Rich Frazier
Managing Counsel
TotalEnergies (US)
Rich Frazier is an attorney at TotalEnergies, a leading global energy company. He specializes in transactions, negotiation, and special projects, with a focus on purchase and sale agreements, joint operating agreements, and contractual infrastructure and design for new entities, including supply chain contracts, oil and gas leases, seismic agreements, and confidentiality agreements.
Mr. Frazier currently serves as the manager of the Corporate legal department, which includes responsibility for legal operations, corporate governance and services, and intellectual property.
His practice is a cross-company practice, with responsibilities ranging from offshore wind to Barnett shale operations to aviation fuels. His most recent work has been related to the TotalEnergies Renewables portfolio, focusing on offshore wind SPVs and projects. Mr. Frazier also served as the lead attorney for the integration and transition of TotalEnergies’s acquisition of Oxy/Anadarko’s African assets, an $8.8 billion transaction.
Before TotalEnergies, Mr. Frazier worked as Senior Counsel at LINN Energy, handling upstream and midstream transactional, pre-litigation, and bankruptcy issues.
Mr. Frazier began his legal career as an Associate in the Global Projects department at Baker Botts in Houston where he provided transactional advice to domestic and international clients.
Mr. Frazier graduated from the University of Texas with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and a Master in Professional Accounting. He earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago. He has three children, all of whom are his favorite.
