Crestwood Equity Partners LP And Crestwood Midstream Partners LP Announce $7.5 Billion Merger

May 06, 2015

Houston, TX -- Paul Hastings LLP, a leading global law firm, announced today that it represented the conflicts committee of Crestwood Midstream Partners LP (NYSE: “CMLP”) (“Crestwood Midstream”) in the negotiation of a definitive agreement to merge Crestwood Midstream and Crestwood Equity Partners LP (NYSE: “CEQP”) (“Crestwood Equity”) into a single publicly traded partnership with a consolidated enterprise value of $7.5 billion.

Energy partners Gislar Donnenberg and Paris Theofanidis and MLP Tax partner Greg Nelson led the Paul Hastings team, which also included Energy partners Doug Getten and Jimmy Vallee, Energy associates Kim Hicks and Will Mabry, Litigation partners Sam Cooper and Kevin Logue, Energy regulatory partner Bill DeGrandis, Antitrust partner MJ Moltenbrey, Employment partner Mark Poerio, Environmental partner Tom Mounteer, Leveraged Finance partner Scott Saks and Leveraged Finance associate Katrina Olsen, and Corporate partner Andrew Tenzer.

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