Mike Bengtson represents business clients in a wide variety of transactional and other corporate matters, with extensive experience in the energy, technology and life sciences industries.

Mr. Bengtson leads multi-disciplinary transaction teams in:

Complex mergers and acquisitions, providing counsel to strategic and financial buyers and sellers on acquisitions and divestitures, including controlled auctions, negotiated acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, tender offers and distressed sale processes
Capital formation transactions in the private and public equity and debt markets, with experience ranging from early stage private equity and venture capital investments to initial public offerings (IPOs) and follow-on public offerings

Within the energy industry, Mr. Bengtson represents industry participants in structuring and documenting upstream, midstream and downstream acquisitions and divestitures, joint development transactions and commercial arrangements.

His energy experience includes transactions involving:

Domestic resource plays in the Permian, Eagle Ford, Marcellus, Bakken, Anadarko, Barnett, Arkoma, Haynesville and other conventional and unconventional basins
Deep and shallow water offshore Gulf of Mexico blocks
International onshore and offshore blocks in the Middle East, Africa and South America