© 2015 The Texas Lawbook.
By Brooks Igo
(Feb. 1) – Jones Day recently announced that energy transactions guru William Sultemeier has joined its Houston office as a partner.
Sultemeier, who departed Greenberg Traurig, said what impressed him about Jones Day is the cohesiveness of the energy transactions team despite being a “big behemoth.”
Sultemeier got to know the Jones Day team better when he worked across the table from Jeff Schlegel, co-head of the firm’s global energy practice, in the Alaska LNG pipeline project. Sultemeier represented the state of Alaska in negotiations that also included big energy players ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, BP and TransCanada.
“It is one heck of a team,” he said. “The Houston partners and associates are top notch.”
A self-described “deal guy,” Sultemeier also knows what it is like to help C-level officers accomplish their goals in other ways. He spent nearly six years as the general counsel of an Atlanta-based healthcare company.
“I learned what CEOs, CFOs and boards are really expecting,” he said. “Learning how to ask the right questions was key.”
Sultemeier also has international experience working on M&A and securities transactions in China, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
He says he is currently seeing a lot of restructuring and different kinds of monies coming into the market to both keep companies afloat and expand some.
“It is an exciting time of year,” he said. “Houston is one of the best markets in the world even with low oil prices.”
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