Five years out from 2010′s Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, residents there haven’t forgotten that disaster. “There are very strong feelings in the Gulf region about BP,” says Brian Heberlig of Steptoe & Johnson LLP.
Heberlig, along with Steptoe’s Reid Weingarten and Jones Walker’s Michael Magner, overcame public opinion late last week, winning an acquittal for former BP executive David Rainey on June 5 of charges he lied to federal investigators. The former head of BP exploration in the Gulf, Rainey was indicted in 2012 by the U.S. Department of Justice on charges that he lied to a congressional subcommittee and to the Federal Bureau of Investigation about the rate of oil spilling from the Deepwater well. Around the same time as Rainey’s indictment, BP pleaded guilty to a number of charges and agreed to pay $4 billion in criminal fines and penalties.
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