Jackson Walker recently assisted its client, QSpex Technologies, Inc., in completing a $6 million venture debt transaction with Silicon Valley Bank.

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BakerHostetler announced today that Ed Friedman has joined the firm’s Employment and Labor Group as Partner in its Houston office. He comes to BakerHostetler from Locke Lord LLP.

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McGuireWoods LLP announced the addition of Jeffrey A. Gollomp and Bryce D. Linsenmayer, who have joined the firm’s energy team in Houston as partners.

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Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that the firm represented ArcLight Capital Partners, an energy focused private equity firm, and its affiliates, in the sale of Cinco Pipe & Supply, LP, a distributor of oil country tubular goods and related services, to Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc. for $65 million in cash and the payment of $82 million of Cinco’s indebtedness.

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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.

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Gardere Wynne Sewell has recruited tax partner James Howard to its Houston office.  The partner focuses his practice on international tax matters for a variety of energy and real estate clients.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. Shell has agreed to pay Chesapeake $1.9 billion for 618,000 net acres in the Permian Basin that produce approximately 26,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.

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