Aaron Roffwarg is the head of Bracewell & Giuliani’s firm-wide Real Estate and Infrastructure practice group and represents and counsels clients in transactions that involve real estate and construction projects, including synthetic lease and sale-leaseback transactions, complex midstream oil and gas projects; pipelines and terminals used to transport oil, gas and other petroleum products, and merchant electric generation facilities. He can be reached at aaron.roffwarg@bgllp.com.
In the wake of President Barack Obama’s announcement that his administration would not support the Keystone XL Pipeline, it is constructive to remember that another Washington influence is already impacting pipeline development in Texas.