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Firm Details

Managing Partners: Ben Westcott, Patrick Hayes

Number of partners: 29

Number of lawyers: 55

Firm Overview:

Proud to call Texas home for over 30 years, Andrews Myers is a law firm renowned for their proactive and practical approach to business and celebrated for its extensive background in construction law. Clients look to Andrews Myers for its proven skills and trusted counsel in these core areas: construction, real estate, corporate, energy, employment, bankruptcy-creditors’ rights, litigation and arbitration. Thanks to a strong entrepreneurial spirit, the firm is now one of the most recognized independent law firms in Texas, with a footprint that extends far beyond state lines.

Main Areas of Practice:

Construction

Real Estate

Corporate

Energy

Employment

Bankruptcy-Creditors’ Rights

Business Litigation/Arbitration

Practice Areas and Offices

Construction:

• Counsel in every phrase of the construction project
• Experience spans the widest range of construction projects in the public and private sector, from airports to highways and other infrastructure projects, mixed-use to sports venues, petrochemical plants to power plants, and upstream, midstream and downstream energy projects
• Focus on claims, defaults and terminations, cost overruns, design and construction defects, contract drafting and negotiation, energy-related construction, mechanics’ liens, payment bond claims and collections
• Known for complex, multi-party dispute resolution skills, especially related to EPC/LNG

Contact: William J ‘Jason’ Walker

Tel: 713.850.4234

Email: jwalker@andrewsmyers.com

Real Estate:

• Serve as counsel to buyers, sellers, landlords and tenants, on industrial, retail, office, hospitality, build-to-suit, mixed use, educational, multi-family and residential land developments
• Focus on acquisitions and sales, title and survey review, financing and refinancing, and lease negotiations, options and renewals for owners/lessors and commercial tenants
• Provide a long-term outlook for future lease considerations, assignment, adjustments or possibility of default or litigation

Contact: Patrick Hayes

Tel: 713.850.4226

Email: phayes@andrewsmyers.com

Corporate:

• General corporate representation of companies
• Formation of companies, including corporations, LLCs and partnerships
• Representative experience in shareholder agreements, mergers and acquisitions, transaction structuring, owner sales and routine contractual issues
• Counsel in finance and capital formation, private placements and venture capital transactions
• Conversions, recapitalizations and reorganizations

Contact: Patrick Hayes

Tel: 713.850.4226

Email: phayes@andrewsmyers.com

Energy:

• Counsel clients with respect to energy litigation, arbitration and mediation
• Focus on downstream commodity transactions, chemical terminaling and storage agreements, and turnkey drilling contracts
• Advising on wellsite risk management, mineral liens, and procurement agreements
• Four attorneys are former in-house counsel for multinational firms in the LNG, petrochemical and chemical industries

Contact: Champe Fitzhugh

Tel: 512.900.3012

Email: cfitzhugh@andrewsmyers.com

Employment:

• Counsel clients with respect to OSHA compliance and defense of OSHA citations
• Defense of state and federal discrimination claims, wage and hour compliance, noncompetition agreements, and employment policy review
• Emphasis on preventative measures and workplace education
• Two attorneys with Board Certification in Labor and Employment Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization

Contact: Anthony ‘Tony’ Stergio

Tel: 713.850.4214

Email: astergio@andrewsmyers.com

Bankruptcy-Creditors’ Rights:

• Serve as counsel to secured and unsecured creditors, protecting their rights and maximizing their recovery from debtors in bankruptcy
• Focus on preference actions, fraudulent transfer litigation, claim objections, contested confirmation hearings, assumption and rejection of contracts and leases, and automatic stay litigation
• Acquisition of assets from financially distressed companies

Contact: Ed Ripley

Tel: 713.850.4227

Email: eripley@andrewsmyers.com

Business Litigation:

• Counsel companies in a wide spectrum of legal entanglements, providing both plaintiff and defense support from pre-litigation through appeal
• Experience with real estate development, hospitality, energy and petrochemical, medical, manufacturing, financial services, and insurance industries
• Focus on breach of contract, business dissolution, enforcement of trade secrets, intellectual property, insurance coverage, lender liability, bidding disputes and uniform commercial code

Contact: Hunter M. Barrow

Tel: 713.351.0349

Email: hbarrow@andrewsmyers.com

Arbitration:

• Four attorneys are members of the National Panel of Construction Arbitrators for the American Arbitration Association
• Attorney on the National Panel of Commercial Arbitrators for the American Arbitration Association
• Bill Andrews is a founding member of the Construction Mega-Projects Panel of Arbitrators for the American Arbitration Association
• Routinely called upon to mediate and arbitrate the most complex construction, real estate and business contract disputes

Contact: William K ‘Bill’ Andrews

Tel: 713.850.4212

Email: wandrews@andrewsmyers.com

Offices:

Houston Office: 1885 Saint James Place, 15th Floor, Houston, Texas 77056 USA

Austin Office: 919 Congress Avenue, Suite 1050, Austin, Texas 78701 USA

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