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Eric Swanson
Associate
Corporate
One Shell Plaza
910 Louisiana Street
Houston, Texas 77002-4995
United States of America
Phone: 713.229.1856
Fax: 713.229.7756
Education and Honors
J.D. (magna cum laude), Loyola University Chicago School of Law, 2005
Valedictorian
Member, Loyola University Chicago Law Journal

M.S., accounting, University of Houston, 2002

B.B.A., management, Sam Houston State University, 1998

Admissions and Affiliations

State Bar of Texas

Houston Bar Association

Houston Young Lawyers Association

Concentration

Securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and general corporate and securities matters

Summary

Eric Swanson represents public and private businesses in a broad range of corporate and securities matters. He represents issuers and investment banking firms in securities offerings, including initial public offerings and shelf registrations.

Mr. Swanson also counsels companies in mergers and acquisitions, Exchange Act reporting and general corporate and partnership matters.

Representative Engagements

Capital Markets
  • Edge Petroleum Corporation – $138 million public offering of common stock and $138 million public offering of convertible perpetual preferred stock
  • Lyondell Chemical Company – multiple tender offers and consent solicitations for an aggregate of approximately $1.6 billion of notes
  • Exterran Holdings, Inc. – tender offer and consent solicitation for $550 million of notes in connection with the stock-for-stock merger of equals (approximately $5 billion) between Universal Compression Holdings, Inc. and Hanover Compressor Company
  • Halliburton Company – $3 billion exchange offer split-off of its 81 percent interest in KBR, Inc.
  • KBR, Inc. – $544 million initial public offering
  • TEPPCO Partners, L.P. – $178 million public offering
  • RBC Capital Markets – $127 million initial public offering of BreitBurn Energy Partners, L.P.

Mergers and Acquisitions

  • Toshiba International Corporation – two private joint ventures
  • Universal Compression Holdings, Inc. – dropdown of assets to Universal Compression Partners, L.P.
  • U.S. Concrete, Inc. – $165 million acquisition of Alberta Investments, Inc. and Alliance Haulers, Inc.