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Eric Groten is an accomplished Clean Air Act practitioner with nearly 35 years of experience navigating state and federal air quality laws. His work covers the full array of legal work generated by air quality laws, including defending enforcement actions, applying for the permits they require, transacting emissions rights, counseling clients on compliance and lobbying to change rules and the laws themselves. He has represented upstream, midstream and petrochemical facilities, power generators, and extractive industries in enforcement actions brought by EPA, by state agencies and by citizen groups.

Jamie Tabb has a full-service government contracts practice, in which he represents contractors in bid protests, contract disputes, and other litigation. While focused primarily on federal contracts, Jamie also has experience at the state and local level. For over 16 years he has litigated bid protests at the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and Court of Federal Claims (COFC) and filed claims and prosecuted appeals at the Boards of Contract Appeals and COFC.

Suzanne counsels clients with respect to regulated and unregulated midstream assets. Specifically, Suzanne focuses on FERC regulatory requirements and compliance with FERC regulations, including creation of regulatory compliance and internal audit programs, rate regulation of natural gas pipelines and storage companies, and regulatory requirements at FERC for developing liquids and natural gas pipelines.  Suzanne also works with clients on the negotiations of midstream agreements, including for service on interstate gas and liquids pipelines, gathering pipelines, processing facilities, storage terminal agreements, and agreements for the purchase and sale of commodities.

Rebecca’s practice focuses on all aspects of restructuring and reorganization work, including the representation of debtors, lenders, creditors, landlords, and trustees. She has litigated a broad range of contested matters and adversary proceedings, including fraudulent transfers, automatic stay relief, cash collateral arrangements, valuation contests, tax claims, termination of exclusivity, lien priority disputes, avoidance actions and objections to plan confirmation. She has worked with an array of industries, with significant experience in energy, oil and gas, real estate, banking and financial services, retail and telecom. She also has significant experience representing clients in cases before both the federal bankruptcy and district courts.

Manuel Berrelez is a trial and regulatory enforcement lawyer who represents businesses and individuals in a wide range of litigation and investigation matters. His practice focuses on fraud and fiduciary duty claims, government and internal investigations, various regulatory and compliance matters, bankruptcy-related litigation, and other complex business disputes. Manuel also serves as Co-Chair of V&E’s Diversity Executive Committee.

Mike Heidler is an accomplished appellate litigator who regularly appears in Texas appellate courts, the Fifth Circuit, and federal and state trial courts in Texas.

Lina Dimachkieh is an accomplished tax attorney who focuses on the federal income tax implications of domestic and cross-border transactions.

Jordan is an experienced litigator who is regularly called on to handle complex commercial and bankruptcy disputes. Jordan consistently thinks outside the box – both before litigation is filed and also when advocating in court or arbitration.

Brandon’s practice focuses on environmental and natural resources law, with an emphasis on project development, enforcement defense, and environmental litigation.

Dario advises public and private companies, real estate investment trusts (REITs), private equity firms, portfolio companies, boards of directors, compensation committees, management teams and individual executives on a wide range of compensation and benefits matters, including applicable tax, securities law, corporate governance and disclosure implications associated with such matters.

Danielle’s practice focuses exclusively in the energy and infrastructure industries, but across a broad spectrum of sectors, including the upstream and midstream oil and gas and renewable power sectors. In particular, she represents clients in mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, joint ventures and project development transactions. Danielle has advised all players in the energy industry, including strategic companies, institutional investors, private equity funds and other financial institutions.

Russell Oshman is the Managing Partner of the Dallas office. Russell represents investors and developers in the acquisition, development, financing and disposition of commercial real estate assets. His practice is primarily focused on the representation of investment capital in forming joint ventures and obtaining construction financing in connection with the development and construction of commercial real estate projects, with a particular emphasis on industrial warehouse and logistics projects. Russell also has significant experience in the acquisition, disposition and permanent financing of commercial real estate assets. Russell advises a wide array of real estate clients including public and private real estate investment trusts, private equity investors and real estate developers. While his focus lies in representing clients in commercial real estate transactions, Russell also has experience with the real estate aspects of master limited partnerships, mergers and acquisitions and syndicated financing transactions.

Prentiss Cutshaw represents a broad range of real estate clients, including private equity funds, real estate investment groups and commercial owners in all stages of the real estate lifecycle, from acquisition and development to management, leasing, finance and ultimately disposition of a property. The properties of his clients are located nationwide. Prentiss was chosen by the Legal 500 in Real Estate in 2019.

Based in Houston, David’s practice concentrates on representing property owners throughout Texas in eminent domain and condemnation matters. David has extensive trial experience against both the State of Texas and Harris County in condemnation matters. He has handled cases involving the taking of all types of properties, including retail, commercial, industrial, and residential properties. David has been selected by his peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America for his experience in Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law.

Jaren’s practice focuses on the representation of utility and energy clients and eminent domain law. In his utility and energy practice he represents clients before the Public Utility Commission of Texas, other regulatory agencies, and in various courts throughout the state. This work addresses issues involving utility infrastructure, including obtaining of Certificates of Convenience and Necessity, navigating the regulatory approval process for M&A transactions, litigating rate approval for utility assets, acquiring of right-of-way for linear projects through eminent domain and counselling clients regarding state regulatory requirements, the ERCOT process, and a number of other issues. Jaren’s notable work highlights include preparing, processing and obtaining approval for over thirty Certificate of Convenience and Necessity applications for transmission line projects in the State of Texas. In his eminent domain practice, Jaren represents both utilities and landowners in the condemnation process to either acquire land for utility projects or assist landowners to receive just compensation for their property.

Craig is a member of the firm’s Complex Commercial Litigation group and is co-head of the firm’s Securities Litigation practice. His practice focuses on representing companies and their directors in lawsuits brought by Delaware stockholders, Master Limited Partnership unitholders, and deal partners.

Tzvi represents a broad array of corporate borrowers, private equity sponsors and portfolio companies, high-net-worth individuals, financing providers, hedge funds, and other alternative lenders in many types of complex and highly structured debt facilities. He has experience in Term Loan B financings, other syndicated term and revolving loans, unitranche loans, restructurings and debtor-in-possession facilities, acquisition financings, project financings, reserve-based loans, and other asset-based loans, including commodity trading facilities. Tzvi also has experience with financings across a wide range of industries, including shipping, oilfield services, upstream and midstream oil and gas, restaurant franchises, airlines, commodity trading, nuclear materials, power generation, and professional sports franchises.

Brad’s primary area of practice includes all aspects of restructuring and reorganization, including the representation of lenders, buyers, debtors, creditors, and trustees. Brad has extensive experience in advising clients on all aspects of financial distress, including liability management transactions, corporate workouts and restructurings, distressed asset acquisitions and divestitures, bankruptcy litigation, counterparty risk, and reorganization and insolvency proceedings. Brad has worked with clients including banks, syndicated bank groups and agents, private equity funds, public companies, portfolio companies, non-bank lenders, strategic buyers, debtors, and chapter 7 trustees, among others.

Kaam represents investors, developers and other participants in complex infrastructure and energy investments and projects.

Harry is a partner based out of the Houston office, who focuses his practice on national restructuring and reorganization matters. He has extensive experience representing various parties in out-of-court restructurings and complex chapter 11 cases, both as an attorney and as an investment banker/financial advisor. Harry has represented clients in a range of industries, including manufacturing; transportation; upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors of the energy industry; oil field services; power; petrochemicals; real estate; retail; sub-prime finance; professional sports; and mass media.

Damien represents companies in the energy industry in transactional and regulatory matters. He has advised clients on numerous transactional and state and federal regulatory issues related to the production, gathering, transportation, and storage of natural gas; the transportation, terminaling, and storage of liquid hydrocarbons; power sales and marketing; and the sale or acquisition of natural gas, oil, and electric power commodities and assets.

Sarah leads the Firm’s transactional insurance practice and counsels clients on insurance matters in complex corporate transactions. In connection with public and private M&A deals, private equity investments, and securities offerings, Sarah advises on the use of representations & warranties insurance, tax insurance and other transactional risk insurance, the placement and run-off of D&O insurance, the transfer and retention of insurance assets, and other insurance matters. Sarah negotiates the terms of insurance policies and advises clients on the insurance aspects of all types of transactions. Sarah also advises clients on director and officer indemnification matters, as well as counseling policyholders with respect to insurance claims under representations & warranties insurance policies as well as other lines of commercial insurance. Sarah has represented clients from a variety of industries, including private equity, energy, pharmaceutical, banking, life sciences, real estate, communications, retail, restaurant, hospitality, financial services, and manufacturing companies.

Alan’s practice focuses on project development, project financings and joint ventures. He has experience working with petrochemical companies, midstream developers, exploration and production companies, project developers and financial investors on complex projects and transactions in the upstream, midstream and downstream sectors. In particular, Alan has significant experience in complex downstream projects, as well as experience assisting clients in energy transition matters involving renewable fuels, carbon capture, clean ammonia, low-carbon hydrogen, carbon monetization, and grid resiliency. Alan also has significant experience advising on energy projects in Latin America.

Scott is a leading international construction disputes lawyer and focuses his practice on complex, multi-jurisdictional construction, engineering, energy and infrastructure projects. In the energy sector, Scott has a particular focus on renewable energy project disputes and has played a central role in developing V&E’s growing Energy from Waste practice. Scott is also an authority on disputes under the FIDIC form of contracts, and particularly with large scale DAB/DAAB proceedings.