Simpson Thacher recently represented Midstates Petroleum Company, Inc. (“Midstates”) and Midstates Petroleum Company LLC in connection with the financing of its acquisition (the “Acquisition”) of certain interests in producing oil and natural gas assets, unevaluated leasehold acreage and related hedging instruments from Eagle Energy Production LLC (“Eagle”) for $650 million in cash and stock. Eagle is an independent energy company focused on exploration and development of oil and natural gas properties, with a focus on the Mississippian Lime formation in northwestern Oklahoma and southern Kansas (more…)
Law firm Winstead PC has hired an impressive group of energy, environmental, and commercial litigation attorneys, led by Richard (Rick) M. Simses and Paul M. Lavelle, former partners at Beirne, Maynard and Parsons who each have over 30 years of litigation experience, much of which is Louisiana-based. Simses, Charles Miers and Jon Vicklund are joining the firm’s office in The Woodlands, Texas. Lavelle will open the New Orleans Winstead office, serving as its managing shareholder (more…)
A team of Haynes and Boone, LLP lawyers advised Schmidt Funeral Home in the recent sale of its business to Carriage Services, Inc (more…)
Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP is pleased to announce the addition of James Howard, formerly of Locke Lord LLP, as a partner in the Firm’s Houston office. Mr. Howard’s practice will focus on international and business tax, securities, and finance (more…)
A team of Haynes and Boone, LLP attorneys advised, as Texas counsel, Panda Power Funds on the completion of secured financing to develop a natural gas-fired power plant in Sherman, Texas (more…)
On Aug. 30, 2012, Jackson Walker obtained a key victory for its client, Bankcard Processing International L.L.C., when the Court of Appeals for the First District of Texas overturned a $1.5 million judgment against the company and other defendants (more…)
Jackson Walker successfully represented its client Timberline Knolls, LLC in the sale of substantially all of its assets to Acadia Healthcare Company Inc (more…)
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP is representing SWEPI LP, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, in its agreement to purchase Chesapeake Energy Corporation’s assets in the southern Delaware Basin portion of the Permian Basin (more…)
The law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP is pleased to announce that Jennifer S. Sickler has joined the Firm as a Partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group in Houston (more…)
Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) announced that its subsidiary, Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (Chevron), has agreed to acquire 246,000 net leasehold acres in the Delaware Basin in New Mexico, a part of the Permian Basin, from Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHK) (Chesapeake) (more…)
Louisiana-based EPL Oil & Gas, Inc. (EPL) has executed a purchase and sale agreement to acquire certain shallow water Gulf of Mexico (GOM) shelf oil and natural gas interests from Hilcorp Energy GOM Holdings, LLC (Hilcorp) for $550 million, nearly doubling its proven energy reserves (more…)
Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP represented BP in its sale, announced on Sept. 10, 2012, of interests in a number of oil and gas fields in the deepwater U.S. Gulf of Mexico to Plains Exploration and Production Company for a total of $5.55 billion (more…)
