Energy – Oilfield Services
Chambers USA: Energy: Oil & Gas: Regulatory & Litigation (Nationwide), 2014-2024
Vinson & Elkins is a leader in the representation of participants in the oilfield services industry. The firm delivers a broad variety of transactional, regulatory, and dispute resolution services to companies providing the capital, infrastructure, equipment, intellectual property, skilled personnel, and services needed by the domestic and international oil and gas exploration and production industry. V&E’s clients range from large, multinational companies to small start-up enterprises serving local or regional markets. The firm also represents a variety of private equity funds and other capital providers investing in oilfield services companies.
Chambers USA: Energy: Transactional (Nationwide), 2014-2024
Chambers USA: Oil & Gas Litigation (Nationwide), 2020-2024
V&E’s long history in the oilfield services industry gives our attorneys a unique historical perspective, as well as current insight into market trends. Whether the goal is expansion through an acquisition, promotion of a new technology, managing a specialized workforce, or navigating the complexities that arise from regulatory investigations and lawsuits, V&E helps oilfield services clients and their investors achieve their business objectives effectively and efficiently.
Transactions
C&J Energy Services in its $2.86 billion merger with Nabors’ completion and production business to create a leading diversified completion and production services provider
Patterson-UTI Energy in its $1.76 billion merger with Seventy Seven Energy
Select Energy Services, an affiliate of Crestview Partners, in its $1.3 billion merger with Rockwater Energy Solutions
Frank’s International N.V. in its $759 million initial public offering of common stock
Underwriters to ProPetro Holding Corp. in its $402 million initial public offering of common stock
Sentinel Energy Services Inc., a SPAC, in its $345 million initial public offering of common stock
Liberty Oilfield Services, Inc. in its $249 million initial public offering of common stock
Underwriters to Smart Sand, Inc. in its $148 million initial public offering of common stock
Obtained reversal from the Delaware Supreme Court of an injunction entered by Delaware Chancery Court in lawsuit arising from a proposed transaction involving C&J Energy Services, Inc. and a subsidiary of Nabors; the Court of Chancery subsequently granted defendants’ motion to dismiss, and the Delaware Supreme Court affirmed the dismissal. C&J Energy Servs., Inc. v. City of Miami Gen. Employees’, 107 A.3d 1049 (Del. 2014), on remand, 2016 WL 4464274 (Del. Ch. Aug. 24, 2016), aff’d, 158 A.3d 885 (Del. 2017)
(Tex. Dist.); (W.D. La) — Represented several oilfield services companies in restrictive covenant and unfair competition litigation, including in matters involving non-competition/non-solicitation agreements and claims relating to trade secret misappropriation and employee raiding
(S.D. Tex.); (Fed. Cir.); (5th Cir.) — Represented an oilfield services client from claims of breach of a patent license agreement; after we successfully established federal subject matter jurisdiction, the case settled on favorable terms
(S.D. Tex.) — Represented an oilfield equipment company in trademark infringement; obtained agreed injunction by way of settlement after completion of expert discovery
Represented two U.S. companies in a coordinated DOJ and SEC FCPA investigation of the energy industry in West Africa and succeeded in having cases closed without the government taking any action against the clients
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