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Partner — Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity
Matt Strock is the co-head of V&E’s Corporate practice. He advises private equity firms and their portfolio companies on investments, acquisitions, financings and divestitures. His clients are engaged in a wide range of industry sectors including midstream, upstream, oilfield services, manufacturing and technology.
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Senior Partner — Restructuring & Reorganization
With more than 40 years’ experience, Jim Lee is a pioneer in his field. Jim began his career as a general commercial litigator in the 1970s, but after repeatedly collaborating with bankruptcy attorneys, pursued what was then considered a novel path: building a practice that combined his skills as a litigator with his deep knowledge of bankruptcy law.
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Partner — Restructuring & Reorganization
Steven Abramowitz’s practice focuses on restructuring, bankruptcy and transactions involving leveraged or financially distressed companies. He draws from his more than 25 years of experience to help businesses, creditors, investors and other clients navigate the opportunities and risks of pursuing acquisitions, divestitures, financings and other deals with companies that have either entered formal bankruptcy proceedings or face other challenging circumstances.
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Partner — Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets
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.
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Partner — Energy Transactions & Projects
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.
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Partner — Tax
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.
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Partner — Commercial & Business Litigation
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.
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Partner — Labor & Employment
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.
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Partner — Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions
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.
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Partner — Environmental & Natural Resources
Casey advises and represents clients in a wide variety of matters relating to environmental laws. In transactional contexts, he has structured allocations of liability in mergers and acquisitions, assisted clients in creative approaches to restructuring environmental requirements, and led the conduct of diligence and negotiations on environmental requirements in connection with asset sales and project financings within the United States and internationally.
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Partner — Environmental & Natural Resources
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.
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Partner — Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions
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.
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Senior Partner — Environmental & Natural Resources
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.
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Partner — Energy Regulation
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.
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Partner — Mergers & Acquisitions and Venture Capital
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.
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Partner — Government Investigations & White Collar Criminal Defense, Shareholder Litigation & Enforcement
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.
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Partner — Tax
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.
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Partner — Energy Transactions & Projects
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.
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General Counsel, Partner — Labor & Employment
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.
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Partner — Restructuring & Reorganization
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.
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Partner — Executive Compensation & Benefits
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.
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Partner — Environmental & Natural Resources
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.
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Partner — Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions
Described as “commercial and brilliant from a technical perspective,” Doug is a nationally recognized attorney with an extensive corporate practice, advising on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and other strategic transactions. Doug’s clients classify him as “one of the preeminent energy lawyers across capital markets” having “…seen every type of transaction.” (Chambers USA, 2023) He is one of a few attorneys in the country to be recognized by Chambers USA for both capital markets and corporate M&A.
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Partner — Executive Compensation & Benefits
David D’Alessandro is head of the Executive Compensation and Benefits practice, where he advises companies on the implementation of executive contracts with a particular focus on the tax and securities issues arising from executive compensation arrangements. David’s clients include both private and publicly traded companies in a wide range of industries, from energy to financial services. His practice entails both mergers and acquisitions work and day-to-day counseling. He regularly advises clients on matters involving stock options, restricted stock, profits interests, performance-based compensation arrangements, golden parachutes, 409A issues and Securities Act and Exchange Act compliance as well as the structuring of employment, change in control and severance agreements.
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Partner — Government Contracts, Export Controls & Economic Sanctions, and National Security Reviews (CFIUS)
Dave Johnson is Head of the Government Contracts/Export Controls and National Security practice, Managing Partner of the Washington, D.C. office, and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. He works with companies of all sizes and in all industries to resolve contract disputes with the government and to manage legal complications that may arise from exports as well as inbound foreign investment.
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Partner — Restructuring & Reorganization
Bill Wallander has led a robust restructuring practice with more than 25 years of experience. A complex commercial problem solver who knows his way around a courtroom, Bill has experience in all phases of distress including out-of-court workout and restructurings, distressed asset acquisitions and divestitures, distressed finance transactions, bankruptcy cases and litigation.
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Senior Partner — Private Investment Funds
Pat Breeland is a leader in the field of advising institutional investors on alternative investments. Since 2002, Pat has represented institutional investors in more than 650 investment transactions. In addition, he has supervised other attorneys as they handled hundreds of investment transactions.
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Partner — Energy Transactions & Projects
Alex Msimang has around 30 years of experience advising clients on the full range of energy-related projects and transactions and he has worked on all sides of the table. Alex focuses a majority of his work on global energy M&A – principally in the oil and gas sector – with the balance made up of project development and regulatory advisory work. Over the course of his career, Alex has come to appreciate how the different pieces of his practice inform and strengthen each other. Alex advises clients across the globe. In the UK, he helps them navigate the highly sophisticated and regulated energy market and he brings that experience to bear on projects across Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Europe.
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Partner — Real Estate
Paul’s practice focuses on real estate, private equity, and general business transactions. His experience includes representation of a wide variety of clients engaged in many types of real estate, financing, and other business transactions, as well as institutional lenders, investors, and public companies in the acquisition and disposition of commercial property of all product types. Paul also has experience in commercial leasing, including sale-leasebacks and build-to-suit leases, lease disputes, and general corporate representation. He currently represents several large nationwide real estate private equity funds in various acquisitions, financing, development, workout, and sale transactions. Paul also represents institutional landlords and tenants across the country.
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Partner — Commercial & Business Litigation
Pat is an accomplished trial lawyer, representing clients on both sides in commercial litigation (jury trials, bench trials, and arbitration) and the defense side of multi-district tort litigation. He is one of a handful of lawyers in Texas who is a member of all four of the prominent national trial lawyer organizations: he is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, and a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and the International Society of Barristers. Clients note that Pat “is an excellent lawyer [and] he’s very comfortable in court,” and “is a great trial lawyer with a strong state and national reputation.” (Chambers USA 2023).
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Partner — Condemnation & Eminent Domain
For more than 25 years, trial lawyer Don Griffin has represented his clients in multimillion-dollar lawsuits in Texas state and federal courts. He is a trial lawyer with extensive courtroom experience and numerous jury trial verdicts. His practice focuses primarily on assisting property owners and developers subject to condemnation by government authorities. Don has appeared before the Texas Supreme Court multiple times on behalf of his clients, most recently in February 2018 (W.A. “Andy” Meyers v. JDC/Firethorne, 548 S.W.3d 477 (Tex.2018)). Among his most high-profile verdicts was a February 2018 judgment against the State of Texas that resulted in an amount 1,837% above the State’s $1,300,000 compensation number after a three-week jury trial in Harris County — the largest reported jury verdict ever on behalf of a property owner in a Texas condemnation case. On May 28, 2020, the Houston First Court of Appeals issued a unanimous opinion affirming in all aspects the $28.8 million jury verdict obtained for his client CC Telge Road, L.P. See State v. CC Telge Road, L.P., No. 01-18-00416-CV, 2020 WL 2782370 (Tex. App.—Houston [1st Dist.] May 28, 2020, n.p.h.).
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Partner — Energy Regulation
Jay advises natural gas and liquids pipeline and storage clients on various complex regulatory issues, regulatory compliance matters, and federal energy policy trends. He also focuses on administrative litigation, representing regulated pipelines and storage companies before various federal and state agencies, including the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), in rate cases, certificate proceedings, complaint proceedings and audit and investigation matters. Jay advises clients regarding the jurisdictional and regulatory landscape for energy asset mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and other business combinations. He also counsels clients regarding contracting for the transportation, purchase and sale of energy commodities.
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Partner — Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions
David represents issuers and underwriters in connection with capital markets financings, with a focus on high-yield and other debt securities offerings. He also has significant experience in convertible debt and equity offerings, and related equity derivative products. David has particular experience in the energy industry, having worked on numerous transactions involving oil and gas companies, midstream companies, refiners, and oilfield service companies. He also has significant experience in the chemical, shipping, automotive, homebuilding, electronics, and airline industries.
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Partner — Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions
Mike Telle is a seasoned corporate lawyer who focuses on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and other transactions for a variety of clients in the energy sector.
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Partner — Tax
John Lynch focuses on federal income tax aspects of domestic and international transactions, primarily those involving energy and infrastructure.
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Partner — Finance
Chris’ practice involves all aspects of commercial lending and financing transactions. Chris has been active, both globally and domestically, on behalf of commercial banks, private equity funds, retailers and energy companies. His work includes the financing of energy assets, real estate and nonperforming loans, retail businesses, and the development and financing of energy and infrastructure projects.