Leading Adviser Awards 2020

36 Acquisition International - Leading Adviser 2020 1 Issue 1 2021 Sep20157 Contact: Douglas Atnipp Company: Winston & Strawn, LLP Web Address: www.winston.com inston & Strawn LLP has been serving a global clientele that spans virtually every industry as a trusted advisor and advocate since its inception more than 160 years ago. During that time, the firm has employed careful growth and fiscal management to build an award-winning law practice with unparalleled breadth in expertise and a global reach that extends across five continents. Fundamentally, Winston & Strawn puts its success down to its people, who are integral to the delivery of excellent services which meet and exceed client expectations every time. Consistently demonstrating their creativity, flexibility, experience and commitment, the Winston & Strawn team are able to see the results of their work in the trusting, confident relationships that they have established with their global clientele. The team is driven by the company’s core mission to provide clients with creative solutions tailored to their business problems, delivering them on time and on budget, regardless of the complexity of the project. In addition, Winston & Strawn seeks to serve their communities and the public interest. To do this, the firm begins with its internal culture, promoting diversity within their firm and throughout the legal profession as whole, and maintaining a culture of teamwork and collegiality. The result is a motivated team, operating in the key financial centers of the world so as to deliver responsive, knowledgeable and practical legal services that are relevant and beneficial to their clients and their businesses. Winston & Strawn is therefore able to offer business- oriented advice that is effective in getting deals done. As Managing Partner of the Houston branch of Winston & Strawn, Douglas Atnipp plays a key role in maintaining the excellence of the firm’s team. Doug represents clients engaged in all facets of the energy business and large-scale energy-related transactions, including finance, joint ventures, strategic alliances and the acquisition and disposition of energy-related assets. His multitude of practice concentrations include producing property acquisitions and divestitures, independent power project development, acquisitions and financing, and global energy and infrastructure. In addition to his work in the energy sector, Doug regularly advises clients in a variety of other industries in connection with general corporate and finance transactions. Regularly described as an ‘excellent lawyer’ by his clients, the addition of AI’s Leading Energy-Related Transactions Attorney of the Year award for Texas to Doug’s accolades is unsurprising. Doug is also listed in the 2003-2021 editions of The Best Lawyers in America©, W For more than 160 years, Winston & Strawn LLP has acted as a trusted advisor and advocate for clients across almost every industry, in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East. Douglas C. Atnipp, Managing Partner of the Houston branch of Winston & Strawn, brings more than thirty years of experience to his role representing clients engaged in all facets of the energy business. This year, Douglas is being recognized and applauded for his work as Texas’s Leading Energy-Related Transactions Attorney of the Year by Acquisition International. Creative Solutions For Business Problems where he was recognized as the 2021 “Lawyer of the Year” for Oil and Gas Law, The Natural Resources Law section, and he has been consistently selected by Texas Super Lawyers magazine every year since 2003. He is also listed in Chambers Global for Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional), 2011-2017 and in The Legal 500 U.S. for Energy – Regulatory and Transactions, 2015-2016. Led by this exceptional lawyer, the Winston & Strawn team based in Houston are currently focusing on increasing the firm’s presence in Texas in the Dallas and Houston markets. Armed with global recognition and accolade, and supported by extraordinary talent such as Doug, Winston & Strawn will undoubtedly be one to watch as they continue the successful expansion of their global reach and legal expertise. ...the firm begins with its internal culture, promoting diversity within their firm and throughout the legal profession as whole, and maintaining a culture of teamwork and collegiality. Leading Energy-Related Transactions Attorney of the Year, Texas