Partner, Dallas

Practice Description

Holt Foster's practice focuses on (i) mergers and acquisitions; (ii) private placements, venture capital, and creative financing; (iii) international and domestic energy transactions; (iv) video game and entertainment development, publishing, and licensing agreements; (v) structuring and negotiating high-tech and software transactions; and (vi) private equity funds. His expertise includes public and private clients in a broad range of industries, both domestically as well as in Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East.

Mr. Foster has practical business and entrepreneurial experience through his founding of an international entertainment software publishing company, which subsequently was sold to a publicly traded company. In addition to his law practice, Mr. Foster is the Hiring Partner for Thompson & Knight and serves on a number of civic and charitable boards in the community.

Representations

• Represented purchaser in acquisition of oil and gas services company; $75 million

• Represented purchaser in series of acquisitions of wellsite services companies; $250 million

• Represented seller in sale of multi-state oil and gas pipeline; $100 million

• Represented owner of metal fabricator company in restructuring and financing; $60 million

• Represented purchaser in cross-border acquisition of electric power plant; $300 million

Distinctions/Honors

• Best Lawyers Under 40 in Dallas, D Magazine; 2002-present

• Texas Super Lawyers^® by Thomson Reuters (Securities & Corporate Finance); 2004, 2009

Press Releases/In the News

• "Thompson & Knight Lawyer Does "Project Runway" Video Game Deal," Texas Lawyer; November 02, 2009
  

• T&K Assists in Development Deal for Project Runway Video Game; October 15, 2009
  

Presentations/Publications

• "Selling In-Game Assets: Cutting MMOG Issues in the Video Game Industry," Entertainment & Sports Law Society, Vanderbilt University School of Law, March 2009
  

• "The Impact of Today's Economy on Game Development: Moderated Panel," International Summit on the Law and Business of Video Games, Southern Methodist University, January 2009
  

Activities

• Fellow, Dallas Bar Foundation, 2008

• Texas Bar Foundation Life Fellow, 2006-present