John McMullan has joined Winstead as a shareholder in The Woodlands office, where he is in the firm’s energy law practice. Among other things, he focuses on buying and selling oil and gas assets and developing, constructing and financing gas, petrochemical and power projects.

New Texas partners in Alston & Bird are Michael D. Jewesson and Karen J. Wade, both in the Dallas office and members of the firm’s finance group.