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Baker Botts L.L.P. Offices
910 LOUISIANA STREET
HOUSTON
TEXAS 77002-4995
TEXAS
United States
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George Fibbe
Work Department
Litigation
Position
Partner
Career
Drawing on his broad experience in private practice, as a general counsel, and in government service, George Fibbe represents clients in complex commercial disputes and regulatory matters. Mr. Fibbe’s practice focuses on high-stakes matters across the energy sector, including upstream and midstream oil and gas, LNG, renewables, nuclear, and the power industry.
Before joining Baker Botts, Mr. Fibbe served as Deputy General Counsel for Litigation, Regulation & Enforcement for the U.S. Department of Energy, where he oversaw a wide range of legal matters arising from the Department’s missions of advancing energy security, promoting scientific innovation, ensuring security and environmental cleanup of the nation’s nuclear weapons complex, and other energy-related operations. In that role, he worked closely with the Department of Justice, the Office of Management & Budget’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), and other federal agencies.
At DOE, Mr. Fibbe was responsible for the Department’s large-scale complex litigation and pre-litigation matters, including major environmental and nuclear waste related matters, regulatory and administrative claims, contractor disputes, intellectual property and other commercial contracts, employment and whistleblower disputes, and land acquisition.
Mr. Fibbe also was lead counsel for departmental rulemakings and related regulatory and administrative matters, including serving as chair of the Department’s deregulatory task force. He was responsible for all civil enforcement matters of the Department and headed the team dedicated to enforcement of energy efficiency standards for manufacturers.
Mr. Fibbe’s in-house experience includes service as general counsel of a solar power company, where he led the legal team’s efforts not only on disputes, but also on a variety of regulatory, corporate transactional and finance projects.
He also served as head of litigation for the petroleum division of a major international natural resources corporation. He handled numerous matters arising from onshore shale production, including royalty disputes, environmental damage, major personal injury, contractual claims, and business torts.
In private practice, Mr. Fibbe represented clients in the energy, mining, steel, aviation, construction, and real estate industries in complex commercial litigation and arbitration matters. He handled cases involving data ownership and protection, IT contracts, intellectual property, antitrust claims, commercial contract disputes, and various business torts.
Memberships
State Bar of Texas
Alabama State Bar
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas
United States District Courts for the Middle, Northern and Southern Districts of Alabama
Federalist Society, President of Houston Lawyers Chapter, 2009-2014
Education
J.D., Harvard Law School 2001
B.A., Political Science, Birmingham-Southern College 1997
Phi Beta Kappa
Omicron Delta Kappa
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
Firm Rankings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Finance > Project finance
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense