Thomas G. Zentner III

Partner

Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions

“One of the things I like best about my work is that I get to be deeply involved in my clients’ businesses. I like being the corporate quarterback for my clients and then working with them to find creative and efficient ways to help them grow their businesses and achieve their goals.”

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Overview

Thomas is the Managing Partner of the Austin office and has an extensive corporate practice, advising on capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings and other equity and debt offerings, and merger and acquisition transactions.

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Experience

  • Initial purchasers in the $1 billion offering of senior notes by SM Energy Company

  • Initial purchasers in the $500 million offering of senior notes and its concurrent tender offer by CNX Resources Corporation

  • Atlas Energy Solutions Inc. in its $324 million initial public offering of Class A common stock

  • Underwriters to Bounty Minerals, Inc. in its initial public offering of common stock (In Registration)

  • Brigham Minerals, Inc. in its $261 million initial public offering of Class A common stock and its $4.8 billion business combination with Sitio Royalties

  • Range Resources Corporation in its $500 million offering of senior notes

  • Targa Resources Corp. in its $1.25 billion public offering of investment grade senior notes

  • Initial purchasers in the $400 million offering of senior notes by Civitas Resources, Inc.

  • Tap Rock Resources, LLC in its $500 million offering of senior notes

  • Howard Midstream Energy Partners, LLC in its $400 million offering of senior notes

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Credentials

Education

  • University of Texas School of Law, J.D. with honors, 2008
  • University of Texas, B.B.A., Business Honors/Finance with honors, 2005

Admissions

  • Texas

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Recognitions

  • Chambers USA, Capital Markets: Debt & Equity (Texas), 2025 and 2026; Capital Markets: Debt & Equity (Central United States)(Nationwide), 2025 and 2026
  • Selected to the 500 Leading Energy Lawyers, Lawdragon, 2023–2026
  • Selected to the Texas Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2015−2018
  • Legal 500 U.S., Debt Offerings, 2018 and 2026; Energy: Transactions: Oil & Gas, 2019; Finance: Capital Markets: High-Yield Debt Offerings, 2024; Finance: Capital Markets: Equity Offerings, 2025 and 2026
  • The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), Securities / Capital Markets Law (Houston), 2027
Insights

Client Alerts

Key SEC Updates to Five Day Debt Tender and Exchange Offers

Overview The Division of Corporation Finance of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an exemptive order on June …

July 1, 2026

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CLE Events

Choosing Your Corporate Battlefield: Texas vs. Delaware Strategy

Join us in person on January 29, as panelists unpack the governance, fiduciary, and dispute-resolution differences between Texas and Delaware entities—then connect those legal distinctions to current dealmaking trends.

January 29, 2026

January 29, 2026 • 1-minute read

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