Alan Beck

Mr. Beck is a co-founder of Meridian and serves as Meridian’s General Counsel. Alan supports Meridian’s senior management team in fostering strategic alliances with certain key customers.

Prior to joining Meridian, Alan practiced corporate law with Vinson & Elkins in Houston, Texas for approximately 25 years. He represented companies across the energy industry, including working with members of Meridian’s management team in connection with Oiltanking Holdings Americas’ sale of Oiltanking Partners to Enterprise Products Partners and Moda Midstream’s sale of the Ingleside terminal and related assets to Enbridge.

Alan has extensive experience representing clients in a variety of transactional and corporate governance matters. His private practice included representation of public and private companies, investment banks, and private equity firms in connection with IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, and registered and private offerings of debt and equity securities. Prior representations included corporations, SPACs, master limited partnerships and alternative investment vehicles with significant experience across energy-related sectors. Alan also advised public companies regarding securities law and stock exchange compliance, and corporate governance matters.

Alan received his J.D. from the University of Texas Law School (where he was a member of the Texas Law Review) and he received a B.A. from Rice University. Following law school, Alan was a briefing attorney for Nathan L. Hecht, current Chief Justice on the Texas Supreme Court.