Shane M. Tucker

Partner

Executive Compensation & Benefits

“My work involves the intersection of tax, securities, and accounting rules as they relate to executive compensation. There is a high potential for confusion in this area, so it’s beneficial to companies and executive management teams to have somebody with deep experience who can help them navigate through it.”

Shane M. Tucker

Overview

Shane advises employers, executives and management teams on the tax and securities law implications of compensatory arrangements for a range of clients, with a special emphasis on private equity sponsored work and the complex tax issues associated with golden parachute payments and transfers of property for services. He also guides boards of directors and compensation committees on executive compensation matters, and assists public and private partnerships, corporations and REITs in designing, drafting and implementing severance and retention plans and equity-based compensation arrangements.

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Experience

  • Crestview Partners in its investment in Upwell Water, a water-focused specialty finance company

  • Alpine Income Property Trust, Inc. in its $143 million initial public offering of common stock

  • 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 

  • SemGroup Corporation in its $2.1 billion acquisition of Houston Fuel Oil Terminal Company, one of the largest oil terminals in the U.S., from Alinda Capital Partners

  • Targa Resources Partners and Targa Resources Corp. in the $7.7 billion acquisition of Atlas Pipeline Partners and Atlas Energy

  • Holly Corporation in the $7 billion merger with Frontier Oil Corporation, creating one of the largest independent refiners in the United States

  • Inergy and Inergy Midstream in an $8 billion multi-step combination transaction with Crestwood Midstream Partners  and Crestwood Holdings 

  • Southwest Airlines in its $3.4 billion acquisition of AirTran Holdings

  • Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on executive compensation and employee benefit aspects in connection with its $70 million initial public offering of common stock

Credentials

Education

  • University of Notre Dame Law School, J.D. magna cum laude, 1999 (Notre Dame Law Review)
  • University of Nebraska (Lincoln), B.S., 1995

Admissions

  • Texas

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Recognitions

  • Chambers USA, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation (Dallas/Ft. Worth), 2022–2026
  • Legal 500 U.S., Labor & Employment: Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation and Retirement Plans (Transactional), 2011, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021–2024, and 2026
  • Selected to the Texas Super Lawyers list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2013–2024
  • The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), Employee Benefits Law (Dallas), 2010–2027
  • Selected to the Texas Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2005, 2006, 2008–2013
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