Counsel

For more than 35 years, Phil Sudan has represented individuals, partnerships and corporations in connection with mergers and acquisitions, issuance of corporate securities, and international business and tax transactions, as well as providing advice on general business transactions. In addition, Mr. Sudan as a consultant to Eversheds O'Donnell Sweeney, Dublin, Ireland, regularly advises non-United States based entities on establishing and/or expanding operations within the United States or advises United States based businesses on expanding into Ireland or the European Economic Union.

• Handled mergers and acquisitions, including the drafting of asset and stock purchase agreements, stock redemptions, due diligence and tax planning
• Prepared intellectual property transfers and licenses, research and development agreements as well as manufacturing license agreements
• Provided international tax planning regarding transfer pricing, qualification for treaty benefits, international sales and use of foreign tax credits
• Negotiated transactions, including tender offers, mergers, asset and stock transactions, spinoffs, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and significant corporate investments
• Provided advice and counsel to Boards of Directors and Special Committees on their fiduciary duties in takeover situations
• Prepared international and domestic sales representative and distribution agreements, manufacturing services contracts, joint development agreements, joint operating agreements, joint marketing agreements and joint ventures

Education

University of Houston Law Center, Juris Doctorate, 1976
     Associate Editor of the Houston Law Review
University of Texas at Austin, Bachelor of Arts, 1973

Bar Admissions

Texas, 1976
New York, 2008

Court Admissions

U.S. District Court for the Northern, Eastern, Western and Southern Districts of Texas
U.S. Court of Appeals, for the Fifth and Eleventh Circuit Courts
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Tax Court

• State Bar of Texas

• Associate Editor of the Houston Law Review
• Co-author of book, A Legal History of the Thirteenth Amendment