Houston energy attorney David R. Roth has left Bradley Arant Boult Cummings after 11 months for Munsch Hardt’s office in Houston.
Neither Roth nor Bradley Arant responded for comment. A Munsch Hardt spokeswoman confirmed the move, saying Roth’s first day was this past Friday.
Roth previously was a partner at Jones Walker’s Houston office for five-plus years. Before that he was general counsel at private equity-backed Northern Star Generation for almost 11 years and assistant general counsel at Dynegy, where he headed the financial and corporate transactions legal group. He spent his early legal career at Paul Hastings and Akin Gump.
The University of Texas-trained attorney counsels energy and corporate clients on transactions and financings, including the development, leasing, construction and management of energy-related projects; mergers, acquisitions and dispositions; corporate, project and structured financings; private placements; and mezzanine loans and other hybrid debt-equity transactions.
Roth also provides counsel on distressed projects, debt workouts and regulatory matters as well as on data security and privacy issues from the perspective of corporate management and transactional planning.
Munsch Hardt has been growing over the past several years. In 2018, the firm absorbed Dallas trial and intellectual property boutique McDole Williams, doubling its practice in the area. And last year the firm added energy litigation specialists Richard “Dick” Schwartz and Todd S. Frank; former Shell tax attorney and then-City of West University Place Mayor Susan V. Sample; and senior McKool Smith bankruptcy attorney Christopher D. Johnson.
In January, environmental lawyer Mary Koks took over as Houston managing shareholder. The office has 38 lawyers, including Roth. The firm also has offices in Dallas and Austin.