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By Brooks Igo – (Aug. 15) – Locke Lord announced earlier this week the arrival of energy lawyer Scott Arrington to its Houston office.
It was the firm’s second lateral move to beef up its energy practice over the past few weeks. It announced the addition of Jason Schumacher to its Dallas office at the end of July.
Arrington will officially start at Locke Lord on Aug. 25. A graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, he joins the firm of about 300 Texas lawyers from McDermott Will & Emery, where he helped start its Houston office in 2008.
“I felt a platform like Locke would be better for me and my clients given its strength in the energy value chain and its longer presence in Texas, specifically Houston,” he said.
Arrington represents clients on infrastructure development, acquisitions, dispositions, financings and transactions in the oil and gas, petrochemical, power and mining industries. He recently represented Canada-based Irving Oil in a joint venture for a planned crude oil marine facility to be developed in conjunction with a crude oil pipeline to be built from Alberta to New Brunswick.
“Scott adds depth to our current capabilities with his experience negotiating and drafting commercial agreements of project development, especially in the energy industry and including joint venture agreements,” Bill Swanstrom, co-chair of Locke Lord’s energy practice, said in a statement.
Two developments in the industry Arrington says he is watching are what happens with the ability to export natural gas and the Mexican Energy Reforms, which he says could “change the game.”
Schumacher joins the firm from Dentons, where he had been since 2011. He has documented and closed more than $4.5 billion in transactions and projects, according to the firm’s press release of his arrival.
The University of Texas School of Law graduate represents clients in the oil and gas sector in acquisitions and divestures, joint development projects, operational affairs and project development for energy facilities. He also serves as outside general counsel for oil and gas companies, and he is serving his second term as president of the Texas Energy Council.
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