In its latest large divestiture, Anadarko Petroleum Corp. tapped Latham & Watkins for the pending $2.3 billion sale of its Eagle Ford Shale assets in South Texas to Houston-based Sanchez Energy Corp. and private equity giant The Blackstone Group.

Kirkland & Ellis is advising Sanchez and Blackstone, and Sanchez also turned to Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.