Weil, Gotshal & Manges has added Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom energy partner and dealmaker Cody Carper in its Houston office. The firm said he’s the third partner hire in that office in the last five months, part of Weil’s “strategic plan” in the market.

Weil landed former Shearman & Sterling energy innovation head Omar Samji in mid-April of this year and former Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett energy and infrastructure partner Chris Bennett at the end of May.