William Prescott Mills Schwind

William Prescott Mills Schwind is a partner in the international energy practice group in the firm’s Houston office. He focuses his practice on international energy and natural resources, with a particular emphasis on upstream, midstream, and downstream oil and gas transactions. Advising foreign and domestic companies and individuals in matters across the globe, he devotes much of his practice to assisting clients throughout Latin America and Africa. Mr Schwind’s experience includes oil and gas exploration and production projects, foreign and domestic acquisitions and divestitures of oil and gas producing properties and infrastructure, negotiating oil and gas transportation and processing arrangements, and structuring crude oil processing agreements for petrochemical facilities. Fluent in Spanish, Portuguese and French, he studied at the Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo, in Brazil, and received a JD from The University of Texas at Austin in 1996 and a BA from Hampden-Sydney College in 1993.