Baker Botts announced that Ann Coffin, an Austin-based energy lawyer, has joined as a partner in its global projects practice.
Coffin joins Baker Botts after most recently spending over 15 years as a founding partner and shareholder at Austin’s Coffin Renner.
“Ann is a highly respected leader in the energy regulatory space, and we are thrilled to welcome her to Baker Botts. Her vast experience in energy law and reputation as a trusted advisor to utilities will be a tremendous asset to our clients,” Danny David, the firm’s Houston-based managing partner, said in a recent release.
Coffin received her bachelor’s degree in political science and government from Southern Methodist University in 1989 and her law degree in 1993 from George Washington University Law School.
Following graduating from law school in 1993, she joined the Railroad Commission of Texas as a hearings examiner working within its oil and gas division before eventually joining Clark, Thomas & Winters as a shareholder in 1998.
Coffin worked at Clark, Thomas & Winters for over 11 years and, during her time there, also began working at the Public Utility Commission of Texas for three years. While there, she served as the director of enforcement for its consumer protection division and as the assistant general counsel of its legal division.
Then, in October 2009, Coffin helped found Coffin Renner. While at the firm, she worked on many types of appeals from administrative agency orders involving Texas electric transmission and distribution utilities, Texas natural gas and local distribution utilities, and Texas intrastate and natural gas transmission pipeline utilities, all while serving as the lead and co-counsel in many of those deals.
Through this new addition, Baker Botts plans to leverage Coffin’s over thirty years of extensive experience serving clients in the energy space and the expertise she gained through those three decades of work within the electric, gas, and water utilities to enhance its ability to provide and offer more strategic solutions to its energy-focused clients.
“I am excited to join Baker Botts and contribute to the firm’s outstanding Energy Regulatory and Litigation practice. The firm’s long-standing commitment to providing clients with exceptional legal counsel, particularly in the energy sector, aligns perfectly with my professional values, and I look forward to collaborating with my new colleagues,” Coffin said in a recent release.