Hugh Tucker

Hugh Tucker is a partner in the Energy, Power and Natural Resources Practice Group in Haynes Boone’s Houston office. His practice focuses on energy transactions involving the oil and gas, chemical, real estate and energy industries, including acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and project development and financing. He advises on M&A, project development and joint ventures in both domestic and cross-border settings.

Chambers Global, Chambers and Partners 2022 stated: "He's hard-working, a strong performer and steeped in the industry." Hugh's oil and gas practice focuses on acquisitions and sales of refineries, oil and gas companies, unconventional (shale, CBM, tight sands) and conventional exploration and producing properties through stock acquisitions, asset acquisitions and mergers, exploration and development programs, farm outs, joint operating arrangements, joint ventures and other investment vehicles.

He has extensive experience in auction processes from seller and buyer perspective, gas sales, processing and transportation arrangements; public and private financings of refineries and oil and gas assets and companies; expansion, construction, and acquisition of refineries, gathering and processing facilities and pipelines; acquisition of pipeline rights-of-way; ethane and other NGL sales and transportation agreements; biofuels alliances, coal to liquids and gas to liquids project development and other alternative fuels projects and investments. Hugh is experienced in project development and financing work related to several independent power, chemical, coal to liquid, gas to liquids, refinery, NGL and infrastructure projects in the U.S. and internationally, including structuring of investments, bid preparation, host government arrangements, site acquisition, development and EPC arrangements.

Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, J.D.; Vanderbilt University, B.A., Economics & Business Administration

Admissions: Texas; District of Columbia