Our Mergers & Acquisitions practice focuses on transactions involving public and private entities in a wide range of industries, from traditional "brick and mortar" to emerging high-tech fields. Our clients range from start-ups in the capital formation stage, to established business entities whose securities are traded on national securities exchanges.

We advise our clients in mergers, leveraged buyouts, acquisitions and dispositions of assets, stock sales and exchanges, roll-ups, recapitalizations and acquisitions and dispositions of equity and securities. This involves not only structuring and negotiating representations, warranties and indemnities, but also compliance with laws pertaining to ERISA, federal income tax, sales tax, the WARN (Plant Closing) Act and the Hart-Scott-Rodino Premerger Notification Act, among others.

Members of the Firm who concentrate on Mergers & Acquisitions include Larry Wilson, Kent Davis, Shay Johanson and Tony Newton.

• Represented a marine consulting and engineering firm in a $26,000,000 acquisition of an oil and gas project management and engineering services company.
• Represented a private measurement while drilling company in a $12,000,000 acquisition.
• Sale of stock of a coil tubing company to Allis Chalmers Energy, Inc. for $24,000,000.
• Leveraged buyout of an energy service division from its parent for $12,000,000.
• Acquisition by a private company of the transport refrigeration division of a public company.
• Sale of assets of a well stimulation equipment manufacturer to a large publicly traded energy services company for $63,000,000.
• Represented a private measurement while drilling company in a $120,000,000 merger with a publicly held special purpose acquisition company.
• Represented a private millwork company in a $10,000,000 credit facility with a private equity fund.
• Represented a private measurement while drilling company in a $90,000,000 recapitalization with a private equity fund.
• Represented a private food manufacturer in a $100,000,000 recapitalization with a private equity fund.
• Represented an alternative energy developer in a $6,000,000 acquisition of an equipment manufacturer.
• Represented a private equity fund in a $6,300,000 share exchange with a medical products company.
• Represented a private distributor of refrigeration equipment in a $4,000,000 acquisition of a refrigeration equipment distributor.
• Represented a mud logging services company in a $3,000,000 acquisition of a mudlogging, wellsite geological, hydrocarbon detection and mudlogging software sales company.
• Represented a mud logging services company in a $3,000,000 acquisition of a mudlogging services and analysis company.
• Represented a mud logging services company in a $2,000,000 acquisition of a South American mud logging-formation evaluation company.
• Represented a mud logging services company in a $6,400,000 acquisition with a international petroleum service company.
• Represented a private manufacturer and distributor of precision machine parts in a $19,000,000 sale to a multi-national conglomerate.
• Represented a marine consultancy and ocean engineering firm in a $26,000,000 acquisition of a oil and gas, project management, engineering services company.
• Represented an integrated safety strategies company in a $3,900,000 acquisition of a safety services company.
• Represented an integrated safety strategies company in a $3,500,000 acquisition of a comprehensive oil and gas safety services company.
• Represented a private distributor of commercial building products in a $10,500,000 sale to another private distributor.
• Represented a private measurement while drilling company in a $12,000,000 acquisition of a manufacturer of specialized oilfield drill bits and measurement while drilling tools.
• Represented a private measurement while drilling company in a $197,500,000 merger with a publicly held special purpose acquisition company.
• Represented a private holding company in a $32,000,000 acquisition of a Toyota dealership.
• Represented a private U.S. holding company in a $4,600,000 acquisition of Mexican telecommunications concession for a VOIP long distance carrier.
• Represented a private U.S. food service company in a master franchise agreement to expand into Mexico and the $12,000,000 sale of two franchises.
• Represented a private U.S. holding company in a $34,000,000 refinancing of a Mexican real estate development project.
• Represented a private equity company in a $6,000,000 acquisition of an equipment manufacturer of waste to energy equipment and a private placement of equity for the development of waste to energy facilities.
• Represented a publicly held broadcasting company in a $2,000,000 restructuring as a privately held entity.
• Represented a privately held auction house in the $2,300,000 sale of substantially all of its assets to a Mexican holding company.
• Represented the owners of a privately held steel processor in a $33,000,000 sale of stock to a national steel distributor.
• Represented a US Subsidiary of a European marine geotechnical engineering company in a $2,500,000 acquisition of the membership interests of a US geotechnical engineering company.
• Represented a newly formed entity in raising up to $12,500,000 in equity capital for the acquisition of oil and gas exploration leases.
• Represented a U.S. subsidiary of a public Norwegian oil and gas services company in a $10,000,000 reorganization acquisition of a blow-off preventer company.
• Represented a private ethanol blending and terminaling company in a $13,000,000 sale of a controlling interest in the company.
• Representation of Cabett Subsea in connection with the sale of the company to Parker Hannifin.
• The firm represented Nitrogen Specialty Company, L.L.C. in a $37.7 Million asset sale.
• The firm represented OMNI Laboratories, Inc. in connection with the structure, negotiation and consummation of a sale of all the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of OMNI Laboratories, Inc. to Weatherford International Ltd.
• The firm represented Multi-Shot, LLC, a leading independent directional drilling services company based in Conroe, Texas in effecting the execution of a Merger Agreement dated September 6, 2006, whereby Multi-Shot will merge into a wholly owned subsidiary of JK Acquisition Corp., a publically traded NASDAQ company based in Houston, Texas, for cash and stock merger consideration of $105.7 Million. The firm previously represented the purchasers of Multi-Shot from Black Warrior Wireline Corp., a publicly traded company in based in Columbus, Mississippi, for $11 Million in September 2004. The merger between Multi-Shot and JK Acquisition is scheduled to close in January 2007.
• Sale of a software telecommunications company to Golden Gate Capital.
• Divestiture of 70% of securities of a regional investment banking firm for approximately $13,000,000.
• Acquisition of the inventory, real estate and other assets of 22 Aire Liquide locations proving cylinder gases and welding supplies and negotiation of long-term filling and bulk gas purchase agreements.
• Numerous transactions involving the purchase and sale of lumber distribution and construction material companies in Florida, Texas, California and Virginia.