M&A partner Jay Hughes has returned to McGuireWoods in Houston, the firm announced Tuesday. He was previously a partner at Willkie.
A Willkie spokesperson said about Hughes’ departure, “We wish him well.”
Last September, Hughes co-led the team (with Archie Fallon and Ryan Giggs) representing a unit of Israeli public company Electra Power Ltd. in connection with admitting a new co-investor into Balanced Rock Power, a Utah-based developer of utility scale solar projects in North America.
In 2022, Hughes counseled France’s CMA CGM Group (with Fallon and others) on its acquisition of GCT Bayonne and New York terminals held by Global Container Terminals Inc., AccessESP (with Kris Agarwal) on its sale to Baker Hughes and Energy Spectrum/Caliche Development Partners (with Fallon) on the sale of natural gas liquids storage business Coastal Caverns to Energy Transfer, all three for undisclosed sums.
His clients also have included energy infrastructure firm LS Power and private equity firms Oaktree Capital Management, Lime Rock Partners and Intervale Capital.
In 2020, Hughes left McGuireWoods, where he was managing partner of the Houston office, for Willkie. He was one of the key legal advisors to Dominion Energy on its purchase of 5 percent ownership of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and all of the Pivotal LNG facility from Southern Co. for $175 million and its sale of a 25 percent equity stake in an LNG facility to Brookfield Super-Core Infrastructure for $2 billion.
Hughes moved to Houston from Virginia seven years ago. He received a BS and BA from the University of Richmond and a JD from The College of William & Mary.