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Katherine Terrell Frank
Katherine Terrell Frank
Partner — Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions
Partner — Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions

Katherine Terrell Frank

Katherine Terrell Frank
Dallas

Trammell Crow Center
2001 Ross Avenue
Suite 3900
Dallas, Texas 75201

Katherine Terrell Frank

Experience Highlights

  • Reata Pharmaceuticals Inc., a publicly traded, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, in its $7.3 billion acquisition by Biogen Inc.

  • HF Sinclair Corporation in its $1.44 billion acquisition of Holly Energy Partners

  • HF Sinclair Corporation in its $900 million debt exchange

  • Southwest Airlines Co. in its $1 billion public offering of investment grade senior notes

  • Southwest Airlines Co. in its $2.3 billion public offering of common stock

  • Southwest Airlines Co. in its $2.3 billion public offering of convertible senior notes

  • Southwest Airlines Co. in its $2 billion public offering of investment grade senior notes

  • Southwest Airlines Co. in its $1.8 billion public offering of investment grade senior notes

  • Southwest Airlines Co. in its application to the United States Department of Treasury for $3.3 billion payroll support funding under the Payroll Support Program of the CARES Act and in its negotiation of the related agreements

  • Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc., as co-counsel, in a $350 million royalty and equity investment in Reata by funds managed by Blackstone Life Sciences

  • OneWater Marine Inc. in its $64 million initial public offering of Class A common stock

  • Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in its $70 million initial public offering of common stock 

  • Conflicts Committee of the Board of Directors of the General Partner of Phillips 66 Partners in the $700 million drop down of midstream assets from Phillips 66

  • Routinely advises publicly traded companies on 1933 Act and 1934 Act compliance, listing exchange requirements, and ESG matters (including corporate governance and board of directors matters)

  • KLX Energy Services Holdings, Inc. in its $50 million ATM program

  • OneWater Marine Inc. in its $63 million public offering of Class A common stock

  • Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in its $324 million public offering of common stock

  • RSP Permian, Inc. in its $448 million initial public offering of common stock

  • Quintana Energy Services Inc. in its $96 million initial public offering of common stock

  • Pioneer Natural Resources Company in its $1.3 billion public offering of common stock

  • Holly Energy Partners, L.P. in its $153 million public offering of common units

  • SailPoint Technologies Holdings, Inc. in its $447 million public offering of common stock by a selling stockholder 

  • Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in its $248 million public offering of common stock

  • Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in its $116 million public offering of common stock 

  • Holly Energy Partners, L.P. in its $103 million private placement of common units

  • Clayton Williams Energy, Inc. in its $150 million private placement of common stock

  • Holly Energy Partners, L.P. in its $200 million ATM program 

  • Holly Energy Partners, L.P. in its $400 million offering of senior notes

  • CrownRock, L.P. in its $400 million offering of senior notes

  • HollyFrontier Corporation in its $750 million offering of senior notes

  • A life sciences company in its $100 million private offering of convertible senior notes

  • EZCORP, Inc. in its $173 million offering of convertible senior notes 

  • CrownRock, L.P. in its $185 million offering of senior notes

  • Underwriters to Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP in its $350 million offering of senior notes 

  • Crestwood Midstream Partners LP in its $500 million offering of senior notes 

  • Holly Energy Partners L.P. in its $400 million high-yield offering of senior notes

  • HollyFrontier Corporation in its $250 million investment grade offering of senior notes 

  • Southwest Airlines Co. in its $300 million investment grade offering of notes 

  • EZCORP, Inc. in its $230 million offering of senior convertible notes

  • CrownRock, L.P. in its $350 million offering of senior notes

  • CrownRock, a joint venture of CrownQuest Operating and Lime Rock Partners, in its $12 billion sale to Occidental

  • Bonanza Creek Energy in its $376 million acquisition of HighPoint Resources Corporation

  • Bonanza Creek Energy in its business combination with Extraction Oil & Gas to form Civitas Resources and Civitas’ subsequent acquisition of Crestone Peak Resources, creating a $4.5 billion combined company

  • Morgan Stanley Infrastructure in its sale of Southern Star Central Corp., a FERC-regulated interstate natural gas transmission and storage system, to a consortium consisting of affiliates of GE Energy Financial Services and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec

  • Private Equity Firm in the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of a company that sells and services residential mortgage loans

  • Teva Pharmaceuticals in the $40 million acquisition of MicroDose Therapeutx, a privately-held pharmaceutical and drug delivery company focused on inhalation technologies and products for lung diseases and infections

  • Tampnet in the acquisition of AirTap Communications, wireless Managed Services provider, from a group of private investors

Credentials

  • Columbia Law School, J.D., 2012 (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar; Executive Editor, Columbia Business Law Review)
  • Yale University, B.A., Ethics, Politics, and Economics, 2009
  • Legal 500 U.S., M&A/Corporate & Commercial: Private Equity Buyouts, 2022
  • Selected to the Texas Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2022
  • The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), “Ones to Watch,” Corporate Law (Dallas), 2021–2024
  • The Deal, “Top Rising Stars,” 2021
  • Board Member: Business Council for the Arts
  • Member: Dallas Bar Association, Dallas Association of Young Lawyers
  • Business Council for the Arts—Leadership Arts Class, 2016–2017
  • Texas