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By Brooks Igo
(March 30) – Locke Lord recently announced that capital markets and M&A guru Michael Blankenship has jumped to the firm’s Houston office as a partner.
Blankenship, who joins from V&E, focuses his practice on corporate finance and securities matters, including M&A and private equity work with both investors and their portfolio companies.
“I felt that Locke Lord’s impressive growth in its private equity and M&A client base along with its strong global platform provided me with a great deal of opportunity to build on my current practice,” he said.
At the end of 2016, Blankenship was part of the team that advised Columbia Pipeline Partners when TransCanada acquired it for $915 million. He also was involved in the restructuring work for Goodrich Petroleum Corporation in its recapitalization and eventual emergence from bankruptcy.
“Helping a company emerge from bankruptcy can be challenging, but it is also rewarding to know that you are assisting a company re-establish itself,” he said.
In his capital markets practice, Blankenship says he is noticing smaller to mid-size IPOs begin to come back after a steep drop off in 2016. In the energy space in particular, he is seeing a lot of growth in exploration and production offerings and many debt-for-debt securities exchanges.
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