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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International law firm Fulbright & Jaworski hired Kevin McDonald for a Houston legal job–a full-circle moment in the attorney’s legal career–as reported in a press release.

McDonald will assume a partner role with the practice and said he is enthused about the opportunity to return to the law firm where he first kicked off his legal career in 1992.

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International law firm McDermott Will & Emery LLP today announced the appointments of renowned international tax lawyers Cym H. Lowell and Mark R. Martin as part of a seven-person, full-service transfer pricing team in Texas. The team, whose practice focuses on designing and defending the allocation of income and expense in cross-border transactions, is joining the Firm from Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP. In his new role, Mr. Martin will serve as the head of McDermott’s transfer pricing practice.

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& Giuliani LLP is representing Kinder Morgan, Inc. in the sale of 63,000,000 shares of common stock offered by investment funds affiliated with Goldman, Sachs & Co., The Carlyle Group and Riverstone Holdings LLC. The stock is valued at approximately $2 billion.

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Bracewell & Giuliani LLP represented Sysco Corporation in its offering of $300 million in senior notes due 2015 and $450 million in senior notes due 2022. Sysco issued the notes under its shelf registration statement filed in February 2012.

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General Cable Corp. has acquired a 60 percent equity interest in Procables S.A., a privately owned Colombian manufacturer of cable and wire products, for $45 million subject to standard price adjustments. The remaining 40% of Bogota-based Procables will remain with local privately held conglomerate The Sredni Group.

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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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