With an established presence on some of the largest disputes in the oil and gas sectors, Yetter Coleman LLP‘s Houston-based commercial litigation practice is also active for large clients in the technology, financial services, and utilities sectors. In the energy field, the firm leads in court on patent infringement and antitrust claim defense, environmental litigation, and market manipulation suits for some of the sector’s largest clients. In other areas, the firm has acted in finance in disputes against state attorneys general and has advised on federal enforcement actions, and in tech the group has led in partnership and investment litigation. The group is steered by the efforts of Paul Yetter and Tracy LeRoy , who is praised for her ’excellent judgement’: Yetter’s experience covers antitrust as well as trademark and business tort disputes, with recent success in the aviation industry, while LeRoy has led on multijurisdictional litigation and on international arbitration proceedings.
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Testimonials
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- ‘Tracy LeRoy - excellent judgment, great advocate, can read the arbitral tribunal well.’
Key clients
- Academy
- American Airlines, Inc.
- Apache Corp.
- Apple Inc.
- Baker Hughes
- Chevron
- ConocoPhillips
- Energy Transfer LP
- Expand Energy
- Glass, Lewis & Co.
- Great Western Drilling
- IBM
Work highlights
Represented Apache in a $1 billion oil and gas lease dispute brought by Apollo.
Represented Elaine Marshall and her family office MarOpCo in ongoing, high-stakes fiduciary and trust litigation brought by her son, Preston Marshall.
Secured a $100 million settlement from Plains All American Pipeline on behalf of the Venoco liquidating bankruptcy trustee.
Practice head
Paul Yetter; Tracy LeRoy