Oil and gas production company Gulfport Energy Corp. was advised by a team from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in its acquisition of additional working interests in the Utica Shale in eastern Ohio.

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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP advised Hicks Equity Partners in a partnership it established with The Riverside Company to form H-D Advanced Manufacturing Company, a holding company specializing in heavy-duty, precision-engineered industrial components. The former CEO of a Hicks portfolio company will lead H-D.

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A team of Haynes and Boone, LLP lawyers advised Rise Energy Partners, LP in connection with its sale of interests in various oil and gas producing properties offshore southern California to Memorial Production Partners LP (MEMP) for a purchase price of about $271 million. The transaction closed on Dec. 12, 2012.

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Attorneys with the law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP represented Dallas-based Cardinal Midstream LLC in the company’s recent $600 million sale of its natural gas processing, treatment, and pipeline systems in the Woodford Shale region of southeastern Oklahoma to Atlas Pipeline Partners L.P. of Philadelphia.

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The WhiteWave Foods Company (“The Company”) (NYSE: WWAV) announced that it has agreed to sell certain assets owned by the Company to Morningstar Foods for $60 million, net of taxes, in connection with the separately announced sale by Dean Foods Company of its Morningstar business to Saputo Inc.

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Jackson Walker L.L.P. successfully represented Select Milk Producers, Inc., a cooperative of 87 large family-owned dairies, in a joint venture with The Coca-Cola Company to operate a health and wellness company known as Fair Oaks Farms Brands. Based in Chicago, Fair Oaks Farms Brands produces and markets premium quality nutrition products, including Core Power®, a high-protein milkshake that is currently being distributed in select regions of the U.S., with a national distribution rollout underway through Coca-Cola Refreshments.

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On December 1, 2012, Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC) entered into an agreement to sell its credit services unit to Equifax Information Services LLC, a subsidiary of Equifax Inc. (NYSE: EFX), for $1 billion in cash.

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Shackelford, Melton & McKinley, LLP, is pleased to announce the addition of commercial transactions partner Scott J. Conrad in the firm’s Dallas office.

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SNR Denton announced today that Matthew Harper has joined the firm’s Dallas office as a partner in the Intellectual Property and Technology practice.

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Beirne, Maynard & Parsons, LLP, a civil litigation firm, is pleased to announce the addition of Marcos G. Ronquillo as a partner in the firm’s Dallas office. Prior to joining Beirne, Maynard & Parsons, he served as the Managing Shareholder, President and Chief Operating Officer of Godwin Ronquillo PC in Dallas. The firm is committed to strategic growth focusing on a strong regional presence with international reach. In addition to working within firm management to implement the strategic plan, Mr. Ronquillo will lead the firm’s international practice group. Mr. Ronquillo, along with three talented attorneys from Godwin Ronquillo, will enhance and expand the firm’s capabilities in the areas of commercial litigation, public and international law, employment and transactional work.

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