Porter Hedges LLP: USA - Texas

Founded in 1981, Porter Hedges is a full-service Houston-based law firm. We provide the highest quality work across a range of industries, with particular preeminence in the energy sector. As leading practitioners, we are committed to excellence across our firm and favor an efficient, value-minded approach to serving our clients.

We develop practical and integrated solutions to complex challenges that we approach with a business-oriented mindset.

Energy Contact: James Thompson - We support every type of business involved in the exploration, production, transportation, marketing, and financing of oil and gas world-wide. We represent drilling companies, oilfield service companies, and producers in A&D, joint ventures, M&A transactions and in negotiating their essential operational contracts. Our project team advises clients on energy infrastructure projects including LNG. We also work with electric power generation, transmission, and marketing companies as they evolve and grow. And we represent energy industry clients in the full range of disputes that occur and the full spectrum of resolutions that end them.

Renewable and Alternative Energy Contact: Joel Goldberg - Porter Hedges provides full-service support to our renewable energy clients. We are capable of advising start-up companies on such issues regarding formation, employment, environmental, corporate structure, and technology protection. Once established, we continue our representation by assisting in the areas of governance, merger and acquisition, finance, development and acquisition opportunities and joint venture arrangements. Our infrastructure team advises clients from the initial stages of investment and tax strategies to the development, acquisition, financing, construction and operation of renewable and alternative energy projects. Our lawyers are engaged in various sectors of the industry, including biomass, landfill gas-to-liquids, solar, and wind energy projects.

M&A/Corporate Contact: Brian Rose - Porter Hedges counsels and represents public and privately held companies ranging from the Fortune 100 to start-ups, regularly handling their largest, most complex, and most demanding transactions in the U.S. and internationally. We represent a variety of participants in M&A, capital markets, and private equity transactions. We advise private equity funds, mezzanine investment funds, and other investors on matters such as acquisitions, financings, exit transactions, and many others. We also serve as external “general counsel” for many companies, providing assistance with day-to-day legal, advisory, tax, and compliance matters.

Litigation Contact: Joe Cohen - Porter Hedges' trial lawyers have both the experience and resources to meet the complex litigation needs of large national and multi-national corporations, as well as those of small to mid-sized companies and individuals, from pre-litigation negotiation through appeal. Getting the right result is our prime consideration. Whether it's through litigation, mediation, arbitration or other alternative dispute resolution techniques, we pursue legal solutions that meet your business objectives.

Real Estate Contact: Joel Goldberg - We represent developers, investors, lenders, owners, tenants with a particular focus in all areas of real estate finance. Our strengths in real estate, real estate finance and construction law have led to the successful completion of commercial real estate transactions, including high rise condominiums, apartment complexes, commercial office buildings, residential subdivisions, retail shopping centers, industrial complexes, hotels, golf courses, mixed use developments, deepwater facilities and developments on leasehold estates. Porter Hedges' lawyers work with clients, both foreign and domestic, to provide practical, experienced advice on every aspect of real estate projects:

Commercial Lending & Finance Contact: Joyce Soliman - As advisors on financing, our lawyers negotiate and document a range of transactions, including corporate lending, commercial lending, asset-based lending, reserve-based lending, letters of credit facilities, leasing transactions, structured finance, project finance, DIP financing, real estate finance, mezzanine and other subordinated debt financing, and all other areas of finance transactions. Further, we provide all of the necessary due diligence to evaluate risks and to balance business, operational, and legal needs.

Construction Contact: Amy Wolfshohl - Porter Hedges attorneys represent contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, sureties, design professionals, construction managers, lenders and owners in resolving complex construction disputes. We also advise companies in analyzing risk and negotiating agreements with highly complex construction transactions, with an emphasis on industrial construction, energy construction and EPC contracts.

Employment Contact: Laura Alaniz - We regularly represent clients in investigations and litigation over employment, non-competition, non-solicitation, confidentiality, severance agreements, and theft of trade secrets, including the time-sensitive injunctions and restraining orders that often are important parts of these disputes. Our team also reviews and revises existing policies and procedures or helps to create a new employee handbook that become part of our clients’ routine business practices.

Bankruptcy Contact: John Higgins - We handle restructurings for financially distressed enterprises and for companies seeking to recapitalize or restructure their organization and finances. We represent debtors, creditors, trustees, creditors' committees, institutional lenders, and investors in out-of-court debt restructurings, acquisitions and financings, §363 asset purchase and sale, and Chapters 7, 9, and 11 bankruptcies throughout the U.S. Our team has a particular focus on matters related to oil and gas and healthcare restructurings.

Intellectual Property Contact: Ray Torgerson Porter Hedges’ intellectual property attorneys provide a full range of intellectual property legal services to our clients, including patent and trademark litigation, inter partes review proceedings, patent and trademark prosecution, portfolio management, opinions and transactional support (including licensing, due diligence, and risk assessments).

• Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Creditors’ Rights
• Commercial Lending & Finance
• Construction
• Corporate
• Employment
• Energy
• Environmental
• Infrastructure Projects
• Intellectual Property
• Litigation
• Real Estate
• Tax
• Trust, Probate, and Estate Planning