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.
- A 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
News and client work
Contact details
- Clifford Chance, Houston
- +17132656841
- Email me
- Speaks Spanish
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