Jones Day announced that William Prescott Mills Schwind, an oil and gas industry lawyer focused on cross-border transactions, has joined the Houston Office as a partner in the Firm’s Energy Practice (more…)
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP is representing Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (KMP) in its agreement to sell Kinder Morgan Interstate Gas Transmission, Trailblazer Pipeline Company, the Casper-Douglas natural gas processing and West Frenchie Draw treating facilities in Wyoming, and the company’s 50 percent interest in the Rockies Express Pipeline (REX) to Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP (more…)
Tesoro Corp. will spend $2.5 billion to purchase a Southern California refinery and more than 800 gas stations in California, Nevada and Arizona. In addition, Tesoro will also acquire the ARCO brand (more…)
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP is representing Kinder Morgan, Inc. (KMI) in the sale of 100 percent of Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP) and a 50 percent interest in El Paso Natural Gas (EPNG) pipeline to Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (KMP) for approximately $6.22 billion. The total includes about $1.8 billion in assumed debt at TGP and approximately $560 million of proportional debt at EPNG (more…)
Baker Hostetler announced today that Dennis P. Duffy has joined the firm’s Employment and Labor Group as Partner in its Houston office. He comes to Baker Hostetler from Baker Botts LLP where he was Chair of the Labor and Employment practice (more…)
Burleson LLP announced today that Elizabeth M. Guffy, who has practiced law for more than two decades, has joined the energy law firm’s Bankruptcy and Restructuring Practice Group (more…)
A team of Haynes and Boone, LLP attorneys from four offices advised Panda Power Funds on the completion of secured financing to develop a natural gas-fired power plant in Temple, Texas. This generation will be important to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. (ERCOT) power region in adding much-needed new capacity as a result of rapidly declining reserve margins (more…)
Amy R. Granoff has joined Winstead PC as a shareholder in finance and banking. Granoff’s practice focuses on representing financial institutions, borrowers and issuers in structuring, negotiating and documenting commercial lending and other financial transactions. She joins Winstead from the Houston office of Haynes and Boone, LLP (more…)
DLA Piper today announced that Glenn A. Reitman has joined the Corporate and Finance practice as a partner in the Houston office (more…)
George Y. Gonzalez, an attorney with broad experience counseling U.S. and Latin American businesses in general corporate, energy and mergers and acquisition law, has joined the Haynes and Boone, LLP Houston office as a partner in the International Practice Group (more…)
Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented BNP Paribas in the sale of its North American reserve-based energy lending unit to Wells Fargo Bank. The loan portfolio sold pursuant to this transaction consisted of $9.5 billion of total loan commitments (more…)
Veteran trial lawyer James A. Hurd, Jr., has joined the Houston office of national law firm Wilson Elser as of counsel. Mr. Hurd’s primary practices areas include Toxic Tort, Environmental & Energy and Government Compliance (more…)
