Mr Mike Bengtson > Baker Botts L.L.P. > Austin, United States > Lawyer Profile
Baker Botts L.L.P. Offices
98 SAN JACINTO BOULEVARD
SUITE 1500
AUSTIN, TEXAS 78701-4078
TEXAS
United States
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Mr Mike Bengtson
Work Department
Corporate
Position
Senior Counsel
Career
Mike Bengtson represents business clients in a variety of transactional and other corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures and capital formation transactions. Within the energy industry, he has represented companies and investors in structuring and documenting upstream, midstream and downstream acquisitions and divestitures, joint development transactions and commercial arrangements. His energy M&A experience includes transactions involving upstream and midstream assets located in domestic resource plans, and domestic and international onshore and offshore exploration areas. He has represented both funds and companies in private equity investments. He also has extensive experience with capital markets transactions (including IPOs), and in the life sciences and technology industries.
While a senior partner he held a number of key management roles, including Chair of the firmwide Corporate Department (7 yrs), Executive Committee member (6 yrs), Chair of the Partner Admissions Committee (3 yrs) and Head of Partner Lateral Recruitment (4 yrs).
BTI Consulting named Mr. Bengtson to its “Client Service All-Stars” list. This recognition highlights lawyers who are selected by general counsels on the criteria that they exhibit “superior client focus, innovative thought leadership, unmatched business understanding, legal skills, outsized value and outstanding results” and “stand above all others in client service.”
Languages
English
Memberships
State Bar of Texas
New York State Bar
Education
J.D., Arizona State University College of Law 1984
magna cum laude
Order of the Coif
Editor, Arizona State Law Journal
B.S., Accounting & Business Administration, University of Kansas 1980
with highest honors
Lawyer Rankings
United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
Demonstrating notable strength in the TMT, energy and natural resources segments, the Baker Botts L.L.P. M&A team works with a broad spectrum of industry leaders in a variety of big-ticket domestic and cross-border transactions. The practice, which is rated for its ‘high partner availability‘, is under the joint leadership of Texas-based Mike Bengtson and Samantha Crispin, the latter of whom brings more than two decades of experience advising private and publicly traded companies in strategic deals in the TMT sector, and splits her time between Dallas and New York. The ‘client-minded, practical‘ Jonathan Gordon is a ‘go-to attorney‘ for tech-related transactions, including mergers, divestitures, acquisitions, SPACs, and take-private deals; he oversees the East Coast corporate group out of New York. Based in Houston, Clint Rancher stands out for his track record in M&A and corporate governance matters within the energy sector.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
Firm Rankings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Finance > Project finance
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense