2009年12月16日星期三

Thompson & Knight - Thompson & Knight Launches Energy Consulting Company

The law close of Thompson & Knight LLP has appear the accumulation of a accessory aggregation that will accommodate activity consulting casework to the all-embracing marketplace. Thompson & Knight Global Energy Services, LLC will action a advanced ambit of specialized casework to the activity industry including the identification and appraisal of analysis and assembly investment opportunities, asset evaluations, portfolio optimization, and accident mitigation.

The aggregation will be based in Houston and led by Renato T. Bertani, the above admiral of Petrobras America Inc. Mr. Bertani has captivated a amount of senior-level positions during his 30-year career with the Brazilian-owned activity conglomerate. Most afresh he has been amenable for an advancing alternation of initiatives by Petrobras to analyze and advance new assembly capabilities in the Gulf of Mexico, as able-bodied as the company’s accretion and planned amplification of a above refinery in Pasadena, Texas.

“We are actual admiring to authorize this new business that reinforces our longstanding charge to allowance our audience with their cardinal issues,” says Pete Riley, managing accomplice of Thompson & Knight. “At Thompson & Knight we currently represent about bisected of the world’s better about traded activity companies and a host of oil and gas firms and accompanying entities. This move added expands and differentiates our casework and our position in the all-around activity industry,” he says.

Initially the company’s portfolio of bartering and bread-and-butter consulting casework will be preferentially offered to absolute Thompson & Knight clients, according to Mr. Bertani. “We accept there is abundant absorption a allotment of the firm’s audience in leveraging commutual and chip services, decidedly accustomed the advance perspectives of the activity industry,” he says. Mr. Bertani anticipates that casework will gradually aggrandize to new customers, provided there are no aggressive conflicts.

Mr. Riley believes Thompson & Knight is the aboriginal U.S. law close to accept an accessory business focused on all-around activity consulting. Surveys announce that these abstracted endeavors are growing steadily in acceptance as law firms seek commutual casework for their clients, but it is cryptic absolutely how abounding accessory businesses are endemic by law firms. A 2003 abstraction by Hildebrandt International begin that 95 of the nation’s better law firms were operating about 140 accessory businesses, primarily in the fields of advice technology, investment management, and accessible affairs.

Since 1887, Thompson & Knight LLP has consistently fabricated a absolute appulse on its clients’ successes. With its convenance focused on the activity industry, the Firm has all-encompassing assets in litigation, tax, insolvency, and all-embracing activity matters. The Firm has about 420 attorneys and offices and alliances in Algiers, Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, London, Mexico City, Monterrey, New York, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, and Vitória. Thompson & Knight represents companies, government entities, and individuals in local, regional, and civic markets about the world.

Becky S. Jackson
Becky.Jackson@tklaw.com
214.969.1478

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