Dentons announced today that it will open an office in Houston, underscoring the Firm’s commitment to serving energy clients in the US and worldwide. The Firm currently represents the world’s most significant energy companies in all aspects of their business and in all major energy producing, refining, transport and utilization markets. The new office, Dentons’ 16th US location and 79th globally, builds on the recent combination of Fraser Milner Casgrain, Salans and SNR Denton, leveraging the Firm’s worldwide presence across the US, Canada, UK, Europe, Middle East, Central Asia and Africa to serve more than 400 existing clients in Houston (more…)
International law firm McDermott Will & Emery today announced the appointments of two prominent partners to its global White Collar & Securities Defense Practice Group (more…)
Porter Hedges LLP announced today that the firm represented Sequitur Energy Resources LLC (“Sequitur”) in its private equity capitalization, its credit facility, and the closing of its recent oil and gas transaction. Sequitur is engaged in acquiring and developing oil and gas assets in the continental United States (more…)
Porter Hedges represented Johnson Rice & Company L.L.C., as the representative of the underwriters, in a public offering by Sanchez Energy Corporation (Sanchez Energy). Total net proceeds to Sanchez Energy were $241.6 million (more…)
Natalie Regoli has joined Baker & McKenzie’s North America Banking, Finance and Major Projects Practice as a partner in Houston, further boosting the Firm’s oil and gas capabilities. Ms. Regoli has extensive experience advising on the entire lifecycle of liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects, having recently served as the lead lawyer managing a $15 billion LNG facility in Angola, the largest in sub-Saharan African history (more…)
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Wells Fargo Securities, LLC as sole lead arranger and sole bookrunner, and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as the administrative agent, in connection with a $600,000,000 senior secured revolving credit facility for Sequitur Energy Resources, LLC (more…)
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented Wells Fargo Securities, LLC as sole lead arranger and sole bookrunner, and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as the administrative agent, in connection with a $750,000,000 senior secured revolving credit facility for Parsley Energy, L.P (more…)
King & Spalding advised Marubeni-Itochu Tubulars America Inc. on its $600 million purchase of Sooner Inc., the casing and tubing business of Oil States International, Inc. Marubeni-Itochu is a unit of Japan’s Marubeni-Itochu Steel. King & Spalding’s role on this transaction is another example of the firm’s strength in the energy sector and demand for its services within the Texas oil and gas industry (more…)
Experienced intellectual property litigator and former ExxonMobil technology manager Jeffrey J. Phillips has joined the Houston office of Jones Walker LLP as a partner in the firm’s Business & Commercial Litigation Practice Group (more…)
Bob Thibault, a veteran lawyer who has represented a wide range of oil and gas companies involved in transactions and highly technical energy disputes, has joined the Haynes and Boone, LLP Energy Practice Group as Of Counsel in the Houston office (more…)
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP advised South Korea’s SK E&S in a binding 20-year Liquefaction Tolling Agreement with Freeport LNG Expansion, L.P. for 2.2 million tons per annum of capacity in the third train of Freeport LNG’s proposed natural gas liquefaction and LNG loading facility on Quintana Island, Texas (more…)
King & Spalding advised Freeport LNG Expansion, L.P., in the company’s agreements to enter into binding 20-year liquefaction tolling agreements (LTAs) with SK E&S LNG, LLC and Toshiba Corporation, each for a base quantity of 2.2 million tons per annum (mtpa), commencing upon completion of construction of the third train of Freeport LNG’s proposed natural gas liquefaction and LNG loading facility on Quintana Island near Freeport, Texas (more…)
