Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP‘s Houston-based team is well-positioned in the market to advise a diverse client base that includes oil majors, multinational investment companies, and eminent financial institutions on a near-unrivaled series of assets that cover the entire oil and gas waterfront. While entrenched work in the oil and LNG space is evident through M&A engagement with upstream assets, gas gathering and storage facilities, and PPAs and securitizations involving leading oil producers, the firm’s evolving portfolio of work sits at the intersection between tradition, energy transition and technology transactions, and as such the group has advised on a variety of innovative carbon capture and hydrogen ventures, handling M&A through to the financing, development, IP and regulatory piece. Leading the practice from Houston, Blake Winburne is a highly experienced advisor who regularly handles big-ticket deals for leading private equity funds and global corporates, with particular expertise in the midstream space. Joe Roger, who stands out for his strong M&A background, is often retained by both independent exploration and production companies and state-owned multinationals in mandates involving project acquisitions and disposals, whereas Jonathan Ayre is crucial to the firm’s securitization work. Bradford Gathright has been active across gas gathering, CO2 storage, and plastic-waste-to-chemicals facilities, while Adam Kowis is also noted for his far-reaching practice, with strong activity in relation to CCUS, hydrogen, midstream and non-energy infrastructure projects. David Aaronson supports both the firm’s M&A and securitization mandates. New York’s Adam Griffin also comes recommended.