Melanie Larson Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Manages legal team responsible for Shell's major (over $100M) M&A and joint venture deals in the Americas across all lines of Shell's businesses, including Renewables, Upstream, LNG, Trading and Downstream. Lead lawyer for Shell's $9.5B Permian divestment.Leadership Sponsor for Shell Legal's US Pro Bono and Community Service Program.

Houston, Texas Area

Represented Shell as lead lawyer on significant mergers, acquisitions and divestments. Lead lawyer for team of 40+ internal and external counsel for Shell Canada's US$8.2 billion oil sands divestment to CNRL and concurrent US$2.5 billion co-acquisition with CNRL of Marathon Oil Canada Corporation. Lead lawyer for Shell's US$2B acquisition of Permian assets and numerous other upstream acquisitions and divestments. Author of Shell’s annotated onshore divestment purchase and sale agreement form used for all North American onshore divestments. Author of Shell’s annotated confidentiality agreement used for all North American onshore divestments. Member of Shell's acquisition and divestment practice area team. Acquisition and divestment trainer for non-A&D attorneys. Antitrust trainer for non-attorneys.

Houston, Texas

Senior counsel in group of 7 attorneys specializing in energy, infrastructure and real estate projects. Advised clients on all legal matters relating to energy and real estate projects. Represented developers in buying and selling projects, negotiating joint ventures, obtaining debt financing and negotiating construction and development agreements. Provided legal advice to lenders and borrowers for energy financings and mergers and acquisitions. Represented major energy companies in connection with all corporate real estate matters. Acted as deal lead on most matters, supervising junior and mid-level associates, legal assistants and assistants. Drafted and negotiated key deal documents and supervised drafting of ancillary documents and due diligence.

New York, New York

Represented developers and lenders in connection with the acquisition, divestment, development and financing of various high-profile hotel, office building and other projects around the country. Provided real estate legal advice for mergers and acquisitions and financings, including with respect to all matters relating to title insurance, surveys, deeds of trust, legal opinions and real estate portions of transaction documents. Represented lenders in connection with origination, participation, sale and securitization of real estate loans. During a corporate finance rotation, completed debt and equity offerings, prepared 10-Ks, 8-Ks, press releases, offering memoranda, prospectuses and various memos summarizing new SEC corporate governance rules.

Bs, Double Major: Economics/Biology; Certificate In Neuroscience

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