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By Brooks Igo
(Jan. 9) – Akin Gump announced Tuesday that energy transactions guru W. Robert Shearer has joined the firm as a partner in Houston.
Shearer was previously at BakerHostetler, where he practiced for 13 years. He recently advised Houston oilfield services giant Schlumberger in its $430 million purchase of Weatherford International’s U.S. hydraulic fracturing business.
The University of Houston Law Center graduate focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity and capital markets transactions for energy, oil field services, manufacturing and technology clients.
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