Houston, Texas
- Dallas (Principal Office)
- (214) 780-1400
Marianne G. Robak
Marianne G. Robak
Partner
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717 Texas Ave.
27th Floor
Houston, Texas 77002
- State Bar of Texas
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas
- J.D., South Texas College of Law, 2004
- B.A., University of Arizona, History, 2001
- B.A., University of Arizona, Journalism, 2001
- Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America, 2025
- CREW Houston – premier business network in commercial real estate.
- Ally Energy Advisory board member, 2017 to present.
- Lean In Network Energy Board of Directors, 2018 to present.
- Chief – private membership network focused on connecting and supporting women executive leaders.
About Marianne G. Robak
Marianne’s practice focuses on resolving business disputes and uncovering corporate fraud in federal court, state court and in arbitration. She represents businesses, oil and gas companies, banks, real estate investors, trusts, and individuals. She has served as lead attorney on matters ranging from complex breach of contract claims, fraudulent transfers, partnership disputes, banking litigation, breach of fiduciary duties, bank fraud, trade secret violations, employment matters, real estate fraud and other property disputes. She has spent her career successfully participating in jury and non-jury trials, arbitrations, evidentiary hearings, complex summary judgments, and appeals.
In addition to her litigation practice, Ms. Robak also acts as outside general counsel for banks and small to medium-sized businesses throughout Texas assisting them with business transactions, negotiations, contracts and employment issues, as they arise.
Marianne graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in history and a degree in journalism. She attended law school at South Texas College of Law Houston. While in law school, she was selected to join its top-ranked moot court and mock trial teams, where she competed in five national advocacy tournaments. She and her teammates won STCL its 89th national moot court competition after her team presented oral arguments to a panel of justices for the Seventh Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals. Upon graduation, she was asked to join the National Order of the Barristers, which is a prestigious group of trial lawyers throughout the nation.
Marianne serves on the advisory board of Ally Energy, Inc. and is a member of the board of directors for Lean In Network Energy. Both organizations aim to create gender parity in the energy industry. She has participated in panels discussing the importance of equality in the workplace. She is a member of the Nottingham Country Elementary PTA and the Taylor High School PTA where she volunteers on various committees that help improve the school experience for students, teachers and parents. She has been the leader of her daughter’s girl scout troop since 2016.
In her personal time, Marianne enjoys traveling across the U.S., camping, and hiking with her husband and two children. Her family is on a mission to visit all 63 U.S. National Parks.
Representative Litigation Matters
- A bank that was accused by a bankruptcy trustee of being a recipient of fraudulently transferred assets.
- An oil and gas company in a dispute regarding the terms of a joint operating agreement that contained conflicting terms.
- A trustee in a dispute involving the theft and fraudulent transfer of the trust’s assets.
- A scrap metal company in dispute with an international exporter that miscalculated the weight of the materials in its invoices.
- An owner of a small company against another owner for breach of fiduciary duty and theft of the company’s assets.
- An non-operator against the operator of oil and gas production activities regarding whether revenues were being properly accounted for and distributed.
- A partnership dispute where one partner stole millions in profits from the other partner.
- A health care company in a dispute involving a fraudulent transfer of assets.
- Trust beneficiaries against an individual who borrowed money from the trust and refused to pay the Trust back, claiming insolvency.
- An oil and gas company in a dispute over the terms of a lease agreement.
- An individual involved in a contentious partnership dispute where the partners were 50/50 owners and needed to come to terms on winding up the business.
- Foreign real estate investors against a developer that absconded with their investment.
- An entity against an individual and his companies for fraudulently transferring their assets to avoid paying the entity.
- Various banks in their attempts to collect on promissory notes.
- A company against an individual that was misappropriating its trademark.
- Homeowners in a property dispute regarding their neighbor trespassing on their land.
Representative Transactional Matters
- A bank in transaction with potential borrowers to construct master planned communities.
- Reviewing and advising a bank that was conducting its due diligence before lending multi-millions of dollars to a business.
- A bank in transaction with entities to borrow funds to develop commercial properties.
- A company in transaction with an entity to purchase that entity’s assets.
- Private investors in negotiations with a business to purchase all of its assets.
- A small business in negotiations with a nationally known entity to provide services.
- An individual in transaction with a large media company.
- A small business purchasing the assets of another business.
- An individual in transaction with a media company regarding a license agreement.
- Forming various entities to be managed by a holding company that owns a construction business.
- A company in a merger and acquisition of another privately owned business.
- Negotiate and draft a lease agreement for a business.
Appellate Matters
- Texas Kidney, Inc. v. ASD Specialty Healthcare, Inc., 2014 WL 3002425 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th] 2014, no writ).
- Lousteau v. Noriega, 2016 WL 4537371(Tex. App.—Houston [1st Dist.] Aug. 30, 2016, pet. denied).
- BPX Operating Co. v. 1776 Energy Partners, LLC, 2021 WL 1894830 (Tex. App. May 12, 2021)
- In re Marathon Oil EF, 2021 WL 5066456 (Tex. App. Nov. 2, 2021)
