Andy Hicks

Experience

1. Partner

   Hicks Johnson Pllc

   Jun 2007 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   Notable experience includes: ENERGY • Represented client in a $200 million expert determination concerning the construction of a gas processing plant in west Texas and the execution of a Gas Treatment and CO2 Delivery Agreement • Represented plaintiffs in a usurpation of corporate opportunity and theft of trade secrets case, seeking damages of $168 million • Represented energy industry client in a $100 million-plus domestic arbitration concerning the propriety of amounts charged by the operator under the parties’ joint operating agreement • Representing major oil company in several audit disputes concerning amounts charged by the operator under the parties’ joint operating agreement. • Represented major oil company in a dispute with LNG import facility regarding interpretation of our client’s long-term Terminal Usage Agreement;$400 million dispute was favorably resolved through pre-arbitration negotiations HEALTHCARE • Represented a Houston-based hospital against a national health insurer seeking to recover $15 million in claims payments for emergency care • Represented a publicly traded healthcare company in a fraud and breach of contract action against the financial advisory firm that took the company public • Defended a hospital against claims brought by a health insurer seeking the disgorgement of approximately $20 million in claims paid due to allegedly improper coding of claims • Represented a freestanding emergency department in a dispute with a health insurer regarding underpayment of claims, simultaneously defending against insurer’s claim of improper coding and violations of Texas law OTHER MATTERS • Represented a claimant in international arbitration involving a breach of contract action concerning employee benefit management services • Represented a commercial real estate company in a domestic arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association in a professional negligence and breach of contract claim

Education

• University of Oklahoma

  Bachelor’s Degree, Political Science

  1994 — 1998

• University of Chicago Law School

  J.D.

  1998 — 2001