Marcia E. Backus, Partner, Co-head Corporate Practice, Vinson & Elkins LLP
Marcia E. Backus is a partner with Vinson & Elkins, where she has served in numerous firm leadership positions and is currently Co-Head of the firm’s Corporate Practice.
Marcia has a broad-based energy transactional practice, representing private equity and industry players in domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments and other corporate transactions, project development, and complex partnership and LLC transactions. Marcia also has extensive experience in energy marketing and trading and renewables.
Marcia’s energy transactional experience includes representing buyers and sellers of power generation facilities, energy trading businesses, natural gas pipelines and crude oil pipelines, oil and gas properties, processing and other midstream assets and oil field service companies. She represents several private equity companies in their investments in the energy sector. Marcia has represented private equity investors in a variety of renewable and other non-conventional energy projects, including biodiesel, biomass and coal gasification projects.
Cited as a leader in her fields of practice by numerous publications, Marcia has been listed as one of Chambers USA’s America’s Leading Business Lawyers in 2005-2008 and among The Best Lawyers in America since 2003 in corporate, energy, oil and gas and project finance.
Marcia received her J.D. with high honors from the University of Texas School of Law, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif. She received her B.A. summa cum laude from the University of Texas.
Vinson & Elkins LLP
Vinson & Elkins LLP, founded in Houston in 1917, currently has more than 750 lawyers in 13 offices across the globe. V&E’s culture embodies interpersonal, collaborative and collegial energy with an extensive and diverse team of talented lawyers in numerous practice areas. V&E enjoys longstanding recognition as one of the world’s leading energy law firms, having received the highest rankings from major research publications including Euromoney, Chambers Global, Petroleum Economist, and Chambers USA which in June of 2008 awarded V&E one of its top honors: Energy Projects: Oil & Gas law firm of the year. Over 400 of our lawyers devote the majority of their time to energy related projects. We apply our energy industry knowledge to projects sponsored by many of the most active and prominent private equity firms involved in energy investments.
Our energy private equity projects are wide-ranging and include fund formation, “equity-line” commitments to management, traditional leveraged buyouts, capital markets offerings, including our leading MLP practice, project development and financing, and a variety of M&A projects involving, for example, pipelines, power plants, transmission and distribution assets, renewables (wind, bioenergy), refineries and exploration and production programs. Our M&A, capital markets, finance, tax and regulatory attorneys have gained specialized knowledge in the course of their many years of participating in diverse and complex energy assignments.
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