Bio

Gregory Bopp serves as the firm-wide managing partner of Bracewell. Prior to becoming managing partner, he co-chaired the firm’s business and regulatory section and served numerous terms on the firm’s management committee. As a practitioner, Greg has extensive experience in a broad range of corporate M&A and capital markets transactions and has been involved with many of the largest transactions in the energy sector over the past two decades. He was named a Dealmaker of the Year by The American Lawyer for his role in representing Kinder Morgan, Inc. in the $76 billion acquisition of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, Kinder Morgan Management and El Paso Pipeline Partners. Chambers USA describes Greg as a “brilliant strategist,” “steeped in the practice and lore of MLPs” and “as good as it gets.” He is also recognized by The Legal 500 United States as one of the “biggest names in energy M&A” and for having a “talent for working complex deal structures to creatively solve business objectives.” Greg serves on the advisory board of The Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University, on the executive council of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Energy Center at The University of Texas at Austin and on the board of directors of the Greater Houston Partnership. He is a past director of Goodwill Industries of Houston and the Alley Theatre.