Wayne M. Irvin is Of Counsel to Munck Carter, practicing in the Corporate-Securities section.  His principal areas of practice include transactional matters such as stock and asset acquisitions and divestitures, debt and equity financings, mergers, reorganizations, joint ventures, and vendor and customer contracts, as well as counseling management teams, boards of directors, and individuals on corporate, tax, securities, corporate governance and commercial matters.

Mr. Irvin has over 20 years of legal experience representing public and privately held companies and individuals. He has represented clients in a wide range of corporate, partnership, tax, securities, financing, and transactional matters.  As in-house counsel, Mr. Irvin has extensive experience with large, mid-cap, and early stage companies in domestic and international mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, debt and equity financings, spin-offs, restructurings, and other transactions.  He has represented clients in the software, telecommunications, consumer packaged goods, manufacturing, retail, finance, leasing, electric utility, oil and gas, energy services, and health care industries.  Prior to law school, Mr. Irvin provided tax and audit services to diverse clients as a Certified Public Accountant with one of the largest accounting firms in the country.

Mr. Irvin's approach to the practice of law is grounded in the knowledge and experience gained in law firms and as in-house general counsel -- on senior management teams and in the trenches. He applies his knowledge and experience from the practical businessman's perspective with the goal of finding solutions that promote client objectives.

Mr. Irvin earned is JD degree with honors from Georgetown University Law Center , where he served on the staff and as Executive Editor of The Tax Lawyer.  He also earned a BBA degree in Accounting with highest honors from Abilene Christian University .  Mr. Irvin also is licensed as a Certified Public Accountant in Texas .

Representative Experience:

• Representation of a privately-held software company in connection with the sale of the company to a publicly-traded software company.
• Representation of a publicly-traded international electric utility holding company in connection with its $6.6 billion merger with another international electric utility holding company; various public and private debt and equity transactions; the formation, operation, restructuring, and termination of a telecommunications joint venture; an investment in a foreign utility company; a leveraged lease financing transaction; and due diligence concerning potential acquisitions and divestitures.
• Representation of a publicly-traded international oil and gas products and services provider in connection with the formation of a joint venture with an international pump manufacturer; a spinoff of international and domestic manufacturing operations into a publicly-traded company; numerous international and domestic merger, acquisition, and divestiture transactions ranging in size from $45 million to $840 million; various domestic and international debt and equity financing transactions; and the formation, refinancing, restructuring, and sale of a joint venture with an international compressor manufacturer.
• Representation of a privately-held international telecommunications company in the $250 million acquisition of another international telecommunications company.
• Representation of a privately-held international sales, marketing, and consulting company in the consumer packaged goods business in connection with various international acquisition transactions; the restructuring of the ownership of the company and buy-out of a major shareholder; and due diligence in connection with potential strategic transactions.
• Representation of a manufacturer and supplier of telecommunications equipment in connection with the acquisition and sale of various commercial real estate properties.
• Representation of a privately-held financial holding company in connection with a potential initial public offering.
• Representation of a privately-held equipment manufacturer in the financing and acquisition of a commercial real estate property.
• Representation in connection with private placements of interests in partnerships formed for the purpose of (i) oil and gas exploration and production and (ii) the operation of an intrastate gas pipeline, in amounts ranging from $500,000 to $54 million.
• Representation of a subsidiary of a publicly-traded company in the potential acquisition of wireless technology assets.
• Representation of a publicly-traded semiconductor technology developer in several debt and equity financing transactions.