Bio

Walker Brierre is a business attorney in Holland & Knight's Houston office, where he focuses on private equity and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Mr. Brierre represents financial sponsors, their portfolio companies and other privately and publicly held companies in connection with a wide array of transactions, including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. He also has extensive experience in venture and growth capital financings, control and non-control investments, including "GP stakes" transactions, joint ventures and other investment partnerships, restructurings and recapitalizations, cross-border transactions, distressed acquisitions, carve-out acquisitions, private securities offerings and related corporate governance matters. Mr. Brierre also counsels investment advisers in all aspects of fund formation and capital raising, including the structuring and administration of private funds, management companies and co-investment vehicles, the negotiation of side letters, placement agreements and founders’ agreements, succession planning and the incentivization of employees. He frequently represents fund managers specializing in oil and gas and commercial real estate investments, with an emphasis on early-stage or first-time fund managers. Mr. Brierre's primary industry experience includes upstream and midstream oil and gas, energy, commercial real estate, investment management and private investment funds.