Longtime dealmaking attorney Hugh Tucker is joining Haynes and Boone, sources tell The Texas Lawbook.
Tucker spent 35 years at Baker Botts – including as chair of oil and gas practice – before jumping to Shearman & Sterling, where he was one-time head of the Texas practice. He opened Shearman’s Houston office as partner in 2018 with lawyers from then-Thompson & Knight and Jones Day.
More recently, Tucker served a lead industry coordinator for energy and was of counsel in the mergers and acquisitions and the project development and finance practices.
During his tenure at Baker Botts, the SMU Law grad represented some of the biggest names in the U.S. oil and gas business, including Marathon Oil and Occidental Petroleum, as well as Papua New Guinea-based Oil Search (now part of Australia’s Santos).
While at Shearman, Tucker led the team counseling Colombia’s Ecopetrol on a $1.5 billion joint venture with Occidental Petroleum to develop Oxy’s properties in Texas’ Midland Basin in 2019.
Tucker also advised Phoenix Park Energy Marketing on its purchase of its natural gas liquids assets from Houston-based Twin Eagle Liquids Marketing for an undisclosed sum and Chevron on its sale of upstream and midstream assets in the Appalachian Basin to EQT Corp. for $735 million, both in 2020.