Robert Phillpott
Robert Phillpott
Biography
Robert Phillpott focuses his practice on corporate tax matters, advising clients on tax planning for mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, spin-offs and divestitures, joint ventures, restructurings and securities offerings.
Bobby also counsels clients on the formation and operation of corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies and certain tax controversy matters.
Professional experience
Representative experience
Representative experience
- Represented an international oil and gas company in the US$5.6 billion sale of its upstream and midstream business in Alaska.
- Represented a global institutional investor and asset manager in its acquisition of a publicly traded limited partnership. The all-cash transaction had a US$10.3 billion enterprise value.
- Represented private equity-backed pipeline developer in the development, joint venture planning and sale of a US$1.2 billion, 177-mile natural gas pipeline in the Marcellus region.
- Represented an independent midstream logistics company in its acquisition of an oil export facility valued at US$2.6 billion.
- Represented a global performance drilling tools, equipment and service provider in the sale of its horizontal directional drilling tools company.
- Represented a renewable energy company in acquisitions, development, tax equity financings and dispositions of multiple utility-scale photovoltaic projects in California, Arizona, Idaho, Indiana, Utah, Alabama, Wyoming, Navada, Georgia and Texas.
- Represented a middle-market private equity firm in its acquisition of a construction services company serving the utilities industry.
- Represented a publicly traded limited partnership in its acquisition of a manufacturer of silo-based frac sand management systems.
- Represented private equity funds in buy-side and sell-side domestic and international merger and acquisition transactions in a range of industries, including commercial food preparation and service, energy, logistics, manufacturing, restaurant, retail and wholesale.
- Represented publicly traded master limited partnerships and sponsors in dropdowns, tax-free mergers, PIPE offerings, spinoffs and other transactions.
Rankings and recognitions
Rankings and recognitions
- The Best Lawyers in America, Tax Law, Best Lawyers, 2013-2025
- Chambers USA, Texas: Tax, Chambers and Partners, 2021-2024
- Texas Super Lawyer, Tax: Business, Thomson Reuters, 2008-2024
Education
Education
- LLM, New York University, 1999
- JD, magna cum laude, Loyola Law School, 1997
- BBA, Loyola University, 1991
Admissions
Admissions
- Texas State Bar
Speaking engagements
Speaking engagements
Speaker and panelist for numerous conferences and seminars, including those sponsored by the NYU School of Professional Studies Institute on Federal Taxation, Texas Federal Tax Institute, Tax Executives Institute, Southern Federal Tax Institute, State Bar of Texas and Houston Bar Association Sections of Taxation and Real Estate.
Memberships and activities
Memberships and activities
- Houston Bar Association
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