Barry Davis
Barry Davis
713.951.5863

Overview

Barry Davis is a business attorney in Holland & Knight's Houston office, where he focuses on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), corporate and securities law and the representation of clients funded from private equity sponsors. He has particular experience with acquisitions and dispositions of assets and stock of both public and private companies, including but not limited to acquisitions and divestitures of both onshore and offshore oil and gas properties; pipeline, processing and related midstream companies; oilfield service companies; and software-related technology companies.

Additionally, Mr. Davis has extensive experience representing clients in financing transactions, private placements and debt offerings.

Representative Experience

  • Represented seller in a $605 million divestiture of banking corporation’s credit card business
  • Represented buyer in a $500 million acquisition of interstate gas pipeline and various marketing subsidiaries of seller
  • Represented seller in a $400 million purchase of approximately 100 retail strip shopping centers by a real estate investment trust
  • Represented successor in a $325 million agreed merger of two public companies in the oil well service industry in transaction treated as a "pooling of interests"
  • Represented buyer in its $155 million purchase of producing properties by a privately held oil and gas company
  • Represented seller in a $140 million sale of assets of 11 cable television systems
  • Represented issuer in a $130 million senior secured note offering pursuant to Rule 144A used as funding mechanism for a plan of reorganization of an oil and gas company
  • Represented buyer in its $105 million purchase of stock of a Cayman corporation owning oil and gas concessions in Ecuador
  • Represented borrower in a $105 million borrowing-based credit facility for privately held oil and gas company
  • Represented purchaser in its $102 million acquisition of offshore oil and gas producing companies
  • Represented seller in its $98 million sale of window manufacturer
  • Represented purchaser in its $86 million acquisition of various cable television systems located throughout the country
  • Represented purchaser in a $65 million acquisition by industry major of offshore oil and gas producing properties
  • Represented seller in a $64 million sale of four separately owned traffic safety companies
  • Represented buyer in its $63 million purchase of producing properties by a closely held oil and gas company
  • Represented seller in a $37 million disposition of the stock of three separate motorcoach tour and charter services companies for cash and subordinated convertible debentures
  • Represented seller in its $32.5 million sale of all assets of a chain of 32 super optical eyewear stores
  • Represented purchaser in a $32 million sale of all assets of an oil well drilling equipment manufacturer and its subsidiaries
  • Represented buyer in a $30 million purchase of stock of an oil well drilling brake manufacturing company
  • Represented issuer in a $22 million private placement of convertible preferred stock and redeemable preferred stock of a Software 500 company specializing in state and local property, sales and use tax software

  • Represented bank in a $265 million agented credit facility for publicly held pipeline company
  • Represented issuer in a $229 million securitized debt offering
  • Represented borrower in a $160 million term loan to domestic oil and gas company from the New York branch of a foreign lender
  • Represented a privately held oil and gas company, as borrower, in a $105 million borrowing-based credit facility
  • Represented agent bank in a $100 million revolving credit facility for privately held oil and gas company
  • Represented agent bank in a $65 million credit facility with a natural gas company that is an affiliate of a public utility
  • Represented a privately held oil and gas company, as borrower, in a $60 million revolving credit facility
  • Represented agent bank in a $50 million warehouse revolving line of credit to national mortgage company to purchase marketable securities
  • Represented an oil and gas company, as borrower, in a $25 million revolving line of credit from a national lender
  • Represented borrower in a $25 million workout and restructuring of all of borrower’s debt with major secured lender; loan secured by numerous apartment complexes, raw land and partnership interests
  • Represented borrower in an $18 million workout and restructuring of all of borrower’s debt with major lender; loan secured primarily by real property located in Dallas and Houston
  • Represented agent bank in a $12 million term loan secured by stock to commodities trading company and various subordinated loans to subsidiary pursuant to NASDAQ rules
  • Represented bank in a $10 million unsecured line of credit to home infusion therapy company

Credentials

Education
  • South Texas College of Law, J.D.
  • University of North Texas, B.B.A.
Bar Admissions/Licenses
  • Texas
Court Admissions
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
  • U.S. Tax Court
Memberships
  • State Bar of Texas, Committee for Legal Opinions in Commercial Transactions
  • Houston Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
  • Texas Association of Bank Counsel
  • American Diabetes Association, Houston Chapter, Former Board Member
Honors & Awards
  • Influencer in Retail Real Estate - Holland & Knight's Retail Development and Leasing Team, GlobeSt. Real Estate Forum, 2023
  • The Best Lawyers in America guide, Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, 2010-2017
  • Houston’s Top Lawyers, H Texas, 2006
  • Community Based Volunteer Award, American Diabetes Association, 2008