Rey Flores

Rey Flores represents clients in complex commercial and construction disputes and wrongful death and catastrophic injury matters across the country and internationally.  His representations span a variety of business sectors including the oil and gas, construction, petrochemical, heavy equipment, healthcare, building materials, automation, and retail industries.

Rey’s current and recent cases include the following representative matters:

• Obtained a take-nothing defense verdict for his client, a Fortune 500 global company, in an engineering, procurement, and construction dispute in which the plaintiff sought $289 million in damages relating to the Olmeca Refinery in Dos Bocas, Tabasco, Mexico, a flagship project for the Mexican government being administered by Mexico’s Energy Ministry (SENER).
• Currently representing a major refining company in two separate lawsuits brought by former executives and their family members arising from their arrest and detention by a foreign government with over $500 million at stake between the two cases.
• Currently representing a Fortune 500 company in pipeline easement dispute involving claims of trespass, conversion, tortious interference, and nuisance with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake.
• Currently representing a global oilfield services company in an action alleging violation of non-competition and non-disclosure agreements, misappropriation of trade secrets, tortious interference, fraud, and conspiracy claims and seeking over $100 million in damages along with permanent injunction.
• Currently representing a Fortune 500 petrochemical company in a breach of contract and declaratory judgment action in Delaware relating to a chemical supply agreement.
• Successfully represented one of the country’s largest healthcare providers in matter alleging anti-trust, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duties, and tortious interference claims.
• Successfully represented a spoolable pipe company and one of the largest automotive repair companies in the country in actions alleging misappropriation of trade secrets, tortious interference, breach of employment agreements and fiduciary duties, and conspiracy.
• Successfully represented a healthcare executive in related litigation in Delaware and Illinois involving the purported cancellation of vested equity shares and breach of contract and non-compete claims.
• Successfully represented an oil and gas exploration and production company in a multi-party matter involving the release of hydrochloric acid at the company’s wellsite.
• Successfully represented a nationwide retailer in a hybrid FLSA collective action with multiple analogous state-law class actions and compelled over 150 named and opt-in plaintiffs to arbitration.

Among Rey’s clients are some of the largest foreign companies in the world and some of the largest U.S. companies operating internationally.  Examples of his cross-border dispute experience include the following:

• Obtained a take-nothing defense verdict for his client, a Fortune 500 global company, in an engineering, procurement, and construction dispute in which the plaintiff sought $289 million in damages relating to the Olmeca Refinery in Dos Bocas, Tabasco, Mexico, a flagship project for the Mexican government being administered by Mexico’s Energy Ministry (SENER).
• Currently representing a major refining company in two separate lawsuits brought by former executives and their family members arising from their arrest and detention by a foreign government with over $500 million at stake between the two cases.
• Obtained a take-nothing verdict for one of the largest refining companies in the world in an engineering, procurement, and construction case involving a project in Venezuela that implicated complex contractual and geopolitical issues and sanctions administered by the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.
• Obtained a $30 million judgment for an international terminal company related to the construction of a subsea pipeline in the Caribbean.
• Obtained a multimillion-dollar judgment for an international construction materials company arising out of financing arrangements relating to material supply agreements.
• Part of a team that successfully represented a liquified natural gas company in an international arbitration seated in London under the ICC rules.
• Represented an affiliate of a national oil and gas company in a contractual dispute arising out of an import-export agreement.

Additionally, Rey frequently defends clients against wrongful death, survival, and catastrophic injury claims in state and federal courts.  Examples of his experience with these types of cases include the following:

• Currently representing a major refining company in lawsuits with over $100 million at stake arising from a refinery accident resulting in burn injuries to multiple plaintiffs.
• Obtained summary judgment in federal court for a Fortune 100 oil and gas exploration and production company against wrongful death and survival claims arising from an offshore platform incident implicating California state law and the federal Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.
• Obtained dismissal of claims in Louisiana state court in a wrongful death and survival action on behalf of an industrial services company arising out of a fatality at a Louisiana refinery.
• Obtained summary judgment in Texas state court for a national heavy equipment manufacturer in a catastrophic injury case arising out of an industrial workplace accident.
• Obtained dismissal of claims in federal court for an industrial equipment manufacturer in a catastrophic injury case arising out of a workplace accident.
• Obtained summary judgment in Texas state court for an international oilfield services provider in a case alleging gross negligence arising out of a death at a wellsite in West Texas.
• Retained following the close of discovery to represent a refinery client at trial in a multi-plaintiff catastrophic injury case arising from a refinery fire, which settled on favorable terms within weeks of AZA’s entry.
• Successfully represented a global oil and gas service company in a wrongful death and survival action arising out of a commercial motor vehicle accident.
• Successfully represented a Fortune 100 refining company in a catastrophic injury matter arising out of crude cargo unloading and dock operations.
• Currently representing multiple oil and gas service companies in catastrophic injury actions arising out of commercial motor vehicle accidents.

Rey is a Dean’s List graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and an Honors graduate of the University of Texas School of Law.  Before joining AZA, Rey served on active duty in the U.S. Army as an Armor and JAG Corps officer.  He received numerous awards for his military service including the Bronze Star for exemplary service in combat in Iraq.

Rey’s prior litigation experience includes work as both a prosecutor and criminal defense attorney, as a Special Prosecutor for the State of Texas, and as lead defense counsel in various high-profile cases with significant national security implications.

Rey is a Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation, an honor reserved for 1/3 of 1 percent of Texas attorneys, is a member of the Calvert Inn of Court in Austin, is on the Advisory Board of the Hispanic Bar Association of Houston, and serves on Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher’s Service Academy Nomination Panel.