Perfil
Richard Dusenbury is a shareholder in Greenberg Traurig’s Corporate Practice. He focuses his practice on private mergers and acquisitions and representation of private companies from acquisition to exit. Richard represents private equity funds, strategic acquirers, search funds, and fund-less sponsors in their initial acquisitions of private companies, the day-to-day operations of those companies, and all facets of exit opportunities.
Richard has deep experience representing both buyers and sellers in a wide variety of industries, including software and technology, health care, manufacturing, engineering, and personal merchandise. His experience also encompasses a wide range of transaction types and structures, such as customary buy-out models or preferred equity investments. Richard prides himself on providing commercial-oriented legal strategies for real-world problems arising throughout the deal process.
In addition, Richard regularly serves as outside counsel to private equity firms, family offices, sponsors, and their respective portfolio companies. In that role, he handles a broad range of matters, such as venture capital investments, corporate governance, and private placements of securities, federal and state securities law compliance, entity formation, and general commercial transactions.
Concentrations
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Mergers
- Control transactions
- Joint Ventures
- Cross-border transactions
- Private equity
- Platform and bolt-on acquisitions and dispositions
- Growth equity investments
- Preferred equity investments
- Debt financings
- Search funds
- Corporate governance
- Business counseling
Capacidades
Experiencia
- Represented Alamar Partners in its divestment of Scribbles to Instructure, a public EdTech company.
- Represented Broadwing Capital Management in its growth investment in UpChurch.
- Represented Katabat in its acquisition by Ontario Systems.
- Represented private equity firm in its acquisition of several software-as-a-service businesses operating in the education and marketing/sales industries.
- Represented Strada Services in its acquisition by Trilantic Capital Management.
- Represented one of the largest health care group purchasing organizations in its acquisition of several supplemental businesses.
- Represented private equity firm in its acquisition of land surveying company and the creation of an accompanying credit facility.
- Represented national fast-food retailer in acquisition of multiple franchisees.
- Represented private equity firm in a number of platform acquisitions, including EdTech, manufacturing, artificial intelligence, business SAAS platforms, insurance agencies, and professional services firms.
- Represented search fund in its acquisition of multi-state government-focused payment processer.
- Represented financial management services company in its sale to a strategic acquirer.
- Represented family office in its preferred investment into an aerospace manufacturing company.
- Represented Embark Consulting in its partnership with CoVenture.
- Represented sponsor-backed operating issuer developing organic cleaning materials in its receipt of a significant, preferred-structured investment by an international private-equity firm.
- Represented health care operating issuer in its receipt of a significant, preferred-structured investment by an international private-equity firm.
- Represented private equity firm in its preferred-structured investment in a well-known online clothing marketplace.
- Represents portfolio companies of Tritium Partners, including:
- Inbenta, a global conversational AI platform designed to optimize customer experiences with its customers;
- Symphony Risk, a full-service risk management and employee benefits advisory firm;
- Stukent, an EdTech software-as-servcice platform focusing on high school and higher education providing digital courseware and simulations; and
- PublicRelay, an enterprise media intelligence, monitoring and data analytics platform for C-Suite decision makers.
- Represents portfolio companies of Cotton Creek Capital, including:
- Bobcat Power, a provider of turnkey substation development, repair, and maintenance services, as well as specialty transmission line services; and
- Landpoint, an award-winning surveying and engineering firm.
- Represents Ft. Worth-based family office in its day-to-day operations and other material transactions, including acquisitions, recapitalizations, and restructurings.
- Represented Tyler Technologies, a NYSE-listed technology company, in a $185.0 million strategic acquisition of a federally-focused government technology service provider.°
- Represented private equity-backed radio broadcaster in a sale of substantially all of its assets to a NASDAQ-listed telecommunications conglomerate.°
- Represented private equity firm in its acquisition of an athletic retailer in bankruptcy.°
- Represented whiskey distillery in private offering of issuer convertible debt.°
- Represented a hedge fund in its formation, federal and state registrations, and private offering of issuer in regular and special equity.°
- Represented NYSE-listed commercial real estate services company in the creation and implementation of a program to offer vendor services through online application.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Dusenbury prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
- Financial Analyst, GE, 2011-2012
- Summer Legal Intern, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, 2014
- Judicial Intern, Dallas Association of Young Lawyers Judicial Intern Program, 2013
- Legal Intern, Chesapeake Energy, 2013
- Finance Intern, GE, 2011
Reconocimientos y Liderazgo
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, "Ones to Watch," Corporate Law, 2021-2025
- Listed, Super Lawyers Magazine, Texas Super Lawyers, "Rising Stars," 2022-2024
Credenciales
- J.D., with distinction, University of Oklahoma College of Law
- B.B.A., Finance, Texas A&M University
- Texas