Christine B. LaFollette is the partner in charge of the Houston office and a member of the firmwide management committee. Ms. LaFollette has more than 30 years of experience representing issuers and underwriters in public offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities, restructurings and financings, including master limited partnerships, as well as federal and state securities laws matters. Ms. LaFollette also represents clients in public and private M&A and disposition transactions, particularly in the energy industry. In addition, she represents public companies, boards of directors and special committees with respect to general corporate issues, compliance with corporate governance matters, including compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, periodic reporting, proxy solicitation, audit committee standards and insider trading requirements of the federal securities laws.

Ms. LaFollette has recently represented—

• a public energy company in its acquisition of a public company for approximately $6.4 billion
• a public energy company in its acquisition of a public company for approximately $1.26 billion
• a public energy company in its $1.25 billion senior notes offering
• a public energy company in its public company merger for approximately $1.5 billion
• a public company in its sale of a joint venture interest for $2.2 billion
• a public energy company in a series of dispositions of its offshore Gulf of Mexico assets for approximately $900 million
• an energy company in its $375 million initial public offering
• a public energy company in a tax-free exchange and a $300 million equity offering
• a non-U.S. public energy corporate acquisition of Gulf of Mexico assets for approximately $320 million
• a public energy company in a $172.5 million convertible senior notes offering
• the underwriters in a $400 million senior notes offering
• the special committee of the general partner of a publicly traded energy master limited partnership in connection with the sale of senior subordinate securities for approximately $367 million
• the special committee of the general partner of a publicly traded energy master limited partnership in connection with the transactions involving the acquisition of assets for a an aggregate value of approximately $480 million
• a leading natural gas compression services company in its $150 million initial public offering, followed by seven acquisitions and related debt and equity financings
• a public energy company in its $3 billion disposition through a tender offer and merger
• a public company in several public underwritten offerings, including $175 million of preferred stock, $150 million of debt in mandatory putable/remarketable securities, and $200 million additional series of senior notes and $100 million of medium term notes, with each offering from shelf registration statements
• an investment fund in the purchase of a $60 million majority equity position in a private oil and gas company, a $20 million disposition of assets from a private oil and gas company and a terminated $25 million disposition of oil and gas assets for publicly traded and registered stock.

Ms. LaFollette received her B.S. with highest honors from the University of Texas in 1974 and her J.D. with honors from Loyola University in Los Angeles in 1980. She is a member of the State Bar of Texas and the American Bar Association, as well as a sustaining fellow of the Houston Bar Association and a past chair of its Corporate Counsel Section. She is also a fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation, a director of the Houston Bar Foundation and a member of the College of the State Bar of Texas.

Ms. LaFollette served as a director of the Houston World Affairs Council and serves as a director for the National Association of Corporate Directors - Houston Chapter and the Texas General Counsel Forum. Additionally, she serves as a trustee for the Houston Grand Opera. She is a speaker and moderator at various seminars, including those sponsored by the American Corporate Counsel Association, the Texas Corporate Counsel Institute, Rocky Mountain Securities Conference and the Houston Bar Association. She has been listed every year since 2007 in The Best Lawyers in America; and has been listed since 2004 in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business as a leading individual in corporate/M&A law. In addition, Ms. LaFollette is a member of the Alexis de Tocqueville Society of the United Way and a trustee for St. Luke's United Methodist Church. She is also a founding member of the Center for Women in Law at the University of Texas at Austin.