John Ransom

Purchase of proprietary drilling additive manufacturing and distribution business.

New equity raise and related new tax structure for medical device manufacturer

Sale of consumer goods manufacturing division to direct competitor, including staged diligence process to protect trade secrets

Sale of field gas fueled engine technology and manufacturing company

Sale of the stock of Grayson Armature, the largest electric motor facility on the Gulf Coast, to Sulzer Limited for $42 million

Sale of Flowchem, Ltd, a specialty chemical manufacturer, to Arsenal Capital Partners for $210 million

Redemption of 50 percent owner of composite down-hole drilling tool manufacturer as well as the acquisition, financing, and construction of new manufacturing facility

Tax deferred sale of valve manufacturing company to strategic buyer for cash, notes and stock for $12 million

Purchase of engineering and construction services company from non-US owner

Organization and capitalization of oilfield intellectual property development venture

Sale of Petroleum Professionals International, LP’s (PPI) oil and gas offshore engineering and quality control businesses to Australian public company for cash and stock of US $145 million

Sale of engineering services company to Canadian buyer

Sale of Houston-based metal heat treating business and associated testing lab to strategic buyer for $12 million

Sale of OCTG distributor to a publicly traded Japanese trading company for $110 million

Purchase and sale of various executive turboprop and turbine aircraft for U.S. and foreign persons

Cost sharing aircraft arrangements including joint ownership, dry lease, time share, and interchange arrangements

Purchase of Citation Excel subject to United States criminal seizure claims, including court ordered protections for buyer

Purchase of new Gulfstream G550 for African-based buyer financed with UBS Geneva for $54 million

Tax issues for aircraft owners including fringe benefit and personal use issues as well as state sales tax and property tax issues

Tax aspects of ownership and financing of master planned communities including Long Meadow Farms, Gleannloch Farms, Caracol Coastal and Fulbrook on Fulsher Creek

Realization of tax deferred long-term capital for historic land owners in lot development ventures using Bramblett structures

Joint ventures involving historic owners, cash investors and developers for residential lot and commercial ventures

Timing of tax recognition for MUD reimbursement costs

Like kind exchanges including multiple forward and reverse deferred exchanges of real estate and oil and gas interests

Tax deferred condemnation transactions

Key employee compensation packages including carried interests and other equity incentives

Family limited partnerships and associated estate planning for various families

Sale of multistate, residential behavioral healthcare group to private equity fund for $130 million

Acquisitions, financings, and restructuring of multiple long-term acute care and skilled nursing facilities in Washington, D.C., including private/public partnership for short-term acute care facility

Represented aircraft owners and Part 135 operators in lease and management agreements.

Represent buyers and sellers of various types of aircraft, including a: new Gulfstream G700, Bombardier Global 5000 Business Jet, new Citation Longitude, Hawker 800XP, Citation V, Citation Excel, Pilatus PC-12NG, Citation I SP, Challenger 605, TBM 930, TBM 850, TBM 700, Diamond DA62, Robinson R44 Helicopter, and Robinson R22 Helicopter.