Practice focuses on complex business transactions, including capital markets and mergers and acquisitions (M&A).
Decades of experience leading securities offerings and M&A for public and private companies.

Garrett has led public equity and debt offerings, private placements, and mergers and acquisitions in a wide range of industries, including energy, retail, restaurants, infrastructure, manufacturing, aviation and finance, for almost 30 years.

Garrett has extensive experience in public offerings and private placements of debt and equity securities, including initial public offerings (IPOs) and Rule 144A offerings. He also regularly advises public companies and investors on securities law compliance and exemptions, SEC reporting issues, securities exchange compliance, shareholder relations and communication and other corporate governance matters. He serves as the co-head of the firm’s capital markets practice.

Garrett has also led numerous corporate mergers and asset and stock purchase and sale transactions for public and private companies, including significant leveraged buyouts, strategic mergers, carve-outs, drop-down transactions, joint ventures, and buy and build strategies.

Representative Work

Securities Transactions

Represented a retailer in its $10.95-billion investment grade notes offering.
Advised a fashion company in its $150-million registered notes offering.
Advised an infrastructure company in its $350-million common share offering and $500-million tack-on notes offering.
Advised an infrastructure company in its $600-million senior secured Rule 144A offerings as part of its spin-off from a Nasdaq-listed public company.
Represented an international restaurant company in its $650-million Rule 144A offering.

Represented an infrastructure company in multiple Rule 144A offerings, raising $1.2 billion in gross proceeds.
Advised a vertically integrated construction company in its IPO and secondary offering.
Advised a manufacturing company in its $0.5-billion investment grade senior notes offering.
Represented an international exploration and production company in multiple U.S. and international private placements, PIPE transactions and exempt offerings, including offerings of convertible notes, convertible preferred stock and common stock.
Represented a broker-dealer in its secondary offering of common stock.
Advised an energy company in its private placement of convertible preferred stock.
Advised a spin-off of a regional passenger airline from its international airline parent company.

Corporate / M&A Transactions

Represented a Nasdaq-listed SaaS company in several accretive strategic acquisitions.
Led numerous strategic acquisitions and dispositions for an NYSE-listed manufacturing company.
Represented an international exploration and production company in its going private transaction.
Advised on the multibillion-dollar sale of a public hospitality company to a private equity fund.
Represented an aviation company in its multibillion-dollar sale to an aerospace company.
Advised an NYSE-listed communications company in premerger integration planning.

Education
J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 1994
B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, with highest honors, 1991

Bar Admissions
Texas

Recognitions

The Legal 500 US, Capital Markets: Debt Offerings and High-Yield Debt Offerings, 2022-2024.
D Magazine, Best Lawyers in Dallas, Corporate Securities/Capital Markets, 2022.
Acritas, Acritas Star, 2018-2022.
The Best Lawyers in America, Corporate Law, 2014-2022.
D Magazine, Top Corporate Lawyer in Dallas.
Super Lawyers.

Affiliations and Public Service

Author, Revisions to American Bar Association’s (ABA) Model Stock Purchase Agreement, ABA Negotiated Acquisitions Committee
Member, Akin Retirement Committee