An El Paso Corporation lawyer has rejoined Fulbright’s Pennsylvania office, which serves companies working within the Marcellus Shale. Janet McQuaid returns to Fulbright as an environmental law partner focusing on energy clients. She previously was a partner  in the firm’s Austin office for seven years before going in-house at El Paso in 2008. McQuaid spent 15 years at Fulbright, where she represented energy, chemical, and waste disposal companies in waste, water, toxic substance control, and remediation matters.

Joy Global Inc. (NASDAQ: JOYG), a worldwide leader in high-productivity mining solutions, reported today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell the drilling products business of its recently acquired LeTourneau Technologies, Inc. to Cameron International Corporation (NYSE: CAM) for $375 million in cash, subject to certain post-closing adjustments. Covington & Burling LLP advised Joy Global on the deal.

On August 25, 2011, Industrias Unidas, S.A. de C.V. (“IUSA”) received a confirmation order from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware that marked the successful conclusion of the U.S. portion of its multinational debt restructuring, scheduled to close in September. IUSA is one of Mexico’s largest diversified industrial groups, manufacturing copper-based and electrical products for the housing and electrical power markets primarily in the U.S and Mexico.

William H. Hines, Managing Partner of the law firm of Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrère & Denègre L.L.P, and Dennis W. Miller, Chief Executive Officer of the law firm of Watkins Ludlam Winter & Stennis, P.A., today announced plans to combine firms. The combination, approved by the shareholders of Watkins Ludlam and the Jones Walker partnership this month, is to be effective on or before January 1, 2012. The combined firm will have more than 375 attorneys. The transaction adds 67 new attorneys, one government relations specialist, and three Mississippi offices in Jackson, Gulfport, and Olive Branch to the Jones Walker firm.

Davis Polk is defending LG Electronics in a coordinated MDL federal antitrust proceeding in San Francisco. The cases encompass over 30 nationwide class actions, all alleging a global price-fixing conspiracy in the market for optical disk drives.

Hogan Lovells announced today that it closed approximately $1 billion in project financing on behalf of NextEra Energy Resources subsidiary Genesis Solar for the development of a 250 MW utility-scale solar thermal electric generating facility.

A transatlantic team of attorneys from the international law firm McDermott Will & Emery LLP, in partnership with lawyers from Firm client Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) and the non-profit Lawyers Without Borders (LWOB) have joined together to produce a critical and comprehensive report on the land and property laws and inheritance and succession rights for disenfranchised women and children in Kenya entitled Kenya: Property, Inheritance & Succession Rights. The critical report includes strategic recommendations to help alleviate discrimination against women and expand access to justice within the court system.