Stuart Lawson’s practice focuses on advising clients in corporate and transactional matters, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures, strategic investments, corporate reorganizations, corporate governance, and general corporate matters. These clients include public and private companies, private equity funds, their portfolio companies, management teams, and other investors. He has worked with clients in a broad range of industries, including energy (upstream, midstream, oilfield services, and storage facilities), technology, insurance, death care services and manufacturing, among others.

Honors & Recognitions

Best Lawyers in America, “Ones to Watch,” (Houston): Mergers & Acquisitions Law, 2021–2025; Corporate Law, 2023–2025; Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, 2024 and 2025

  • Best Lawyers in America

Credentials

Education

J.D., South Texas College of Law, cum laude, 2014

South Texas Law Review, Managing Editor

B.S., Texas A&M University, Political Science, 2006

Admissions

Texas

Experience

  • An independent, full-service midstream energy company in the sale of its natural gas and crude oil gathering and processing assets in the DJ Basin*
  • A premier energy marketing and infrastructure firm in the acquisition of a Houston-based natural gas pipeline*
  • A private equity firm in the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of a plumbing supply company*
  • An insurance holding company in its $900 million acquisition of a private workers’ compensation and liability insurer*
  • A public natural gas distribution company in the $212 million sale of certain natural gas storage assets*
  • A leading provider of flow measurement systems in the $125 million sale of its business*
  • A midstream energy company in the acquisition of a gas gathering, treating and processing system in the Permian Basin*
  • A public industrial supplies company in several transactions to acquire certain oil drilling equipment*
  • A public oilfield services company in several transactions to acquire certain offshore-related oil and gas assets*
  • A public national title company in several transactions to acquire multiple appraisal services companies and a remote online notary services company*
  • An international battery component designer and manufacturer in the sale of its business to a private equity firm*
  • An insurance agency in the sale of its Texas assets and book of business to a national platform purchaser*

* experience prior to joining Porter Hedges

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