Enterprise GC Hildebrandt Goes to Norton Rose Fulbright, V&E’s Murray is new GC

© 2014 The Texas Lawbook.By Mark Curriden (December 18) – Enterprise Products, one of the world’s largest oil and gas pipeline companies, has a change at the top of its corporate legal department. Norton Rose Fulbright announced Thursday that Enterprise’s general counsel and corporate secretary, Stephanie Hildebrandt, is joining the Houston-based law firm as a partner in February. Meanwhile, Enterprise announced that it has hired Vinson & Elkins corporate partner Craig Murray to replace Hildebrant as the company’s new GC. The Houston midstream company also disclosed that Pepper Hamilton partner Harry Paul “Hap” Weitzel is its new deputy general counsel and Locke Lord partner Vijay A. D’Cruz is Enterprise’s new head of litigation. The appointments of all three are effective Jan. 5.              Enterprise has witnessed extraordinary growth during the past 16 years. At the time of its IPO in 1998, the company had $715 million in assets. Today, it boasts $41 billion in assets. Enterprise was also in the news earlier this year when a Dallas jury ruled the company had violated a partnership agreement with Energy Transfer Partners in building a pipeline from Cushing, Okla. to Houston. A judge ordered Enterprise to pay…