Winston & Strawn LLP has announced the expansion of the firm’s global energy practice with the addition of two oil and gas partners in Houston. Denmon Sigler and Craig S. Vogelsang join the firm’s energy practice group. Ms. Sigler was most recently with Baker Botts, and Mr. Vogelsang with Norton Rose Fulbright. Their arrival comes just one month after a high-profile group of Weil, Gotshal & Manges litigators and bankruptcy lawyers joined the office, and reinforces the firm’s commitment to growth and developing a full-service platform in Houston.
“We are very excited to welcome Denmon and Craig to Winston & Strawn,” said John Keville, Winston & Strawn Houston office managing partner. “Our Houston office has experienced tremendous growth this year, and the addition of Denmon and Craig significantly advances our commitment to offering the best and most comprehensive legal services to our oil and gas industry clients.”
Both Ms. Sigler and Mr. Vogelsang concentrate their practice on U.S. and international energy and resource acquisitions and divestures, joint ventures, and projects. They advise clients on all aspects of the energy value chain. Ms. Sigler regularly advises clients on the acquisition and sale of companies, business units and assets (including refining businesses and assets and upstream oil and gas conventional and unconventional (shale) resources), the formation of joint ventures, development of new infrastructure and refining resources, and upstream exploration and development programs. Mr. Vogelsang regularly advises clients on oil and gas, real property and related business transactions, including advising U.S. and foreign clients on the acquisition and disposition of oil and gas interests, intrastate and interstate natural gas, oil, NGL and other product pipelines, and gas processing plants and on transactions involving oil and gas financings, joint developments and operations and tolling and other commercial agreements covering LNG.
“The Winston & Strawn Houston office corporate transactional practice began with the addition of Chris Ferazzi and me in January of this year, and the firm has pursued and been able to add a number of transactional lawyers during this past year, all of whom have an energy focus,” said Dick Wynne, partner, Winston & Strawn Houston.
“The addition of Denmon and Craig provides further evidence of the firm’s commitment to aggressively enter the Houston energy transactional practice,” added Chris Ferazzi, partner, Winston & Strawn Houston. “We are delighted to have Denmon and Craig join us, and help us continue to expand the breadth and depth of our capabilities.”
“Houston is at the center of the oil and gas industry. Having two talented attorneys focused on that sector join the firm in Houston bolsters both our existing corporate and energy practices,” said Jerry Bloom, partner and chair of the firm’s energy, project development, and finance practice group. “We are thrilled to have Denmon and Craig as part of the Winston team.”
For more than 160 years, Winston & Strawn has served clients across a variety of industries. Winston & Strawn’s energy sector practice was recently selected by U.S. News & World Report as a National Tier 1 practice for energy law in 2014 and is comprised of attorneys representing multiple legal disciplines, including project development, acquisitions and dispositions, finance, regulatory, tax, environmental, labor and employment, intellectual property, engineering and construction, real estate, litigation, and bankruptcy. For more than 40 years, the firm has represented a wide diversity of players in the energy and environmental arenas—ranging from utilities, independent power producers, energy cooperatives, chemicals and other refining companies, project developers, financiers, and power purchasers, to manufacturers, oil and gas companies, retailers, contractors, lenders, borrowers, investors, traders, and governments, among others.
