Gardere Represents Boardwalk in Deal With Williams for Development of Bluegrass Pipeline
Attorneys from Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP represented Boardwalk Pipeline Partners in deal related to the development of the Bluegrass Pipeline and related projects.
- Houston, TX (1888PressRelease) June 01, 2013 - Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP represented Boardwalk Pipeline Partners L.P. in connection with execution on May 28, 2013, of joint venture documentation with The Williams Companies Inc. for the development of the Bluegrass Pipeline.
The project includes construction of a natural gas liquids pipeline from Marcellus and Utica producing areas in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania to interconnect with Boardwalk's Texas Gas Transmission system; conversion of a portion of the Texas Gas system to NGL service; and construction of a new large-scale fractionation plant and NGL storage facilities in Louisiana. The parties are also exploring development of a new export liquefied petroleum gas terminal and related facilities on the Gulf Coast.
The Gardere team was led by energy mergers and acquisitions partner Doug Eyberg and included corporate partner Greg Meeks, energy partner Tim Spear, real estate partner Randy Jones and associates Khurram Jiwani, Eunice Song and Jennifer Smith.
Williams was represented by a Kean Miller LLP team led by Blane Clark, with assistance from Linda Clark, Andrew Goodman, Matthew Meiners and Bill Caughman.
Gardere's Energy Industry Practice Group is a multidisciplinary group made up of approximately 60 attorneys with diverse backgrounds, experience, and skills specific to the energy industry. This national and international energy practice serves clients across all sectors of the Energy Industry-upstream, midstream, downstream, power, and renewables-providing a broad range of specialties, including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, joint ventures, private equity, infrastructure development, finance transactions, project finance, tax, commercial contracting, environmental, intellectual property, labor and employment, bankruptcy and workout transactions, energy regulatory, and arbitration and litigation.
Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP, an Am Law 200 firm founded in 1909 and one of the Southwest's largest full-service law firms, has offices in Austin, Dallas, Houston and Mexico City. Gardere provides legal services to private and public companies and individuals in areas of corporate, litigation, energy, tax, real estate, financial services, government affairs, hospitality, intellectual property, labor and employment, and environmental.
For more information, contact Dorothy L. Seals at 214.999.4019 or dseals ( @ ) gardere dot com.
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