Practice Expertise

  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Capital Markets and Securities
  • Pipeline
  • Corporate

Areas of Practice

  • Capital Markets and Securities
  • Corporate
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Pipeline
  • Corporate Governance and Board Advisory
  • Energy
  • Financial Services
  • Food Industry
  • International and Cross-Border Transactions
  • Private Equity
  • Retail and Consumer Products
  • View More

Profile

Austin counsels strategic clients, private equity funds, and their portfolio companies in executing merger and acquisition strategies and has extensive experience advising clients in connection with domestic and cross-border acquisitions and dispositions. Austin focuses his practice on transactions in the private middle-market. He has represented clients in connection with more than 100 acquisitions and divestitures. He also serves as trusted counsel to in-house legal teams and business principals on day-to-day governance and contracting issues.

Austin’s experience covers a breadth of industries and client types, including financial services companies (particularly mortgage industry participants), fastener and component manufacturers, consumer retail brands, food manufacturing and packaging brands, major US energy companies (particularly regarding midstream and upstream assets), entrepreneurs exiting their companies, and energy producers in tax credit transactions.

Bar Admissions

    Education
    JD, Duke University School of Law, 2014

    BA, University of North Carolina, 2011

    Areas of Practice

    • Capital Markets and Securities
    • Corporate
    • Mergers and Acquisitions
    • Pipeline
    • Corporate Governance and Board Advisory
    • Energy
    • Financial Services
    • Food Industry
    • International and Cross-Border Transactions
    • Private Equity
    • Retail and Consumer Products

    Professional Career



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    • 2021 Retail M&A Year in Review, Retail Industry 2021 Year in Review
    • M&A Quarterly Reporter – 2021 Q3
    • M&A Quarterly Reporter – 2022 Q1

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