Overview

Megan James is a tax lawyer who focuses her practice on complex domestic and cross-border transactions.

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Experience Highlights

  • Ridgewood Infrastructure, LLC in the formation of Ridgewood Water & Strategic Infrastructure Fund II, L.P. with total commitments of $1.2 billion

  • Carlyle in its $350 million investment in Aspen Power Partners, a distributed generation platform with the mission of accelerating decarbonization

  • REV Renewables, Inc. in its initial public offering of common stock (In Registration)

  • RSP Permian in its $9.5 billion sale to Concho Resources, creating the largest unconventional shale producer in the Permian Basin

  • EVgo Services, a portfolio company of LS Power and an electric vehicle public fast charging network, in its $2.6 billion business combination with Climate Change Crisis Real Impact I Acquisition Corporation, a SPAC

  • EnCap Investments in the formation of EnCap Energy Transition Fund I with total commitments of approximately $1.2 billion

  • Caprock Midstream Holdings in its $950 million sale to EagleClaw Midstream

  • Live Oak Acquisition Corp. II in its $1.4 billion business combination with Navitas Semiconductor, the industry leader in Gallium nitride power ICs

  • Goodrich Petroleum Corporation in its $480 million sale to Paloma Partners, an EnCap affiliate, in an all cash tender offer

  • HighPeak Energy Partners, LP, an oil and gas exploration and production company, and its affiliates in a $900 million business combination with Pure Acquisition Corp.

  • First Reserve Sustainable Growth Corp., a SPAC, in its $222 million initial public offering

  • Antero Resources Corporation in a $402 million structured overriding royalty interest transaction with an affiliate of Sixth Street

  • TPG in its sale to American Securities of FleetPride, the industry’s largest distributor of heavy duty truck and trailer parts

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Credentials

Education

  • Texas Tech University School of Law, J.D. summa cum laude, 2014 (Order of the Coif; Managing Editor, Texas Tech Law Review; Burton Award, 2014 Distinguished Legal Writing Award)
  • Texas A&M University, B.S., Sociology, 2010

Admissions

  • Texas

Recognitions

  • Selected to the Texas Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2022-2024
  • The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), “Ones to Watch,” (Dallas): Litigation and Controversy–Tax, 2022–2024; Tax Law, 2022–2025
  • The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), (Dallas): Litigation and Controversy–Tax, 2026 and 2027; Tax Law, 2026 and 2027
Insights

Client Alerts

IRS Proposes Regulations Narrowing Section 892 Exemption for Foreign Government Investors

On December 12, 2025, the United States Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) issued proposed regulations (REG-101952-24) …

December 16, 2025 • V&E Tax Update

December 16, 2025 • 4-minute read

Treasury and Small Business Administration Further Clarify Paycheck Protection Program Background Decorative Image

Client Alerts

Capital Commitment: A Billion-Plus for American Infrastructure

Vinson & Elkins Partners Robert Seber, David Peck, and Megan James, counsel to Ridgewood Infrastructure, share the story behind the private equity firm’s latest success and the legal work that went into it.

March 6, 2025 • V&E+ Ventures 

March 6, 2025 • 6-minute read

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