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Melissa K. Sanchez

Melissa K. Sanchez

Associate

Associate
Melissa K. Sanchez

Melissa K. Sanchez is an associate in the Corporate practice of Clifford Chance's Houston office with a focus on energy and infrastructure matters. Her experience includes mergers and acquisitions, minority investments, and joint ventures across the energy sector, with a primary focus on upstream oil and gas assets, as well as advising on a range of general corporate matters.

Prior to her legal career, Melissa worked as a commercial credit analyst, underwriting middle‑market loans for clients in the manufacturing and industrial, healthcare, nonprofit, and education sectors.

  • TRP Energy in its US$2.2 billion West Texas asset exchange with Diamondback Energy.
  • TotalEnergies in its ~US$1 billion South Texas acquisition and joint venture gas transaction with Lewis Energy.
  • supermajor in its ~US$2 billion Oklahoma acquisition and joint venture gas transaction with an independent producer.
  • Eni Petroleum in its US$1 billion divestiture of its Alaska oil and gas assets.
  • Woodside in its US$200 million divestiture of its Trinidad and Tobago assets.
  • A supermajor in its acquisition of an undivided interests in various blocks in the U.S. Gulf of America.
  • Crowley Maritime Corporation in the formation of Crowley Wind Services Holdings, LLC, a joint venture with Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners to develop terminals and provide maritime services to advance offshore wind energy development in the U.S.*
  • Avangard Innovative in the sale of its U.S. recycling operations to Waste Management, and the subsequent creation of Natura PCR, a joint venture with Waste Management that repurposes recyclables*
  • Platform Partners in the sale of GHR Healthcare to MidOcean Partners*
  • Veritas Energy in the sale of its Permian Basin assets to Northern Oil and Gas, Inc.*
  • The CapStreet Group in its acquisition of Credit Bureau Connection, Inc.*

      *Matters handled at prior firm

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Career & qualifications

  • The Ohio State University (BS, magna cum laude) 2015
  • Northwestern Pritzker School of Law (JD) 2020
  • Admitted as an Attorney-at-Law in Texas 2020
  • Joined Clifford Chance 2024