Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Cody Carper is a Partner in Weil’s Private Equity practice based in Houston. His practice focuses on complex energy and infrastructure transactions, including representing private equity sponsors and management teams in acquisitions and divestitures of upstream and midstream oil and gas assets, energy financings and equity joint venture transactions. He also regularly advises both investors and operators in drilling partnerships and other joint development arrangements.

Before joining Weil, Cody was a partner at another international law firm and prior to that, he served as the assistant general counsel for a large privately held oil and gas company, where he gained extensive experience in operational issues that regularly arise in the oil and gas sector concerning land, marketing and drilling.

Cody is recognized as a leading lawyer for Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional) in the U.S. by Chambers USA where clients describe him as “a great oil and gas lawyer” who “knows the space well and is a subject matter expert.” He is also recognized as a “Next Generation Partner” for Energy Transactions: Oil And Gas by The Legal 500 and as a “Notable Practitioner” for M&A in the U.S. by IFLR1000.

Cody received his J.D. from South Texas College of Law and his B.A., from the University of Texas.