Austin B. Light
Austin’s practice focuses primarily on executive compensation and benefits. His experience includes structuring, drafting and implementing a variety of compensation-related plans and arrangements, including employment agreements, omnibus equity incentive plans, change in control and severance agreements, and named executive officer pay packages. Austin’s practice involves advising clients on a variety of executive compensation and benefits issues, such as tax and securities law, corporate governance, periodic and event-driven SEC disclosure, and employee-related issues in mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions.
The following is a list of representative matters in which Austin has assisted.
Experience Highlights
NorthStar Realty Finance in its approximately $16 billion combination with NorthStar Asset Management Group and Colony Capital in an all-stock merger of equals
Double Eagle Energy Holdings ll, a portfolio company of Apollo Natural Resources Partners Funds I and II, in its merger with Veritas Energy, creating one of the largest pure play exploration and production companies focused on the Permian’s Midland Basin
Nexeo Solutions, a chemicals and plastics distributor and TPG Capital portfolio company, in its $1.575 billion merger with WL Ross Holdings Corp., a special purpose acquisition company formed by WL Ross
Riverstone Energy Limited in a $103 million line of equity commitment to Aleph Midstream S.A., an Argentine midstream company
Apollo Global Management in the formation of a strategic partnership with Chisholm Oil and Gas to invest in oil and gas properties in Oklahoma, and Chisholm’s initial acquisition of STACK assets
AltaGas in the $6.4 billion acquisition of WGL Holdings, owner of a regulated natural gas utility, a midstream franchise and non-regulated contracted power and energy marketing businesses throughout the United States
Sunoco Logistics Partners LP in its $20 billion merger with Energy Transfer Partners in a unit-for-unit transaction
KLR Energy Acquisition Corp. in the $445 million combination with Tema Oil and Gas Company to form Rosehill Resources in a SPAC business combination
Quantum Energy Partners in the combination of two of its portfolio companies, Xplorer Midstream and Intensity Midstream
Riverstone Holdings in its upsized equity commitment to, and formation of, Salt Fork Resources, an oil and gas exploration and production company focused on the Appalachian Basin
Oaktree Capital Management in the $600 million line of equity commitment to Charger Shale Oil Company, an oil and gas company focused in the Permian Basin
Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners in its $1.03 billion sale of Eureka Midstream Holdings and Hornet Midstream Holdings to EQM Midstream Partners
Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners in its $300 million investment in GlidePath Power Solutions
Underwriters to Noble Midstream Partners LP in its $323 million initial public offering of common units
Ramaco Resources, Inc. in its $81 million initial public offering of common stock
Credentials
- The University of Texas School of Law, J.D. with honors, 2015 (Associate Editor, Texas Law Review)
- Austin College, B.A., Business Administration magna cum laude, 2011
- Texas
- Deals & CasesJune 24, 2020
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- InsightMay 23, 2018
V&E Antitrust Update E-communication
- Deals & CasesFebruary 5, 2018
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- Deals & CasesJune 3, 2016
- “Tax and Accounting Year-End Update,” V&E Austin Office, December 5, 2019 (presenter)