With regular instructions on complex, first-of-their-kind projects, King & Spalding pulls together a strong offering with capabilities spanning both contentious and non-contentious mandates. The team has extensive expertise advising on both domestic and cross-border matters pertaining to the energy sector with specialisms in advising on both traditional and renewable energy projects. Data centres continue to be a growing area of the firm’s offering in the tech space. The practice is jointly led by Houston-based Scott Greer, who leverages his background in engineering to advise on a plethora of high value LNG projects, and Mike Stenglein, who fronts the litigation offering from Austin. Adam Gray has returned to Austin to handle litigation, arbitration, and dispute mitigation arising out of the energy transition. Kaleb Walker acts for developers on the full lifecycle of construction projects spanning, engineering, procurement, and contractual work. San Francisco-based Benjamin Jones specializes in infrastructure arbitrations. Luke Roniger has an established practice in Austin managing both domestic and cross-border disputes, while Austin-based Terra Mareck Cothran‘s holds a strong book of work advising on both LNG plant and wind farm developments.
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  • The experience the firm has on US Gulf Coast LNG projects and in other locations around the world allows the firm and the client to ensure that the EPC contract is benchmarked, competitive, and can be financed if required. The firm also has multiple areas in which they specialize, allowing questions and concerns to be resolved quickly.

Key clients

  • Cheniere Energy, Inc.
  • Chevron
  • City of Denton
  • Energy Transfer
  • EnergySource Minerals
  • ENGIE
  • Iron Mountain
  • JERA
  • Microsoft
  • Natura Resources, LLC
  • Occidental Petroleum
  • OHLA

Work highlights

Represented Iron Mountain in a contract dispute regarding delays in the construction of a hyperscale data center in Frankfurt, Germany resulting from the failures of a global design firm related to their work on the design and development of the data center.
Provided strategic legal counsel to JERA and played a key role in the formation of Blue Point Number One, a$4 billion ATR-based low-carbon ammonia project led by the tri-party joint venture of CF Industries, JERA, and Mitsui & Co.
Advising Natura Resources on the engineering, procurement, and construction of its first-of-kind molten salt nuclear reactor (MSR-1) to be located on the campus of Abilene Christian University (ACU).

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Kaleb Walker
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Practice head

Scott Greer; Mike Stenglein

Other key lawyers

Adam Gray; Benjamin Jones; Terra Mareck Cothran; Luke Roniger; Kaleb Walker