For more than 90 years, Thompson & Knight has counseled oil, gas, and energy industry clients - those who explore, develop, produce, store, market, transport, and process energy resources. Our practice is active and comprehensive, as Thompson & Knight attorneys represent clients in transactions and resolve disputes in dozens of countries around the world.

In the past two years, we helped our energy industry clients close:

• More than $21.5 billion in M&A and capital markets transactions,
• More than $7.5 billion in private equity transactions,
• More than $2 billion in volumetric production payments, and
• More than $24.5 billion in more than 105 loans.

Chambers USA 2010 by Chambers & Partners has ranked Thompson & Knight among the top 10 firms in the U.S. in the Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional) category, noting the Firm's "extensive and high-quality oil & gas transactional practice." Additionally, the Firm has more attorneys listed in the Oil & Gas and Natural Resources Law categories of The Best Lawyers in America® 2010 by Woodward/White Inc. than any other law firm in Texas. Thompson & Knight's energy practice is also recognized by numerous other prestigious legal directories, including:

• The Legal 500 US 2009 by Legalease, which describes Thompson & Knight as "active in the energy business for generations and generations" and notes the team's "stellar oil and gas expertise." The directory also praises our attorneys' ability to handle "a voluminous catalog of syndicated financings," the Firm's "impressive energy M&A practice," and the fact that our "international tax practice is particularly strong in the oil and gas sector."
• Chambers Latin America 2010 by Chambers & Partners, which notes that the Firm "brings its international oil and gas and energy expertise to bear on the Mexican market." Additionally, the directory states that Thompson & Knight's "clients are in safe hands when it comes to multi-jurisdictional deals; they praise the group's attentiveness and the quality of its documentation, which all comes in at cost-efficient rates."
• Latin Lawyer 250 by Law Business Research Ltd., which states that Thompson & Knight's "Latin America-wide oil and gas practice is second-to-none," and praises the Firm's "fine line in advising government energy companies" and "sophisticated team in the field."

As one of the world's premier energy firms, we represent multinational and independent oil and gas companies, host government oil and gas companies, large utilities, private power plants, energy industry service companies, refineries, petrochemical companies, financial institutions, and multinational drilling contractors and construction companies. Our client roster is a "who's who" of the industry, comprising nearly half of the largest publicly traded energy companies and a host of oil and gas companies, marketing companies, and investment and financing entities.

Thompson & Knight offers a full range of legal and commercial services including advice on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, financings, tax, corporate structure, litigation and arbitration, infrastructure projects, environmental law, host government contracts and strategic design, production sharing contracts, concession agreements, services and marketing contracts, joint operating agreements, secondment agreements, transportation, unitizations, regulatory matters, pipelines, LNG and refinery projects, bribery and corruption matters, internal investigations, energy-related legislation, and numerous other matters.

Please review the links provided for specific information on our energy practice.

Acquisition and Disposition
Africa
Climate Change & Renewable Energy
Corporate Reorganization and Creditors' Rights
Debt Financings
Drilling and Acquisition Funds
Electric Power
Employee Benefits (ERISA)
Energy Litigation
Environmental
Ethanol and Renewable Energy
Executive Compensation
Finance
Gas Marketing
Global Projects and Infrastructure
International Energy
Labor and Employment
LNG
Master Limited Partnerships
Mergers & Acquisitions
Oil and Gas
Pipelines
Publicly Traded Partnerships
Tax
Trial