Lawdragon Names 20 Gibson Dunn Lawyers to List of 500 Global Leaders in Energy
Accolades | June 26, 2026
Lawdragon
Twenty Gibson Dunn lawyers have been named by Lawdragon to its list of 500 Global Leaders in Energy — “the omnipotents of oil, the governors of gas, the lionesses of LNG, the emperors of electric and the wizards of wind.”
The firm’s leading global energy lawyers are: Mahmoud Abdel-Baky (Riyadh) – Energy & Infrastructure, Project Finance; Michael Darden (Houston) – Oil & Gas, Energy M&A; Peter Hanlon (New York) – Energy Transactions, Power, M&A; William Hollaway (Washington, D.C.) – Energy Regulation, Litigation, M&A; Hillary Holmes (Houston and Dallas) – Energy Transactions & Finance; Tory Lauterbach (Washington, D.C.) – Energy Transactions, Regulatory & Litigation; Cynthia Mabry (Houston) – Energy Transactions; Samuel Ogunlaja (Abu Dhabi) – Energy & Infrastructure Transactions; Michael Piazza (Houston) – Energy Transactions, esp. Private Equity; Nicholas Politan (New York) – Energy Transactions; Doug Rayburn (Dallas) – Energy Transactions; Omar Samji (Houston) – Energy Transactions, Finance, Cleantech; Laleh Shahabi (Abu Dhabi) – Energy, Renewable, Oil & Gas Finance; Ben Shorten (London) – Energy & Infrastructure Development & Finance; Gerry Spedale (Houston) – Energy Transactions; Simon Tysoe (London) – Energy Transactions, Cross-Border; Rahul Vashi (Houston) – Energy Transactions; Adam Whitehouse (Houston) – Energy Transactions; Renad Younes (Abu Dhabi) – Energy & Infrastructure M&A; and Robyn Zolman (Denver) – Energy, Capital Markets, Regulation.