Baker Botts‘ Houston-based team is representing U.K. energy giant BP in the company’s pending $5.6 billion sale of its Alaska operations and assets to Hilcorp Alaska, the Alaska affiliate of a Houston energy company, which turned to Kirkland & Ellis for the transaction.

BP announced on Tuesday (August 28) that it will sell Hilcorp Alaska its entire upstream and midstream business, including BP Exploration (Alaska), which owns all of BP’s upstream oil and gas interests in the state, and BP Pipeline (Alaska)’s interest in the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System.