
Ed focuses his practice on private equity and other privately held firms, including family offices and family-owned businesses. He represents sponsors and institutional and family office investors in the formation of private equity funds and complex investment and co-investment vehicles, and buyers and sellers in private equity sponsored and other private mergers and acquisitions and related financing and venture transactions.
Credentials
Awards & Recognition
- Recognized in The Legal 500 US as a Recommended Lawyer for M&A/Corporate and Commercial – M&A: Middle-Market ($500m-999m), 2016
- Selected through peer review for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© for Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, 2009-2025; named Lawyer of the Year for Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, 2023
- Recognized as a Texas Super Lawyer, 2004-2005, 2010-2011, 2015-2018
In-House Experience
- Former General Counsel and Member of Management Board of IFCO Systems N.V. (f/k/a PalEx, Inc.)
- Former General Counsel of Quanta Services, Inc.