Larry Pechacek > Vinson & Elkins LLP > Houston, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Houston, Texas 77002
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Larry Pechacek
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Work Department
Environmental & Natural Resources
Position
Counsel
Career
Over the past 25 years, Larry has counseled clients on a broad range of environmental matters in the energy, regulatory, and business transactional areas. His clients have included energy companies in the oil and natural gas upstream, midstream, and refining sectors, wind and electrical power generation companies, institutional lenders, and private investors, developers, and governmental special districts.
Larry has negotiated the contractual allocation of environmental liabilities in numerous large transactions worth as much as several billion dollars. He has performed environmental due diligence reviews and developed environmental disclosures for public filings in connection with initial public offerings, and secondary and private offerings. Larry has counseled clients on environmental liabilities arising out of offshore energy leasing or support activities, including the federal bonding and decommissioning programs. He has assisted clients on such diverse topics as voluntary cleanup and remedial program strategies, storm water and wastewater permitting and discharge considerations, pipeline safety matters, radionuclides in drinking water, spill prevention planning, underground storage tank liability, and issuance of Consumer Confident Reports.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Government > Government relations
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- International trade > CFIUS
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Finance > Project finance
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Government > Government contracts
- Tax > International tax
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Industry focus > Sport
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism