Bracewell & Giuliani LLP is representing Plains Exploration & Production Company (PXP) in the acquisition financing related to PXP’s agreement to acquire Gulf of Mexico interests from BP Exploration & Production Inc. and BP America Production Company (BP) and from Shell Offshore Inc. (Shell) (more…)
Plains Exploration & Production Company (PXP) has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire from BP Exploration & Production Inc. and BP America Production Company (“BP”) all of their interests in certain deepwater Gulf of Mexico oil and gas properties for $5.55 billion, as detailed in the press release below issued by PXP (more…)
August proved to be another busy month for the Houston legal jobs market–here are some of the highlights:
Baker Hostetler recruited Dennis Duffy, former chair of the labor and employment practice at Baker Botts, LLP. Mr. Duffy joins the firm as a partner.
The Houston office of Jones Day announced the legal recruitment of William Prescott Mills Schwind as a partner in the firm’s energy practice. Mr. Schwind was previously a partner in the Houston office of Thompson & Knight, LLP.
Daniel Nossa has been recruited as a partner to the energy practice and derivatives group at Jackson Walker in Houston.
King & Spalding continued the expansion of the firm’s Houston office this month with the hiring of Erika Serran Toussaint as a partner in the firm’s global disputes practice. Ms. Serran Toussaint joins the firm as a counsel.
Andrews Myers PC, known for its core range of legal services critical to mid-market businesses, announces that Timothy C. “Tim” Ross has joined the firm as Senior Counsel (more…)
A trusts and estate-planning attorney has joined the Houston office of Fulbright as senior counsel (more…)
King & Spalding has recruited Erika Serran Toussaint to join its global disputes practice as a counsel in its Houston office as the firm continues to expand its international investment treaty and cross-border commercial disputes practice in the United States and abroad, the firm announced today (more…)
Daniel Nossa joins the Energy practice and the Derivatives group in the Houston office at Jackson Walker (more…)
DLA Piper advised BP in the US$2.5 billion agreement to sell its Southern California refining and marketing business to San Antonio-based refiner Tesoro Corp (more…)
Jackson Walker L.L.P. represented J.B. Poindexter & Co., Inc. in the successful completion of a $25 million 144A senior debt offering on August 20, 2012 (more…)
On August 13, 2012, Andrews Kurth LLP, a recognized leader in the diversity and inclusion arena, filed an Amicus Brief on behalf of its client the Houston Community College System (“HCC”) in support of the Respondents in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, et al., Case No. 11-345, now pending before the United States Supreme Court. Oral arguments are scheduled for October 10, 2012 (more…)
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP represented Canyon Partners LLC in the $200 million acquisition of Houston Pavilions, a mixed-use complex (more…)
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP represents Citigroup, as lead arranger and administrative agent, in a $225 million term loan acquisition financing to a joint venture between Boardwalk Pipeline Partners and its general partner Loews Corporation, in connection with the acquisition of PL Midstream LLC from PetroLogistics (more…)
