McGuireWoods LLP added to its Houston office with the recent appointment of M&A partner Edmund “Eddy” Daniels, who joins the firm from Haynes and Boone LLP with significant experience in senior leadership roles at major energy companies and financial firms.

Daniels’ background includes conventional and renewable energy asset and commodity transactions, with an emphasis on joint ventures to develop, own and operate power plants and gas pipelines plus the acquisition and disposition of energy assets, including power plants, natural gas and fuel oil pipelines, gas storage facilities and real estate.

He is the fifth partner to join McGuireWoods’ Houston office this year, according to a release from the firm on June 14.

“The insight Eddy brings from in-house roles at top energy companies and financial firms adds even more power to our growing client service capabilities in Houston,” commented Yasser Madriz, managing partner of the McGuireWoods’ Houston office, in a statement.

Previously, Daniels served as general counsel and chief compliance officer at Panda Power Funds, advising a family of private equity funds with more than $6 billion invested in seven gigawatts of power generation projects around the U.S. He focused on fund formation, equity raising, project development, acquisition and disposition, commodity transactions and regulatory affairs, as well as complex finance transactions.

Prior to Panda Power Funds, Daniels was a managing director at JP Morgan Chase & Co., serving as an assistant general counsel in the Houston office where the firm’s North American power and gas groups and the commodities principal investments group were based. Earlier in his career, he was assistant general counsel for M&A and power plant development at NRG Energy Inc.

In a statement commenting on Daniels appointment, Brian Kelly, partner and leader of McGuireWoods’ energy industry team, said: “Our clients will benefit tremendously from Eddy’s experience in commodity transactions, M&A deals, project development and finance, and private equity investing.”

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