UPDATE: 11/19/12, 10:00 a.m., EDT. BP has provided additional information on the outside firms that advised it on several other asset sales over the past two years.

BP, the energy giant formerly known as British Petroleum, has agreed to plead guilty to 14 criminal charges and pay $4.5 billion in fines and other payments to the federal government as a result of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, according to sibling publication The National Law Journal.