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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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