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Marcia E. Backus
Marcia E. Backus
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Biography
Marcia has a deep energy transactional law practice, representing foreign and domestic industry and private equity firms in domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity investments and other corporate legal transactions and project development. Marcia’s energy transactional experience includes representing buyers and sellers of shale joint ventures, oil and gas properties, power generation facilities, energy trading businesses, natural gas pipelines and crude oil pipelines, refineries, processing and other midstream assets and oil field service companies.
Cited as a leading lawyer in her fields of law by numerous legal and trade publications, Marcia is listed as one of Chambers USA’s America’s Leading Business Lawyers in 2005-2010; among The Best Lawyers in America® since 2003 in corporate, energy, oil and gas, and project finance law; and as an energy law expert in Euromoney's Expert Guide to the World's Leading Energy and Natural Resource Lawyers.
Marcia has served in numerous leadership positions at V&E, including on the Management Committee and chair of the Partnership Admission Committee, and is currently V&E's Energy Transactions/Projects Practice Group Leader.
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Representative Experience
Joint Ventures/M&A
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- Counsel to SandRidge in its $1 billion sale and joint venture to Repsol and its $500 million sale and joint venture/development with Atinum Partners; each in the Mississippian Shale
- Counsel to KNOC in its $1.55 billion acquisition and joint venture/development with Anadarko in the Eagle Ford Shale
- Represented Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) in its $1.7 billion acquisition and joint venture / development with respect to Marcellus Shale gas interests with Atlas Energy Inc.
M&A - Upstream
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- Represented Occidental Petroleum Corporation (Oxy) in its $2.5 billion sale of Oxy's Argentine oil and gas operations to China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec)
- Counsel to Oxy in its acquisition of South Texas oil and gas interests for $1.8 billion
- Counsel to Oxy in its acquisition of Citi’s energy trading business, Phibro LLC, from Citigroup, Inc., and to Oxy in its post-closing LLC with Phibro management to continue the trading business
M&A - Other Energy
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- Counsel to Oxy in a multi-billion dollar exchange of E&P properties and a crude oil pipeline and CO2 pipelines in the U.S. and Pakistan
- Counsel to Reliant Energy in connection with its $975 million sale of entities owning gas fired power plants in New York to Madison Dearborn and U.S. Power Gen
- Counsel to Reliant Energy in its sale of entities owning hydropower projects and gas fired power projects in New York to Brascan for $900 million
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Education and Professional Background
- The University of Texas School of Law, J.D. with high honors, 1983 (Order of the Coif)
- The University of Texas, B.A. summa cum laude, 1976
- Attended Georgetown University
- Admitted to practice: Texas, 1983; New York, 2008
Professional Recognition
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- Legal 500 U.S. in energy transactions law, 2011
- Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers in energy and projects law, 2005 - 2010
- The Best Lawyers in America® in corporate, energy, international trade and finance, oil and gas, and project finance law, 2003 - 2012; in mergers and acquisitions law, 2009 - 2012
Activities and Affiliations
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- Co-founder: Center for Women in Law - The University of Texas
- Chancellor's Council, The University of Texas
- Fellow: Texas Bar Foundation
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First City Tower
1001 Fannin Street
Suite 2500
Houston, TX 77002-6760
Tel +1.713.758.1101
Fax +1.713.615.5606
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