Representative Matters

Represented an enhanced oil recovery technology company in connection with private equity investments and capital formation.

Represented a collision repair business in its sale to a national private equity firm as part of their initial platform acquisition.

Representation of transportation authority on the drafting and negotiation of lease to local governmental corporation and related agreements of approximately 30 miles of rail-banked corridor for purposes of development of trail system.

Represented refinery services company that sells proprietary products and services to petroleum and chemical refineries globally in a lawsuit against a group of contractors that misappropriated our client’s proprietary products and services. After successfully securing discovery from refineries in foreign countries confirming the facts supporting our client’s claims, the matter settled with our client receiving every dollar of lost sales and effectively ending the former contractor’s attempts to establish a competing company.

Routinely represented a national bank in many aspects of creditor rights law, including the enforcement of loan documents and collection claims.

Represented shareholder in buyout of remaining shareholder in the commercial paving industry.

Represented purchaser of approximately 17.8 acres of land in Harris County for industrial development, which included securing construction financing

Represented a Houston based design and architectural millwork company in the $25,000,000 sale of its operating assets to a publicly traded company

Represented Better Bags, Inc. (a distributor of plastic bags used in the supermarket industry) in the sale of substantially all of its assets to Hercules Poly, Inc.

Sale of certain assets related to design, manufacture and sale of water treatment products and operation of water treatment services for the oil and gas industry.

Lead counsel for Blackline Partner in connection with the formation of a joint venture with Artemis Real Estate to develop the Blackline Cold Storage facility

Successfully defended a national manufacturer-distributor in an EEOC proceeding brought by former employee claiming sexual harassment and gender discrimination relating to a manager’s sex based comments. The matter settled on very favorable terms for the employer after an extensive EEOC investigation that included multiple on-site interviews of employees and review of company records.

Majority recapitalization of a monitored security business by a private equity-controlled investor

Preparation of restrictive covenants for master-planned mixed-use communities in Dallas-Fort Worth region, including various subordinate restrictive covenants and condominium documentations.

Private placement of debt and equity securities for a manufacturer of waste water processing equipment and developer of facilities to convert municipal waste water biosolids into a renewable energy source.

Won a unanimous jury verdict of $1.3 million on behalf of two former partners of an accounting firm based on the accounting firm’s failure to pay amounts owed to the partners following their separation from the firm, including amounts owed to them for the repurchase of their shares of stock in the accounting firm.   The jury also unanimously rejected a counterclaim filed by the accounting firm in which the firm sought more than $750,000 in damages based on alleged breaches of non-compete provisions, confidentiality provisions, and buy-sell provisions of the partner’s employment agreements which would have required the former partners to pay the firm for any clients that left with the former partners.