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Biography
Marcia receives client and peer praise for her broad-based energy transactional practice. With considerable domestic and international experience, Marcia represents major energy industry players in complex transactions such as stock and asset acquisitions, project finance, and partnership and joint venture enterprises.
Publications listing Marcia as a leader in her fields of practice include Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers (2005-2006) (energy, projects); The Best Lawyers in America (2003-2006) (corporate, M&A;, securities), and Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Energy & Natural Resource Lawyers (2005).
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Representative
Experience
The listing is a sample of Marcia's role as lead counsel in major transactions: - Represented the seller of a company owning NY in-city generation to a private equity buyer for $1 billion
- Represented a hedge fund in acquiring equity interests in power projects
- Represented the buyer in a novel production payment and partnership/acquisition
- Represented a partner in a complex energy marketing partnership
- Represented the seller of a hydro and gas fired power project portfolio with a consideration of $900 million
- Represented the buyer of a partnership owning oil and gas properties with a purchase consideration of $4 billion
- Represented the seller in the sale of two petrochemical businesses valued at more than $2 billion
- Represented the buyer in the acquisition of a partnership owning oil and gas properties with a value in excess of $1 billion
- Represented the project company in the development and OPIC financing of a build-own-operate gas processing project in Venezuela, including negotiating the project agreements, EPC contract, and financing agreements
- Represented a buyer in a joint bid for a power development company, followed by the sale of assets and stock for international power projects to the other joint bidder ($1 billion merger, $400 million sale of assets)
- Represented the seller of oil and gas properties with a related advance gas contract and limited liability company structure
- Represented a major wholesale and retail electric company, structuring a number of innovative major electric and related-service transactions, both in regulated and deregulated jurisdictions
- Represented the developer of a merchant power plant in California under the deregulated regime
- Represented a party in the formation of a joint venture to market gas and electricity throughout the U.S.
- Represented numerous sellers and buyers of independent power projects
- Represented a company in connection with the development of refining and upstream and downstream projects in Venezuela to be developed and owned (and project financed) through entities to be owned jointly with Venezuelan government-owned companies and other third parties
- Represented the sellers of 50% of the stock of a company owning major crude oil refining facilities throughout the United States to PDVSA, including the negotiation of long term crude oil supply contracts and terminalling agreements
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Activities and Affiliations
- Member: AIPN, Business Law and Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law Sections, American Bar Association; Business Law, Corporate Counsel, International Law Sections, State Bar of Texas; Corporate Counsel, Oil, Gas and Mineral, and International Law Sections, Houston Bar Association
- Keeton Fellow: University of Texas; Fellow: Houston Bar Association
- Graduate, Leadership Houston
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Education and Professional Background
- Attended Georgetown University
- The University of Texas, B.A. summa cum laude, 1976
- The University of Texas School of Law, J.D. with high honors, 1983 (Order of the Coif)
- Admitted to practice: Texas, 1983
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