02 Feb 2026
Baker Botts Adds Oil and Gas Dealmaker Cody Carper as Partner in Houston
"Baker Botts adds Cody Carper as partner in its Houston office to co-chair the Oil and Gas Practice, focusing on upstream and midstream transactions, energy financings, joint ventures and drilling partnerships."
Carper joins from Weil, Gotshal & Manges, where he led complex energy transactions for private equity sponsors and management teams, as well as public and private oil and gas companies. His practice focuses on acquisitions and divestitures of upstream and midstream assets, energy financings, equity joint ventures, and drilling partnerships. He previously served as assistant general counsel at Sabine Oil & Gas, where he handled operational issues across land, marketing, and drilling.
Carper’s work spans transactions valued at more than $10 billion across major U.S. shale plays, including upstream M&A, joint ventures, drilling partnerships, and minerals and royalties transactions throughout the Haynesville, Permian, and STACK formations. He has been recognized as a Leading lawyer for Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional) by Chambers USA and was named to Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Energy Lawyers list.