Thompson & Knight Expands International Energy Practice

The all-around law close of Thompson & Knight LLP is admiring to advertise the amplification of its International Energy Practice Group with the accession of Partner William Prescott Mills Schwind and Associate Gabriel Salinas, who accompany the Firm’s Houston office.

“We are actual admiring to accept Scott and Gabriel accompany the Firm. Their backgrounds and abilities will abundantly account our audience and aid us in the connected amplification of our all-embracing activity practice,” says Andrew B. Derman, the Firm’s International Energy Practice Group Leader. “Additionally, their different acquaintance in Latin America and Africa will prove invaluable in acceptable the Firm’s U.S. audience adulatory to conduct business in these regions as able-bodied as our Latin American and African audience adulatory to conduct business about the globe.”

Schwind focuses his convenance on all-embracing activity and accustomed resources, with a accurate accent on upstream, midstream, and after oil and gas transactions. Advising adopted and calm companies and individuals in affairs above the globe, he devotes abundant of his convenance to acceptable audience throughout Latin America and Africa. His acquaintance in oil and gas analysis and assembly projects includes concessions, assembly administration contracts, operating agreements, accord agreements, farm-in arrangements, and conduct contracts. He aswell coordinates adopted and calm acquisitions and divestitures of oil and gas bearing backdrop and infrastructure; negotiates oil and gas busline and processing arrangements, including with account to awkward oil and accustomed gas pipelines, appropriation arrangements, fractionation, and accumulator projects; and structures awkward oil processing agreements for petrochemical facilities.

Fluent in English, Portuguese, and Spanish, Schwind accustomed his J.D. from The University of Texas School of Law and his B.A. from Hampden-Sydney College. Additionally, he advised at the Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo and accomplished law in Brazil for three years, giving him different acumen into Latin American ability and business climate.

Salinas focuses his convenance on activity and accumulated matters, with a accurate accent on Latin American transactions. Fluent in English and Spanish, he accustomed his LL.M. from Harvard Law School; his J.D., with honors, from Facultad Libre de Derecho de Monterrey; and his B.A. in English, summa cum laude, from Elmhurst College.

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