As a partner in the Dallas office, Forrest Brumbaugh represents clients in mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance matters, public and private securities offerings, securities compliance matters and investments in private equity funds and other alternative investments. Forrest's clients include public and private corporations, governmental entities, individuals, institutional investors, issuers and underwriters.

Recent significant transactions include:

• Representation of a publicly traded master limited partnership and its publicly traded general partner in connection with a $2.7 billion merger with another master limited partnership
• Representation of private-equity portfolio company in connection with a $100 million sale
• Representation of a publicly traded retailer in connection with a rights offering as part of a $500 million refinancing recapitalization
• Representation of one of the largest public pension plans in the United States in connection with the investment of over $15 billion in over 300 hedge funds, private equity funds, private investment funds and direct investments
• Representation of one of the oldest private equity fund-of-funds in connection with the investment of over $2 billion in over 175 private equity funds and direct investments
• Representation of a Fortune 500 information technology company in connection with an acquisition of another publicly traded information technology company for approximately $100 million
• Representation of an issuer in connection with an approximately $167 million secondary offering of common stock
• Representation of multiple public companies in connection with their SEC filings and corporate governance matters
• Representation of a national retailer in connection with a recapitalization, including a self tender offer for approximately $275 million senior subordinated notes, issuance of $300 million in new senior subordinated notes, a self tender offer for approximately $160 million of common stock and the refinancing of its senior credit facility
• Representation of a regional retailer in connection with an approximately $67 million initial public offering
• Representation of a public automobile dealership in connection with its acquisition by another public automobile dealership for approximately $200 million in stock
• Representation of a national retailer in connection with an acquisition of a regional retailer for approximately $60 million in stock, cash and assumed debt

• American Bar Association
  • Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities
  • Institutional Investors Committee
• State Bar of Texas
• State Bar of Indiana
• Dallas Bar Association

• "Texas Top Rated Lawyer," LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell (2013)
• "Dallas' Best Lawyers Under 40," D Magazine
• "Texas Super Lawyer," Law & Politics
• The Best Lawyers in America

• "Foreclosure of Securities," chapter of Texas Practice: Texas Foreclosure, West Publishing, 2001

1992 - J.D., University of Virginia School of Law
1989 - B.S., cum laude, University of Evansville

• Indiana
• Texas

• University of Evansville, Board of Trustees
• University of Evansville, Alumni Association, Board of Directors