Professionals

Rob Reedy is the managing partner of Porter Hedges and a partner in the corporate practice group. He is involved in a wide variety of corporate, securities and merger/acquisition transactions. Mr. Reedy’s practice focuses on public companies and emerging privately held entities that are building their business through acquisitions and financings such as public offerings and private equity transactions. In many cases, he coordinates all of the legal work for his clients as they build their businesses, acting as an advisor and “de facto” general counsel to them in that process.

Mr. Reedy’s current clients include businesses involved in energy exploration, production, service and transmission, alternative energy, technology, biotech and manufacturing/distribution of a variety of products. Mr. Reedy also represents several investment banking firms who specialize in public and private securities offerings for companies in all phases of the energy industry. He has extensive experience in:

• initial public offerings
• secondary public offerings of equity and debt securities
• mergers, acquisitions and dispositions of public and private entities
• private equity fund acquisitions/divestitures
• formation, structuring and financing of new ventures
• joint venture and partnership formations and financings
• venture capital transactions
• leveraged recapitalizations
• preparation of SEC filings of all types
• executive employment agreements and compensation
• corporate governance and Sarbanes-Oxley requirements
• board and board committee issues

Mr. Reedy has been included in The Best Lawyers in America in the area of corporate law since 2009 and has been selected for inclusion in Texas Super Lawyers in Securities/Corporate Finance Law since 2003. In 2008, Mr. Reedy was named in Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition in the area of Securities and Corporate Finance.

• Represented underwriters of an exploration and production company's $250 Million IPO focused on exploration, acquisition, and development of oil and natural gas resources in the Eagle Ford shale.
• Acquisition of assets from a public oil and gas company for $800 million using private equity and bank financing.
• Sale of Marcellus midstream assets to a private equity fund.
• Recapitalization and subsequent sale of a publicly traded energy exploration company, including private equity offerings, Rule 144A debt offering and new credit facilities.
• Multiple public offerings and acquisitions for publicly held waste company including a $1.5 billion acquisition of an industry competitor and related debt financings.
• Multiple public offerings of equity and high yield securities for energy companies involved in upstream and midstream industries.
• Representation of several investment banking firms in IPO and secondary public offerings by exploration and production and energy service companies.
• Creation of new entity to build a power plant financed by revenue bonds and private equity.
• Private placements of equity for a variety of companies, including a public oil and gas company, a Texas-based retail energy provider, an owner of a synthetic gas technology, a startup telecommunications company and a natural gas compression company.
• Formation of new midstream energy companies funded by private equity sponsors.
• IPOs, secondary offerings and private placements for several Houston-based biotechnology companies.
• Initial public offering, Nasdaq listing and private placements for a coal gasification company.
• Representation of a coal gasification company in Chinese investment transactions.
• Licensing, research and development and partnership agreements for biotechnology companies to in-license or out-license technology.
• Representation of equity sponsors in “buy and build” transactions.

• Martindale Hubbell AV Rated
• American Bar Association, Section on Corporations, Banking and Business Law, Member
• State Bar of Texas, Business Law Section and Subcommittees on Investment Banking and Securities, Member
• Alley Theatre, President of the Board and Board Member