McGinnis Lochridge Adds Oil and Gas Transactional Team
McGinnis Lochridge has announced that Jeffrey Beck, Austin Brister and Ian McNeill have been named to the firm’s oil and gas transactional team.
Beck joins the firm from Jones Gill LLP in Houston where he was a partner. He is an experienced energy transactional lawyer, focusing on oil and gas mergers, acquisitions and divestitures including negotiations, document preparation and associated due diligence Jeff graduated from South Texas College of Law and is licensed in Texas. Before Law school, he worked as a pipeline engineer in the energy industry.
Brister joins as an associate from Jones Gill where he worked with Beck on oil and gas transactions, due diligence and title opinions for the last several years. He has also written a number of papers and served as a speaker at numerous conferences. Austin graduated from the Wyoming College of Law and is licensed in Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota and Texas.
McNeill comes from the Kilburn Law Firm, and previously served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Harris County District Attorney’s Office where his experience has provided him with a unique perspective that aids him in his general litigation practice. He received his JD in 2003 from the South Texas College of Law and his B.A. from Trinity University. He is also licensed in Ohio.
