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Our deal team members offer decades of experience creating value for sponsors, management teams and owners through successfully directing merger, acquisition, and divestiture transactions, as well as joint ventures and strategic business combinations of all sizes. Whether on the buy or sell side, we help clients quickly identify risks and appropriately tailor strategies to close deals on the right terms and in the most seamless manner possible.

Our attorneys are consistently recognized as leading practitioners in the areas of corporate finance, tax, intellectual property, securities, ERISA, and environmental law. We regularly represent and negotiate with the most experienced deal makers and first timers, drawing on our broad-based industry experience and technical sophistication to meet client needs at the highest level of quality, responsiveness and attention to overall transaction expenses.

If creative, business-minded solutions at competitive, middle-American rates matter to you, then you can count on our deal team to deliver. Your deal matters to FBT Gibbons.

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Edward W. Moore, Jr.
Edward W. Moore, Jr.

Partner

Dallas, TX

Houston, TX

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