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Latham & Watkins’ Houston office of more than 80 lawyers guide clients through complex legal challenges by providing practical and creative advice. This past year, the innovative and client focused team advised traditional energy companies, private equity funds, investment banks and commercial lenders on completed transactions with an aggregate value of more than $185.5 billion. This includes more than $60 billion in capital market transactions, $71 billion in announced mergers and acquisitions and $52 billion of bank finance transactions.
The work of Latham’s Houston office continues to help shape the local market and energy industry. Stand-out deals from 2017 include:
• Representing Energy Transfer Partners in its US$21.3 billion merger with Sunoco Logistics Partners. This deal created the second-largest master limited partnership in the United States at the time of its closing.
• Representing Hess Corporation in their initial public offering of 16,997,000 common units representing limited partner interests on the NYSE. At the time of closing, this IPO was the second midstream MLP IPO to be completed since 2015.
• Representing Chaparral Energy, which is one of the largest oil and gas companies and third-biggest enhanced oil recovery operator in the United States, in its exit financing.
In addition, Latham’s Houston office is dedicated to pro bono work, opening more than 53 new matters in 2017 aligning with the firm’s global commitment to providing world class legal representation to underserved clients in the communities where the firm works. For the third year in a row, the office was honoredwith the “Pro Bono Law Firm Partner” award from Lone Star Legal Aid, which is the nation’s fourth largest legal aid provider.
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