Philip A. Dunlap

Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® Corporate Law, 2024-2026 Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, 2024-2026 Listed in Lawdragon, "500 Leading Dealmakers in America" 2026 Listed in Texas Lawyer, Texas Trailblazer, 2020 Listed in Texas Super Lawyers, “Rising Stars,” 2014-2021 Listed in Legal 500 U.S. Elite – Houston, Corporate M&A, 2025 Represented a U.S. and India-based provider of enterprise-system architecture, design and development services to the electric, gas, and water-utility industries in the pre-closing F-reorganization and $75 million equity sale to a private-equity backed strategic investor. Represented a Texas-based virtual healthcare services provider in the $430 million sale of its equity to a publicly traded healthcare technology company. Represented a Texas-based third-party property management company in over $40 million of acquisitions of multi-family management businesses based in Georgia, Florida, Texas and Arkansas. Represented a Texas-based company in its $53 million acquisition of a North Carolina-based mechanical recycler of plastics. Represented an Austin-based virtual healthcare system in the sale of its web-based physician-client communications application. Represented a Houston-based automotive parts supplier in acquisitions of automotive parts suppliers located in Louisiana, San Antonio, Indiana, Alabama, Georgia and Florida. Represented a Texas-based company in its $20 million acquisition of a Louisiana-based provider of powder friction-reducers for the hydraulic fracturing, stimulation and coil tubing industries. Represented the developer of a Houston-area office park in its offering of equity to accredited investors. Represented a UK-based designer and supplier of direct-fired process heater systems, waste heat recovery units in its acquisition of a Houston-based supplier of specialized services for the fired heaters and furnaces market. Represented a Houston-based real estate investment firm in the formation of multiple equity funds and corresponding financing, acquisition and disposition of multi-family properties within those funds. Represented an Austin-based virtual healthcare system in its acquisition of a San Antonio-based provider of on-site primary care services. Represented the physician owner of an El Paso-based family medical clinic in a sale of its practice to VillageMD. Represented a real estate private equity firm in the formation of multiple real estate funds and subsequent financings, acquisitions and dispositions of multi-family properties within those funds. Represented the owners of Kingsley Constructors, Inc. in the sale of all of the stock of Kingsley to MasTec. Represented a Houston-based supplier of industrial gas cylinders and welder’s supply materials in its sale to a North Carolina-based strategic investor. Represented a UK-based specialist subsea services company in the acquisition of all of the equity of a Texas-based subsea corrosion specialist. Represented a West-Texas oilfield services provider operating throughout the Permian Basin in a $34 million majority recapitalization by a Houston-based private equity fund. Represented a technology development company in a three-part transaction, including the sale of specific intellectual property assets to a one buyer, distributing stock of an affiliate to its members and in the sale of all of the company’s remaining assets to a portfolio company of a private equity fund. Represented a direct-to-the-installer automotive parts supplier in the recapitalization and sale of 80% of its interest to a Japanese global conglomerate. The total transaction value was $180 million. Represented a Houston-based supplier of industrial gas cylinders and welder’s supply materials in its sale to a NYSE-listed, global Fortune 300 company. Represented a Houston-based private equity fund in its $13.5 million purchase of a Louisiana-based supplier of dredging services. Represented an Arlington, Texas-based provider of industrial, medical and specialty gases, equipment and supplies in its sale to a portfolio company of CI Capital Partners. Representation of a startup developer/operator of acute care micro-hospitals throughout the Midwest in connection with initial organization; two series of equity fundraising; negotiation of five hospital system joint ventures; a private equity investment by a Dallas-based private equity firm; bank credit facility; formation of physician staffing company subsidiary; formation of billing and collections subsidiary; acquisition and development of real estate; and employment and HR matters. Represented a Houston-based provider of mudlogging services in a sale of its U.S. and Brazil-based assets and its equity interests in four foreign subsidiaries (domiciled in Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong and Malaysia) to a UK-based private equity fund.