Experience 

Marc Folladori has more 35 years’ experience assisting a broad spectrum of corporate clients. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and corporate and securities matters.  He has been a corporate and securities attorney in Texas since 1974, and as a result, has extensive experience representing energy companies and firms engaged in energy investment and finance. 

Marc serves as outside corporate counsel for a number of publicly-held corporations.  He regularly provides US counsel to foreign companies doing business in the US, particularly in energy industry legal matters.  He has also represented investment banks in connection with securities offerings and M&A transactions.  He is knowledgeable regarding SEC disclosure and reporting requirements, being a regular speaker and panel member since 1997 on Practising Law Institute’s Preparation of Annual Disclosure Documents annual program on SEC disclosures in San Francisco and New York. 

He has been named among the Best Lawyers in America in Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law and Securities Law(Best Lawyers, 2006 – 2009 and 2007), and a Texas Super Lawyer in corporate finance law for every year since 2003.  He was  named one of the five “Go-To” M&A/Securities Law specialists in Texas for 2007 by The Texas Lawyer.

Notable Engagements 

• Advised a public exploration & production company in the proposed sale of its regulated natural gas local distribution regulated utility.
• Advised an oilfield services and equipment company in a $350 million cross-border acquisition of a Canadian equipment company and the related debt financing for the acquisition.
• Advised a New York-based retirement fund in its acquisition of a Canadian publicly-traded energy and production company.
• Represented a Mexican conglomerate owned by one of the richest men in the world, in its sale of its US subsidiary, a large computer and electronics retail chain headquartered in Texas.
• Advised a Houston-based oilfield and seismic services company in its debt and stock public offering financings in connection with its strategic acquisitions.
• Advised a NYSE-listed international aluminum firm in its merger-of-equals stock-for-stock acquisition of Commonwealth Aluminum Corporation, resulting in a combined aluminum products and services business (Aleris International, Inc.) having total annual revenues of in excess of $2.5 billion.
• Advised a major European banking and insurance firm in its $700 million acquisition of an energy company’s energy marketing and trading business.
• Represented the financial sponsor and purchaser/lead investor in a $500 million senior management buy-out of a marine container assets leasing company.
• Advised two major US investment banks in their debt and equity underwritten offerings for a major international oilfield services company located in Houston.
• Represented a Texas-based structural energy controls company in its international acquisition program, culminating in its sale to a major Scandinavian private equity firm.
• Represented a major international exploration and production company in its acquisition of a US independent oil company having a strong acreage concentration in the Gulf of Mexico.
• Advised an exploration and production company in its oil and gas properties purchase in South Texas and its related acquisition financing – including a  Rule 144A/B senior debt offering and a  senior secured commercial bank debt financing.

Education 

Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, JD, 1974; Order of the Coif; Publications Editor, Southwestern Law Journal (1972-1974)  • Southern Methodist University, BBA, with Honors, 1971; Beta Gamma Sigma Honors Fraternity

Admitted

• Texas, 1974