HOUSTON, Dec. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Vinson &
Elkins has promoted eight lawyers to partner, effective
Jan. 1, 2019: Mike Bielby, Prentiss
Cutshaw and Jaren
Taylor in Dallas;
Danielle Patterson, Scott Rubinsky and Brittany Sakowitz in Houston; Scott
Stiegler in London;
and Jamie Tabb in Washington, D.C.
"These lawyers have each demonstrated a strong commitment to
V&E and our clients and we are excited to welcome them to the
partnership," V&E chairman Mark
Kelly said. "We are confident they will continue to
make significant contributions not only to their individual
practice groups, but to the overall strategic objectives of the
firm."
The new partners represent six of the firm's key practice areas:
complex commercial litigation, energy regulatory, energy
transactions/projects, finance, mergers and acquisitions/capital
markets and real estate.
"We are pleased to recognize these lawyers for the excellent
work they have done guiding our clients through complex
transactions and litigation," said V&E managing partner
Scott Wulfe. "We look forward to the
firm's continued success with talented lawyers like these as part
of our partnership."
The following is a list of the firm's new partners by
practice:
Complex Commercial Litigation
Scott Stiegler,
London. Stiegler is an
experienced international construction lawyer with a diversified
practice and broad geographic reach. With notable experience in
energy and infrastructure, he has played a role in some of the
largest construction disputes in the world. He provides
results-driven, pragmatic legal advice and representation to
owners, contractors, consultants and government entities on a wide
range of technical and legal issues in court proceedings,
international arbitration and other ad hoc dispute resolution
forums. Stiegler's experience highlights include acting on a number
of ICC arbitrations in connection with the design and construction
of a major maritime project in Central
America and providing commercial advice to and representing
leading international energy-from-waste EPC contractors in relation
to the design and construction of EfW plants and complimentary
facilities in the UK.
Jamie Tabb,
Washington, D.C. Tabb's
practice focuses on government contracts counseling and litigation.
His experience includes litigating bid protests at the Government
Accountability Office and Court of Federal Claims (COFC), filing
claims and prosecuting appeals at the Boards of Contract Appeals
and COFC and responding to government investigations and present
responsibility inquiries. He also assists contractors with internal
investigations and counsels on the Federal Acquisition Regulation,
Small Business Administration size regulations and statutes
applicable to federal contracting, including the Buy American Act
and the Trade Agreements Act. Tabb's other areas of experience
include Department of Defense (DoD) utility privatization contracts
and DoD Other Transaction Agreements for prototype projects. In
addition, Tabb advises clients participating in mergers and
acquisitions involving government contractors and assists companies
with the process of mitigating Foreign Ownership, Control or
Influence to obtain or retain a facility security clearance.
Energy Regulatory
Jaren Taylor,
Dallas. Taylor's practice
focuses on two main areas: representation of utility and energy
clients and eminent domain law. In his utility and energy practice,
he represents clients before the Public Utility Commission of
Texas, other regulatory agencies
and in various courts throughout the state. This work addresses
issues involving utility infrastructure, including obtaining of
Certificates of Convenience and Necessity, litigating rate approval
for utility assets, acquiring of right-of-way for linear projects
through eminent domain and counselling clients regarding state
regulatory requirements, the ERCOT process and a number of other
issues. Taylor's notable work highlights include preparing,
processing and seeking approval for more than thirty Certificate of
Convenience and Necessity applications for transmission line
projects in the State of Texas. In
his eminent domain practice, Taylor represents both utilities and
landowners in the condemnation process to either acquire land for
utility projects or assist landowners in seeking just compensation
for their property.
Energy Transactions/Projects
Danielle Patterson,
Houston. Patterson
advises domestic U.S. and international clients in mergers and
acquisitions, private equity investments, joint ventures and
project development transactions. She most frequently represents
public and private companies, private equity funds and financial
institutions involved in the energy industry, particularly in the
upstream and midstream oil and gas and renewable power sectors. Her
recent work highlights include advising EagleClaw Midstream
Ventures, a portfolio company of Blackstone Energy Partners, in a
joint venture with Kinder Morgan Texas Pipeline, a subsidiary of
Kinder Morgan, to construct and own
the approximately $2 billion Permian
Highway Pipeline Project and Flywheel Energy Operating, a portfolio
company of funds managed by Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, in its
$1.86 billion acquisition of upstream
and midstream assets from Southwestern Energy Company.
Finance
Mike Bielby,
Dallas. Bielby helps
commercial banks, private equity firms, special situations
investors, alternative lenders and public and private borrowers
structure and navigate a variety of debt financing and hybrid
investment transactions, including senior secured, mezzanine and
second lien loans, sponsored and non-sponsored acquisition
financings and structured financings. His industry experience
includes midstream and upstream oil and gas and related services,
alternative energy, trucking and transportation services,
manufacturing, medical, biomedical and pharmaceutical technology
and services, healthcare services, financial services, consumer
retail and social media, among others. Among his notable
representations, Bielby advises a lead left arranger and
administrative agent in a $1.39
billion unsecured revolving credit facility provided to a
public natural gas storage, transportation and processing company
and a special situations investor and its co-investors in a
$247.5 million secured term loan
credit facility provided to a grid-scale solar generation project
development and construction business.
Merger and Acquisitions/Capital Markets
Scott Rubinsky,
Houston. Rubinsky's
principal area of practice is corporate finance and securities law,
including securities offerings, private equity, mergers and
acquisitions and general corporate representation. His capital
markets experience includes representation of both issuers and
underwriters in initial public offerings, as well as public and
private offerings of equity and debt securities. Rubinsky also
works with private equity investors, their portfolio companies and
a variety of other public and private companies in connection with
mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, strategic investments and
spin-offs. Rubinsky advised Berry Petroleum Corporation in its
$182 million initial public offering
and Magnolia Oil & Gas Corporation, a special purpose
acquisition company formed by TPG, in its $2.7 billion combination with EnerVest's South
Texas Division. Rubinsky also advised Antero Resources Corporation,
Antero Midstream Partners LP and Antero Midstream GP LP in multiple
public and private offerings of debt and equity securities with
combined aggregate value of more than $4
billion.
Brittany Sakowitz,
Houston. Sakowitz
concentrates her practice on mergers and acquisitions and private
equity. She has counseled private equity investors, their portfolio
companies and other public and private companies in connection with
mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, offerings of
equity and debt securities and general corporate governance
matters. Sakowitz has advised clients across a broad range of
industries, including energy (upstream, midstream, oilfield
services and power), consumer products and financial services.
Among her notable representative experience, Sakowitz advised
Sunoco in the $3.3 billion sale of a
majority of its convenience stores to 7-Eleven, Omega Protein in
its $500 million sale to Cooke, a global seafood company based in
Canada, five master limited
partnerships in their recent simplification or corporate conversion
transactions and SCF Partners in over a dozen acquisition or
investment transactions of oilfield services and technology
companies.
Real Estate
Prentiss Cutshaw,
Dallas. Cutshaw's practice
focuses on real estate and general business transactions, including
acquisitions, dispositions and commercial leasing. His experience
includes representation of a wide variety of clients engaged in a
broad spectrum of real estate matters, including the representation
of real estate investment groups in their acquisition, development
and leasing and eventual disposition of single-tenant and
multi-tenant office and industrial buildings across the country.
Cutshaw's experience highlights include advising Hillwood
Properties in the leasing of a 200,000 square foot build-to-suit
facility at AllianceTexas to Mercedes Benz Financial Services;
Stream Realty Partners in its acquisition, financing and
disposition upon completion of a 400,000+ square foot industrial
building in northwest Houston,
Texas; and CBRE Global Investors in its acquisition of
Concourse Creative Campus, a 751,093 square foot office complex
that consists of two eight-story buildings, one four-story building
and three parking structures in Atlanta,
Georgia.
Vinson & Elkins LLP is an international law firm with
approximately 700 lawyers across 14
offices worldwide. For more information, please
contact Courtney Binick at
+1.713.758.2333.
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