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Eli Sterbcow
Eli Sterbcow
Associate — Complex Commercial Litigation
Associate — Complex Commercial Litigation

Eli Sterbcow

Eli Sterbcow
Dallas

Trammell Crow Center
2001 Ross Avenue
Suite 3900
Dallas, Texas 75201

Eli Sterbcow

Experience Highlights

  • (Okla.) – Defending controller and board of directors against breach-of-duty claims in connection with controller’s take-private transaction of energy company; defending energy company in statutory appraisal litigation related to same take-private transaction

  • (Del. Ch.) – Resolved for no monetary consideration derivative claim against general partner relating to its oversight of pipeline company’s operations

  • (London Ct. of Int’l Arb.) – Represented major financial institution in international arbitration dispute regarding unpaid natural gas transactions during Winter Storm Uri

  • (Bankr. N.D. Tex.) – Along with members of V&E’s Restructuring and Reorganization team, represented Rockall Energy and its subsidiaries in chapter 11 sales process in which substantially all of the company’s operating assets were sold; plan confirmed

  • (Bankr. S.D. Tex.) – Along with members of V&E’s Restructuring and Reorganization team, represented private equity firm as equity owners of power generation company in chapter 11 proceedings; plan confirmed

  • Represented and assisted an internal investigation by a multinational private equity fund in connection with a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in Brazil

Credentials

  • Tulane University Law School, J.D. magna cum laude, 2020
  • The University of Texas, B.A., Government Liberal Arts Honors, 2017
  • Eli was on secondment to a client and returned October 16, 2023
  • Judicial Extern for The Honorable Lance M. Africk, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Summer 2018
  • Texas
  • French (proficient)
  • “Alexa: Waive the Attorney-Client Privilege for Me,” The Advocate, State Bar Litigation Section Report, Technology and Litigation Practice, Volume 96, Fall 2021 (co-author)