Andrews Kurth and V&E Advise in Enterprise-Oiltanking $4.4 Billion Deal

© 2014 The Texas Lawbook.By Natalie Posgate – (October 1) – Houston-based Enterprise Products Partners LP on Wednesday purchased general partner and limited partner interests of Oiltanking Partners LP for $4.4 billion. Andrews Kurth in Houston led the transaction for Enterprise, with corporate partner David Buck as the lead attorney. The corporate team also included partner John Clutterbuck and associates Phil Haines, Chris Griffith, Morgan Kenner, Chris Adcock, Coleman Wombwell and Jillian Rae. Andews Kurth attorneys who handled other aspects of the deal included Houston tax partners Robert McNamara and Angela Richards, real property partner O’Banion Williams, Austin environmental partner Lisa Shelton and Dallas antitrust partner Kay Lynn Brumbaugh. In 2010, Andrews Kurth represented Enterprise in an $8 billion merger when it bought-out its holding company, Enterprise GP Holdings LP. Paul Hewitt of Akin Gump’s Washington, D.C. office teamed up with Andrews Kurth on antitrust matters for Enterprise. Corporate counsel from Enterprise involved included Chris Wade and Stephanie Hildebrandt, the company’s general counsel. Before joining Enterprise, Hildebrandt worked in the Texaco legal department and the legal department of El Paso Corporation/GulfTerra Energy Partners before GulfTerra’s merger with Enterprise in 2004. A Houston-based transactional team from Vinson & Elkins led the…