Representative Matters

Capital Markets and Securities
Represented Enterprise Products Partners LP in the public offering of $1,250 million of junior subordinated debt securities.

Represented TEPPCO Partners, L.P. in the public offering of $300 million of junior subordinated debt securities.

Represented Chesapeake Energy Corporation in multiple public offerings of common stock, senior notes and contingent convertible notes; in exchange offers of common stock for preferred stock and in a consent solicitation.

Represented W-H Energy Services Inc., an oil field services company, in its $165 million initial public offering, in a $132 million follow-on offering, and in matters of securities law compliance.

Represented a joint venture owned by Enterprise Products Partners LP and Valero Corporation in the issuance of $415 million of fixed and floating rate notes in a Rule 144A transaction.

Represented Enbridge Energy Partners LP in the $351 million initial public offering of shares by its limited liability company affiliate and in matters of securities law compliance.

Represented Enterprise Products Partners LP in the public offering of $315 million of common units.

Represented Lehman Brothers Inc. and Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the public offering of $375 million of common stock and $550 million of convertible subordinated debentures by Kerr-McGee Corporation.

Represented Merrill Lynch & Co. in the structuring and public offering of $748 million of debt securities by a special purpose entity created by Reliant Energy Inc. to securitize its stranded costs.

Represented Enron Corp. in the issuance of $1 billion of floating rate notes in a Rule 144A transaction.

Represented the Industrial Development Corporation of the city of Edinburg, Texas in the issuance of $101 million of bonds in a Rule 144A transaction to finance the acquisition of electric generating equipment to be leased to an affiliate of Duke Capital Corporation.

Represented Lehman Brothers Inc. in the issuance of $279 million of bonds by the Texas Municipal Gas Corporation in a Rule 144A transaction to finance the acquisition of a production payment from Dominion Oklahoma Texas Exploration & Production Inc.

Mergers, Acquisitions and Transaction
Represented W-H Energy Services, Inc. in its $3.1 billion disposition to Smith International, Inc. by cash and stock exchange offer.

Represented Goodman Global Holdings Inc., an HVAC manufacturing company, in connection with its $1.4 billion sale to an affiliate of Apollo Management.

Represented Enterprise Products Partners LP in its $13 billion cash and stock merger with GulfTerra Energy Partners LP.

Represented Ferrovial Agroman S.A., a Spanish construction and engineering company, in the $225 million acquisition of a Texas-based heavy construction contractor.

Represented W-H Energy Services Inc. in multiple strategic acquisitions (values ranging from $100,000 to $50 million) and in the disposition of two subsidiaries.

Represented Fort Bend Communications Companies Inc. in its $175 million cash merger with a subsidiary of TXU Corp.

Represented Enron Net Works LLC in making strategic venture investments in three start-up companies.

Represented a consortium of 10 major electric utilities in structuring and seeking FERC approval for the formation of the country’s first for-profit regional transmission organization.

Represented Sports Facilities LP, a partnership of 14 large Houston-based companies, in making a $35 million subordinated loan to the Harris County Houston Sports Authority in connection with the construction of Minute Maid Park and in considering and negotiating the terms of a similar loan in connection with the construction of the Toyota Center.

Publications and Speeches

Panelist, "Creating the Ideal O&G MLP Business - Risks and Rewards," Platts Oil & Gas Acquisition & Divestiture Conference and MLP Symposium, November 5-7, 2007