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Mr Trent Bridges
Work Department
Partner, Energy & Infrastructure
Position
Trent Bridges’s practice focuses on a diverse range of energy-related transactions, infrastructure development projects and investments. He has extensive experience advising on acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, greenfield projects and investments across the oil and gas value chain. He also advises clients on energy transition projects, including those involving renewable fuels and investments in new technologies in support of such projects.
Previously, Trent served as an officer and in managing legal roles for Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P., where he worked directly with its board of directors and executive management team on numerous significant M&A transactions and infrastructure development projects. During his tenure at Magellan, Trent led the structuring, drafting and negotiating of purchase and sale agreements, joint venture arrangements, terminalling and offtake contracts, and pipeline throughput commitments and related tariffs for the development, construction, ownership and operation of new and expanded pipeline systems, inland storage and marine export terminals, condensate splitter facilities and other midstream assets.
To learn more about Trent please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/trent-bridges
Education
- J.D., The University of Tulsa College of Law, with highest honors, 2008
- B.A., University of Oklahoma, 1999
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
Akin advises clients across the oil and gas sector on M&A, financing, project development, and industry-specific agreements, leveraging deep regulatory and operational expertise across upstream, midstream, downstream, petrochemicals, LNG, and utilities. Zachary Wittenberg co-heads the firm’s corporate practice. Energy practice co-leader Wesley Williams is highly active in the midstream and upstream sectors, advising financial sponsors, operators, and producers on complex transactions and is noted for his extensive experience leading buy-side and sell-side deals involving midstream companies and assets. John Goodgame is recognised for his expertise in M&A, corporate governance, and capital raising. Mary Lovely is recommended for her proficiency in acquisitions, investments, and joint ventures across the entire oil and gas value chain, while Robert Shearer has recently advised on multi-billion-dollar mergers and disposals. Trent Bridges and Ian Goldberg joined from Sidley Austin LLP and Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, respectively, in spring 2024, enhancing the firm’s energy M&A capabilities. Leana Garipova and Dasha Hodge provide support across a broad range of matters. Williams and Wittenberg operate out of Dallas and New York respectively. Bredthauer is based in Fort Worth. All other individuals sit in Houston.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government relations
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- International trade and national security > Trade remedies and trade policy
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Industry focus > Education
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Industry focus > Native American law
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Government > Government contracts
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Industry focus > Sport
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)