Bracewell & Giuliani LLP is representing Chesapeake Energy Corporation in its sale of midstream assets in three separate transactions for total expected cash proceeds of more than $4 billion.

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Experienced corporate insurance attorney Christopher L. Martin has joined the Houston office of Locke Lord as a Partner on the Firm’s Regulatory and Transactional Insurance team. His broad-based corporate insurance experience will boost the Firm’s recognized national insurance practice and also add strength to its insurance capabilities in Texas.

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The international law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP has added prominent energy attorney William S. Garner, Jr. as a shareholder in the firm’s Houston office. Garner will head the firm’s Renewable Energy Practice. Prior to joining the firm, Garner practiced at Dewey & LeBoeuf in Houston.

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The Kim Law Firm brought on Denise H. Mitchell to fill a Houston legal job, according to a press release.

An experienced civil trial lawyer and prosecutor, Mitchell will be Of Counsel with the Houston law office.

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Kenneth L. Stewart will be taking the title of Chair of the Executive Committee at the international law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

Lauded for his work with clients on everything from securities transactions to $2.7 billion mergers, Stewart is expected to bring his expertise in client-focused law practice to his new position.

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Jackson Walker L.L.P. is pleased to welcome partner Jeffrey R. Harder to the firm. Mr. Harder joins the Corporate & Securities group in the Houston office.

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Latham & Watkins LLP is pleased to announce that Robin Fredrickson and Jeffrey Mun͂oz have joined the firm’s Houston office as partners in the Corporate Department. Together, they bring significant experience handling M&A, finance and related transactions in the oil and gas industry.

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Bracewell & Giuliani LLP is representing Evercore Partners, advisor to the Conflicts Committee of the Board of Directors of Cheniere Energy Partners, L.P., in the partnership’s $480 million acquisition of Cheniere Creole Trail Pipeline, L.P. from Cheniere Energy, Inc. and in the sale of $500 million newly issued Class B PIK Units to Cheniere Energy, Inc.

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International law firm McDermott Will & Emery today announced that one of the nation’s leading antitrust attorneys, Allan Van Fleet, will join the Firm as a partner in Houston as a member of its Antitrust & Competition Practice Group. Mr. Van Fleet and associate Nicholas G. Grimmer join McDermott from the Houston office of an AmLaw 10 law firm. The two will join McDermott partner and former Department of Justice Antitrust Division Deputy Assistant Attorney General Alison Smith and her team in Houston, a “go-to” antitrust firm in Texas.

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Today, seventeen institutional investors (RMBS Holders) represented by Gibbs & Bruns LLP and Ropes & Gray LLP announced they had achieved an agreement with Residential Capital LLC and its affiliated debtors (Debtors) to grant an $8.7 billion allowed claim to 392 residential mortgage backed securities trusts (the “Covered Trusts”) issued by affiliates of the Debtors during the period from 2004 to 2008. The RMBS Holders hold, or manage investments for holders of, more than $13 billion in outstanding RMBS securities issued by over 350 of the Covered Trusts.

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