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Baker Botts L.L.P. Offices
700 K Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001-5692
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Mr Steven Miles
Work Department
Global Projects
Position
Senior Counsel
Career
Practice Areas
Steven Miles is a Senior Counsel with Baker Botts. He also serves as a nonresident fellow for the Baker Institute’s Center for Energy Studies at Rice University. For much of his 35 years as a lawyer he headed the Chambers Global Band One ranked LNG practice at Baker Botts L.L.P. He received the highest personal ranking awarded by Chambers USA, Legal 500, and other leading publications. His practice also focused on natural gas, electric power and renewable energy. While a partner at Baker Botts, Miles chaired the firm’s Energy Sector Committee and served for six years on the firm’s Executive Committee.
Memberships
LNG17, LNG18, LNG19 and LNG 2022 – Member, Program Committee, 2010-; World Gas Conference Financial Advisory Board, Co-Chair, 2017-18; AIPN – Director, 2010-2014, VP, Model Contracts, 2014, LNG Committee, Co-Chair, 2005-; ABA, Committee on International Energy and Natural Resources, Vice-Chair, 2001; Clean Economy Network, Legal Adviser, 2009-11.
Education
JD, Cornell Law School,1984; MBA, Cornell University,1984; BA (summa cum laude), Union College,1980.
Personal
2021 – Low-Carbon Fuels: How to Use U.S. Infrastructure and Exports to Deliver Cleaner Energy to the World; 2020 – “Green LNG” A Pathway For Natural Gas In An ESG Future?
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
(Hall of Fame)Counting BP, ConocoPhillips and CenterPoint Energy, to name a few, among its key roster of clients, Baker Botts L.L.P. is instructed by major market players to handle bet-the-company transactions in the oil and gas sector, advising on the full spectrum of matters, including M&A structuring, federal and state tax support and regulatory guidance. With demonstrable experience across the upstream, midstream and downstream sectors, the team advises on mandates concerning all forms of financing, commercial agreements, equity investments, restructuring and royalty transactions. In the firm’s Houston office, Jason Bennett focuses on the development and financing of LNG projects, joint ventures and transactions, while Washington DC-based senior counsel Steven Miles is an industry veteran, who advises on matters arising out of the LNG, natural gas and renewable energy industries. In Houston, Erin Hopkins handles commercial issues involving the acquisition and divestiture of energy companies and joint venture arrangements, and Scott Looper focuses on midstream and LNG project development, while Dallas-based Jonathan Platt represents private equity funds in acquisitions, investments and general corporate matters in the energy sector.
Lawyer Rankings
- Energy transactions: oil and gas United States > Energy
- Hall of Fame United States > Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
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