Ronnie Dabbasi

Ronnie Dabbasi is an attorney in Holland & Knight's Houston office. Mr. Dabbasi helps buyers and sellers negotiate complex mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and advises partners on joint ventures and project development across the energy industry.

Mr. Dabbasi has a broad range of experience advising on corporate and commercial matters in the energy sector and has been a corporate/M&A lawyer since 2007. He advises clients on all aspects of domestic and cross-border M&A, auction processes, joint ventures and co-development structures, project development and financing, private equity and venture capital investments, and governance matters. Mr. Dabbasi regularly represents a wide variety of clients, including renewable and oil and gas project developers and sponsors, commodity trading firms, diversified public companies, chemical and petrochemical producers, oilfield service companies, electric and gas utilities, private equity firms and other strategic and passive investors. He has experience developing and implementing creative deal structures to navigate disparate interests of the various stakeholders in transactions.

Mr. Dabbasi's practice spans the energy spectrum. He has experience with the acquisition and development of utility-scale and customer-sited energy projects, including combined heat and power, wind, biomass and solar facilities. He also represents clients in upstream oil and gas matters, as well as midstream projects and deals involving natural gas, crude oil, and natural gas liquids gathering systems, pipelines, processing facilities and storage assets. Mr. Dabbasi's downstream practice includes advising on refining, marketing and distributing refined products and related structured commodity transactions.

Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Dabbasi was an attorney for a global law firm in its Houston office.

During law school Mr. Dabbasi was staff editor for the Texas Review of Entertainment and Sports Law and for the Texas Journal on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights.