Winter Storm Fern may have concluded at the end of January, but there was a flurry of lateral activity as the calendar flipped to February, headlined by the mammoth move of the Tom Melsheimer-led team to King & Spalding.
The Texas Lawbook tracked seven more partners with updated resumes as of Monday.
In Houston, Baker Botts announced that dealmaker Cody Carper has joined the firm as its new Oil and Gas co-chair from Weil, Gotshal & Manges. Carper focuses his practice focuses on acquisitions and divestitures of upstream and midstream assets, energy financings, equity joint ventures, and drilling partnerships.
“Baker Botts has represented virtually every type of oil and gas participant in both U.S. and international markets for more than a century,” Carper said in a statement. “The firm’s combination of depth in transactions, regulatory work, and disputes with its longstanding client relationships provides the platform my clients need for complex, high-stakes deals.”
Carper advised Mesa Mineral Partners last year in a new equity commitment from NGP Royalty Partners III. Over his career, Carper has represented clients in transactions throughout the Haynesville, Permian, and STACK formations.
Barnes & Thornburg, Blank Rome, and Cozen O’Connor gained talent in Dallas.
BT added corporate partner Ryan Mitchell from McGuireWoods. Mitchell focuses his practice on control and non-control private equity transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, strategic and platform stock and asset acquisitions, minority equity investments, and recapitalizations.
Dallas litigator Mark Johansen posted on LinkedIn that he has joined Blank Rome. Johansen practiced for the last year and a half at Egan Nelson.
Cozen picked up a team of four Dallas lawyers from Faegre Drinker – Susan Egeland, Matt Sapp, Dazia Anderson, and Madeline Boche – to strengthen its Global Insurance Department.
The Lawbook also reported Monday that Weil officially opened an Austin office.