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Weil Advises Apco in $427 Million Merger Agreement

October 3, 2014 Mark Curriden

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By Natalie Posgate – (October 3) – Tulsa, Okla.-based Apco Oil and Gas International Inc. announced Friday that the Argentinian oil and gas company Pluspetrol Resources Corporation will purchase it for $427 million.

Apco turned to Weil, Gotshal & Manges to handle the deal and Dallas partner Glenn West to lead the corporate team, which also included Dallas associates Ryan Gorsche, Dilen Kumar and Yuefan Wang and Silicon Valley partner James Griffin.

Other Weil attorneys on the deal included Dallas tax partner Jared Rusman and associate Mark Dundon and attorneys from the firm’s New York and Washington, D.C. offices.

The New York law firm Clear Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton represented Pluspetrol in the transaction.

The transaction is subject to a two-thirds approval by Apco shareholders and other customary closing conditions.

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Mark Curriden

Mark Curriden is a lawyer/journalist and founder of The Texas Lawbook. In addition, he is a contributing legal correspondent for The Dallas Morning News.

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