Bracewell & Giuliani LLP advised Kinder Morgan, Inc. on its initial public offering of 95,466,600 shares, which began trading Friday on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “KMI.” The offering constitutes a 13.5 percent interest in the company.

The Paris office of International law firm Eversheds has advised steel producer Ascometal, the French subsidiary of the Lucchini Group, on the sale of four hydro power plants to the Swiss group BKW FMB Energy (BKW).

The initial public offering for Houston-based oil and gas pipeline company Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE: KMI) priced today at $2.9 billion (before the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares), representing the largest private equity-backed IPO in U.S. history. The offering is scheduled to close early next week. Attorneys from the Houston, Austin, and Washington, D.C. offices of Andrews Kurth LLP represented underwriters Goldman Sachs and Barclays Capital in the record-setting deal.

Sundance Institute today announced a new program to connect its artists with audiences by offering access to top-tier creative funding and marketing backed by the Institute’s promotional support.  These essential services will act as building blocks for future program components which aim to provide filmmakers access to a broad and open array of third-party digital distribution platforms. Adding to the nonprofit Institute’s acclaimed programs for Screenwriters, Directors, Film Composers, Producers and Theatre artists around the world, the new services were developed based on research and input from filmmakers, industry advisors, its Technology Committee and its Board of Directors, including President Robert Redford. The creative funding component was announced today with Kickstarter, the largest platform in the world for funding creative projects.

Curtis advised Germany-based Versorgungswerk der Architektenkammer Baden-Württemberg – the Baden-Württemberg architects’ pension fund – in connection with its investments in two real estate funds – Paramount Group Real Estate Fund IV, L.P. and Paramount Group Real Estate Fund V, L.P. – with an aggregate transaction value of US$ 45 million.

DLA Piper is advising the US cosmetics group Avon on the sale of its German head office to the property fund Captiva Capital Partners III ELP (Captiva). The 115,000 m2 site in the Munich suburb of Neufahrn with a total of 48,000 m² of floor space was sold off as part of a sale and leaseback transaction to the fund managed by Natixis Capital Partners (NCP) and completely leased back by Avon at short notice.

Simpson Thacher recently represented the underwriters in two public offerings of Avago Technologies Limited ordinary shares by Avago’s principal shareholders:

International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP has advised Gas Natural Capital Markets, S.A., a subsidiary of the Spanish Ibex-35 company, Gas Natural SDG, S.A. (“Gas Natural”), on an issue of new notes with an aggregate principal amount of €600m under its €10bn EMTN programme guaranteed by Gas Natural.

Olswang has advised Pathé on a long-term strategic alliance with Twentieth Century Fox. The deal will see Twentieth Century Fox exclusively handle Pathé UK’s theatrical, video and pay television distribution activity.