Bracewell LLP’s M&A team specializes in handling stock sales and exchanges, management and leveraged buyouts, and joint ventures on behalf of international financial institutions and energy companies. Based out of Houston, William Anderson and Charles Still, Jr. co-head the outfit and bring significant expertise in SEC compliance and corporate governance matters to the practice, whilst Troy Harder primarily focuses on corporate finance transactions. Jason Jean is an expert on transactions in the upstream and midstream energy sector, Lytch Gutmann is knowledgeable on stock and asset purchases and sales, while Benjamin Martin is noted for his expertise in the private equity space.
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Key clients
- Allegiance Bank
- Arroyo Energy Investment Partners, LLC
- Cactus, Inc.
- Driftwood Energy Operating, LLC
- Financial Advisor to Board of Directors of Crestwood
- Financial Advisor to Conflicts Committee of Green Plains Partners LP
- Kinder Morgan, Inc.
- MB Minerals, L.P.
- Phillips 66
- Prosperity Bancshares, Inc.
- Sabalo Energy LLC
- Sable Offshore Corp.
- Sixth Street Partners
- Talos Low Carbon Solutions LLC
- Titus Oil & Gas, LLC
Work highlights
- Represented Allegiance Bancshares, Inc., parent company of Allegiance Bank, in a merger of equals with CBTX, Inc.
- Advised Houston-based Cactus, Inc. in its $621m acquisition of FlexSteel Technologies Holdings, Inc. and its affiliates.
- Advised Talos Low Carbon Solutions on its development of various Gulf Coast carbon capture and sequestration projects along the US Gulf Coast including the project offshore Jefferson County, Texas.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
William Anderson, Charles Still Jr.