Scores of Texas Lawyers Advise in $44 Billion Kinder Morgan – El Paso Deal

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By Mark Curriden – (August 10) – Bracewell Giuliani, Baker Botts, Vinson & Elkins and Weil, Gotshal & Manges played key legal advisory roles in Kinder Morgan Inc.’s $44 billion series of acquisitions that energy M&A experts say is the largest oil and gas transaction since Exxon’s 1999 merger with Mobil for $74 billion.

Houston-based Kinder Morgan, which is 24 percent owned by Richard Kinder, is acquiring the assets of three companies, including Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, Kinder Morgan Management and El Paso Pipeline Partners, in order to consolidate the properties under one umbrella. Kinder Morgan Inc. will have an estimated enterprise value of $140 billion.