Andrews Kurth LLP

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For more than a century, Andrews Kurth LLP, an international law firm with 400 lawyers, has built its multidisciplinary practice on the belief that "straight talk is good business."

Real answers, clear vision and mutual respect permeate the firm’s success stories with clients, colleagues, communities and employees. Andrews Kurth embraces diversity and inclusion as a business imperative and an ethical responsibility. We strive to be a leader in the legal profession by building a high-performance team of diverse individuals to create a positive experience for our clients and our firm community.

With offices in Austin, Beijing, Dallas, Houston, London, New York, Research Triangle Park, The Woodlands and Washington, DC, Andrews Kurth represents an impressive list of global clients spanning multiple industries and areas of law.

Contributing authors from Andrews Kurth LLP:

Leasa Woods Anderson Associate Leasa is an Associate in the Litigation section of the Washington, D.C. office. Her practice focuses on Corporate Compliance, Investigations and Defense matters. Leasa...	Cameron Asby Associate Cameron is an Associate in the Litigation section of the Dallas office.
Bankruptcy and Restructuring Practice Group Andrews Kurth offers a sophisticated insolvency practice, representing creditors and debtors nationwide in large, complex bankruptcy cases. The Bankruptcy/Restructuring practice ranks...	Spencer C. Barasch Partner Spence is the leader of Andrews Kurth's corporate governance and securities enforcement team. He has extensive experience defending regulatory and government investigations and civil...
Jerry L. Beane Senior Partner Jerry Beane’s practice focuses on antitrust and commercial litigation. He has more than 42 years of experience defending federal and state antitrust cases and governmental...	Will S. Becker Will's practice focuses on federal income tax matters and Texas margin tax and sales and use tax matters, with an emphasis on real estate, asset securitization, corporate mergers and...
Alan Bickerstaff Partner Alan Bickerstaff is a Corporate and Securities partner who focuses on representing entrepreneurs and public and private emerging growth companies on formation, operations and corporate...	Peter Bogdanow Associate Peter’s practice focuses on transactional matters including mergers and acquisitions, venture capital transactions, private equity transactions, private equity fund formation,...
Paul M. Bohannon Most recently, Paul consulted with the Mongolian national government and various other corporate and individual stakeholders, designing a citizen participation program. At the request of...	Gerald L. Bracht Partner A member of the Litigation section, Gerald has extensive experience in defending corporations, officers and/or directors in securities and class action litigation, and counseling...
Jason S. Brookner Partner Jason's practice concentrates on transactional, restructuring and litigation matters, both in and out of court. Jason has broad experience representing debtors,...	Kay Lynn Brumbaugh Partner Kay Lynn represents clients in the areas of antitrust litigation and counseling, class actions, and other complex commercial and business litigation matters. She also represents clients...
Melinda Brunger Partner Melinda’s practice includes public offerings and mergers and acquisitions of public and private companies. In addition, she counsels clients on governance and Sarbanes-Oxley...	Peter Brunovskis, Ph.D. Patent Agent Peter has over 11 years experience in patent law together with 14 years molecular biology research experience. He has prepared and prosecuted U.S. and foreign patent applications in...
David C. Buck Partner David has an extensive corporate and securities law practice emphasizing transactional and governance matters. His corporate finance practice includes representing both issuers and...	L. Eden Burgess Associate Eden's practice focuses on general litigation matters and related issues, primarily in the areas of art, cultural property and museum law, intellectual property, environmental,...
Robert M. Collie, Jr. Partner Bob practices in the public law area. His focus is public finance, serving as bond counsel, disclosure counsel or underwriter's counsel in tax-exempt bond transactions for cities,...	David L. Concannon Partner David's practice includes significant experience in general corporate and securities work with an emphasis on capital markets, merger and acquisition and venture capital transactions...
Brett T. Cooke Associate Brett Cooke's practice covers all intellectual property matters, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. Brett's practice includes an emphasis on patent...	William J. Cooper Partner Bill’s practice includes (i) all types of capital markets transactions representing both issuers and underwriters, including IPOs and follow-on public equity...
Corporate Securities Practice Group For more than a century, Andrews Kurth lawyers have advised the companies, investors and business leaders who define global commerce and capital markets. Andrews Kurth’s Corporate...	Jeff C. Dodd Partner Corporate, Securities and Finance: experience in diverse domestic and international corporate transactions, including representing issuers and underwriters (and investment bankers) in...
Linda I. Dole Of Counsel Linda has specialized in private financing since 1978. Her transactional practice includes representation of banks, insurance companies and other institutional investors, and borrowers...	Gislar Donnenberg Partner Gislar’s primary practice focuses on corporate/securities transactions. Representing a broad range of both public & private companies, Gislar’s transaction experience...
EcoZone Blog Straight talk about various topics of environmental interest, rulemaking support, and climate change.	Aaron J. Epstein Associate Aaron is an associate in the Labor and Employment section in the Dallas office of Andrews Kurth. His practice focuses on all aspects of labor and employment matters facing domestic and...
Taylor P. Evans Associate Taylor focuses his practice on all areas of intellectual property, with an emphasis on patent prosecution, patent litigation, and various trademark and copyright issues. He has experience...	Quentin Faust Partner Quentin has a wide-ranging business law practice where he functions as outside general counsel to a variety of public and private corporations. On a daily basis he advises clients on...
Andrew Feiner Partner Andy has a general corporate tax practice, focusing on acquisitions, restructurings, inbound and outbound transactions, tax controversies and state tax matters. Representative...	Thomas W. Ford, Jr. Tom's practice includes experience in the federal income taxation of business transactions and business entities, including formations, mergers and securities offerings of...
Bradley W. Foster Partner Brad Foster represents clients in securities litigation and other complex business disputes. His experience includes securities class actions, mergers and acquisitions (M&A)...	Frederick S. Frei Senior Partner Fred Frei is an experienced IP litigator and specializes in patent litigation. He has been litigating IP cases for more than 35 years, has tried many patent cases and has first chaired...
Kathryn V. Garner Partner Kathryn provides tax expertise to the firm's public finance attorneys in connection with tax-exempt bond financings for cities, counties, school districts, higher education authorities...	J. Wiley George Partner Through the years, Wiley has resolved a wide variety of complex commercial disputes through trial, arbitration, motion practice and settlement. He has considerable first-chair experience...
Edward A. Gilman Partner Ted's practice includes corporate and securities law, predominantly in the context of entrepreneurial and emerging growth companies. Ted represents several publicly traded companies...	Kendall M. Gray Partner Kendall is a board certified civil appellate specialist who has represented clients in state and federal appellate courts such as the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the...
David P. Griffith Partner A partner in the firm's Litigation section, David focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation, securities and corporate disputes and commercial disputes (particularly...	Robert A. Gutkin Counsel Robert A. Gutkin is Counsel in the firm's Intellectual Property section. Bob has tried cases in state and federal courts before judges and juries, and participated in...
Mark W. Harris Partner Mark's practice focuses on corporate securities and finance, with an emphasis on representation of issuers, underwriters, sellers, servicers and other transaction participants in...	Dean W. Harvey Partner Dean’s practice focuses on technology and business process-related commercial transactions, such as outsourcing and licensing arrangements. He also assists clients in acquiring and...
James A. Hernandez Partner James practices in the public law area and also has experience in corporate and securities and real estate law. His focus in the public law area primarily has been in public finance,...	Ignacio Hirigoyen Associate Ignacio is an Associate in the Corporate/Securities section of the Dallas Office representing domestic and international clients. His practice focuses on a variety of general corporate...
Roscoe C. Howard, Jr. Partner Roscoe’s practice focuses on white-collar criminal matters, corporate compliance and ethics issues, and complex litigation. He has extensive experience in handling ...	David J. Hoyt Partner David advises investment banks and hedge funds on legal issues related to the purchase and sale of loans and securities of distressed and bankrupt companies, including bank debt, notes,...
Wei Wei Jeang Partner Wei Wei Jeang focuses on the procurement, licensing and enforcement of intellectual property, including patents, copyright, trademarks and trade secrets of high tech clients. She also...	Michael D. Jewesson Counsel Mike’s practice focuses on corporate securities and finance with an emphasis on the representation of borrowers, issuers, sellers, servicers, monolines, investors and lenders in...
Gregg Jones Partner Gregg has delivered tax opinions as bond counsel or special tax counsel in connection with financings for states, cities, counties, school districts and other political subdivisions. He has...	Katie Kane Associate Katie is an Associate in the Corporate section of the Dallas office.
Kelly L. Kasha Counsel Kelly’s practice focuses on the preparation and prosecution of patent applications in the areas of computer hardware and software, network and database management systems, and...	Marc D. Katz Partner Marc focuses his practice on management-side labor and employment litigation and counseling. His experience includes drafting, negotiating and litigating non-competition and...
Jerry V. Kyle, Jr. Partner Jerry practices in the public law area. With a focus in public finance, he serves as bond counsel or underwriters' counsel in tax-exempt bond transactions. Jerry has been active in...	Prisca LeCroy Associate Prisca focuses her practice on civil litigation with an emphasis on antitrust matters, employment disputes and appellate proceedings. Previously, Prisca clerked for the Honorable John M...
Eric R. Markus Partner Eric R. Markus is a partner in the firm's Corporate/Securities practice. Eric has a broad practice that encompasses complex corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions,...	Charles T. Marshall Partner Charlie focuses his national practice on real estate finance. His experience includes floating and fixed rate portfolio and CMBS financing; A/B and pari-passu loan structures;...
Peter K. McKee, Jr. Peter has extensive experience in: Commercial mortgage-backed securities, including representing loan sellers and issuers in representations and warranties compliance, disclosure, and...	Robert J. McNamara Robert’s principal area of practice is federal income tax law with an emphasis on domestic business transaction planning. He has significant experience advising publicly-traded...
Gail Merel Partner Gail practices in the corporate and securities and business transactions areas of the firm, with extensive experience in a variety of corporate transactions and a particular emphasis in...	Paul L. Mitchell Partner Paul has a broad litigation practice, with the primary focus of representing companies in the energy sector in commercial litigation, corporate investigations and related matters. In...
Meredith S. Mouer Partner Meredith has an extensive corporate and securities law practice that includes public and private equity and debt offerings, mergers and acquisitions, joint venture transactions, special...	Dudley W. Murrey Partner Dudley Murrey practices in numerous areas of corporate and securities law. He represents multinational companies and others in domestic, cross-border and international corporate...
Matthew G. Nielsen Partner Matthew Nielsen is a partner in the firm’s Corporate Compliance, Investigations and Defense practice group. Matthew's practice focuses on conducting internal...	Aldo Noto Partner Aldo is the chair of the intellectual property section. He practices in the area of domestic and international intellectual property rights, including patents, trade secrets,...
G. Michael O'Leary Partner Mike is a member of the Policy Committee and co-chair of the Corporate/Securities practice. Mike has an extensive corporate securities and mergers and acquisitions practice with...	Scott L. Olson Partner Scott practices in the firm's Corporate/Securities section. His experience includes public and private offerings of equity and debt securities as well as mergers and...
Dena Palermo Partner Dena Palermo’s litigation practice focuses on the trial of commercial cases and corporate investigations. Dena has extensive experience representing prominent individuals and...	Thomas R. Popplewell Partner Tom is experienced in real estate income tax matters, in structuring and implementation of U.S. and international asset securitization and in mergers and acquisitions of corporations. He...
Gregory L. Porter Partner Greg Porter has extensive experience representing and advising companies in all aspects of patent and trade secret law, including acting as lead counsel in successful jury trials and...	William L. Rivers Of Counsel Bill’s practice includes representing private equity and hedge funds; representing companies receiving investment capital or debt financing; advising clients regarding choice of...
Kent W. (Rocky) Robinson Partner Rocky Robinson is a partner of the firm and practices in the litigation area. His practice focuses on complex commercial and business litigation and arbitration. He has tried more than 50...	Kenneth L. Rothenberg Partner Ken advises investment banks, broker-dealers and hedge funds on legal issues related to the purchase and sale of domestic and international par and distressed assets, including primary...
Robin Russell Partner Robin Russell Partner Robin Russell's practice combines a depth of experience in bankruptcy restructuring and litigation with financial transaction work. She represents...	Thomas A. Sage Partner Tom counsels both issuers and underwriters in almost every aspect of tax-exempt financing and infrastructure development. Tom emphasizes his practice in the realm of school finance,...
Kelly Sandill Partner Kelly’s practice focuses on complex business litigation and white collar criminal defense. On the civil side, she has successfully represented public and private sector clients on a...	Patrick C. Sargent Partner Pat's practice focuses on structured finance, corporate securities and business transactions, including extensive experience in securitization of diverse asset types, collateralized...
Jeffrey B. Schwarcz Associate Jeff's practice focuses on federal income taxation and state and local taxation of corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies. Jeff advises multinational and domestic...	Michele P. Schwartz Partner Michele’s practice focuses on intellectual property with an emphasis on trademarks, copyrights, trade dress, advertising, unfair competition, rights of publicity and domain names....
Lisa Montgomery Shelton Lisa's practice focuses on environmental, health and safety counseling, compliance and liability. She has extensive experience analyzing environmental, health and safety issues associated...	Paul N. Silverstein Partner Paul Silverstein is a member of the firm's Executive Committee, a member of the Policy Committee and co-chair of the Bankruptcy/Restructuring practice. Paul's practice includes...
John J. Sparacino Partner John dedicates the majority of his practice to bankruptcy and related matters including bankruptcy litigation, receiverships and out-of-court restructurings throughout the United...	Linda R. Stahl Partner Linda Stahl is a litigation partner practicing complex commercial litigation, a member of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee and the Pro Bono Coordinator for the Dallas Office. Linda...
Kathleen Tarbox Associate Kathleen is an Associate in the Business Transactions section of the Dallas office.	Cristina I. Torres Associate Cristina Torres represents clients in federal and state courts as well as before administrative agencies in disputes and allegations concerning labor and employment laws and regulations....
John J. Tucker Associate John practices in the area of commercial real estate, with a focus on commercial mortgage loan originations, securitizations, workouts and restructuring, mezzanine and subordinate...	Jerry E. Turner Partner Jerry has over 34 years of experience in public finance and has served as senior attorney in connection with the representation of various public clients, including state agencies,...
Karen J. Wade Associate Karen practices in a wide range of general business, corporate, franchise, securities, real estate and real estate-based finance matters. She has extensive experience in the...	Ping Wang, M.D. Partner Dr. Wang’s practice focuses on all aspects of intellectual property law, including patent prosecution, patent interference and patent litigation. Dr. Wang has drafted, filed and...
J. Roger Williams, Jr. Counsel Roger’s practice focuses on intellectual property (IP) and business litigation. Roger’s IP and technology practice includes advice and counseling, procurement, licensing and...	Rick A. Witte Partner Rick practices in the public law area. His focus is public finance, serving as bond counsel, bank counsel, disclosure counsel or underwriters' counsel in tax-exempt bond transactions...
Sean S. Wooden Partner Sean’s practice focuses on advising clients on their intellectual property needs (including patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets) and other areas of law related to...	Michael Xuehai Ye, Ph.D. Associate Michael’s practice area is intellectual property, especially in the fields of biotechnology, chemistry, bioinformatics, pharmaceuticals and medical devices. He works directly with...
Victor B. Zanetti Partner Vic has a broad corporate and securities practice that focuses on a variety of matters. Vic has extensive experience in M&A transactions (for both buyers and sellers), including...	David A. Zdunkewicz Partner David's practice includes workouts and commercial bankruptcy proceedings in a wide range of industries. He has represented debtors, secured creditors, and individual creditors as well...

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