J. Cabell Acree, III |
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| E-mail: |
cacree@selmanmunson.com |
| Office: |
One City Centre
1021 Main Street, Suite 1275
Houston, Texas 77002
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| Telephone: |
(713) 400-1554
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| Fax: |
(713) 827-1438 |
| Toll Free: |
(800) 276-1413 |
| Cell: |
(281) 889-1567 |
Practice Areas
Sale & Purchase of Businesses
Loan Restructures and Workouts
Environmental
Corporate & Securities
Concentrations of Practice
- Mergers and Acquisitions of public and private businesses, including auctions, sales out of bankruptcy, and asset and stock transactions.
- Counseling on environmental matters, including transactional liability allocation and mitigation, environmental audits, enforcement, and solid waste, air and water permitting and regulatory matters.
- Commercial lending and debt restructuring transactions, including private and public debt offerings and reorganizations.
- Corporate governance matters, including legal aspects of Sarbanes Oxley compliance, securities disclosures, and director and officer fiduciary duties.
- Project finance and contracts for major domestic and foreign plant and infrastructure engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) projects.
- Public securities offerings, including IPOs and private placements of equity and debt securities.
Previous Experience
General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Compliance Officer for public and private chemicals, manufacturing and heavy civil construction companies.
Private law practice at Bracewell & Giuliani (formerly Bracewell & Patterson) in the corporate, M&A, finance, environmental, and financial institutions practice areas.
Publications
Operational Flexibility Under Clean Air Act, Title V Operating Permits, 3 ENVTL. LAW. 37 (September 1996)
Natural Gas Yearbook, "Environmental Developments Chapter," with Terrell E. Hunt, Executive Enterprises (1990)
Montclair Publishing's "Who's Who Among Law Professionals", 2010-2011
Education
Law Degree: University of Virginia, 1985
Masters of Laws, Environmental Law: George Washington University, 1996, summa cum laude
Bachelors of Arts: Washington & Lee University, 1982, magna cum laude
