Jackson Walker Represents NuStar Energy in $115 Million Refinery Sale

Jackson Walker successfully represented client NuStar Energy L.P. in the sale of its San Antonio refinery and related assets to Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P. for $100 million, plus closing date inventory of approximately $15 million. The deal closed on Jan. 2, 2013. The related assets included a terminal in Elmendorf, Texas, and a pipeline connecting the terminal and refinery.

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Loeb & Loeb Expands Patent Practice with Addition of Partner William J. Kramer in Chicago

Loeb & Loeb LLP announced today that William J. Kramer has joined the firm’s Patent Litigation and Counseling Practice as a partner in the Chicago office. Most recently, he was a partner at Miller Matthias & Hull in Chicago, where he served as head of the Computer Science Department. Previously, he was a partner at Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP, where he led the Electrical Group and Finance Committee.

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Federal District Court Judge Barbara S. Jones to Join Zuckerman Spaeder LLP’s New York Office

Zuckerman Spaeder LLP is pleased to announce that the Hon. Barbara S. Jones, a former judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, is joining the firm as a partner in its New York office. Judge Jones brings to Zuckerman Spaeder 17 years of experience on the bench and more than two decades as a federal prosecutor. She will focus her practice on internal investigations, corporate compliance issues, and monitorships, as well as assisting individual and institutional clients to solve their legal problems.

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McDermott Adds Group to Top-Rated State & Local Tax Team

International law firm McDermott Will & Emery today announced that it has named Stephen P. Kranz as a partner in the Firm’s State and Local Tax (SALT) Practice Group. Mr. Kranz, who will be joined by a team of lawyers, including newly named McDermott Counsel Diann Smith, will be based in the Firm’s new, 229,112 square-foot Washington, D.C. office building on Capitol Hill, blocks from the United States Capitol and Tax Court.

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