Ms Courtney Cochran Butler > Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP > Houston, United States > Lawyer Profile
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HOUSTON, TX 77002
TEXAS
United States
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Ms Courtney Cochran Butler
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Work Department
Capital Markets
Position
Partner
Career
Ms. Butler is co-lead of the firm’s Capital Markets practice group, having advised clients in securities and M&A transactions with an aggregate value in excess of $115 billion.
Ms. Butler is a trusted advisor to her clients, representing Fortune 5 to private portfolio companies in a broad range of transactions, including representing issuers and investment banks in equity and debt securities offerings, including IPOs, and private equity investors and issuers in capital-raising transactions, including preferred equity and convertible debt transactions. Ms. Butler also advises public and private companies in structuring a wide array strategic transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, strategic investments, and financing transactions.
A cornerstone of Ms. Butler’s practice also includes working hand-in-hand with public companies and their boards of directors on a variety of general corporate matters, including Exchange Act reporting, proxy and shareholder matters and corporate governance, ESG and compliance matters. In addition to her extensive experience working with clients across the energy sector, Ms. Butler has represented an impressive list of companies across a broad spectrum of industries, including retail, consumer products, electrical, mining, banking, distribution, technology and air transportation.
She frequently contributes to publications, is quoted in the media and speaks at conferences.
Memberships
- State Bar of Texas
- State Bar of Louisiana
Education
- JD, 2005, cum laude, Tulane University Law School, National Moot Court Team member, Certificate for Advanced Studies in Maritime Law, Tulane Maritime Law Journal, Senior Notes and Comments Editor
- BBA, 2001, Marketing, The University of Texas
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings