Two weeks after Dallas-based Energy Transfer Equity (ETE) agreed to pay $4.2 billion for Southern Union Company to form one of the country’s largest natural gas pipeline companies, lawyers advising the two companies are facing off in what is shaping up a potential bidding war.
Latham & Watkins advised ETE on the initial agreement, while Houston-based Southern Union relied on Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell. Latham partners William Finnegan and Sean Wheeler were named Am Law Daily’s “Dealmakers of the Week” on June 17 for their role in the deal.
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