From: Energy Law360 To: Keating, Cochran Subject: 3 Firms Steer $1.6B Cimarex Deal For Energy Co. Resolute Date: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 3:26:09 AM Law360 Energy ENERGY Tuesday, November 20, 2018 TOP NEWS Law360 Pro Say Podcast 3 Firms Steer $1.6B Cimarex Deal For Energy Co. Resolute Cimarex Energy Co. on Monday said it will take over fellow Denver-based oil and gas acquisition and exploration company Resolute Energy Corp. in a $1.6 billion deal, with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP guiding the buyer and Arnold & Porter and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz steering the seller. Read full article » 'Inveterate Con Man' Gets 12 Yrs For $4.4M Bank Loan Scam A Manhattan federal judge hit a convicted fraudster with 12 years in prison Monday for tricking an affiliate of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China into sending him $4.4 million for an oil and gas venture that turned out to be bogus, calling him an "inveterate con man." Read full article » Listen to our new podcast here Engineering Co. Owner Must Pay $917K To Investor He Duped COMPANIES A Texas federal jury has found that the owner of an industrial engineering Adams Street Partners LLC company duped an investor into sinking money into the company’s shares American Bar Association and awarded her $917,000 in damages, but cleared an attorney of American DG Energy Inc. responsibility for the fraud. Read full article » Apple Inc. EPA Regional Head Resigns, Citing 'Unfounded Charges' Ascom Holding AG The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Southeastern Cable News Network Inc. regional office has resigned after an Alabama grand jury indicted him this Callon Petroleum Co. month on ethics charges, including the use of his office for personal gain, Center for Biological Diversity according to Monday media reports. Read full article » Chicago Cubs Latham & Watkins Steers QEP's $735M Gas Asset Sale China International Capital QEP Resources Inc., led by Latham & Watkins LLP, said Monday it will sell a Corporation Ltd. handful of natural gas- and oil-producing properties and other assets to Cimarex Energy Co. private investment firm Aethon Energy for $735 million, the energy Consilio LLC company’s latest divestiture as it looks to reposition itself. Read full article » Credit Suisse Group AG NATURAL GAS Drummond Company Inc. Federalist Society Calif. Panel Asks Lower Court To Justify Gas Leak Plea Deal Industrial & Commercial Bank of A California state appellate court has ordered a lower court to explain why a China Ltd. decision denying restitution should not be struck down as violating the Jefferies Financial Group Inc. constitutional rights of residents living near a record-setting natural gas leak LinkedIn Corp. that went on for nearly four months who claim that they were shut out of a plea agreement between the gas company and the state. Read full article » Natural Resource Partners LP New York Times Co. Pipeline Valve Maker Slips Buyer's Deceptive Practices Claim NextEra Energy Inc. Pipeline valve maker Maverick International Ltd. has won dismissal of a Pymetrics Inc. deceptive practices claim in a suit in Texas federal court alleging it caused QEP Resources Inc. more than $750,000 in damages by selling a company faulty valve parts for a natural gas pipeline project. Read full article » Resolute Energy Corp. Saudi Arabian Oil Co. PETROLEUM Sierra Club Solus Alternative Asset Dutch Decision Doesn't Bolster Kazakh Appeal, DC Circ. Told Management LP A recent Dutch court ruling doesn’t lend weight to Kazakhstan’s claims that Southern California Gas Co. an over $500 million arbitral award against it was tainted by fraud, two Moldovan oil and gas investors told the D.C. Circuit on Monday, saying the State Bar of California decision actually holds that the country hasn’t made its case at this point. Sun Capital Partners Inc. Read full article » Trilantic Capital Partners LLP Uber Technologies Inc. Oil Employment Service Says Trade Secrets Suit Should Stay Unilever Plc A Texas energy company told a federal court on Friday not to toss a corporate espionage suit, arguing that a jury should decide whether or not Virgin Group Ltd. the allegedly stolen information qualifies as a trade secret. Read full article » LAW FIRMS Deals Rumor Mill: Saudi Aramco, Careem Networks, Solus Akin Gump Saudi Aramco is reportedly abandoning plans to issue up to $40 billion in Arnold & Porter bonds to fund the acquisition of a petrochemical business, Careem Networks Balch & Bingham is mulling its options and could be worth up to $2.5 billion in a sale, and Barnes & Thornburg Solus plans to raise $750 million for a new fund. Read full article » Berman Tabacco UTILITIES & POWER Block & Leviton Cravath Swaine 2nd Circ. Won't Take New Look At EPA Cooling Water Ruling Earthjustice The Second Circuit has declined a request by a coalition of environmental Ellison Schneider groups to revisit a decision that upheld the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s rule requiring power plants and manufacturers to minimize damage Eversheds Sutherland to aquatic life caused by the intake of water. Read full article » Foley & Lardner Fried Frank 3 Firms Lead NextEra's $1B Underwater Utility Cable Buy Grignon Law Firm NextEra Energy Inc. on Monday said a subsidiary will buy a California Hogan Lovells underwater electric transmission cable in a $1 billion deal with a fund controlled by asset manager Steelriver Infrastructure Partners LP, with Hunton Andrews Kurth Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and Ellison Schneider Harris & Donlan John Gerard & Associates LLP steering the buyer and Winston & Strawn LLP representing the seller. K&L Gates Read full article » King & Spalding Hatsopoulos Bros. Beat Investor Suit Over Energy Co. Merger Kirkland & Ellis A prominent engineer and his business-minded brother dodged a proposed Latham & Watkins investor class action on Friday when a Massachusetts federal judge ruled McDermott Will that the shareholders failed to back up their remaining breach of fiduciary Monteverde & Associates duty claims in a suit alleging they were shortchanged in a 2016 merger Morgan Lewis between the brothers’ energy-technology companies. Read full article » Norton Rose Fulbright COAL O'Melveny & Myers Orrick Herrington DOI Says Move To Lift Coal Leasing Ban Didn't Violate NEPA Parris Law Firm The U.S. Department of the Interior has reiterated its argument to a Montana Pillsbury Winthrop federal court that its move to lift a moratorium on federal coal leasing did not violate any environmental laws, saying the action did not cause the Rajah & Tann environmental and Native American groups that sued any direct harm. Reaud Morgan Read full article » Schlanger Silver Sidley Austin Enviro Groups Sue To Save W.Va. Ridgeline From Coal Co. Sullivan & Worcester A coalition of environmental groups asked a West Virginia federal court on Thursday to stop Republic Energy LLC from undertaking coal mining Super Law Group LLC activities on one of the last Coal River Mountain ridgelines, saying the Vinson & Elkins company lacks a valid mining permit. Read full article » Vorys Sater Wachtell Lipton Swiss Co. Gets Costs For Arbitration Bid In Coal Dispute Weil Gotshal An Australian court has ordered a Japanese tourism and trading company to cover the costs a Swiss trading and shipping corporation incurred in its Weycer Kaplan successful pursuit of arbitration in a coal supply dispute, saying their contract Winston & Strawn clearly contained an arbitration provision. Read full article » Wolf Popper Ziontz Chestnut Vinson & Elkins Leads NRP's $205M Sale Of Materials Biz Vinson & Elkins LLP guided Natural Resource Partners LP in its $205 million GOVERNMENT AGENCIES sale of NRP’s construction materials business, VantaCore Partners LLC, to Alabama Department of an affiliate of private equity firm Sun Capital Partners Inc., the law firm said Environmental Management Monday. Read full article » Bureau of Land Management LEGAL INDUSTRY California Public Utilities Commission Cravath Keeps Steady On Bonuses For Another Year California Supreme Court Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP announced end-of-year bonuses for Federal Energy Regulatory associates on Monday that are consistent with those of previous years, the Commission first of a likely string of similar announcements from BigLaw firms. 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Read full article » Senate Dems Sue To Oust Acting AG Whitaker A group of Senate Democrats sought to oust acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker from his post in a lawsuit filed Monday in Washington, D.C., arguing that his appointment violates the Constitution. Read full article » Calif. Bar Exam Pass Rate Keeps Tumbling, Hits Record Low Only 40.7 percent of those who took the California bar exam this summer passed, according to recently released data, continuing a decline that's vexed Golden State officials and hitting a low not seen since 1951. Read full article » Interview 15 Minutes With Adams Street Partners' General Counsel Timothy Bryant had no plans to set off on a new career path after working his way up to become a partner at McDermott Will & Emery LLP, but after being recruited by a client he landed the role of general counsel for Adams Street Partners, showing that fresh opportunities can exist for any hardworking lawyer who has proven their worth. 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Privacy Policy Law360 | Portfolio Media, Inc, 111 West 19th Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10011 From: Energy Law360 To: Keating, Cochran Subject: Better Together Is The Energy M&A Theme Of 2018 Date: Monday, December 10, 2018 3:21:41 AM Law360 Energy ENERGY Monday, December 10, 2018 TOP NEWS Law360 Pro Say Podcast Feature Better Together Is The Energy M&A Theme Of 2018 Consolidation hit the oil and gas sector full-bore this year with multbillion- dollar tie-ups between drillers and tax and regulatory-driven roll-ups of midstream companies, while the appetite for renewable energy assets continued to grow. Here are five M&A trends that stood out to energy attorneys in 2018. Read full article » Nexus Can Access Land For Pipeline Work, 6th Circ. Says A Sixth Circuit panel on Friday agreed with a lower court that gave Nexus Gas Transmission LLC quick access to landowners' properties in Ohio so that it could proceed with pipeline construction in a timely way. Listen to our new podcast here Read full article » COMPANIES Vt. Lets Entergy Transfer Nuke Plant To Demolition Firm 1-800 Contacts Inc. Vermont utility regulators on Thursday approved a plan for Entergy Corp. to American Bar Association transfer a shuttered nuclear plant to a large-scale demolition firm with the American Civil Liberties Union goal of speeding up the decommissioning process, despite environmentalists' concerns that the company may not be up to the job. Apache Corp. Read full article » AstraZeneca Bank of America Corporation MVP: Simpson Thacher's David Lieberman CUNA Mutual Group David Lieberman of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has been involved in Chicago Bulls several high-profile energy cases, including representing Vistra Energy Corp. in a $20 billion merger with Dynegy Inc. and helping Global Cimarex Energy Co. Infrastructure Partners acquire NRG Energy's renewable energy business, Concho Resources Inc. landing him among Law360's 2018 Energy MVPs. 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Pipeline Contractor Says EQT Skipped Bill On Spill Cleanup GlaxoSmithKline A pipeline construction contractor filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania state court Thursday claiming that EQT Gathering LLC is refusing to pay a nearly $2 Global Atlantic Financial Group million bill for cleaning up another company’s spill on its construction site. Ltd. Read full article » Global Infrastructure Partners Google Inc. PETROLEUM Home Box Office Inc. Ohio Mineral Owners Say Oil & Gas Drillers Dug Too Deep Honeywell International Inc. A group of mineral owners has filed a proposed class action in Ohio federal Janus Henderson Group PLC court that alleges an ExxonMobil unit and other companies drilled in an area Kinder Morgan Inc. they had no permission to access. Read full article » Kirkland's, Inc. Lands' End Inc. Corps, Dakota Access Say Tribes Didn't Obey Order Leadership Council on Legal The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Dakota Access LLC said that several Diversity Native American tribes had failed to follow a D.C. federal judge’s order to spell out what claims they plan to continue with in their challenge to the LexisNexis Group Dakota Access pipeline, as the tribes contended that the record in the case Marriott International Inc. should be fleshed out first. Read full article » Morgan Stanley NRG Energy Inc. Carpatsky Gets Final OK For $147M Award In Oil Deal Dispute A Texas federal judge has finalized his judgment confirming U.S.-based National Basketball Association Carpatsky Petroleum Corp.’s $147 million arbitration award against Newfield Exploration Co. Ukrainian company OJSC Ukrnafta over a soured oil and gas development NextEra Energy Inc. deal, after allowing the latter to drop some of its remaining claims and PhRMA severing the allegations it still wants to pursue. 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German Power Giant To Allow More Danish Energy After Washington State Bar Association Probe Wayfair LLC The largest high-voltage electricity transmitter in Germany will let in more Wells Fargo & Co. energy from Denmark suppliers to end a European Commission Xcel Energy Inc investigation that it choked the supply of cheap Nordic electricity in favor of German-produced power, regulators said Friday. Read full article » Yahoo! Inc. EXPERT ANALYSIS LAW FIRMS Alston & Bird Will High Court Avoid Deadlock In Lorenzo? Baker McKenzie Oral argument in Lorenzo v. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission BakerHostetler revealed clear divisions within the U.S. Supreme Court on the type of Barclay Damon conduct that forms the basis of liability under Rule 10b-5, say attorneys with Bricker & Eckler Alston & Bird LLP. 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Read full article » Kirkland & Ellis Legal Industry Sheds 2,400 Jobs, Wiping Out Year's Gains Marshall Dennehey The legal services sector lost 2,400 jobs in November, the steepest single- Michael Best month drop in 2018, erasing virtually all of the gains made throughout the Modus Law year, according to data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor MoloLamken LLP Statistics. Read full article » Morgan Lewis BigLaw Revenues On Track For Banner Year, Wells Fargo Munger Tolles Says Norton Rose Fulbright The legal industry is poised to have its most successful year since the 2008 Ogletree Deakins economic downturn, with revenue up among top firms through the first three Orrick Herrington quarters, a report from Wells Fargo Private Bank's legal specialty group Shuman McCuskey predicts. 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