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Stephen M. Gill is Co-Head of V&E’s Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets practice group. He is an accomplished corporate lawyer who leads Vinson & Elkins’ public company mergers & acquisitions practice. Steve advises both acquirers and targets involved in high-profile transactions across industry sectors. Some of his notable representations include advising RSP Permian in its $9.5 billion sale to Concho Resources, which created the largest unconventional shale producer in the Permian Basin, and advising Maxar Technologies in its $3.6 billion merger with DigitalGlobe, which produced a leading provider of satellites, earth imagery, geospatial data solutions and analytics.

Shay Kuperman advises on mergers and acquisitions, strategic joint ventures and investments, and project development for many energy companies, chemical companies and financial investors. With each matter, Shay aims to negotiate deals that satisfy multiple stakeholders and help clients solve problems efficiently while also accomplishing their larger goals.

Todd advises clients on the tax aspects of complex domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, partnership and other joint venture arrangements, project development, and capital markets and private financing transactions. During his nearly 20-year career at Vinson & Elkins, he has worked extensively within a variety of industries, including natural resources (upstream and midstream), renewable power generation and storage, real estate, and technology. In addition, Todd has represented numerous private equity funds and other pooled investment vehicles in connection with capital formations, acquisitions, and divestitures.

Matt Moran is an accomplished trial lawyer who represents plaintiffs and defendants in a wide array of complex commercial disputes. He serves as head of V&E’s Restructuring Litigation Practice Group and Co-Head of V&E’s Professional Liability practice.

Sean Becker is the head of the Employment, Labor and OSHA practice and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. He brings a unique perspective to his work advising clients on day-to-day employment issues and transaction-related employment matters: As an experienced employment litigator, he can identify and navigate potential liabilities that might otherwise go unnoticed. It’s a skill that has proved invaluable as Sean has managed a variety of sensitive employment-related matters and managed the labor and employment aspects of hundreds of acquisitions, divestitures and other transactions.

Brenda Lenahan focuses her practice on capital markets, and corporate governance and compliance. Brenda represents both issuers and underwriters in a variety of capital markets transactions. She has wide experience handling initial public offerings, other public offerings of debt and equity securities, and private placements of debt and equity securities. She has particular experience with Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) and publicly traded master limited partnerships (MLPs). Brenda is a highly skilled practitioner with extensive knowledge of securities law. She regularly advises clients on general corporate matters, including corporate compliance and governance.

Darin Schultz advises on secured lending transactions in the energy sector, working with clients on financings through every stage of the business life cycle. His practice focuses primarily on representing borrowers, including emerging ventures, established companies and private equity sponsors, in a wide variety of syndicated financings. Darin has extensive experience in deals involving upstream, midstream and oilfield services companies; acquisition finance; and project finance. He has also represented lenders in a variety of transactions.

Jason McIntosh is a transactional tax lawyer who focuses on complex cross-border and domestic transactions.

Brett Santoli represents borrowers and lenders in complex domestic and cross-border financings in an array of industries. In the energy space, he advises upstream and midstream oil and gas companies, power generation and transmissions businesses and oilfield services firms. He has also structured deals involving maritime firms, restaurant franchises, airlines, mining companies, agribusiness firms, gaming companies, insurance firms, broadcasters, publishers and sports businesses. In addition to his U.S.-based work, he has handled numerous matters in Europe and South America.

Wendy Trahan Salinas is an experienced and versatile tax attorney who focuses on taxable finance and other complex business transactions. In her taxable finance practice, Wendy advises borrowers and lenders on the tax implications of domestic and cross-border financing transactions. She has extensive experience in representing both public and privately held companies on transactions including bank credit facilities, mezzanine financings, derivatives, and project financings. She advises private equity funds in connection with debt and equity investments and other private equity transactions. She also advises public companies and lenders on bankruptcy restructuring transactions.

Jo Ann counsels regulated entities and entities that wish to own regulated assets related to energy in Texas and represents them in front of state and federal regulators. She represents clients in complex matters decided in bench trials in administrative and civil forums. She also assists clients in meeting federal electric reliability standards, helping them navigate compliance audits and reconcile potential non-compliance issues. In addition, Jo Ann advises parties to transactions that touch regulated, energy related assets.

Thomas is the co-Managing Partner of the Austin office and has an extensive corporate practice, advising on capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings and other equity and debt offerings, and merger and acquisition transactions.

Ramey’s principal areas of practice are capital markets, securities law, and mergers and acquisitions. He has a particular focus on transactions relating to Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) and publicly traded master limited partnerships (MLPs). He represents both issuers and underwriters in public and private securities offerings. Ramey has advised clients on general corporate matters, public company reporting issues, restructuring of partnerships, and reporting obligations in connection with acquisition and disposition of partnership securities. Additionally, Ramey advises clients on Investment Company Act of 1940 avoidance.

An accomplished lawyer with more than 30 years of experience, George advises and represents clients on business-critical environmental matters. His broad environmental law practice includes environmental litigation, environmental enforcement defense, emergency response, and environmental compliance counseling.

Shelley has extensive experience in capital markets and securities offerings, merger and acquisition transactions, and general corporate matters, with a particular emphasis on the energy industry.

Lewis has been practicing environmental law since 1993, and has a broad range of environmental law experience encompassing litigation, business transactions, and client counseling. His litigation practice includes toxic tort, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and a multitude of other statutory and common law claims in both state and federal courts. Lewis’ litigation practice also encompasses a broad range of class action and complex litigation experience arising from toxic tort, products liability, insurance, consumer protection, and other types of actions. He has substantial experience addressing complex scientific and engineering issues in the litigation context, and has worked with nationally recognized scientific experts in a number of different fields to address failure analysis investigations and to develop related expert testimony.

John represents companies in the energy industry in transactional and regulatory matters, primarily focused on the natural gas and electric power industries. He is one of a handful of lawyers in the country who is ranked by Chambers USA for his regulatory work in both electricity and oil and gas.

Venture Capital and Mergers & Acquisitions lawyer Wes Jones has represented public and private companies in corporate transactions since 1995. Wes has extensive experience working with venture capital firms and their portfolio companies in the technology, energy and life sciences industries, with a focus on emerging and venture-backed technology companies. In the mergers and acquisitions space, Wes represents both private equity funds and other strategic buyers, as well as emerging companies in their liquidation events or IPOs.

Jeff is a Chambers-ranked litigator with over two decades of experience in shareholder litigation and government and internal investigations. Jeff represents companies, officers, directors, and auditors in securities litigation, DOJ and SEC investigations, and internal investigations. Jeff also advises clients on various cybersecurity issues, including governance, incident response, and data breach notifications. He has tried cases in both state and federal courts and before private arbitration panels.

David Peck serves as head of V&E’s Tax & Executive Compensation & Benefits Department. He has more than 20 years’ experience advising companies on tax planning and structuring related to complicated transactions, leveraging his deep understanding of tax law to develop smart strategies to save his clients tax dollars.

Chris Strong is an accomplished member of V&E London’s Energy Transactions & Projects practice who represents corporate clients around the world on transactions in the energy and natural resources space.

Vanessa is General Counsel of Vinson & Elkins and a partner in the Firm. Vanessa was appointed as General Counsel following a twenty-five-year career as an employment litigator and counselor, representing clients in all aspects of employment law. Prior to assuming her role as General Counsel of the Firm, Vanessa served as Deputy General Counsel.

An accomplished lawyer with more than 30 years of experience, Paul is a partner in the Restructuring and Reorganization practice group. During his career, Paul has handled a multitude of complex chapter 11 bankruptcy cases and out-of-court restructuring matters. He regularly represents public and private companies, and advises their respective board of directors and senior management on developing solutions for reorganizing capital structures and business operations. His clients include companies in a range of industries, including cryptocurrency, energy, distribution, manufacturing, renewable power, retail, and telecommunications.

Shane advises employers, executives and management teams on the tax and securities law implications of compensatory arrangements for a range of clients, with a special emphasis on private equity sponsored work and the complex tax issues associated with golden parachute payments and transfers of property for services. He also guides boards of directors and compensation committees on executive compensation matters, and assists public and private partnerships, corporations and REITs in designing, drafting and implementing severance and retention plans and equity-based compensation arrangements.

Ben represents clients in complicated environmental disputes, drawing on his more than 20 years of experience to guide companies through civil litigation, civil and criminal enforcement defense, and administrative hearings. He also advises companies regarding complex site remediation issues, internal investigations, responses to catastrophic incidents, and regulatory issues. In the ESG space, Ben has advised an international mining company regarding important sustainability issues, most notably in the development and implementation of a major new international standard for mining operations.

Dan currently serves as co-Managing Partner of V&E’s New York office. Dan focuses his practice on counseling private equity firms and their portfolio companies on the full life cycle of deals. He is highly experienced in advising on strategic investments, joint ventures, mergers & acquisitions and divestitures. His clients include some of the largest and most active private equity firms in the world. Dan also counsels private and public companies on general corporate matters. Dan served as the hiring partner for V&E’s New York office from 2016 through 2021.

Matthew has a national practice spanning every major environmental statute, and has been recognized for his expertise in the areas of environmental litigation, regulation and transactional matters by the Legal 500. Matthew’s practice focuses on complex regulatory counseling, remedial issues, environmental litigation, navigating the energy transition, and environmental transactional matters. He has extensive experience advising clients engaged in low-carbon ventures, including permitting issues in connection with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) projects, negative emissions projects, and renewable fuels and credits (e.g., EPA RFS and California LCFS). He also counsels clients on matters related to infrastructure development, including pipeline safety regulations. He routinely counsels private equity, financial institutions, and public and private company clients on environmental liabilities across an array of industries, including all segments of the oil and gas sector, renewable power and fuels, waste recycling and disposal, and the mining, chemicals, and paper industries. With respect to environmental litigation, Matthew both defends and pursues environmental indemnification claims on behalf of clients, and also has experience responding to industrial incidents. In addition, Matthew has extensive experience advising clients on the resolution of environmental liabilities identified in the course of transactions, having successfully negotiated the environmental terms of hundreds of transactions over the past decade. He is frequently called upon to advise private equity funds and financial institutions on environmental liability management, providing risk-counseling and developing mitigation strategies in the context of assessing investment opportunities and entering new markets. With respect to project financings, he has a demonstrated track record of helping companies successfully navigate sustainable financing requirements, such as the Equator Principles. Matthew is a member of the firm’s Diversity Executive Committee.

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.

Stephanie is a trial lawyer who has litigated commercial matters in both state and federal courts across the country. She has experience representing clients in a wide array of cases, including energy, contract, shareholder, and construction disputes. Her experience also includes representing companies in international and domestic arbitrations, as well as administrative appeals. Stephanie is also actively involved in the Firm’s pro bono practice, through which she has represented individuals in asylum and family-law proceedings and advised local non-profits on various litigation and regulatory matters.

Head of V&E’s Global Finance practice group, David Wicklund advises clients on complex acquisition and leveraged financings.

Based in the firm’s London office, Nabil is global head of the Project Finance practice, and heads the firm’s Middle East and CIS practices. He has been based in London for more than two decades and has extensive experience in project finance and privatizations. Nabil has advised on oil and gas, pipeline, petrochemical, mining and metals, energy transition, power, port, and other projects around the word. He has also served on the Documentation Committee of the Loan Market Association (LMA).

Peter’s principal area of practice is complex commercial litigation, with a focus on international disputes. His experience includes work as an advocate in both international commercial and investor-state arbitrations under numerous institutional rules, including the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), and the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR). Peter has particular experience in disputes arising out of complex, multi-jurisdictional construction, engineering, energy and infrastructure projects. He has worked on international disputes for clients in both civil and common law jurisdictions all over the world, including Latin America, the US, Western Europe, the Middle East, Australia and West Africa. Peter also has significant experience representing clients in U.S. federal court related to arbitration issues, including in the enforcement of arbitral awards and applications to obtain evidence in aid of arbitral proceedings.

Lauren advises on the development and financing of projects in the energy and infrastructure sectors, acting for clients on complex projects in emerging markets and across the globe. In particular Lauren has extensive experience in project finance, advising project companies, sponsors, host governments and lenders in connection with the development and financing of projects in the oil and gas, petrochemical, mining and metals, LNG, port and infrastructure sectors.

Courtney is a real estate lawyer representing a wide range of clients, including public and private real estate investment trusts, private equity investors and developers. Her practice focuses on the acquisition, development, financing and disposition of commercial real estate projects across a variety of asset types during all stages of the economic cycle, including office, industrial, retail, hospitality and multifamily. In addition to Courtney’s experience with commercial real estate purchase and sale transactions, joint ventures, and construction and permanent financings, she also represents clients with respect to real estate aspects of mergers and acquisitions transactions.