Tom Leslie
Experienced Mergers & Acqusitions Attorney and Outside General Counsel
Texas
TX
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Client Reviews
"Tom did a great job on our company's first M&A transaction from drafting the asset purchase agreement to negotiating the deal. He always explained everything in an understandable way and even out-negotiated the other side's lawyer (who was from a top 100 law firm)"
"Endorsed on Linked In by 32 professionals for Mergers & Acquisitions, by 11 for Securities Regulation and by 23 for Corporate Governance."
Work History
Blue Mountain Midstream LLC
VP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
Sep 2018 - Present
Led all aspects of the legal function, including the expansion from an existing gas gathering and processing business into a produced water gathering and disposal business and a crude oil gathering business. Responsible for the legal process on many midstream commercial transactions, and addressed matters involving corporate governance, executive compensation and litigtion management.
American Midstream Partners, LP
Associate General Counsel & Corporate Secretary (acting general counsel)
Aug 2016 - Sep 2018
Led the mergers & acquisitions legal function, including advising on 13 public and private transactions valued at almost $1.8 billion, and led the legal department as acting general counsel from June 2017 to January 2018 and supervised litigation management, midstream energy commercial transactions, pipeline regulatory matters and litigation management.
Sidley Austin
Associate
Apr 2012 - Aug 2016
Served as outside counsel for several companies with a solo general counsel and acted as the lead associate on over $2.1 billion in public and private merger and acquisition transactions in the energy, pharmaceutical and consumer products industries.
Baker Botts
Associate
Oct 2007 - Apr 2012
Advised and counseled on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, capital markets offerings and general corporate and securities matters to clients in the energy (all sectors) and consumer services industries.