Vinson & Elkins announced on Monday that eight attorneys have been elected to the partnership, including six in Texas.
Of the six newly-promoted Texans, half are based in Dallas and the other half office at the firm’s Houston headquarters.
Jaren Taylor, a Baylor Law graduate, is in the firm’s energy regulatory practice in Dallas, where his practice focuses on the representation of utility and energy clients and eminent domain law. He has handled more than 30 Certificate of Convenience and Necessity applications for transmission line projects in the State of Texas.
Danielle Patterson represents domestic and international energy clients in mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, joint ventures and project development transactions. The University of Texas School of Law graduate recently advised EagleClaw Midstream Ventures, a portfolio company of Blackstone Energy Partners, in a joint venture with Kinder Morgan Texas Pipeline, a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan, to construct and own the approximately $2 billion Permian Highway Pipeline Project. She offices in Houston.
Mike Bielby is a corporate finance lawyer in Dallas who assists commercial banks, private equity firms, special situations investors, alternative lenders and public and private borrowers with a variety of debt financing and hybrid investment transactions, including senior secured, mezzanine and second lien loans, sponsored and non-sponsored acquisition financings and structured financings.
Scott Rubinsky concentrates his practice in Houston on corporate finance and securities law, including securities offerings, private equity and mergers and acquisitions. The University of Houston Law Center graduate has handled a $182 million IPO for Berry Petroleum Corporation ($182 million) and advised Magnolia Oil & Gas Corporation, a special purpose acquisition company formed by TPG, on its $2.7 billion combination with EnerVest’s South Texas Division.
Brittany Sakowitz, who received her law degree from the University of Houston, represents private equity investors, their portfolio companies and other public and private companies in connection with mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, offerings of equity and debt securities. Two of the notable deals she has worked on are Sunoco’s $3.3 billion sale of a majority of its convenience stores to 7-Eleven and Omega Protein’s $500 million sale to Cooke.
Prentiss Cutshaw is in V&E’s real estate practice in Dallas, where he handles acquisitions, dispositions and commercial leasing. He has advised Hillwood Properties in the leasing of a 200,000 square foot build-to-suit facility at AllianceTexas to Mercedes Benz Financial Services and Stream Realty Partners in its acquisition, financing and disposition upon completion of a 400,000+ square foot industrial building in northwest Houston.