Megan James
Trammell Crow Center
2001 Ross Avenue
Suite 3900
Dallas, TX 75201
Megan focuses her practice on the federal income tax aspects of complex domestic and cross-border transactions. She advises partnerships, corporations and individuals in a variety of tax matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, reorganizations, and private equity.
The following is a list of representative matters in which Megan has assisted.
Experience Highlights
RSP Permian in its $9.5 billion sale to Concho Resources, creating the largest unconventional shale producer in the Permian Basin
Caprock Midstream Holdings in its $950 million sale to EagleClaw Midstream
Spredfast, a leading provider of social media management software and solutions, in the merger with Lithium Technologies via its private equity sponsor, Vista Equity Partners
Continental Resources in its $220 million sale of mineral rights in the SCOOP and STACK oil and gas plays to, and formation of a joint venture with, Franco-Nevada Corporation
Osaka Gas USA Co. in the acquisition from, and joint venture with, Sabine Oil & Gas relating to oil and gas properties located in Harrison and Panola Counties, TX
Credentials
- Texas Tech University School of Law, J.D. summa cum laude, 2014 (Order of the Coif; Managing Editor, Texas Tech Law Review; Burton Award, 2014 Distinguished Legal Writing Award)
- Texas A&M University, B.S., Sociology, 2010
- The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), “Ones to Watch,” (Dallas): Litigation and Controversy–Tax, Tax Law, 2022
- Texas
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- Rankings & AwardsDecember 15, 2020
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- “Upstream Oil and Gas Like-Kind Exchange Transactions after Tax Reform,” Tax Executive Institute – Houston Chapter Tax School, February 27, 2018 (panelist)