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Michael F. Meskill

Michael F. Meskill

Biography

Michael F. Meskill's practice focuses on securities, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance matters, and general corporate law. Mr. Meskill represents buyers and sellers in public and private M&A transactions, issuers and underwriters in public and private debt and equity offerings, and companies and special board committees in corporate governance matters.

Mr. Meskill is a certified public accountant in the State of Texas. Mr. Meskill was an auditor in the audit department of KPMG LLP from 1989 to 1993, where he was the "in-charge" auditor on numerous public and private company audit engagements.


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Representative Matters

  • represented a public healthcare and manufacturing company in its acquisitions of publicly-traded competitors

  • represented a public healthcare and manufacturing company in multiple acquisitions of urology services companies

  • represented a public company in the sale of its specialty vehicle manufacturing division

  • represented a public healthcare and manufacturing company in the sale of one of its healthcare services divisions

  • represented a software development and outsourcing services company in an initial public offering and a follow-on public offering and in multiple acquisitions of software development companies

  • represented an underwriter in the public stock offering of a defense contractor

  • represented a public energy company in its public spin-off of its exploration and production operations

  • represented a public bank holding company in a going-private transaction

  • represented a technology company in multiple acquisitions of high-tech companies

  • represented an investor in its acquisition of a significant stake in a public company and a related publicly-traded master limited partnership

  • represented a bank holding company in multiple public exchange offerings to acquire banks

  • represented a financial services company in multiple acquisitions of consumer finance companies

  • represented Native American tribal gaming corporations in Rule 144A bond offerings to raise proceeds to build hotels and casinos

  • represented various public and private companies in their capacity as borrowers under credit facilities

  • represented special committees of boards of directors of high-tech companies in their consideration of private equity offerings


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Organization Membership

Mr. Meskill is a member of the State Bar of Texas.

Community Involvement

Mr. Meskill is the Treasurer and a director of Open Door Preschools and serves on the Finance Council of St. Theresa Catholic Church.


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  • Michael F. Meskill
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Practice Areas
Education

B.B.A. Accounting , The University of Texas at Austin

J.D., cum laude, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law
  • Articles Editor, The International Lawyer

He served as a law clerk in 1994 to the Honorable William Sanderson, U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of Texas.
Bar Admissions

  • 1996, Texas
 
 
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