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By Brooks Igo
(Dec. 6) – Baker Botts has promoted 11 attorneys to partner, including eight in Texas, effective January 1, 2018. The other three are based in either New York, San Francisco or Moscow.
Four of the new partners are located in Houston.
Jonathan Bobinger is a corporate lawyer who represents public and private companies, including MLPs and YieldCos, in mergers and acquisitions, public offerings and private placements of debt and equity securities and private equity investments.
Louie Layrisson is on the litigation team where focuses on energy, products liability and personal injury litigation. For energy clients, he has handled operational issues and legal disputes arising from oil and gas exploration and production, transportation and refining.
Meghan McElvy represents corporate clients in civil litigation with an emphasis on energy litigation and regulatory and administrative proceedings.
Travis Wofford, a University of Texas School of Law graduate, concentrates his practice on mergers and acquisitions and corporate advisory work, as well as public and private securities offerings for corporate clients and investment banking firms.
The firm’s Dallas and Austin offices are each home to two of the newly-minted partners.
Brian Johnston is an intellectual property attorney in Dallas. Patent litigation is an emphasis of his practice, and he has represented both patent owners and accused infringers in patent cases and Inter Partes Review proceedings.
Jonathan Platt represents public and private companies and private equity funds in mergers and acquisitions, private equity funding arrangements and capital markets transactions. A significant part of his work has been with upstream and midstream oil and gas clients. He went to law school at the Texas Tech University School of Law.
Coleson Bruce is an Austin lawyer in the firm’s global projects practice. The UT Law graduate has focused on complex transcations in the energy industry, including the acquisition and divestiture of energy companies and assets, and oil and gas joint venture arrangements.
Jennifer Nall’s expertise is intellectual property matters with an emphasis on patent litigation and appeals in high-technology cases. She also handles transactional matters in the high-tech sector, including software licensing. She is based in Austin and went to law school at UT.
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