Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Don Brodsky focuses his practice on federal securities laws matters, concentrated on serving as long-term outside general counsel to NYSE-listed companies, particularly in the oil and gas exploration and production industry. He has extensive experience with a wide range of public and private offerings of debt and equity securities; continuing SEC reporting and compliance; public and private mergers, acquisitions, exchange offers, reorganizations and asset purchases; going private transactions; public and private investment partnership formation and operations; initial public offerings; and corporate governance, conflict of interest and executive compensation issues.

Mr. Brodsky often has represented clients in structuring business arrangements unique to the oil and gas industry, along with issues involving oil and gas full cost accounting rules, independent petroleum engineering reports and compensation based upon industry performance measures. He has structured and organized over 100 public and private oil and gas partnerships, including their fund-raising, asset purchases, liquidation and deregistration.

Mr. Brodsky also has done substantial work counseling clients in the healthcare industry, especially physician-owned outpatient entities.

Over the past three years Mr. Brodsky has been named among:

Between 2004 and 2007, Mr. Brodsky served as the head of the nationwide corporate and securities practice group of Jenkens & Gilchrist. He has also been involved in numerous leadership positions in charitable and civic organizations on both a local and national level.

Areas of Practice

• Business: Securities Offerings & Reporting
• Business: Mergers & Acquisitions
• Business: Corporate Governance
• Energy
• Healthcare

Bar Admissions

• Texas, 1973
• U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Society of Hospital Attorneys (Member)
• Federal Bar Association (Member)

Honors and Awards

• The Best Lawyers in America
• Who's Who in America
• Texas Super Lawyers—Securities & Corporate Finance
• Corporate Counsel—Best Lawyers—Corporate, M&A and Securities Law

Past Employment Positions

• Jenkens & Gilchrist, Head of the Nationwide Corporate and Securities Practice Group, 2004 - 2007

Education

• The University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas, 1973
  J.D.
  
  Law Review: University of Texas Law Review, Member, 1972 - 1973
• Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1970
  B.A.

Address

1000 Louisiana
Suite 2000
Houston, TX 77002-5009

Phones

(713) 646-1335

Faxes

(713) 751-1717

Emails

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Websites

http://www.bakerlaw.com