Josh Davidson was a Partner at Baker Botts for more than 30 years and was the long-time head of the firm's Capital Markets practice. Upon reaching retirement age at the end of 2024, he transitioned to the role of Senior Counsel. He is nationally recognized for his experience in public offerings, mergers and acquisitions and conflicted transactions involving master limited partnerships and other alternative entities such as YieldCos and royalty trusts.
Over his career, he has participated in many hundreds of public offerings of a wide range of securities, including common and preferred stock, MLP common units, investment grade and high yield debt and royalty trust units. He has worked on at least 70 initial public offerings as well as many liability management transactions, including debt and equity tender and exchange offers. Josh’s clients have included virtually all the principal investment banks over the years as well as numerous companies and stockholders. Josh has broad experience in the energy industry, including upstream, midstream, downstream and renewable energy.
Josh has also represented issuers, boards of directors and conflicts committees and financial advisors in public M&A transactions, including going private transactions, as well as MLP simplifications, restructurings, corporate conversions, asset dropdowns, third party asset acquisitions, restructurings, tender offers and proxy filings.
Capital Markets
Mergers & Acquisitions (including MLP Simplifications)
Listed by Chambers USA as Band 1 for Capital Markets: Debt & Equity (Central Region/Texas), 2003-2025
Recognized as a “Global Elite Thought Leader” for Capital Markets - Debt & Equity and recommended for Energy and Mining by The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, Business Research Ltd, 2008-2022
Recognized as a “Texas Super Lawyer” and a “Top Rated Securities & Corporate Finance Attorney”, (Thomson Reuters), 2004-2023
Ammys “Hall of Fame”, Class of 2020 inductee, Alerian
Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, (Woodward/White Inc.), 2006-2024
Recommended as a “Leading Lawyer” for Energy Transactions in The Legal 500 U.S., 2011-2023
Dealmaker of the Week, The American Lawyer, October 31, 2014