Katherine Mull
Trammell Crow Center
2001 Ross Avenue
Suite 3900
Dallas, Texas 75201
Texas Tower
845 Texas Avenue
Suite 4700
Houston, Texas 77002
Katherine’s practice focuses primarily on executive compensation and benefits. Her practice experience includes negotiating, designing, and drafting a wide variety of executive compensation arrangements, including employment and severance agreements, equity and equity-based compensation vehicles, and incentive plans. Katherine works extensively on compensation and benefits issues and SEC disclosure related to initial public offerings, domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, and corporate governance matters. Additionally, Katherine counsels publicly traded clients with respect to proxy statement disclosure and shareholder approval issues involving compensation arrangements for officers and directors.
Experience Highlights
New Fortress Energy LLC in its $291 million initial public offering of Class A shares
Caprock Midstream Holdings in its $950 million sale to EagleClaw Midstream
Oasis Midstream Partners LP in its $147 million initial public offering of common units
Western Refining Logistics in its $1.8 billion merger with Andeavor Logistics
Rice Energy in its $6.7 billion unwinding of its Up-C structure and associated merger with EQT Corporation
Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in its $70 million initial public offering of common stock
Parsley Energy, Inc. in its $1.1 billion initial public offering of common stock and post-offering executive compensation counsel
Western Refining Logistics, LP in its $348 million initial public offering of common units and post-offering executive compensation counsel
FMSA Holdings Inc. in its $400 million initial public offering of common stock by a selling stockholder
Devon Energy Corp. in the $8.84 billion contribution of substantially all of its U.S. midstream business to Crosstex Energy and Crosstex Energy to form a consolidated midstream business controlled by Devon
Dominion Midstream Partners, LP in its $423 million initial public offering of common units
Rice Midstream Partners LP in its $474 million initial public offering of common units
Sprague Resources LP in its $153 million initial public offering of common units and post-offering executive compensation counsel
SunCoke Energy Partners, L.P. in its $257 million initial public offering of common units
Susser Petroleum Partners LP in its $224 million initial public offering of common units
Midstates Petroleum Company, Inc. in its $234 million initial public offering of common stock and post-offering executive compensation counsel
Pacific Drilling S.A. in its $57 million initial public offering of common stock
QR Energy, LP in its $355 million initial public offering of common units
The Board of Directors of Ensco plc in executive compensation negotiations
Executive team of Reddy Ice Holdings Inc. in executive compensation negotiations
Talos Energy in its $2.5 billion combination with Stone Energy, creating an offshore-focused E&P company
Continental Airlines in its $3.2 billion all-stock merger with United Airlines
Sabine Oil & Gas in its merger with Forest Oil Corporation through an all-stock transaction and post-closing executive compensation counsel
Credentials
- New York Law School, J.D. summa cum laude, 2007 (Case Comment Editor, New York Law School Law Review)
- University of Kentucky, B.A., Social Inequality and Public Policy summa cum laude, 2004 (Phi Beta Kappa)
- Selected to the Texas Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2014–2019
- Legal 500 U.S., Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans, 2019
- New York
- Texas
- Deals & CasesJuly 28, 2023
- Deals & CasesFebruary 6, 2023
- Deals & CasesJanuary 3, 2023
- Deals & CasesNovember 3, 2022
- Deals & CasesSeptember 22, 2022
- Deals & CasesSeptember 13, 2022
- Deals & CasesAugust 4, 2022
- Deals & CasesJune 1, 2022