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King & Spalding Adds Partner John Barquin to International Energy Practice
Barquin Brings to Firm Extensive Experience Handling Project Finance and Development Work for Energy Industry Clients Worldwide
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HOUSTON, TX -- (MARKET WIRE) -- November 10, 2006 -- King & Spalding, a leading international law
firm, announced today that John H. Barquin, an energy attorney with
significant experience in the development and financing of international
energy projects, has joined the firm as partner in its energy practice
group. He will practice from the firm's 100-lawyer Houston office.
"We are very excited to welcome John to King & Spalding and look forward to
the contributions he will make to the continued expansion of our energy
practice internationally," said Philip R. Weems, the leader of King &
Spalding's energy practice group. "Our clients' needs are becoming
increasingly global in nature, and John's experience handling energy
projects in Latin America, Europe and beyond will be key to our ability to
help them address the legal challenges they face around the world."
Barquin practiced for eight years at Vinson & Elkins, where he was a
partner from 1998 to 2002. While there, he negotiated and documented
complex energy transactions throughout Latin America and other areas of the
world. Representative matters Barquin handled included gas transportation
agreements; long-term power purchase agreements; transmission,
interconnection and EPC contracts; acquisitions and divestitures of
pipeline and power plant assets; and limited-recourse financings of power
projects and pipelines. For the past four years, he has been involved in a
venture developing educational programs for American Public Television.
Before joining Vinson & Elkins, Barquin was resident in the Ankara, Turkey
office of White & Case, where he participated in the development and
financing of power plants and other complex infrastructure projects (such
as the Ankara Metro and Istanbul Airport Expansion) on the
Build-Operate-Transfer model. He then served as an advisor to the Turkish
Ministry of Defense on a variety of joint venture and co-production
projects. Barquin earned a B.A. from University of Texas and a J.D. from
Harvard Law School.
"I am delighted to be joining King & Spalding's energy practice. King &
Spalding's renown in the energy world, its remarkably talented attorneys
and its focus on growth offer extraordinary opportunities for someone with
my international energy experience," Barquin said.
King & Spalding opened its Houston office in 1995 with three litigation
attorneys; today the office has grown to more than 100 attorneys focusing
on a diverse array of litigation and transactional law.
King & Spalding is widely recognized as an international leader in the
field of energy law. The firm's energy practice -- with nearly 75 lawyers
practicing from the firm's offices in Houston, London, New York and
Washington, D.C. -- handles complex domestic and international energy
transactions, including operational and supply chain agreements and issues,
complex joint ventures and finance, and mergers and acquisitions and
private equity transactions. The firm also has extensive experience
managing international litigation and arbitration for energy industry
clients
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Schnack at 212-556-2226 or jschnack@kslaw.com.
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more than half of the Fortune 100, and in a Corporate Counsel survey in
August 2006 was ranked one of the top ten firms representing Fortune 250
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