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Houston, Texas, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Member in the Energy and Natural Resources Group with a broad practice across the energy industry.■ Litigation – Upstream, midstream, and construction litigation and arbitrations. ■ Midstream Project Management – Counseled clients on Pipeline construction projects.

Worldwide, Oo

Member in the Energy and Natural Resources Group with a broad practice across the energy industry.■ Litigation – Upstream, midstream, and construction litigation and arbitrations. ■ Midstream Project Management – Worked on pipeline construction projects with responsibility for day to day issues such as contract interpretation, change orders, and project acceleration.

Calgary, Alberta, Ca

Primary legal advisor for U.S. natural gas executive team; supervised team of 25 (with 17 attorneys). ■ Executive Leadership — Primary legal advisor for United States Natural Gas Pipelines executive team. Natural Gas Pipelines was a stand-alone business unit with assets including storage, natural gas pipelines (regulated and non-regulated) and mineral interests worth over $15 billion.■ U.S. Regional Management Role — Oversaw strategy, budget and operations for legal operations of company’s United States Natural Gas Pipelines business unit. ■ Budget — Managed total budget of $9 million for United States Natural Gas Pipelines business unit and responsible for capitalized budget of approximately $7 million for outside counsel. ■ Project Management — Responsible for legal requirements for approximately $5 billion backlog of construction projects; guided completion of all legal issues for $1.4 billion pipeline construction project. ■ Mergers & Acquisitions/Commercial — Managed team with responsibility for all commercial transactions; integrated TransCanada and CPG legal departments. ■ Litigation — Responsible for all litigation directly affecting business unit assets, including hundreds of eminent domain cases; significant portion of docket included cases relating to thousands of mineral leases held by company for exploration and natural gas storage. ■ Served as an officer and director for numerous U.S. TransCanada entities.

Calgary, Alberta, Ca

Oversaw Land and Litigation Group of Legal Department; managed team of 14 (with eight attorneys). ■ Management Role — Managed legal functions related to litigation, environmental, labor and employment, projects, land operations, records and information management, cyber security, and bankruptcy. ■ Budget — Oversaw operations & maintenance budget of $3.2 million; responsible for additional capitalized outside counsel budget of approximately $5 million. ■ Litigation — Responsible for all company litigation; managed docket of 150 plus cases as well as hundreds of eminent domain cases; significant portion of docket included cases relating to thousands of mineral leases held by company for exploration and for natural gas storage; drafted and implemented outside counsel guidelines and all policies and procedures for engagement of outside counsel. ■ Mergers and Acquisitions — Worked on spin-off from NiSource to be stand-alone company; key member of team on TransCanada’s purchase of Columbia Pipeline Group with responsibility over land, environmental and litigation due diligence; led and completed CFIUS and anti-trust regulatory approval process and functioned as primary facilitator for Legal Department’s transition. ■ Regulatory — Led successful regulatory fight to obtain new permit for modernization project, managing multiple hearings, appeals and TROs within a four-month deadline, saving millions of dollars for the company.

Chicago, Il, Us

Began as an Associate and became a Partner in Firm’s Litigation Section. ■ Litigation — Experience in oil and gas, antitrust, contract disputes, construction, general commercial, regulatory, lease disputes, class actions, royalty disputes, fiduciary relations, real estate, fraud, and partnership issues; appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court and federal and state appellate courts; first- and second-chair trial and arbitration experience.■ Compliance — Counseled clients on international trade laws/regulations, including U.S. economic sanctions, trade embargoes, customs laws, global trade compliance, ITAR, government contracting and anti-corruption laws; completed internal investigations; drafted compliance programs and provided training. ■ International Experience — International litigation; numerous international investigations; responsible for due diligence on international transactions, and counseled Chinese Energy Companies on numerous issues. ■ Appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court and various federal and state trial and appellate courts.■ Served in first- and second-chair trial and arbitration experiences. ■ Member of Litigation Support Committee and E-Discovery Group.

Drafted court opinions, bench briefs and legal memorandum; reviewed motions for rehearing and rehearing en banc.

Juris Doctor, American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Political Science