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By Brooks Igo
Staff Writer for The Texas Lawbook
(December 17)–Five lawyers from Vinson & Elkins’ Texas offices are among the firm’s seven newly promoted partners.
Three of the new partners are in the firm’s Dallas office. They are Manuel Berrelez, Christopher Dewar and Christina Tate.
Berrelez is a commercial litigator and represents plaintiffs and defendants in cases involving banking and regulatory enforcement actions, business torts, contract and real estate disputes, class actions and other business litigation.
Dewar focuses his practice on commercial lending and financial transactions such as acquisition financings, asset-based financings and reserve-based financings with a focus on the energy industry.
Tate, a SMU Dedman School of Law graduate, focuses her practice on public and private mergers and acquisitions, with an emphasis on representing private equity firms and their portfolio companies. Her energy experience includes recently representing HollyFrontier Corporation in its sale of certain logistics assets to Holly Energy Partners, L.P. in a $315 million MLP “drop down” transaction.
Ryan Carney and Adam Larson are in the firm’s Houston office.
Carney, also a SMU Dedman School of Law graduate, focuses his practice on the tax aspects of domestic and international business transactions, primarily within the energy sector. He provided tax expertise on several of the firm’s largest deals this year, including advising Devon Energy in its $4.9 billion agreement with Crosstex Energy to create a new midstream business; Inergy L.P. and Inergy Midstream in a transaction with Crestwood Midstream Partners and Crestwood Holdings to form a $7 billion midstream partnership; PVR Partners in its $5.6 billion sale to Regency Energy, in which PVR acquired Regency; Spectra Energy Corp. in a transaction with Spectra Energy Partners to drop down Spectra Energy’s remaining U.S. midstream assets in excess of $11 billion.
Larson focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and joint venture investments, capital markets transactions and general corporate matters. His recent M&A experience includes representing MarkWest Energy Partners in its approximately $2 billion acquisition of a 49 percent stake in MarkWest Liberty Midstream & Resources LLC, a Marcellus Shale joint venture, from The Energy & Minerals Group; and representing Pine Brook Road Partners in its sale of Global Oilfield Services, L.P. to Halliburton.
Vinson & Elkins’ 2014 class of partners will be effective Jan. 1, 2014.
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