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Gulfport Energy Corp. reported that Patrick K. Craine has joined the Company as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary reporting to David M. Wood, President and Chief Executive Officer.
About Craine
Mr. Craine has over 20 years of extensive senior-level experience handling a broad range of securities, corporate, regulatory, governance, compliance and litigation matters, with particular expertise in the energy industry. He joins Gulfport from Chesapeake Energy Corporation where he served as Deputy General Counsel Chief Risk and Compliance Officer. Prior to joining Chesapeake, Mr. Craine was a partner with Bracewell LLP, a global law firm, where his practice focused on securities and corporate regulatory matters and investigations. Before Craine entered private practice, he served as a lawyer with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority where he held leadership positions in their Oil and Gas Task Forces.
Mr. Craine received his Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Wabash College, and his Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law.
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