Current Employment Position(s)

Counsel

Lawyer Overview

Judy Gechman focuses her practice on corporate governance and corporate and securities law, including mergers and acquisitions and public and private debt and equity offerings. Her public company experience includes work with master limited liability companies and master limited partnerships. She prepares and reviews securities filings and annual meeting documentation; forms entities and structures, negotiates, documents and closes commercial transactions; handles stock and asset sales and acquisitions; negotiates and documents agreements, including agreements for joint ventures, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, shareholder, registration rights and distribution arrangements; and performs legal audits of corporate and business operations. She advises boards of directors and board committees on governance matters, fiduciary duty and conflicts issues.

Areas of Practice

• Business: Securities Offerings & Reporting
• Business: Mergers & Acquisitions
• Business: Corporate Governance
• Litigation: Antitrust & Trade Regulation
• Trade Regulation and Antitrust

Bar Admissions

• Texas, 1987

Education

• University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas, 1987
  J.D.
  Honors: cum laude
  Honors: Order of the Coif
  Honors: Order of the Barons
  
  Law Review: Houston Law Review, Associate Editor
• University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1972
  M.A.
• University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1970
  B.A.

Published Works

• Rescuing Cultural Treasures: The Need For an Incentive-Generating Doctrine, Univ. of Houston L.Rev., May, 1987
• Rescuing Cultural Treasures: The Need For an Incentive-Generating Doctrine, Law Review Digest
• Gaining Control, American Executive, June, 2005
• Interested Director Transactions at Texas Businesses, Executive Legal Adviser, October, 2004
• What Due Diligence is Necessary for Corporate Acquisitions, Houston Business Journal, 2001
• Airline Mating Dance Picks Up: Continental Prepares in Case it Must Choose, Houston Chronicle, November 26, 2006

Address

1000 Louisiana
Suite 2000
Houston, TX 77002-5009

Phones

(713) 646-1342

Faxes

(713) 751-1717

Emails

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Websites

http://www.bakerlaw.com