Richard L. Burleson

Managing Partner

Houston

Biography

Rick Burleson has been practicing law in the oil and gas industry for over 30 years.  In 2005, he founded Burleson LLP with a handful of seasoned energy lawyers.  It has quickly become the largest law firm in the country devoted primarily to the oil and gas industry. 

Rick has a broad business practice in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and energy. His clients include independent oil and gas companies, private equity groups, senior and mezzanine lenders, and other public and privately held businesses in the oil and gas industry. Rick's experience centers on structuring acquisitions and divestitures and other merger and acquisition transactions, including negotiation and documentation of letters of intent, purchase and sale agreements, and equity contribution, subordinated debt, and partnership and shareholder agreements, as well as senior secured loan and security agreements.

A graduate of The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Houston Law Center, Rick is a fixture on the national oil and gas scene and is very active in his community.  A board member of the Houston Ballet and the Palmer Drug Abuse Program, Rick is also a former President of the Houston Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth.

education

  • University of Houston Law Center
    (J.D., 1980)
  • The University of Texas
    (B.A., with honors, 1976)

admissions

  • Texas, 1980
  • Pennsylvania, 2009
  • New York, 2004
  • District of Columbia, 2002

publications

noteworthy

  • Named to "Who's Who in Energy," 2011-2012, by the Houston Business Journal
  • AV Rated by the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory

activities

  • American Bar Association, Business Law, International Law and Natural Resources, and Energy and Environmental Law Sections
  • State Bar of Texas, Oil, Gas, and Energy Resources Law, Commercial Financial Services, Corporation, Business Law, and Real Estate Sections
  • District of Columbia Bar Association
  • New York Bar Association
  • Energy Bar Association
  • Pennsylvania Bar Association
  • Allegheny County Bar Association
  • Houston Bar Association
  • Texas Bar Foundation, Fellow
  • Houston Ballet, Board of Trustees
  • Chapelwood United Methodist Church, Administrative Board
  • Palmer Drug Abuse Program, Board of Directors 
  • Houston Producers' Forum, Former Board Member and Current Member 
  • Association for Corporate Growth International, Houston Chapter, Former President
  • Houston World Affairs Council, Former Member of Board of Directors 
  • Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts, Former Member of Board of Directors
  • Development Council of Texas Children's Hospital, Former Chairman of Steering Committee

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