Michael Irvin joined the Houston office of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. in 1975 and has been a partner since 1983. He heads the firm's global Energy and Real Property Department and practices.  Mike's representation includes domestic and international oil and gas exploration and production companies, petrochemical and refining companies and pipeline and other energy companies.

Mike's practice focuses on transactions related to the following:

• The acquisition and disposition of, whether accomplished through asset or stock acquisitions:
  • oil and gas exploration and producing properties
  • pipelines
  • gas processing plants
  • petrochemical facilities
  • oil and gas companies

• The exploration, development, project finance, construction and operation of:
  • oil and gas properties
  • pipelines
  • gas processing plants
  • petrochemical and LNG facilities or projects

• Joint ventures, partnerships and other joint ownership or participation arrangements in the energy area
• Mortgage and asset-based financing relating to oil, gas and petrochemical related properties, pipelines, plants and other assets
• Other areas of oil and gas practice, including production sales, storage, processing and transportation agreements

• American Bar Association
• Houston Bar Association
• State Bar of Texas

• Chambers Global
• Chambers & Partners, USA., ranked among the top attorneys in Energy & Natural Resources Practice Field in Texas
• Best Lawyers in America
• Lawdragon 3000

• "Deepwater Developments in the South Atlantic (Brazil and West Africa)," International Energy and Business Law Conference, International Bar Association, Houston, Texas, November 2002
• "Implied Covenant to Market in the Deregulated Natural Gas Industry,"Proceedings of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Forty-Second Annual Institute, 1996

1975 - J.D., University of Houston
1972 -B.A., Plan II Honors, The University of Texas

While in law school, Mike was Editor-in-Chief of the Houston Law Review and a member of Phi Delta Phi.  He was admitted to practice law in Texas in 1975.