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Our banking attorneys work seamlessly with our mergers and acquisitions, private equity, corporate restructuring, capital markets and structured finance practices to provide the cutting edge and highest quality advice to our clients in all types of financing transactions. We advise investment grade issuers, highly leveraged issuers, cross-over issuers, distressed issuers, public companies, private companies, and private equity clients and their portfolio companies across a wide range of industries.

We advise middle market clients on the full range of complete spectrum of equity, debt and hybrid instruments issued by U.S public and private financings.

Our firm assists clients to obtain both state and federal economic incentives for development projects, prepare clients for government contracting, advises prime contractors and subcontractors on government contracts matters including contract negotiation, researching, and identifying specific federal and state incentives that will benefit clients and assist clients in applying for these economic incentives, prepare clients for federal and state audits, government investigations, compliance, maintaining required disclosures. We advise and prepare clients to obtain FAR-based contracts, grants and other state and federal financial assistance. Our firm has extensive experience working with clients seeking relocation or development in Texas to secure sites and economic incentives through the Texas Governor’s Office of Economic Development, including preparing the requests, and compliance with conditions of these incentives.

We are a go-to firm for commercial litigation. We have extensive experience with complex matters, and we have the ability to handle our clients’ most critical litigation issues. Our firm can rapidly assemble a focused, integrated, and efficient team to address all important aspects of a client’s problem and to handle numerous cases in multiple jurisdictions and forums.

Our team has handled transactions of all kinds involving middle market transactions. We are conversant with the wide variety of legal, financial, tax, regulatory, and commercial issues these transactions present. Our experience includes acquisitions, carve-outs, minority investments, management buyouts, restructurings, joint ventures, and capital markets transactions.

We advise private equity to sponsor at all stages of the investment cycle, including fund formation, management incentive plans, financings and refinancings, bolt-on investments, management change, recaps, and corporate restructurings and exits. Experience with strategic and financial sponsor-led M&A, including tax, restructuring, capital markets, employment, and regulatory issues. Provides advice on the formation and ongoing operations of funds and the companies organized to sponsor and manage them. We have structured numerous U.S. and offshore private equity funds and funds of funds.

We advise clients on the full array of complex issues throughout the industry. We represent a wide variety of clients including developers, lenders, investment banks, pension funds, real estate investment trusts (REITs), private equity funds, investors, and major corporations.

Our focus is on the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the National Basketball (NBA) and the National Football League (NFL) as well as individual professional teams and their owners, in general litigation, player disputes, mergers, acquisitions, stadium financings, venue leases, corporate financings and project finance work, licensing transactions, sponsorship agreements, real estate, intellectual property, corporate, labor, insurance, player health safety, anti-doping and league governance issues.