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Baker Botts L.L.P. Offices

910 LOUISIANA STREET
HOUSTON
TEXAS 77002-4995
United States
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China > Projects and energy: foreign firms
Baker Botts L.L.P. handles a considerable amount of oil and gas-related work for Chinese and international energy companies from its Hong Kong office. Work in this sector spans the value chain and includes a number of high-value upstream and midstream mandates, including E&P developments, M&A and oil and gas supply arrangements. LNG-related work is a particular area of strength, an area that Hong Kong-based practitioners Russell Wilkinson and Neil Macdonald are particularly adept at. Jason Bennett heads the global projects group from Houston.
Hong Kong > Projects and energy
Leveraging its firmwide institutional relationships in the energy space and also benefiting from close ties with many China-based energy companies, Baker Botts L.L.P. handles work for both global and regional investors engaged in upstream, midstream and downstream projects across Asia Pacific. Oil and gas remains in the firm’s DNA and the team is regularly engaged in projects-related work in the region for a myriad of national and independent oil companies, as well as exploration and production companies (E&P). Houston-based Jason Bennett heads up the overarching global projects group.
United States > Industry focus > Energy transactions: oil and gas
(Leading lawyers)With full-service capability regarding transactional matters, Baker Botts L.L.P. ‘brings powerful legal analysis that is coupled with an extremely commercial approach’ and the experienced oil and gas practitioners who make up the group have ‘a wealth of market knowledge and deploy that in their advice’. Joint ventures and capital raising in the oil and gas sector are a core part of the team’s caseload, but it is also active in the increasingly important areas of green and sustainable bonds, as well as environmental counselling and carbon capture projects. The deep bench of specialists is co-led by Jason Bennett in Houston, Mike Bengtson out of Austin, and Dallas-based David Emmons. Other key names in the practice group are senior counsel Steven Miles in Washington DC, Erin Hopkins and Scott Looper in Houston, and Jonathan Platt, who works from Dallas.
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- Energy transactions: oil and gas - United States > Industry focus
- Leading lawyers - United States > Industry focus > Energy transactions: oil and gas
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Industry focus > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Industry focus > Energy transactions: conventional power
- Industry focus > Energy transactions: oil and gas
Firm Rankings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Industry focus > Energy regulation: conventional power
- Industry focus > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Industry focus > Energy: renewable/alternative power
- Industry focus > Environment: litigation
- Industry focus > Environment: regulatory
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- 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
- Industry focus > Energy litigation: conventional power
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- 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+)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Industry focus > 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
- Finance > Project finance