Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, fields a global energy disputes practice, representing industry giants and emerging companies in complex matters worldwide. The team handles environmental, regulatory, contractual, tax, and tariff stabilization disputes, as well as price reviews and high-value international arbitrations, including cases against foreign governments. Its oil and gas expertise spans exploration and production, pipelines and transportation, joint ventures, and energy trading and marketing. Houston- and Dallas-based practice head Karl Stern leads the firm’s energy offering, with extensive experience in disputes arising from complex transactions and international investments. In New York, Sanford Weisburst adds strength, while Michael Young represents clients in global arbitrations and regularly advocates before tribunals, particularly in energy-related disputes.
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Key clients
- TRC Operating Company, Inc. and TRC Cypress Group, LLC
- Alicia Grace, Ampex Retirement Master Trust, Apple Oaks Partners, LLC
- Cambria Ventures, LLC
- Carlos Williamson-Nasi, Axis Oil Field Services, S. de R.I. de C.V.
- Axis Oil Field Holding, S. de. R.I. de C.V.
- Clue, S.A. de C.V.
- Carolyn Grace Baring
- Diana Grace Beard
- Floradale Partners, LLC
- Frederick Grace
- Frederick J. Warren
- Gary Olson
Work highlights
Representing TRC, which owns and operates an oil-producing property in the Midway-Sunset Oil Field in Taft, California.
Representing Oro Negro’s U.S. shareholders and former officers and directors in a complex, cross-border, billion-dollar dispute arising from Oro Negro’s bankruptcy, with litigations currently ongoing in Mexico, the United States, and Singapore, and in an international arbitration.
Representing a large consortium of plaintiffs, comprised of a bank, investment funds, and shipping companies, including those in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, in billion-dollar lawsuits against Citigroup in connection with the largest financial fraud in the history of Latin America.
Lawyers
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Practice head
Karl Stern; Sanford Weisburst
Other key lawyers
Christopher Porter; Michael Young