Thanks for dragging this out and destroying the shareholders, 58 dollars to 20 dollar, great job. The rumor is lawyers will continue to clean up on billable hours, an appeal is pending. The deal should of been killed or agreed to, either way would of... — read more 

If ETE wins and Williams appeals the verdict and Williams wins the appeal - is the severance payout still in play? Or is Williams likely able to cancel any payout?

This merger appears to be a failure, due to lack of leadership at the very top by both leaders, mostly ETE. They took their eye off the ball and panicked when the price of oil and natural gas tanked. Instead of digging in, they where influenced by... — read more 

Time to watch the " glass clock", i to see when the "enhanced" servance check arrives in the mail.

Ete is up 5 percent today, looks like the merger is toast. It is probably better for Williams in the long run anyway, they might be better off merging with another company or spinning some assets to pay debt down. After reading the recent articles... — read more 

More articles claiming the deal is no good because the low price of oil, even though the price of oil is the same when the deal was first announced. Sos

After reading the court released statements today, Time to throw in the towel, don't even care about the enhanced severance package anymore. No wonder why the board is spilt on this takeover, a real mess.

This is what happens when lawyers get involved. They should be focusing on settling this, and getting the merger done. Great news about oil and natural prices increasing, while these people talk in court about prices when they hit bottom, and airing... — read more 

Raymond James predicting ,$70 per barrel oil end of 2016 and 80 dollars by end of 2017 Both Willian's and etc have their heads in the sand about oil and natural gas market growth and are low balling the benefits of the merger big time. Unfair to... — read more 

Ete stock is down 4.5%, must not be doing well in court. Let's hope Kelcy changes his mind and gets on board with the merger and let's it go to vote, still holding out hope.

Oil and natural gas are up again. Vote yes and pray that the leaders of both ete and Williams finally se the light of the huge benefits of the merged company, time is running out for the shareholders and people wanting another servance check.

All this talk about reduced profits is nothing more than a smokescreen. Williams invested billions to be a dominant player and they must stay the course, the same is true for ete. They are going to live or die with the price of oil and natural gas... — read more 

The amended disclosure states the following: ETE’s original due diligence-based projection, which was presented to Williams, of over $2 billion in annual synergies by year 2020 as a result of the proposed merger, which was published by Williams and... — read more 

The report, private information which ISS sent me after I asked to write about it for Seeking Alpha, goes well beyond the summary inWilliams' press release. In its report, the leading proxy advisory firm said despite the drop in energy prices and... — read more 

WILLIAMS MAILS LETTER TO STOCKHOLDERS RECOMMENDING A VOTE “FOR” THE MERGER AGREEMENT WITH ETE Stockholders to Benefit from Enhanced Long-Term Value Prospects through Ongoing Participation in Larger, More Diverse Company Transaction Secures... — read more 

Hot summer and cold winter making for a big surge in natural gas futures. High oil prices as well means huge profits for a merged ETE and Williams. Wake up lawyers settle this and get the merger approved, Billions in profits at stake!

Analysts at Baird today said the winner in the Williamz ETE merger fiasco is the law firm. Because they are going to get a ton of"billable hours" as this drags out into 2017.

There is still some hope for a merger, and an additional servance check, sec cleared the last regulatory hurdle under normal conditions shareholders would be celebrating, especially since the price of oil and natural gas is skyrocketing making the... — read more 

Your thoughts please, keep it polite

As part of the cleansing process I have made a decision today to purge Williams from my life as much as possibleThe article released by sight line yesterday and all the drama with the ETE merger is not good. Also I will be limiting my news watching... — read more 

Ex Williams CEOs trying to influence shareholders to vote no. Really getting ridiculous, saying the deal will not make money even though the price of oil is rebounding and natural gas futures are way up. Doesn't look good if you are expecting another... — read more 

Crude oil could rise to $60 a barrel by the end of the year, even without any help from OPEC. That's what powerful new Saudi energy minister Khalid Al Falih told CNNMoney's John Defterios in an exclusive interview on Thursday. MERGER MUST BE... — read more 

Here is a good question: Williams has announced it is open to renegotiating the terms of the merger. Anyone really know how that may affect the Change in Command severance payout? In other words, (assuming there is a merger of some sort), is that... — read more 

Keep reading etc wants to get out of the deal due to low oil prices. That isn't true the price of oil is 50 bucks and rising, the same price when the deal was announced last year when employees where informed how great the deal was. They to honor... — read more 

One thing that hasn't been touched on this forum since the layoffs - has anyone had experience with the Lee Hecht Harrison services? A number of us have not started our 3-month complimentary professional transition services (or whatever they want to... — read more 

CNBC talked about how good merger with ETE is with the price of oil rising. Said it may be decided by a judge in Delaware court. Hopefully both sides will see how great the merger is and bury their differences, one can hope.

When are they going to shutter what's left of the OKC office? Hard to see it surviving even if the merger doesn't go through.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-williams-m-a-energytransfer-idUSKCN0XU13M

On March 6, 2015, you took over all of EHS. You met with Employee Safety CoE, and announced how excited you were about your new role. Later you informed us that the OKC office for Access was identical to the Safety COE (in Tulsa and Houston) for... — read more