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E. Scot Dixon
E. Scot Dixon
Counsel — Real Estate
Counsel — Real Estate

E. Scot Dixon

E. Scot Dixon
Houston

Texas Tower
845 Texas Avenue
Suite 4700
Houston, Texas 77002

E. Scot Dixon

Experience Highlights

  • St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System in its $1 billion transfer to the Catholic Health Initiatives

  • Dyno Nobel Inc. in the development of an $850 million anhydrous ammonia plant in Louisiana, including project development arrangements, real estate and environmental matters, and negotiation of CO2 and ammonia offtake agreements

  • Dart Container Corp. in approximately $2 billion first- and second-lien secured financing from Oneida Investment Company

  • An infrastructure-focused private equity firm in the $850 million refinancing of a marine terminal company and facility

  • Huntsman Corporation in its $1.1 billion acquisition of the performance additives and titanium dioxide businesses of Rockwood Holdings

  • A municipal hospital authority in the sale of the campus of a suburban Houston hospital, including the hospital buildings, professional office buildings, ancillary buildings, parking areas and land for future development; transaction included structuring performance incentives for covenants of purchaser to build additional facilities and to operate a hospital on the campus

  • Dart Container Corporation in the $1 billion acquisition of Solo Cup Company

  • Mitsui & Co., Ltd. in its agreement with DuPont to purchase DuPont’s global Kocide and ManKocide copper fungicide assets

  • A subsidiary of Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. in connection with acquisition financing for the Safe Harbor hydroelectric project

  • An infrastructure-focused private equity firm in the acquisition of a marine terminal company

  • BP Alternative Energy in the sale of its interest in a hydrogen energy project in California to SCS Energy

  • Enterprise Product Partners, LP in the $550 million sale of its Mississippi natural gas storage facilities to Boardwalk Pipeline Partners L.P

  • Frank’s International in the sale of substantially all of the assets of its oil tool manufacturing subsidiary to Intervale Capital

  • Calfrac Well Services Corporation in the $147 million acquisition of the hydraulic well fracturing services business and coiled tubing business of Mission Well Services

Credentials

  • University of Texas School of Law, J.D. with high honors, 1993 (Chancellors; Order of the Coif; Phi Delta Phi; Associate Editor, Texas Law Review)
  • Rice University, B.A., Economics summa cum laude, 1990 (Phi Beta Kappa; Omicron Delta Epsilon)
  • The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), Real Estate Law (Houston), 2010–2024
  • Legal 500 U.S., Real Estate, 2017
  • Selected to the Texas Super Lawyers list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2004−2007, 2011, 2018, 2019, 2022, and 2023
  • Board Certified: Commercial Real Estate Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization, 2002
  • Member: Houston Bar Association; Downtown Kiwanis Club
  • Texas
  • “Permissible REIT Assets,” Texas Real Estate, Probate, and Trust Law Journal, October 2005
  • “The Ownership of Narrow Strips of Land,” Texas Real Estate, Probate, and Trust Law Journal, October 2003