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Baker Botts L.L.P. Offices
2001 ROSS AVENUE
DALLAS, TEXAS 75201-2980
TEXAS
United States
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Preston Bernhisel
Work Department
Corporate
Position
Partner
Department Chair – Corporate (Dallas)
Career
Preston Bernhisel is the Chair of the Dallas Corporate Department. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, capital markets transactions, securities laws and other corporate matters, particularly in the oil & gas, power and renewable energy industries. He brings a depth of experience representing issuers and investment banking firms in equity and debt securities offerings, including initial public offerings (IPOs), other public and private offerings of equity securities, registered and Rule 144A debt offerings and liability management transactions.
In addition, Mr. Bernhisel has extensive experience advising clients regarding Exchange Act reporting, stock exchange compliance and corporate governance.
Memberships
State Bar of Texas
Education
J.D., Duke University School of Law 2006
magna cum laude
Order of the Coif
Editorial Board, Duke Law Journal
B.S., Business Management, with a Finance emphasis, Brigham Young University 2003
cum laude
University Honors
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- 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
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Finance > Project finance
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies