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.

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DLA Piper today announced that Glenn A. Reitman has joined the Corporate and Finance practice as a partner in the Houston office.

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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.

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Bracewell & Giuliani LLP is representing Noble Energy, Inc. in its announced sale of certain oil and natural gas properties in western Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle to Unit Petroleum Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Unit Corporation, for $617 million. The properties include Noble Energy’s interest in about 900 producing wells on approximately 84,000 net acres.

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A team of Haynes and Boone, LLP attorneys recently advised The Signature Group in the purchase of Daniels Family Funeral Services, owner of eight New Mexico funeral homes, three cemeteries and two crematories.

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National law firm FosterQuan hired Lydia G. Tamez as a partner for a Houston legal job, according to a press release.

With 26 years of immigration law experience and previously associate general counsel for the Microsoft Corporation, Tamez holds credentials that are both domestic and global.

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Jackson Walker L.L.P. recently assisted client QSpex Technologies, Inc. in securing approximately $20.5 million in Series D funding, which will enable the company to expand its production capacity and increase its sales and marketing staff to support a major U.S. product launch. Based in Alpharetta, Georgia, QSpex uses proprietary technology to develop systems that enable vision care providers to efficiently produce a wide range of top-quality spectacle lenses with a variety of premium features.

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Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP represented BP America Production Company (NYSE:BP) in its $1.03 billion sale of its interests in Jonah and Pinedale upstream operations in Southwestern Wyoming to LINN Energy, LLC (Nasdaq:LINE) announced on June 25, 2012. Included in the sale are BP’s operations center in Sublette County, Wyoming and all of its working interest in a substantial number of operated and non-operated wells that are producing natural gas, natural gas liquids, and oil. Completion of the sale remains subject to customary regulatory approvals and conditions. The acquisition is expected to close in July 2012.

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International law firm McDermott Will & Emery augmented two Texas offices with renowned tax lawyers, according to a press release.

Seven attorneys will take on new Dallas legal jobs and Houston legal jobs.

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A lawyer with significant in-house counsel experience has returned to Fulbright as partner.

Kevin McDonald returns to Fulbright’s Houston office after serving in management roles with the corporate legal departments at Cooper Industries, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation and Valero Energy Corporation.

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