Veteran tax partner J. Dean Hinderliter recently moved his practice to Bracewell.
Hinderliter, who is based in Dallas, was most recently at Winston & Strawn. He is the second tax partner in Texas that Bracewell has added this year as the firm seeks to build out its capabilities to steer clients through the energy transition.
“Dean’s wealth of transactional tax experience, including his knowledge of tax issues specific to the energy industry, further expands our capacity to address the complex tax needs of our clients,” Elizabeth McGinley, chair of Bracewell’s tax department, said in the firm’s announcement.
Hinderliter’s 30-plus-years of experience includes advising on the tax aspects of private equity funds and their investments, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, public offerings, tax-free reorganizations, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures and S corporations. He has “special knowledge” in the taxation of natural resources, and partnership and corporate transactions involving the petroleum industry.
In the first quarter of this year, Hinderliter served on the Winston & Strawn deal teams that advised Houston-based Drilling Tools on its purchase of Superior Drilling Products for $32.2 million, represented the special purpose acquisition company AlphaTime in its acquisition of insurer HCYC, and guided Texas SPAC Clean Earth in its combination with Irish clean energy independent power producer Alternus.
Hinderliter received his law degree from the University of Oklahoma and his LL.M. in taxation from New York University. He started his career in Washington, D.C. at Skadden before moving to Dallas in 1995 to join Munsch Hardt. His career has also included stops at Locke Lord and Thompson & Knight.