About James E. O'Bannon
Practice Areas
- Financial
- Corporate Law
- Mergers & Acquisitions
Education
- Southern Methodist University School of Law, Dallas, Texas, 1983J.D.
- Honors: Order of the Coif
- Law Journal: Journal of Air Law and Commerce, Editor
- The University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1980M.B.A.
- The University of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1978B.B.A.
- Honors: With Highest Honors
Representative Cases
- Alliant completes tender offer and consent solicitation of $150 million of Subordinated Notes
- Allied Riser Communications acquired by Cogent Communications Group (2009)
- Amerisafe completes $106.6 million public offering of Common Stock (2009)
- Amerisafe completes IPO of $72 million of Common Stock
- Amerisafe redeems all outstanding Convertible Preferred Stock
- Amerisafe sells $155 million of controlling interest of company to merchant banking firm
- Associated Materials acquires Harvest Partners for $407.3 million
- Associated Materials repurchases shares from The Prudential Insurance Company of America
- Auto One Acceptance acquired by California Federal Bank for $170 million (2009)
- Bell Microproducts acquired by Avnet for $594 million (2010)
- BenefitMall acquires Benefitport Southeast (2009)
- BenefitMall acquires Group One Source
- BenefitMall acquires NAS Financial Services
- BenefitMall acquires Weston Group
- BenefitMall completes management buyout and related recapitalization (2009)
- BenefitMall completes sale to Austin Ventures and merger with CompuPay (2012)
- Diamond Shamrock acquires National Convenience Stores
- Diamond Shamrock completes $150 million registered Medium-Term Note offering (2009)
- Diamond Shamrock merges with Ultramar (2009)
- El Paso completes $495 million Rule 144A and Regulation S offering of 7.125% Notes (2009)
- El Paso completes consent solicitation to holders of Medium-Term Notes issued by a subsidiary of El Paso
- e-Rewards acquires Peanut Labs (2010)
- Ernst & Young International sells management consulting business to Cap Gemini Group for $11.7 billion (2009)
- Evercore Trust acts as independent fiduciary in Ashland's contribution of $100 million of Common Stock to its pension plan (2009)
- Evercore Trust acts as independent fiduciary in Boeing's contribution of $1.5 billion of Common Stock to its pension plan (2009)
- Evercore Trust acts as independent fiduciary in Brink's Company's contribution of $57.6 million of Common Stock to its pension plan (2009)
- Evercore Trust acts as independent fiduciary in OfficeMax's contribution of $82.2 million of Common Stock to its pension plans (2009)
- Evercore Trust acts as independent fiduciary in the registration of $300 million of Common Stock by Navistar International and pension plans (2010)
- Foster's Brewing Group acquires Beringer Wine Estates for $1.5 billion (2009)
- Frac Tech completes $550 million tender offer for 7.125% Senior Notes (2011)
- Greyhound Lines acquired by Laidlaw for $725 million
- Harman International completes $117 million fixed spread tender offer to purchase all outstanding 7.32% 2007 Senior Notes
- Harman International completes $164 million fixed spread tender offer for the purchase of all outstanding 7.125% 2007 notes
- Harman International completes a private placement of $400 million of Convertible Senior Notes to affiliates of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. and GS Capital Partners
- Harman International issues $300 million of Senior Notes in a Rule 144A and Regulation S offering (2009)
- Harman International repurchases $400 million of Common Stock in accelerated share repurchase program (2009)
- Howard Hughes completes spin-off from General Growth Properties (2010)
- International Wire Group acquires assets of Ffhoenix Cuivre
- International Wire Group announces holding company reorganization (2011)
- International Wire Group Holdings issues $100 million of Senior PIK Toggle Notes in Rule 144A and Regulation S offering
- J.C. Penney contributes $340 million of Common Stock to pension plan (2009)
- Jefferies underwrites $25.8 million public offering of Common Stock by Pioneer Drilling Company (2009)
- Kinko's involved in $460 million recapitalization (2009)
- Maxus Energy merges with YPF Sociedad Anónima and defends against shareholder actions (2009)
- Morgan Stanley completes underwritten public offering of 3.5 million shares by Walden Residential Properties, Inc.
- MSREF participates in recapitalization of Songbird Estates and associated debt buyback of £880 million senior loan facility (2009)
- National City issues $500 million of Trust Preferred Securities and Income Capital Obligation Notes in a public offering (2009)
- Omnicom Group acquires M/A/R/C
- PMFG completes $17.2 million public offering of Common Stock
- PMFG completes $21.4 million Private Placement of Convertible Preferred Stock and Warrants
- PMFG completes $47.8 million public offering of Common Stock
- QBE Insurance issues $550 million of Capital Securities in Regulation S offering (2009)
- QBE Insurance issues £873 million of LYONs in Rule 144A offering (2009)
- Rite Aid completes cash tender offer and consent solicitation for $195 million of Subordinated Notes
- Rite Aid completes underwritten public offering of $1 billion of Notes and Debentures
- Sprint Nextel issues $4 billion of Notes in Rule 144A and Regulation S offering (2011)
- Sterling completes public offering of 14.3 million shares of Common Stock
- Sterling Software forms spin-off of Sterling Commerce (2009)
- SunPower reclassifies shares into single class of Common Stock
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing joins ASML Holding Customer Co-investment Program for €1,114 million (US$1.37 billion) (2012)
- Tarragon completes exchange offer of $60 million for any and all outstanding 8% Senior Convertible Notes for shares of Common Stock
- Temasek Holdings exercises option to place, and invests in, US$900 million of 5.75% Cumulative Non-Voting Convertible Preferred Stock of Chesapeake Energy (2010)
- Temasek-led consortium acquires majority stake in Frac Tech Holdings, U.S.-based oilfield service company (2011)
- Thomas Properties completes IPO for $171 million of Common Stock (2009)
- Tongue River Capital completes sale of HRAdvance Enterprises to Hewitt Associates (2010)
- TR Capital invests in HRAdvance Enterprises (2009)
- U.S. Trust completes $1.5 billion block trade with issuer The DIRECTV Group
- U.S. Trust completes $257 million block trade of 15 million shares of Common Stock of The DIRECTV Group
- U.S. Trust completes $265 million block trade with issuer The DIRECTV Group
- U.S. Trust completes $875 million of Common Stock in a public offering by The DIRECTV Group
- U.S. Trust Corp sells Hughes Electronics
- U.S. Trust sells 20 million shares of Common Stock of EDS in public offering
- U.S. Trust sells 42.5 million shares of Class E Common Stock of General Motors in an underwritten public offering
- Winspear invests in Truckload USA
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Texas
Office Info
Other Colleagues
- Partner-In-Charge Dallas
- Of Counsel
- Partner
- Partner
Nearby Lawyers
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- Mergers & Acquisitions
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