Reed Smith announced on Wednesday another partner addition to its newly-opened Dallas office.
Jorge Gutierrez – who focuses his energy transactions practice on exploration and production, midstream and energy finance matters – has joined the Pittsburgh law firm from Norton Rose Fulbright.
He is the ninth partner and 17th lawyer in the Reed Smith Dallas office, which opened earlier this month with lawyers from Bracewell, Bryan Cave and Perkins Coie.
A Baylor Law School alum, Gutierrez negotiates purchase and sale agreements, farmout agreements, drilling joint venture agreements, gas gathering and processing agreements, transportation agreements, project development agreements, joint operating agreements and other industry contracts.
“When we announced our entrance into Dallas earlier this month, we said that we were committed to bringing aboard the best transactional and litigation talent in the market,” Bobby Majumder, Reed Smith’s Dallas co-office managing partner, said in a statement. “Jorge is a top-flight lawyer who has built a stellar reputation locally and throughout Texas for guiding clients through complex energy transactional matters.”
Reed Smith has been busy adding depth to its energy and natural resources in Texas this year. Gutierrez’s signing follows the 2019 additions of partners Kirsten Polyansky, who was co-chair of Haynes and Boone’s global commodities team; Jessica Cortez; and Mariano Ornelas López, former legal director of CENAGAS, the Mexican government entity that manages the country’s natural gas transportation and storage network.