Lisa A. Peterson provides counsel to business entities and high-net-worth individuals in all facets of their businesses.

Practice & Background

Ms. Peterson’s practice involves a wide array of corporate and transactional matters, including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; corporate governance and other general corporate matters; and the formation of complex joint ventures, partnerships, limited liability companies and strategic alliances, as well as numerous types of commercial matters, including licensing and other complex technology transactions. Ms. Peterson also provides legal advice in connection with investments in private equity, venture capital, hedge and real estate funds; direct investments in corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies; co-investments; secondary transactions; and other similar matters. She also provides advice to private investment funds in the full range of their fundraising and investment activity.

Before joining Akin Gump, Ms. Peterson practiced law for 15 years at another firm in Fort Worth.

Ms. Peterson is currently a member of the firm’s retirement committee, charitable contribution committee and the Dallas office’s diversity committee.

Ms. Peterson is a member of the Business Law and Computer and Technology sections of the State Bar of Texas, the American Bar Association (Business Law Section and Energy Business Committee) and the Tarrant County Bar Association (Business and Estate, International and Women Attorneys Sections); and a fellow in the Texas Bar Foundation.
Representative Matters

Ms. Peterson’s representative engagements include:

representing a petroleum marketing company in connection with the contribution of its terminal operations to a previously unrelated master limited partnership
serving as a key legal advisor to a multibillion-dollar private investment firm, including representations in connection with seed, venture capital, private equity, hedge and direct investments
serving as lead outside counsel to a wealth management/investment firm with more than $12 billion under management
serving in an outside general counsel role for a leading health care communications company
representing a private equity group in its acquisition of interests in numerous technology companies
representing a well-known investment group in the organization and operation of private equity investment funds, including review of documents and provision of advice with regard to numerous acquisitions and investments
representing a foreign entity in the acquisition of a major Hollywood film studio for $1.3 billion
representing a mortgage company in its effective sale and related placement of $703,490,559 of shares of common stock
representing a strategic buyer in the acquisition of a health publication company for $15.5 million plus a related $7 million declining balance revolving credit facility
representing an automotive dealership chain in its $15 million sale
representing a foreign entity in the acquisition of a $40 million interest in a Hollywood television production studio
representing a private equity seller in connection with its $180 million sale of several television and radio stations (part stock/part asset transaction)
representing a private equity group in the $300 million acquisition, through merger, of a now publicly held energy company
representing a private equity group in the $30 million acquisition of a building products manufacturing company, including a related public notes offering, a credit agreement and arrangements with management
representing a mortgage holding company in the sale of $160 million of its stock
representing a private equity group in the $40 million purchase of privately placed securities in a public Canadian corporation
representing a foreign entity in the placement of $100 million of senior notes
representing an alarm system company in the $12 million sale of its assets
representing a subsidiary of a publicly held corporation in its purchase of $40 million of partnership interests from limited partners
representing a large investment fund in the $25 million sale of control of a privately held company (through a merger transaction) and in the new bank financing for the resulting entity ($29 million revolving credit, letter of credit and term loan agreement)
representing several start-up entities (corporations, limited liability companies and partnerships) in their formation
representing a corporation engaged in the manufacture and sale of food products in the sale of $7 million of stock
representing a computer software company in the merger of two computer software companies.

Community Involvement

Ms. Peterson’s community, civic and charitable activities include being:

a former director and an officer of Resolana
a member of the Grants Review Committee of the Dallas Women’s Foundation
a member of the Board of the Dallas Chapter of The General Counsel Forum.

Awards & Accolades

Ms. Peterson has been recognized by Fort Worth, Texas magazine as one of Tarrant County’s top corporate/mergers and acquisitions attorneys.
Ms. Peterson has been named one of the “Great Women of Texas” by the Fort Worth Business Press.