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Described as “incredibly intelligent” and “impressive” by interviewees in Chambers USA (2019), Lande Spottswood is an accomplished corporate lawyer who focuses her practice on large and complex strategic transactions, often in the energy and industrial sectors. Her clients include public and private companies, as well as private equity firms. Lande advises on mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, restructurings, spinoffs, and joint ventures, as well as preferred investments and other capital-raising transactions. She also provides counsel on general corporate issues and she advises boards of directors and special committees with respect to conflicted transactions. Since the beginning of 2010, Lande has advised participants in more than 30 public company mergers or change-of-control transactions. She also counseled clients involved with many of the largest MLP transactions of the last decade. Lande is regularly recognized as a leading M&A practitioner by legal trade publications, including Chambers USA for her Corporate and M&A practice, and by Legal 500, Texas Lawyerand Super Lawyers. An interviewee cited in her Chambers 2018 profile noted that Lande “demonstrates depth of knowledge in her field” and “most importantly, has gotten good results no matter what the task.” In addition to her client work, Lande serves as head of talent for V&E’s Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets practice and she co-leads the firm’s Women’s Initiative program in Houston. She also serves as a Deputy Practice Group Leader of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets group and is a member of the firm’s Management Committee. Some of her recent experience includes representing Blackstone Infrastructure Partners in its $3.3 billion acquisition of a controlling interest in Tallgrass Energy and subsequent agreement to purchase all outstanding publicly-held, and RSP Permian in its $9.5 billion sale to Concho Resources, creating the largest unconventional shale producer in the Permian Basin.