Douglas Glass, Akin Gump Partner and Energy Veteran, Returns to Houston Office
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(Houston) On June 21, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP partner Douglas Glass returned to the firm’s Houston office after a combined 17 years in Moscow and London. Mr. Glass’ principal areas of practice are cross-border transactions, mergers and acquisitions, project development and corporate finance, with a special focus on energy and international matters.
Akin Gump’s Houston office is the home of the firm’s energy and global transactions practice, to which Mr. Glass and more than 100 other attorneys belong. The practice is globally recognized and ranked, with energy experience spanning the value chain from exploration and production activity in oil and gas, power service, supply and equipment manufacturing companies, midstream ventures, transportation, refining and marketing, investor-owned utilities and independent power developers to renewable energy investment.
Mr. Glass’ move is the latest in an ongoing expansion of the practice’s Houston team. Energy industry partner Steve Davis joined the firm in March from Vinson & Elkins LLP, and Steven Otillar joined in May from Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP.
About Douglas Glass
Mr. Glass has represented public and private companies in all phases of their domestic and international business activities for more than 30 years. He has worked on joint ventures, infrastructure projects, financings, and acquisitions and dispositions for clients in a wide variety of structures and in a number of countries. In addition to his extensive experience in Russia and the CIS, Mr. Glass has worked on transactions in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India, China and Latin America.
Founded in 1945, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP is a leading international law firm with more than 850 attorneys in offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
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