Carl von Merz, a highly regarded corporate attorney with two decades of experience advising on large scale energy industry transactions, has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP in Houston, where he will serve as head of the firm’s U.S. Oil and Gas practice. Von Merz joins Hunton Andrews Kurth from Mayer Brown LLP, where he served as leader of the firm’s Houston Corporate Practice and head of its U.S. Upstream Energy Practice.
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Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international energy, technology and life sciences law firm, announced today that prominent patent litigators Robert Benson and Jeffrey Johnson have joined the firm’s Intellectual Property Department in the San Francisco and Houston offices, respectively, as partners. Both partnerts arrive at Baker Botts from Orrick.
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Holland & Knight has bolstered its Public Policy & Regulation Group with the addition of Jason Hill as a partner in Houston. Mr. Hill counsels clients regarding complex natural resource and energy statutes and regulations in compliance, regulatory and litigation matters. He was previously counsel at Hunton Andrews Kurth.
Tags: Holland & Knight LLP | HoustonBaker Botts L.L.P., a leading international energy, technology and life sciences law firm, announced today that Scott Nelson has joined the firm as a partner in the Litigation Department in Houston. He will lead the Department’s Labor and Employment practice. He joins the firm from Hunton Andrews Kurth.
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Skadden is pleased to announce that Michelle Scheffler has joined the firm as a litigation partner in our Houston office. Ms. Scheffler’s practice focuses on advising major oil and gas companies, publicly traded and privately owned independents, and private equity investors at trial and in other complex disputes in the energy sector. She has extensive experience leading matters related to mass and class action royalty litigation, leasing conflicts, operating agreements and title disputes, among other areas of controversy, and regularly represents clients in high-stakes lawsuits in state and federal courts nationwide. Scheffler arrives from Haynes & Boone LLP in Houston.
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King & Spalding announced today that energy and construction lawyer Terra Cothran has joined the firm as a partner in the firm’s Houston office. Cothran joins the firm from Bechtel Energy, where she was the Commercial Manager and Senior Counsel in charge of negotiating and advising on a wide variety of upstream, midstream and downstream EPC contracts for energy projects.
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Mayer Brown announced today that seasoned litigator Peter Jordan has joined the firm as a partner in its Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice in Houston, further expanding the office’s commercial litigation and trial capabilities. Experienced and licensed in both California and Texas, Peter joins from Huntsman Corporation, a publicly-traded multinational manufacturer and marketer of chemical products, where he served as associate general counsel and head of global litigation.
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Bradley is pleased to announce that Daniel McEntee has joined the firm as a partner in its nationally recognized Corporate and Securities Practice Group. McEntee arrives from Vinson & Elkins, where he served as Counsel.
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With insurance disputes continuing to rise throughout North America, Cozen O’Connor has further expanded its rapidly growing international Insurance Coverage practice with the addition of litigators Julie E. Van Wert, David M. Berke, Jerome P. Doctors, and Rangi Perera in Los Angeles and Christopher Tramonte in Houston. These attorneys represent a wide array of insurance clients — from primary and excess insurers, to brokers, agents, and independent adjustment companies — in every line of business.
Global law firm Clifford Chance has hired corporate M&A partner Cephas Sekhar in its Houston office. Sekhar’s appointment sees the Houston team grow to 11 partners following its opening in June, which marked the expansion of the firm’s global Energy & Infrastructure team in the US. Sekhar arrives at the firm from Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
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