Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C. is pleased to announce a new practice area and the expansion of their Houston team. With the addition of attorney Gary J. Ilagan, and paralegals, Miguel Cervantes and Leticia Rodriguez, this team adds immigration as a new practice area for the Houston office.

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International law firm K&L Gates announced the opening of a new location in Houston, Texas this week.  Partner Charles Strauss moves from Fulbright & Jaworski to head the office, bringing a strong corporate practice with him.

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King & Spalding advised Freeport LNG Expansion, L.P. in the company’s binding 20-year liquefaction tolling agreement with an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of BP p.l.c., covering 50 percent of the production capacity from the initial two trains of Freeport LNG’s natural gas liquefaction and LNG (liquefied natural gas) loading facility on Quintana Island near Freeport, Texas.

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Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added a fourth Texas office — its 25th in the United States and 47th worldwide — with the opening of a Houston office. Joining K&L Gates in the establishment of the office is corporate partner Charles L. Strauss, who arrives at the firm from the Houston office of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., where he was a partner since 1991 and served as head of the firm’s securities practice group. During his 30 years with Fulbright & Jaworski, Strauss advised clients across a wide range of industry sectors on various corporate and securities matters, including clients based in the oil and gas, aerospace, trucking, and financial services industries, among others. Strauss also served in a variety of management functions at Fulbright & Jaworski, such as the partners committee and multiple diversity and inclusion committees.

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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP advised Genesis Energy, L.P. in its private placement of $350 million of 5.75 percent senior unsecured notes due in 2021, up from the previously announced aggregate principal amount of $300 million. The deal closed on February 8.

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Morgan Lewis today announced that Christopher B. Amandes will join the firm’s Environmental Practice, resident in Houston. Amandes, most recently a partner at Vinson & Elkins, has more than two decades of experience with environmental laws, both at the federal level and in Texas, as well as with agency regulations and policies affecting the petrochemical, refining, power generation, manufacturing, natural resources, and real estate industries.

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Steptoe & Johnson PLLC is expanding its presence in The Lone Star State with the opening of its second Houston location. The new office will be located in The Woodlands and will serve the firm’s U.S. and international energy clients.

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National law firm Chamberlain Hrdlicka announced the addition of three highly regarded bankruptcy attorneys to the firm’s Houston office. Shareholder Brian Kilmer and Associates Renee Bayer and Brian Roman joined the firm effective Feb. 1.

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Bracewell represented Evercore Partners, advisor to the Conflicts Committee of the Board of Directors of the general partner of Hi-Crush Partners LP, regarding Hi-Crush Partners’ acquisition of a preferred ownership interest in Hi-Crush Augusta LLC from Hi-Crush Proppants LLC for $37.5 million in cash and 3.75 million of newly issued convertible Class B units in Hi-Crush Partners.

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Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, announced today that it is representing Sinochem Petroleum USA LLC, a US subsidiary of the Beijing-based Sinochem Group, on a $1.7 billion transaction to purchase a 40% undivided interest in approximately 207,000 net oil and natural gas leasehold acres held by Pioneer Natural Resources Company in the highly prospective horizontal Wolfcamp shale play within the Spraberry Trend of the Midland Basin in west Texas. Under the agreement, Sinochem will acquire approximately 82,800 net acres of leasehold with development rights for all the horizontal Wolfcamp shale play and deeper horizons.

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