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Mary Daniel Morgan
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Houston, Texas 77002
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Mary Daniel’s practice focuses primarily on executive compensation and employee benefit matters. This involves advising clients with regard to the applicable tax, securities law, and corporate governance aspects of executive compensation arrangements, including equity-based compensation vehicles, and employment, severance, change in control, bonus, and retention agreements. Mary Daniel also advises clients on employee and compensation-related issues in mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, and private equity transactions.
Experience Highlights
Oasis Petroleum Inc. in a $6 billion merger of equals with Whiting Petroleum Corporation creating Chord Energy in 2022
Frank’s International in its merger with UK-based Expro Group
Multiple clients in day-to-day executive compensation matters and related corporate governance matters, including Antero Resources, Antero Midstream, Select Energy Services, ProPetro, Oasis Petroleum, Talos, and various portfolio companies and privately-held companies, including in the renewables and hospitality sectors
WPT Industrial Real Estate Investment Trust in its $3.1 billion sale to Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc.
Spartan Acquisition Corp. II, a SPAC sponsored by funds managed by an affiliate of Apollo Global Management, in its $1.3 billion business combination with Sunlight Financial, a premier U.S. residential solar financing platform
Oasis Petroleum and its affiliate companies in the $1.8 billion merger of Oasis Midstream Partners LP with Crestwood Equity Partners LP
DIRTT Environmental Solutions Ltd. In its dual listing on The Nasdaq Global Select Market and the Toronto Stock Exchange
Blackstone in its acquisition of Sabre Industries from The Jordan Company
Antero Midstream GP, Antero Midstream Partners, and Antero Resources in the roll up of Antero Midstream Partners in a unit-for-cash and stock transaction
Comscore in its acquisition of Shareablee, a social media marketing analytics and measurement company
The Sinclair Companies in the combination of Sinclair Oil’s refining, renewable diesel and logistics assets with those of HollyFrontier Corporation and Holly Energy Partners, L.P.
RLH Equity Partners in its investment in Astound Commerce, a global provider of digital commerce solutions
Comscore, a trusted partner for planning, transacting and evaluating media across platforms, in its recapitalization involving investments from Charter Communications Holding Company, Qurate Retail and an affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management
A global private equity fund in the acquisition of a European chemicals company
Pioneer Energy Services in its $295 million sale to Patterson-UTI Energy
Lilis Energy in an in-court sale process in which substantially all of the company’s operating assets were sold to Ameredev Texas LLC as part of its chapter 11 cases involving approximately $400 million in total liabilities plus the confirmation of a chapter 11 plan in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas
WPT Industrial Real Estate Investment Trust in the internalization of the REIT’s external manager
Credentials
- University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 2018 (Member, Virginia Law & Business Review)
- University of Mississippi, B.S. Integrated Marketing Communications summa cum laude, 2015
- The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), “Ones to Watch,” Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law (Houston), 2025
- Member: Houston Young Lawyers Association
- Executive Leadership Team: American Heart Association – Houston Branch
- Texas
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