with the addition of two oil and gas partners in Houston. Denmon Sigler and Craig S. Vogelsang join the firm’s energy practice group. Ms. Sigler was most recently with Baker Botts, and Mr. Vogelsang with Norton Rose Fulbright. Their arrival comes just one month after a high-profile group of Weil, Gotshal & Manges litigators and bankruptcy lawyers joined the office, and reinforces the firm’s commitment to growth and developing a full-service platform in Houston. (more…)

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Bracewell & Giuliani LLP announced today that Roxanne T. Almaraz has joined the firm as a partner in its Houston office. A well-regarded corporate attorney, Almaraz counsels clients in domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other business transactions, and assists clients with project development and general corporate matters. She has experience in transactional matters that span the energy industry, having represented clients in the power/utilities, renewables, and midstream and upstream oil and gas sectors. (more…)

The law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP advised Indonesian state-owned oil and gas company Pertamina in the $1.75 billion acquisition of ConocoPhillips’ Algerian Business Unit, ConocoPhillips Algeria Limited (“COPAL”). COPAL is the company’s first major acquisition overseas. (more…)

Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Mizuho Bank, Ltd., and RBS Securities Inc., as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as the administrative agent, in connection with a $3 billion Second Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Agreement for Valero Energy Corporation (more…)

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Michael Adams is a partner in the Litigation and Intellectual Property groups at Jackson Walker. For more than 25 years, Mr. Adams has practiced patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret law, with an emphasis on the litigation, procurement, and licensing of intellectual property rights. His practice has focused on those intellectual property issues arising in the following industries: computer, semiconductor, electronics, software, e-commerce and internet. Mr. Adams has participated in patent infringement trials before the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern (Marshall) and Western (Austin) Districts of Texas and the Eastern District of Virginia, and appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (more…)

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McGuireWoods LLP today announced that Barbara Spudis de Marigny has joined the firm’s tax practice as a partner in Houston. De Marigny brings more than 30 years of experience advising businesses on taxation of their operations, mergers and acquisitions, partnerships and joint ventures. She has extensive experience representing clients in the energy industry, including vertically-integrated majors, MLPs, and private equity investors in companies operating midstream, upstream or in the oilfield services sector (more…)

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McGlinchey Stafford is pleased to announce that Emily Stroope has joined the firm’s consumer financial services litigation team in Dallas, Texas. The national law firm now has thirty-three attorneys practicing in Texas, with eighteen lawyers in its Dallas office and fifteen in Houston (more…)

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International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP announced today that Courtney Solcher Marcus has rejoined the Firm as a partner in the Firm’s Global Finance Practice, based in the Dallas office (more…)

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