Chris Bennett

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Chris Bennett is a partner in in the firm’s Corporate practice group and is based in Houston. Chris advises public and private companies, private equity sponsors and other investors on a wide array of corporate transactions across the energy and infrastructure industries, with a focus on upstream and midstream oil and gas sectors. He also advises on infrastructure projects and M&A adjacent to the energy industry. He counsels clients on high-profile mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and other strategic combinations relating to energy assets and businesses, and the development and negotiation of related partnership, operating, processing, and other services and commercial agreements, in addition to advising on broader corporate governance issues.

Chris is recognized by Chambers USA as a leading lawyer for Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional) and ranked by Chambers Global in the same category, with clients noting he “is very commercially minded.” He is also recognized for Energy Transactions: Oil & Gas by Legal 500, named to the Lawdragon “500 Leading Energy Lawyers” list, and honored as a “Texas Rising Star” by Super Lawyers.

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Louisiana State University (B.A., cum laude, 2007); Tulane University Law School (J.D., magna cum laude, 2010).