Baker Botts L.L.P.

Baker Botts L.L.P.’s non-contentious tax department, primarily operating out of Texas, has an excellent reputation for its expertise in the energy space, regularly advising on mergers, joint ventures, restructurings, and spin-offs, as well as for its SALT practice. Dallas-based practice head Steve Marcus has longstanding expertise advising a wide variety of clients, particularly in the real estate and energy sectors. His expertise covers private equity investments, MLPs and REITs transactions, qualified opportunity zone investments, corporate spinoffs, M&A, and joint ventures. Houston’s Michael Bresson specializes in matters involving renewable energy transactions, publicly traded partnerships, YieldCos, and MLPs. Derek Green, with considerable experience in the oil and gas space, is deputy chair of the practice in Houston. William Gorrod, dividing his time between the firm’s San Francisco and New York offices, advises corporate clients and flow-through entities across a wide range of industries, including tech, financial services, energy, real estate, retail, manufacturing, and pharma. Joshua Mandell and Jon Lobb both stand out for their contributions. Tamar Stanley left the firm in May 2023 for an in-house role.