Kilpatrick Helps Steer RaceTrac's Historic Purchase of Gulf Oil

Atlanta-based Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton helped guide one of the city's largest energy-related deals this year in RaceTrac's purchase of Gulf Oil LLC.

Kilpatrick Townsend served as legal adviser to RaceTrac Inc. and its wholly-owned wholesale fuel supply and trading subsidiary, Metroplex Energy, in Metroplex's planned acquisition of Gulf Oil LLC.  Latham & Watkins advised Gulf in the acquisition, which is expected to be completed by October.

The deal, announced Wednesday, is RaceTrac's largest acquisition in its 89-year history, the company said.