Kevin Crews is an associate in the Corporate Department of Weil’s Dallas office. Kevin’s practice focuses on public and private companies, private equity sponsors, and portfolio companies engaged in a wide range of M&A and private equity transactions. His transactional experience includes the acquisition and sale of public companies, private companies, divisions, and other assets for cash, stock, and other consideration, structured as mergers, stock sales, asset sales, stock swaps, leveraged buy-outs, going-private transactions, tender offers, joint ventures, minority investments, and bankruptcy-related sale transactions. Kevin has also been involved in counseling clients on matters of corporate governance and fiduciary obligations as well as a broad array of commercial issues. Kevin’s practice has included working with clients in a variety of industries including oil, natural gas and other energy-related segments, media, telecom and technology, real estate, financial services, aviation, and healthcare services.
Representative Transactional Experience:
- Dell Inc. – Acquisition of Credant Technologies, Inc., a provider of data protection technologies.
- General Electric Company (GE Aviation Division) – Sale of Unison Engine Components (Tru-Form) rings operations to Precision Castparts Corp.
- General Electric Company (GE Money Division) – Sale of Hudson’s Bay Company private label credit card portfolio to Capital One Bank (Canada Branch).
- Trinity Industries, Inc. – Tender offer to acquire Quixote Corporation, a publicly-traded manufacturer of highway safety products.
- RehabCare Group, Inc. – Acquisition of Triumph HealthCare, a developer and operator of long-term acute care hospitals.
- General Growth Properties, Inc. – Debtor-in-possession term financing, convertible at maturity into equity or exit facility at debtor’s option; restructuring, recapitalization and emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
- The Howard Hughes Corporation – Spin-off of new publicly-traded company created to hold master planned communities and other strategic real estate development opportunities.
- Oxford Finance Corporation (a portfolio company of Sumitomo Corporation of America) – Sale of minority stake to Welsh Carson and establishment of joint venture for life science and healthcare services companies.
- UniTek USA LLC (a portfolio company of HM Capital Partners LLC) – Merger with Berliner Communications Inc., a publicly-traded provider of engineering and construction management services to the wireless industry.
- Ziplocal, Inc. (a portfolio company of HM Capital Partners LLC) – Acquisition of phone directories assets from Yellow Pages Group.
- Wildcat Midstream Partners – Formation of private fund containing midstream assets; establishment of joint venture with a subsidiary of Approach Resources Inc. for construction and operation of a crude oil pipeline.
- EIG Global Energy Partners – Restructuring; exchange of debt for equity in Tarpon Operating and Development LLC, an offshore exploration and production company.
- GSO Capital Partners (a subsidiary of The Blackstone Group); Magnetar Capital – Co-investment in preferred securities in Plains Exploration & Production Company development project in the Gulf of Mexico.
- MTP Energy Management; Harvest Partners – Co-investment in convertible preferred securities of Regency Energy Partners, a publicly-traded midstream natural gas services provider.
- Magnetar Capital – Co-investment in preferred securities in separate Chesapeake Energy Corporation exploration and production projects in the Utica and Mid-Continent formations.
Kevin co-authored “Oil and Gas – Seeking the Hand of Private Equity” published by Law360, which discusses the growing role private equity sponsors are playing in joint ventures and other investments in the oil and gas industry. Kevin has also presented continuing legal education programs regarding drafting effective M&A agreements. Kevin is actively involved in Weil’s recruiting and pro bono efforts.
Kevin received his B.A., summa cum laude, in Economics and Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his J.D., with Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar honors, from Columbia Law School, where he was a staff editor for the Columbia Business Law Review. Prior to law school, Kevin worked as an investment banking analyst at Merrill Lynch & Co. in New York.