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Number of years practice: 22 Principal practice areas: M&A, private equity, projects and energy Bar admissions: New York Languages spoken: English

With experience in dozens of developing markets across Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas, Christopher Cross co-chairs Latham & Watkins’ oil and gas industry group. Infrastructure projects are a key area of expertise, with M&A, joint ventures, project finance and upstream and midstream development among his core strengths. Cross regularly acts for major energy-sector clients such as Consolidated Edison, Energy Transfer Partners, ArcLight Capital Partners and Antero Resources, along with sovereign wealth funds, state institutions and global banks. Pipelines are a particular focus for Cross, who acted for a private equity sponsor on a $400m gas pipeline development in Mexico, involving syndicated project financing from Mexican and international banks. He also advised Howard Energy Partners on its $353m joint venture agreement with Grupo Clisa to create Nueva Era Pipeline, a project that involves 200 miles of new pipeline. Fermaca Global instructed Cross on the $820m financing of its Northern Mexico pipeline, the first natural gas pipeline to obtain funding since new hydrocarbons legislation was passed by the Mexican government in 2017. In 2016 he represented Fermaca Global on the $425m financing of the 378km Villa de Reyes–Aguascalientes–Guadalajara pipeline, and on the $622m financing of the 450km La Laguna–Aguascalientes pipeline. His previous mandates include representing Fermaca Global on the $858m development and financing of the 445km El Encino–La Laguna pipeline.