Ben Sharp

Associate

Areas of Focus

Ben Sharp

Associate

bsharp@akingump.com

Areas of Focus

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  • Practice focuses on complex business transactions across a diverse range of industries, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and capital markets.
  • Significant experience with private equity funds and their portfolio companies.

Ben is an associate in the firm’s corporate practice. He advises clients on a range of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions, corporate governance and compliance with U.S. securities laws and regulations.

Prior to joining Akin, Ben was an associate at another global law firm. He also served as a judicial clerk for the Honorable J. Campbell Barker at the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

Ben graduated cum laude from Duke University School of Law, where he was the Executive Editor of the Duke Journal of Constitutional Law and Public Policy and was the Founding Vice President of the Duke Law Texas Club. He earned his B.A. in economics summa cum laude from Texas Tech University, where he was the highest-ranking graduate in the College of Arts and Sciences and the student body president.

Ben is active in the Dallas Bar Association and the Dallas Young Lawyers Association, and he serves on the board of directors for Take Heart Family Ministry.

Representative Work

Mergers and Acquisitions

  • Represented Stream Data Centers and Stream Realty Partners in the majority stake sale of Stream Data Centers to Apollo Funds.
  • Represented Princeton Equity Group in its sale of International Franchise Professionals Group to CNL Strategic Capital, an investment vehicle sub-managed by Levine Leichtman Capital Partners.
  • Represented a private equity fund in its investment in a leading franchisor of athletic-based child development facilities.
  • Represented Energy Transfer in its $7.1 billion acquisition of Crestwood Equity Partners.
  • Represented Bristol-Myers Squibb in its $5.8 billion acquisition of Mirati Therapeutics, Inc.
  • Represented Devon Energy Corporation in its $5.0 billion acquisition of the Williston Basin business of Grayson Mill Energy.
  • Represented NET Power Inc. in its $1.5 billion business combination with NET Power LLC.
  • Represented Allegion plc in its $900 million acquisition of Stanley Access Technologies, a carveout divestiture from Stanley, Black & Decker.
  • Represented a private equity fund in its disposition of its portfolio of wind farms and related properties to a public energy company.
  • Represented a private equity in its acquisition of a majority interest in a natural gas pipeline.
  • Represented a private equity fund in its investment into a professional soccer team.

Corporate Finance

  • Represented a sponsor-backed sustainable infrastructure consulting company in its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
  • Represented an upstream oil and gas company in its $600 million Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of senior notes and its concurrent tender offer for its outstanding senior notes.
  • Represented Devon Energy Corporation in its registered offering of an aggregate of $2.25 billion of senior notes.
  • Represented Bristol-Myers Squibb in its $6 billion offering of senior notes and concurrent tender offer for several series of its outstanding notes.
  • Represented a private company in the issuance of over $200 million of asset-backed securities secured by operated producing oil and gas well.

List may include matters worked on prior to joining Akin.

Education
  • J.D., Duke University School of Law, cum laude, 2020

  • B.A., Texas Tech University, summa cum laude, 2017

Clerkships
  • U.S.D.C., Eastern District of Texas

Bar Admissions
  • Texas

Affiliations and Public Service
  • Member, Dallas Bar Association
  • Member, Dallas Young Lawyers Association
  • Board of Directors, Take Heart Family Ministry

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