Winston & Strawn announced Tuesday that Max Stubbs has joined its corporate group in Houston.
Stubbs is the third former Locke Lord corporate partner in Houston to join Winston. Michael Blankenship and Eric Johnson joined at the beginning of 2020.
“Max is a talented, driven attorney who has worked with some of the largest blue-chip energy market participants in North America,” Blankenship, who is now the managing partner of Winston’s Houston office, said in a statement. “Continued instability in the energy sector, combined with increased momentum toward clean energy conversion, will lead to sustained volume in transactional work.”
Stubbs, a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, primarily represents midstream and upstream clients in mergers and acquisitions and commercial agreements. He was senior counsel in Energy Transfer Partners’ crude oil-transportation group from 2014 to 2017, between stints at Locke Lord.
In 2018 Stubbs worked with Blankenship and Johnson on Carnelian Energy Capital-backed OneEnergy Partners’ sale of its operations and leasehold to Franklin Mountain Energy. Stubbs co-led the deal with Locke Lord partner Terry Radney.
Stubbs has also aided Blankenship on deals for Medallion Gathering & Processing LLC, EnCap Flatrock Midstream and Saddle Butte Rockies Midstream. Stubbs was on the Blankenship-and-Kevin Peters-led team that guided Medallion in its $1.8 billion sale to Global Infrastructure Partners.