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Akin Offices

2300 N. Field Street
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Dallas, TX 75201-2481
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Wesley Williams

Work Department
Partner, Private Equity: Buyouts; Corporate M&A; Energy: Oil & Gas
Position
Wes Williams has more than two decades of experience structuring complex transactions across the oil & gas space, with a particular emphasis on upstream and midstream transactions. He also represents private equity sponsors and public and private companies in M&A transactions, joint ventures, equity and debt financings, other complex business transactions and SEC compliance.
In addition, Wes advises private investment fund sponsors in structuring and forming private equity investment funds and oil and gas resource and minerals funds. He also counsels public companies in connection with public equity and debt offerings, corporate governance, SEC reporting, and general securities compliance.
Wes is the co-head of Akin’s energy practice, and previously served as the firmwide corporate and securities practice leader at a prior firm.
To learn more about Wes, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/wesley-p-williams
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government relations
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- International trade and national security > Trade remedies and trade policy
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Industry focus > Education
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Industry focus > Native American law
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Government > Government contracts
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Finance > Project finance
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Industry focus > Sport
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism