Blackstone Infrastructure to Acquire Portland Natural Gas Transmission System 

Paul, Weiss is advising Blackstone Infrastructure in its acquisition of Portland Natural Gas Transmission System, a 296-mile natural gas pipeline serving northern New England and Atlantic Canada, from BlackRock-managed fund Global Infrastructure Partners and Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. 

The Paul, Weiss team is led by corporate partners Ravi Purohit and Trent Bridges, and includes partners Alena Thomas, Nick Schwartz, Shawn Beloin and Steven Kaye, and counsel Andrea Quek; tax partner Jim Cole; executive compensation partner Deidre Kalenderian; intellectual property partner Bonnie Chen and counsel Sean Kwak; litigation partner John Carlin; real estate partner Harris Freidus; antitrust partner Todd Hahn; and environmental partner Stefanie Gitler.