Profile: Marcia Backus

Project Finance

Biography: Project Finance

Marcia Backus has a broad-based transactional energy practice, representing major energy industry players in domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, and other corporate transactions; project finance; and complex partnership and LLC transactions. Ms Backus also has extensive experience in energy marketing and trading and renewables.

Ms Backus'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. Recently, Ms Backus has represented private equity investors in a variety of renewable and other non-conventional energy projects, including biodiesel, biomass, and coal gasification projects.

She is a member of the firm's management committee, chair of its partnership admission committee, and co-administrative head of the Houston office. She is also a member of the firm's energy practice executive committee.

Cited as a leader in her fields of practice by numerous publications, Ms Backus has been listed among The Best Lawyers in America since 2003 in corporate, energy, oil and gas, and project finance; Legal Media Group's Guide to the World's Leading Energy & Natural Resource Lawyers, 2005 and 2007; and in Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers for energy and projects law, 2005-2006 Ms Backus attended Georgetown University and received her BA from the University of Texas in 1976 as well as her JD in 1983 (Order of the Coif).