Hillary is co-partner in charge of the Houston office of global law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, co-chair of the firm’s Capital Markets practice group and a member of the firm’s Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance, Mergers & Acquisitions, ESG, and Energy Practice Groups.

Hillary advises corporations, investment banks and institutional investors on capital raising transactions, M&A transactions, governance, securities laws and ESG issues. She also counsels boards of directors in special situations. She brings over two decades of deep expertise in the energy industry.

Chambers Global consistently ranks her in the highest tier for energy capital markets, as well as for energy M&A and corporate counseling. She has been named an Energy MVP twice by Law 360, one of the 25 Most Influential Women in Energy by Hart Energy, a Capital Markets Trailblazer by The National Law Journal, a Most Effective Dealmaker by Texas Lawyer, a Woman Who Means Business by the Houston Business Journal, a Leading Dealmaker in the US by LawDragon 500, and Corporate Lawyer of the Year (Houston) by her peers through Best Lawyers.

Hillary regularly writes and speaks on topics relating to the U.S. capital markets, ESG issues, and the state of the energy industry. Hillary is an officer of the Society for Corporate Governance Houston Chapter and a member of the Executive Council of the KBH Center for Law, Energy and Policy at the University of Texas.  Hillary also currently serves on the Editorial Board of Insights: Securities Regulation, and on the Advisory Board and the ESG Strategies Committee of the Institute for Energy Law, as a Co-Editor of the Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Monitor.