Biography
Cale McDowell is a partner in Jackson Walker’s Corporate & Securities group and a member of its Mergers & Acquisitions, Fund Formation, Private Equity, International and Real Estate practices. Cale represents public and private companies, investor groups and investment fund sponsors in a broad array of engagements, including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, the structuring and formation of investment funds, joint ventures and other entities, offerings of debt and equity securities and general corporate governance, securities and transactional matters.
Cale’s clients include private equity funds, private real estate investment funds, public and private real estate investment trusts, hedge funds and family offices, as well as large publicly traded operating companies, privately held companies and startup ventures in a wide variety of industries.
Cale is involved in both domestic and international transactions, including the representation of U.S. clients in significant cross-border transactions in the British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cayman Islands, Cyprus, Germany, India, Iraq, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Singapore, South Korea and Switzerland.
Education
B.B.A., Finance, University of Texas at Austin
M.P.A., University of Texas at Austin
J.D., University of Texas School of Law
Bar Admissions
Texas, 2009
Rising Star, Super Lawyers – Rising Stars by Thomson Reuters, 2014-2019
- Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce
- General Counsel
- Board of Directors
- Executive Committee
- University Federal Credit Union
- Board of Directors
- Past Chairman, Supervisory Committee
- UT Austin, School of Undergraduate Studies
- Chairman of the Advisory Council
- Founding Member
- Charles T. McDowell Center for Critical Languages and Area Studies, University of Texas at Arlington, Advisory Board Member
- Vice Provost Search Committee, UT Austin, 2014
- Dean Search Committee, School of Undergraduate Studies, UT Austin, 2012
- Texas Coalition for Excellence in Higher Education, Founding Member
- Council of the Texas Exes
- University of Texas Libraries, Advisory Council Member
- Thomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas, Advisory Council Member
- University of Texas System Chancellor’s Council
- University of Texas Development Board