
Keira Lyn Kuntz
Trammell Crow Center
2001 Ross Avenue
Suite 3900
Dallas, Texas 75201
Keira’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 and employment, severance, change in control, bonus, and retention agreements. Keira also advises clients on employee and compensation-related issues in mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, and private equity transactions.
The following is a list of representative matters in which Keira has assisted.
Experience Highlights
Goldman Sachs, alongside Cleanhill Partners, in its strategic acquisition of a majority interest of EPC Power, a leading North American supplier of high-performance, utility-scale, smart inverters
Brazos Private Equity Partners on the $40 million sale of its portfolio company SSH Corporation and its subsidiaries by way of reverse triangular merger to Incline Equity Partners
TigerConnect, the leading clinical collaboration platform in healthcare and a portfolio company of Vista Equity Partners, in its acquisition of Twiage, a health technology innovator that streamlines pre-hospital communication and care coordination between EMS, hospitals, and other healthcare providers
Vitesse Energy, Inc. in the spin-off of the company by Jefferies Financial Group Inc.
Sixth Street Partners in its majority investment in Caliche Development Partners, a company focused on the acquisition, development, and operation of natural gas and industrial gas storage assets as well as carbon sequestration, which owns the Golden Triangle Storage facilities and carbon sequestration development project in Beaumont, TX, and the Central Valley Gas Storage facilities in Princeton, CA
Brigham Minerals in its $4.8 billion business combination with Sitio Royalties
HF Sinclair Corporation in its $1.44 billion acquisition of the remaining outstanding units of Holly Energy Partners not already owned by HF Sinclair Corporation or its affiliates
Represent Blackwells Capital in their investment and campaign against The Walt Disney Company
Energy Transfer LP in the $1.3 billion sale of its 51% interest in Energy Transfer Canada to a joint venture that includes participation by Pembina Pipeline Corporation and funds managed by KKR
Swiss Life Asset Management and EDF Invest in the $1.2 billion acquisition of a 27% interest in DataBank, the largest edge infrastructure operator in the U.S.
Oasis Petroleum Inc. in a $6 billion merger of equals with Whiting Petroleum Corporation creating Chord Energy in 2022
Agriculture & Natural Solutions Acquisition Corporation, a SPAC sponsored by affiliates of Riverstone Holdings and Impact Ag, in its $510 million business combination with Australian Food & Agriculture Company Limited, a large-scale, diversified agricultural business located in New South Wales, Australia (pending)
Credentials
- Baylor Law School, J.D., 2020 (Order of Barristers)
- University of Florida, B.A. Political Science magna cum laude, 2017
- University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame Inductee, 2017
- Member: Dallas Association of Young Lawyers, Dallas Bar Association
- Texas
- U.S. District Courts for the Western District of Texas, Eastern District of Texas, Northern District of Texas, and District of New Mexico
- Spanish (conversational)
- Deals & CasesDecember 30, 2024
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- Deals & CasesJanuary 4, 2023
- “SMU Annual Texas Survey” Insurance Law, 2021 (co-authored)