Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Husch Blackwell and Clifford Chance are among firms in Texas that have recently hired Big Law partners in Texas who handle energy matters.

McDermott Will & Emery private equity partner Andrew Lehman returned to Akin as a partner in Houston; Husch hired Locke Lord energy regulatory partner Carrie Collier-Brown as a partner in Austin; and Clifford Chance hired Shearman & Sterling tax partner Todd Lowther as a partner in Houston in the U.S. tax practice.