Chris Ferazzi > Winston & Strawn LLP > Houston, United States > Lawyer Profile

Winston & Strawn LLP has a fast-growing Latin America practice, primarily in New York and Miami, but with additional expertise in Houston. The team there is largely known for energy transactions and projects, along with disputes. The group represents a number of Latin American energy companies with Mike Blankenship noted for energy transactions across the Americas, as is Chris Ferazzi.  Paula Hinton is an experienced figure in oil and gas disputes, and Michael Murphy is another litigator with experience in Latin America cases.

Winston & Strawn LLP continues to operate across the entire oil and gas value chain, where it notably advises a deep roster of midstream clients on a number of transactions and financing matters related to crude oil gathering, natural gas gathering and processing, and LNG projects. In the upstream space, the team is also consistently assisting with acquisitions and dispositions, joint development, exploration and participation agreements. The firm’s energy and infrastructure industry group is jointly spearheaded by corporate finance and securities law expert Mike Blankenship in Houston and New York-based Mike Pikiel and Rich Shutran. From Dallas, Rodney Moore and Larry Murphy regularly handle a range of M&A, joint venture, and financing transactions in both the traditional upstream and midstream sectors and in the evolving transitional energy space, areas in which Houston-based Chris Ferazzi is also well-versed. Isaac Griesbaum left the firm to move in-house in September 2023.